Talking Quotes
5238 Talking quotes by 3466 unique authors
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I mean, I don't mind promoting a movie, or talking to the press if it's going to be used in some way
— Brian De Palma
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Politicians were like talking dogs in a circus: the fact that they existed was uncommonly interesting, but no sane person would actually believe what they…
— Alan Furst
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There’s something really rich and powerful in not talking about what you need to talk about sometimes.
— Rick Moody
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You know, when you have a father who's pretty well known but you don't see him, the last thing you want to do is start…
— Norah Jones
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A man prayed, and at first he thought that prayer was talking. But he became more and more quiet until in the end he realized…
— Soren Kierkegaard
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Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of before they became…
— L. Frank Baum
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When I hear what we call ‘music,’ it seems to me that someone is talking. And talking about his feelings, or about his ideas of relationships. But…
— John Cage
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Still. Smokers out there, you know what I'm talking about. That moment, after you've had a huge meal, say at Thanksgiving, when you step outside…
— Jim Leyland
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You can replace houses. You can't replace people. I mean, it's left me speechless. I was talking to P.J. (Brown) about it. When the storm…
— Chris Paul
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I've been a schoolteacher. I always try to get the kids to finish talking before the next one starts
— Marion Zimmer Bradley
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When I was trying to popularize the concept of the Internet - ten or 15 years ago - I came up with this concept of…
— Steve Case
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Everyone must concede that there is in existence something wiser than himself. Now there is a challenge, there is a challenge which few even investigate.…
— Vernon Howard
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Take most people, they are crazy about cars. They worry if they get a little scratch on them, they are always talking about have many…
— J D Salinger
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I like to do all the talking myself. It saves time, and prevents arguments.
— Oscar Wilde
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One day I visited a guy who had made a fortune as a broker. He was sitting in his office with his computer. I hire…
— Studs Terkel
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I have criticized absent people so often, and then discovered, to my humiliation, that I was talking with their relatives, that I have grown superstitious…
— Mark Twain
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Sometimes there is a greater lack of communication in facile talking than in silence.
— Faith Baldwin
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[A]ll change, even very large and powerful change, begins when a few people start talking with one another about something they care about.
— Margaret J. Wheatley
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Is not anyone with any degree of mental honesty conscious of telling lies all day long, both in talking and writing, simply because lies will…
— George Orwell
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One of my biggest fears - maybe my biggest weakness as a Christian - is that I have a hard time going up to a…
— Francis Chan
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I am sometimes asked, 'Why do you spend so much of your time and money talking about kindness to animals when there is so much…
— George Thorndike Angell
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Why not provoke some thought and get people talking about things? I like characters that are flawed because we all are. When people break up…
— Michael Fassbender
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In our prayers, we talk to God, in our Bible study, God talks to us, and we had better let God do most of the…
— Dwight L. Moody
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After we came out of the church, we stood talking for some time together of Bishop Berkeley's ingenious sophistry to prove the non-existence of matter,…
— James Boswell
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I never said a word against eminent men of science. What I complain of is a vague popular philosophy which supposes itself to be scientific…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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