Talked Quotes
998 Talked quotes by 842 unique authors
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That was a good day for me," Skulduggery said. "I didn't have to hit anyone. I didn't have to shoot anyone. I just sat around…
— Derek Landy
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From the moment I laid eyes on you I couldn't stop looking at you. From the moment we talked I couldn't stop arguing with you.…
— Simone Elkeles
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Preventive war was an invention of Hitler. I would not even listen to anyone seriously that came and talked about such a thing.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Do you remember writing in your diary," he said, "that it did not matter whether I was a friend or an enemy, since I was…
— George Orwell
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Time is what matters. As time goes by, you and I will be carried inexorably into the mainstream of our period, even though we’re unaware…
— Yukio Mishima
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My Sunday school teachers had turned Bible narrative into children's fables. They talked about Noah and the ark because the story had animals in it.…
— Donald Miller
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Based on her experience with men, most assumed that when you talked to them about a problem or dilemma, they were expected to offer an…
— Nicholas Sparks
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He became absorbed beyond mere happiness as he felt himself exercising control over living things. He talked to them, urging them, ordering them. Driven back…
— William Golding
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It is your turn to say something now, Mr. Darcy. I talked about the dance, and you ought to make some kind of remark on…
— Jane Austen
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As Buckingham talked, I couldn't help but remember that there's a reason they call us Gallagher Girls. It's not just because the youngest of us…
— Ally Carter
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We talked--recent history only--and Lucas relayed the story of how Francis came to be his roommate. "He showed up at the door one night, demanding…
— Tammara Webber
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It's always better to attack than to defend," Coram had told her when they talked about fencing late at night. "Always. Ye don't win with…
— Tamora Pierce
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Rachel, my itchy witch," Al said as he tugged the lace at his cuffs. "We've talked about this. You simply must stop collecting nasty little…
— Kim Harrison
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When he talked to you, you seemed to fit in, but when someone else was talking, or he would be distracted, you jsut looked lonely…
— David Levithan
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We talked death with burned-up intensity, both of us drawn to it like moths to an electric light bulb. Sucking on it!
— Anne Sexton
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Who doesn't have a friend who worships her lover with a passion that seems baffling to everyone that knows them? Before you met him for…
— Caitlin Moran
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Before we left, Grandmother talked a lot about the arctic night we would fly through. 'Isn't it a mystical word, "arctic"? Pure and quite hard.…
— Tove Jansson
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The smell of that buttered toast simply spoke to Toad, and with no uncertain voice; talked of warm kitchens, of breakfasts on bright frosty mornings,…
— Kenneth Grahame
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I knew it,’ she says. ‘I knew I had met you before. I knew it the first time I saw your photograph. It’s as if…
— Paulo Coelho
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He talked a lot about the past and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Jacks stood beside her. Instead of saying anything, she felt his fingers trace up her palm and then lace into hers. He had taken her…
— Scott Speer
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I was observing her closely as I talked, and after a while I began to get the impression that she was not, in fact, quite…
— Roald Dahl
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Aren’t you going to ask me if I’m all right?” I say. “No, I’m pretty sure you’re not all right.” He shakes his head. “I’m…
— Veronica Roth
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But maybe the best thing I learnt was this: that we cannot know a person's soul and nature until we've sat beside them, and talked.
— Susan Fletcher
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After a while he played with the pencil and the paper again and was delighted when he discovered how to make a mark with the…
— Douglas Adams
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