Talking Quotes

Talking to Francis gave me the sensation of settling slowly to the bottom of the ocean.

Talkers expand like bread dough.

Until a man can quit talking loudly to himself in order to shout down the memories of blunderings and gropings, he is in no shape for the painstaking examination of distress.

To be honest, I find most politicians very untrustworthy. When I listen to them talking - or rather, lying - I just feel there are very few politicians with integrity, so I never know who to bat for.

I found that you're more powerful when talking from your soul.

The best thing is not to think about [separatism]. [People in Alberta] don't even want to engage in talking pros and cons and why people feel this way.

When you work with your hands, you learn to appreciate how easy it is to earn money talking.

Half of the time I don't know what they're talking about; their jokes seem to relate to a past that everyone but me has shared. I'm a foreigner in the world and I don't understand the language.

When Yeats said the center cannot hold, he was talking for himself, but it was true for the rest of us as well.

I'm not wasting my time with any more non-straight-talking candidates.

Listening is as important as talking. If you're a good listener, people often compliment you for being a good conversationalist.

My grandmother used to say, "Sometimes the loudest person in the room doesn't know what they're talking about." Or isn't secure enough in his or her own views to be able to listen to others.

I'm used to working really hard to get a role. I was always auditioning and talking my way into roles.

There's nothing worse than people talking about theories and humor.

I don't walk around talking about my life and spouting my philosophy to people I don't know. I mean, if I get to know them, I'll talk for hours. I guess I like a lower-key scene.

A talkative person runs himself upon great inconvenience by blabbing out his own and others' secrets.

Asking someone in the media about liberal bias is like asking a fish about water. 'Huh, what are you talking about? Where is it?'

We still talk about [school band]. Almost 40 years later. It's like people are talking about, "Man we need to have a morning band reunion".

Journalists always like an excuse for why are they talking about something now when they didn't talk about something a week ago. They always like to say something is new.

You know, your speaking voice comes back, but your singing voice you use in a different way.

You'll start talking, and pretty soon we'll all start nodding, and then the next thing you know, I'm hang gliding off the Eiffel Tower at night, being chased by ninja vampires

The voice of life in me cannot reach the ear of life in you; but let us talk that we may not feel lonely.

What I do see is the right from the beginning that [Donald] Trump had an interest and was very persuasive in terms of talking about the veterans and needing to make changes there.

I would never cheapen my relationships by talking about them.

So here we are, talking about Roman unicycles and alien sandwiches and my sister’s Italian misfortunes, while hanging in between us is: MY EPIC FAILURE TO CARPE. What’s wrong with me?

There is such a torture, happily unknown to ancient tyranny, as talking a man to death. Marcus Aurelius advises to assent readily to great talkers--in hopes, I suppose, to put an end to the argument.

I would say that if you don't feel like talking to the crowd something is wrong and if you force yourself to talk to them things will happen and to that extent things aren't choreographed.

I turned off the talking politicos. Too much jabbering at each other. Not enough care about humans.

A good talker, even more than a good orator, implies a good audience.

It's no good talking to a man with an apology for a brain.

Commit a little bit more to the world outside of your own life. Get people talking.

If you're 28 and singing about being over the hill, you're pretending. When you're 67 and singing about it, you know what you're talking about.

Don't for heaven's sake, be afraid of talking nonsense! But you must pay attention to your nonsense.

Stop talking about what the good man is like, and just be one.

Talking of patriotism, what humbug it is; it is a word which always commemorates a robbery.

We live in the age of mass loquacity.We are all writing it or at any rate talking it: the memoir, the apologia, the c.v., the cri de coeur.

An event is not over until everyone is tired of talking about it.

Lovers do all the talking and writing. What are the Beloveds thinking?

There's nothing worse than walking around and talking about your failed relationship, all day, every day, for months on end.

I feel like I'm kind of faking something if I'm talking as myself and putting on an accent.

If someone is very upper-class, you have a stereotype of him which is probably true. If someone has a working-class accent, you have no idea who you're talking to.

I came up during that time when music, to me, was really music. It wasn't about talking about a woman and calling them a derogatory name or something like that. It was real music.

We're talking about the chemical lobotomy. We're talking about the chemical straightjacketing of our children.

I hope people have pulled something about me and said "Hey Mr. T loves his mother, hey Mr. T ain't no dummy, hey Mr. T never grabbed his crotch," when you're talking about Hip-Hop culture.

I am a very shy person who is just close to himself. So I would refrain from talking about my personal life.

If we're talking about being skinny or losing weight, I don't have that problem; it's genetics.

I love 'Strange Brew'. I quote that movie all the time, and no one knows what I'm talking about.

An idea that will translate really well musically should work visually. I try to write music that you can feel if you were to close your eyes you can see what I am talking about.

As they are currently practiced, there is no common ground between science and religion... Although just as in hostage negotiations, it's probably best to keep both sides talking to each other.

Surely, serious problems can't be solved just by talking about them.