Talking Quotes · Page 63

War is always a failure. It means we've failed in diplomacy and we've failed in talking to one another.

— Martin Firrell

“I know I am God because when I pray to him I find I'm talking to myself.”

— Peter Barnes

Talking about a materialistic thing, I get about 13 times more royalties from Europe than I do from America.

— Elliott Carter

My world is not spectacle and explosion. It's two people talking.

— Taika Waititi

Speak only if your words are more beautiful than your silence.

— Anonymous

Criticism shouldn't be a performance that upstages the work it's talking about.

— Darryl Pinckney

“I hate talking when there is no exchange of ideas or sentiments, and no good given or received”

— Anne Brontë

What was interesting was talking to older gay men about what it was like being gay in the Eighties.

— Dan Stevens

I've spent three hours with Snoop Dogg, talking about how he loved [Peaky Blinders series]. And David Bowie loved it. The late…

— Steven Knight

Sometimes people will talk about you when they envy the life you lead. Let them be. You affected their life; don't let…

— Anonymous

I really don't like talking about me - me as me, that is. Me in relation to what I do is another…

— Nigel Hawthorne

At parties, I'll start talking and notice everyone is looking at me and feel dumb and say, 'Forget it,' and then start…

— Kristen Wiig

“Being able to read well in public and talk about your work in an engaging fashion is part of most writers' job…

— Sara Sheridan

I was talking to my mom one time, like, "Gosh, I'm 30." And she's like, "In your thirties you're even stronger than…

— Serena Williams

I actually performed at an orthodox Jewish wedding, where the men were separated from the women, but they both came together to…

— Andy Kindler

As you get a little older and start drinking a bit more coffee, you start talking about big-boy things a little more.

— Synyster Gates

Those who are talking about withdrawing funds and grants to the states should understand that the Centre gets revenue from the states.…

— Pinarayi Vijayan

Everyone laughed, and just like that, the conversation shifted, jumping to another topic. It was fast and furious, the talking, the emotions,…

— Sarah Dessen

Occasionally people would come to me. I was sitting with a woman one day and she was telling me her story and…

— Eckhart Tolle

On the show, I do a very serious thing. And a lot of people have a hard time reconciling that with what…

— Bill Maher

There are a lot of [Donald] Trump people, I mean, Trump, I remember hearing it, some of these rallies that he had…

— Rush Limbaugh

I intend more of a kinship with silent films than more modern film. I like the old cinema. My films are more…

— George Lucas

I'm talking about technical goofs. I'm pretty much on top of it. The kind of picture you're referring to would have to…

— Garry Winogrand

I mean, you could lie here day after day, if you wanted to, and think about nothing but waterbugs. Not chase waterbugs,…

— Tad Williams

It gets a bit boring talking about the same thing for a hundred years.

— Nicholas Winton

I'm very quiet. I can go a whole week without talking, so doing interviews is really awkward for me!

— Katie Leung

The formulation of a public relations strategy properly begins with listening, not talking.

— Leonard Saffir

It occurs to me that our survival may depend upon our talking to one another.

— Dan Simmons

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

— Mike Tyson

I'm brandin', I aint talking bout Presley. I keep a sniper, I aint talking bout Wesley.

— Nicki Minaj

“What are you talking about?' cried Lukashka. 'We must go through the middle gates, of course.”

— Leo Tolstoy

It's not the subject that's cliché; it's cliché or not. But in fact, this is the way you're talking about it.

— Stromae

You know how I love talking about books, and you know how I adore receiving compliments.

— Annie Barrows

Our minorities alone are in a position to know what the fathers of our democracy were talking about.

— Sarah-Patton Boyle

Make a habit of dominating the listening, and let the prospect dominate the talking.

— Brian Tracy

Me at school: Can you stop talking because I don't care.

— Anonymous

Talking about a fight with Randy Couture is a jinx for me.

— Mirko Cro Cop

Prayer is simply talking to God like a friend and should be the easiest thing we do each day.

— Joyce Meyer

That's more like it. You're much prettier when you aren't talking. True of most people, I've found.

— Kiersten White

Talking is always a good idea. There's no harm in keeping lines of communication open.

— Brian Reynolds Myers