Talked Quotes
998 Talked quotes by 842 unique authors
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That was the thing about words, they were clear and specific-chair, eye, stone- but when you talked about feelings, words were too stiff, they were…
— Janet Fitch
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I ask myself how I could give in to this perpetual vertigo that I in fact provoked and feared. I floated among erratic clouds and…
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations - these are mortal, and their life is…
— C.S. Lewis
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Every relationship has at least one really good day. What I mean is, no matter how sour things go, there's always that day. That day…
— Charles Baxter
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My gosh, if you’re going away, we got a million things to talk about! All the things we would’ve talked about next month, the month…
— Ray Bradbury
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If dogs talked, one of them would be president by now. Everybody likes dogs.
— Dean Koontz
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I died for beauty but was scarce Adjusted in the tomb, When one who died for truth was lain In an adjoining room. He questioned…
— Emily Dickinson
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Here's the truth: the Soviet Union had thousands of nuclear weapons, and Iran doesn't have a single one. But when the world was on the…
— Barack Obama
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I figured anybody who talked about church as much as she did was using it a little like cocaine anyhow.
— Keith Ablow
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He was a guy who talked with commas, like a heavy novel. Over the phone anyway.
— Raymond Chandler
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She was no longer that happy creature who in earlier youth wandered with me on the banks of the lake and talked with ecstasy of…
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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I sat on the bench outside of class today and talked to Jon. I read to him from my journal, it was the part about…
— Sabrina Ward Harrison
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Without the support from religion--remember, we talked about it--no father, using only his own resources, would be able to bring up a child.
— Leo Tolstoy
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I have these guilts about never having read Chaucer but I was talked out of learning Early Anglo-Saxon / Middle English by a friend who…
— Helene Hanff
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Alcohol whipped me. Alcohol and I had many, many marvelous times together. We laughed, we talked, we danced at the party together; then one day…
— Harry Crews
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The stories never said why she was wicked. It was enough to be an old woman, enough to be all alone, enough to look strange…
— Terry Pratchett
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If a man loved me, I would have talked myself into loving him, and I would have loved him very deeply after a while.
— Peter S. Beagle
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I have stolen princesses back from sleeping barrow kings. I burned down the town of Trebon. I have spent the night with Felurian and left…
— Patrick Rothfuss
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Juan gave Bones the most admiring look he’d bestowed on him yet. “You talked her into going without panties all these years? Madre de Dios,…
— Jeaniene Frost
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I wanted to touch him, to tell him that even if everyone left everyone, I would never leave him, he talked and talked, his words…
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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During the first day, curious at having outsiders among them, a long stream of inmates came over and talked with me. Remarkably, according to what…
— Alan Alda
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... suffering does not ennoble. It destroys. To resist destruction, self-hatred, or lifelong hopelessness, we have to throw off the conditioning of being despised, the…
— Dorothy Allison
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Sometimes you have to gag on fancy before you can appreciate plain, th' way I see it. For too many years, I ate fancy, I…
— Jan Karon
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We read books, talked books, argued over books and became dearer and dearer to one another.
— Mary Ann Shaffer
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The correct way to punctuate a sentence that states: "Of course it is none of my business, but -- " is to place a period…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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