People Talk Quotes
336 quotes by 305 authors
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People talk about doom-laden scenarios happening in the future: they are happening in Africa now. You can see it perfectly clearly. Periodic famines are due…
— David Attenborough
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I do love to eavesdrop. It's inspirational, not only for subject matter but for actual dialogue, the way people talk.
— Lynda Barry
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When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now…
— John Adams
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I live my life parallel with my work, and they are both equally important. I'm always amazed how much people talk about celebrity and fame.…
— Cate Blanchett
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In Eastern culture, people see ghosts, people talk about ghosts... it's just accepted. And in Western culture it's just not.
— Jessica Alba
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You know, people talk about this being an uncertain time. You know, all time is uncertain. I mean, it was uncertain back in - in…
— Warren Buffett
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Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
— Albert Camus
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When people talk as if the Crusades were nothing more than an aggressive raid against Islam, they seem to forget in the strangest way that…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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People talk about imitating Christ, and imitate Him in the little trifling formal things, such as washing the feet, saying His prayer, and so on;…
— Florence Nightingale
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People talk about skating, puck handling and shooting, but the whole sport is angles and caroms, forgetting the straight direction the puck is going, calculating…
— Wayne Gretzky
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When people talk to us about others they are usually dull. When they talk to us about themselves they are nearly always interesting.
— Oscar Wilde
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Whenever people talk glibly of a need to achieve educational "excellence," I think of what an improvement it would be if our public schools could…
— Thomas Sowell
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Communism and socialism is [sic] seductive. It promises us that people will contribute according to ability and receive according to needs. Everybody is equal. Everybody…
— Walter E. Williams
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People talk about the middle of the road as though it were unacceptable. Actually, all human problems, excepting morals, come into the gray areas. Things…
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Leaders are people who can discern the inevitable and act accordingly. When people talk about business acumen, discernment is a big part of it. It's…
— Donald Trump
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Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning…
— Ernest Hemingway
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Fake people talk about other people being fake. Real people worry about their business, and no one else's.
— Ziad K. Abdelnour
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Keep your dreams ALIVE. No matter how hard it gets, no matter how many people talk about you; they're going to throw dirt on you…
— Tyler Perry
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If you're a fiction writer, though, I can tell you how to let people talk through you. Listen. Just be quiet, and listen. Let the…
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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All these people talk so eloquently about getting back to good old-fashioned values. Well, as an old poop I can remember back to when we…
— Kurt Vonnegut
Who Wrote These People Talk Quotes
305 authors contributed a total of 336 People Talk Quotes, led by these top contributors: