Talking Quotes · Page 175

It ought to concern every person, because it is a debasement of our common humanity. It ought to concern every community, because…

— Barack Obama

People of limited intelligence are fond of talking about "these days," imagining that they have discovered and appraised the peculiarities of "these…

— Leo Tolstoy

'American Graffiti' stayed in my mind, but I don't think to this day I've done a film that captured that same level…

— Jean Reno

I've been talking about retiring for years. It's my standard answer to the question, 'What are your future plans?' The truth is,…

— Dick Van Dyke

So what is design all about? It [exists to] decrease the amount of vulgarity in the world ... to make the world…

— Massimo Vignelli

It couldn't interest me less, the idea of putting a living room on stage. I just think, what's the point of walking…

— John Tiffany

Racism is a form of insanity. Human beings became racist when they started talking. Speech has a lot to do with it.

— Paul Mooney

You need to put the fear of risk aside. Startups need leaders who are willing to persevere through the hard times. Failure…

— Ben Huh

It's hard to talk about love because most of the time, we have no idea what we're talking about.

— Gina Barreca

With wine, you don't really have to know what you're talking about, you just have to know what you like.

— Joe Maddon

David [Beckham] should think that talking is silver, but being quiet is golden.

— Sven-Goran Eriksson

“Soon he essentially stopped talking. "I am retreating into silence as a defensive mode," he mentioned. Eventually, he was down to uttering…

— Michael Finkel

It's strange. No one ever really talked to me about my voice. People started writing about it, and I was like, 'What?'…

— King Krule

They say the way to a man's heart is through his stomach, so if you can get to a man's spirit soul…

— George Harrison

I did a lot of fast talking as a youth; I was pretty good at it. I was never talked into it…

— Portia de Rossi

People are always talking about originality; but what do they mean? As soon as we are born, the world begins to work…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

All I want now is to be a nice, clean gentleman. I've proved my point. Now I'm going to set an example…

— Muhammad Ali

There is no such thing as talking about class without there being implications of the racial history of the United States. You…

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

I try to convince myself that it's the alcohol talking. But alcohol can't talk. It just sits there. It can't even get…

— David Levithan

In any communication, or in any situation which you cannot confront because it is exaggerating, hot or aggressive, just change your breath.…

— Harbhajan Singh Yogi

When I was 12 years old, I was hanging out with 23-year-olds. I was into cartoons and Pokemon, and they're all talking…

— Shaun White

You talking to me? You talking to me? Then who the hell else are you talking to - you talking to me?…

— Robert De Niro

Labour allowed ourselves to be painted as anti-business for talking about insecurity, when in reality, the opposite was true.

— Sadiq Khan

I think we need to have more women in the Republican Party talking about what it is we're trying to do for…

— Elizabeth Emken

You can talk yourself out of doing something if you start to think about, "How would this person see it, or that…

— Kalup Linzy

This time, we're living in such a crazy moment in history. People still write and talk about Watergate, which was such a…

— Patterson Hood

I want to talk to you but I feel like I'm annoying you.

— Anonymous

You cannot explain to someone who comes with no idea of what you are talking about without being misunderstood.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

I actually met Deadmau5 for the first time on the red carpet in Hollywood for the Grammys. I was there with my…

— Paul Shaffer

[Kurt] Vonnegut was a writer whose great gift was that he always seemed to be talking directly to you. He wasn't writing,…

— Michael Dirda

To have a healthy and thriving business, there must be healthy relationships with the C.E.O.S. in the organization and I'm not referring…

— James Hunter

I like my hands. They do most of the talking.

— Abbey Lee Kershaw

Human relationships are strange. I mean, you are with one person a while, eating and sleeping and living with them, loving them,…

— Charles Bukowski

Have you ever seen a candidate talking to a rich person on television?

— Art Buchwald

Anybody who French bashes just might as well wear a badge that says 'I am a follower! I don't think for myself…

— Janeane Garofalo

I'm not much for talking. You know what I do. I put guys in body bags when I'm right.

— Mike Tyson

Everybody's complaining about all of Trump's cabinet members, how rich they are, that's horrible. I'd rather have that than a bunch of…

— Rush Limbaugh

I didn't have a philosophical understanding of music until I came to New York. I didn't understand how it applied to my…

— Wynton Marsalis

I find it always pleasurable talking with young people, particularly those aspiring to be writers, out of nostalgia, and because I've always…

— F. Sionil Jose

Calm down, Horus said. "Don't tell me to calm down!" Bast frowned. "I didn't." "Talking to him!" I pointed at my forehead.

— Rick Riordan