Nothing To Talk About Quotes

#1. Aside from theology and sex there is really nothing to talk about.

Harold Laski

#2. I believe I shall never be old enough to speak without embarrassment when I have nothing to talk about.

Abraham Lincoln

#3. Not that we were incompatible: we just had nothing to talk about.

Haruki Murakami

#4. There was nothing to talk about anymore. The only thing to do was go.

Jack Kerouac

#5. It's the beauty and curse of doing a daily show. Some days you've got nothing to talk about and other days Dick Cheney shoots his lawyer in the face and everyone is happy.

Craig Ferguson

#6. There's nothing to talk about to strangers anymore, if you know what I mean. Everything I want to say, I say to her.

Charles Baxter

#7. There is nothing to talk about" she said. "I'm just a freak that's all.

Stieg Larsson

#8. We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.

Barbara Ehrenreich

#9. Hours seem like minutes when we have something to talk about, and
minutes seem like hours when we have nothing to talk about.

Eraldo Banovac

#10. We're even more dazed than usual. Here we sit, empty, bewildered, contented. We have nothing to talk about, because nothing happens to us anymore, we're too poor, maybe life is sick of us. Why not?

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

#11. Man is an unhappy animal and one that can talk. If he was not unhappy, he would have nothing to talk about. But if he had nothing to talk about, he would be unhappy.

Louis MacNeice

#12. I wasn't fooled. He was avoiding looking at me. "There's nothing to talk about."
"I knew you'd say that. Actually, it was a toss-up between that and 'I don't know what you're talking about.'"
Dimitri sighed.

Richelle Mead

#13. The reason I could never be an atheist is because when they get together they have literally nothing to talk about.

R. Joseph Hoffmann

#14. For some things there are no explanations - no reasons, and so, when these things happen, there is nothing to talk about really. And it is best not to dwell on said things for too long, because you will find that life has no real meaning if you do.

Matthew Quick

#15. 'The Mark' I played a psychiatrist. And in the '50's everybody went to a psychiatrist because if you didn't, you'd have nothing to talk about at cocktail parties.

Rod Steiger

#16. There is nothing ugly about death; but man, out of his fear, has made even the word, death ugly and unutterable. People don't like to talk about it. They won't even listen to the word death.

Rajneesh

#17. Nothing's easier to talk about than surrendering ourselves and dying on the Cross. Nothing's harder than actually doing it.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#18. If the Dreams mean nothing, then why are you so afraid to talk about them?

Michelle Frost

#19. It amazed her how much people wanted to talk at parties. And about nothing in particular.

J.D. Robb

#20. There is nothing typical about my profession.' Suddenly I did not want to talk about it any longer. 'I don't want to talk about it any longer.

Patrick DeWitt

#21. Bush can talk about 100,000 people wanting to go work in the police or in the army. It's because there's nothing else for them to do. They're willing to stand in line to get bombed because they want to take care of their family.

Seymour Hersh

#22. In all honesty, I'm not able to talk about contracts. It's nothing with 'American Idol' in particular, it's just things I really need to take care of in my life.

Mario Vazquez

#23. I have an opportunity now with some of the projects I've done, i.e. the North Pole and the South Pole, to speak to a larger audience and talk about things that have nothing to do with physical education or special ed.

Ann Bancroft

#24. We don't have a good language to talk about this kind of thing. In most people's vocabularies, design means veneer ... But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design. Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation.

Steve Jobs

#25. Economists talk about profit motive, but nothing motivates modern man more than a chance to avoid taxes!

Peter Drucker

#26. The odd thing about this form of communication is you're more likely to talk about nothing than something. But I just want to say that all this nothing has meant more to me than so many ... somethings. So, thanks.

Nora Ephron

#27. Lots of people dream big and talk about big bold ideas but never do anything. I judge people by what they've done. The ratio of something to nothing is infinite. So just do something.

Peter Diamandis

#28. It is amazing that we hesitate to talk about the wrath of God, for fear of making sinners feel fearful. The fear they feel this side of the grave will be nothing compared to the fear they feel when they stand before Almighty God.

Ray Comfort

#29. Select such subjects that your pupils cannot walk out without seeing them. Train your pupils to be observers, and have them provided with the specimens about which you speak. If you can find nothing better, take a house-fly or a cricket, and let each one hold a specimen and examine it as you talk.

Louis Agassiz

#30. Let's talk about nothing. Look me in the eyes. I'll swim into yours. And we'll just smile. Enough for the whole world to crash behind us.

Nema Al-Araby

#31. We can still talk to each other," I say. "Nothing's changed." That's the biggest lie I've ever told him, even bigger than the lie about my so-called dead twin Marcella. Until a couple of years ago Josh thought I had a twin sister named Marcella who died of leukemia.

Jenny Han

#32. May be they want to talk about it but they know there's nothing you can do to help

Nicholas Sparks

#33. The first thing you find out when yer dog learns to talk is that dogs don't got nothing much to say.
About anything.

Soniya

#34. Indeed, there is something in this valley, some spirit and some life, and much to talk about in the huts. Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.

Alan Paton

#35. The truth is that the only time I'm happy is when I'm doing absolutely nothing. I don't understand people who like to work and talk about it like it was some sort of goddamn duty. Doing nothing feel like floating on warm water to me. Delightful, perfect.

Ava Gardner

#36. All the papers contained nothing but fantastic stories about the war. However, for several months we had been accustomed to war talk. We had so often packed our service trunks that the whole thing had become tedious.

Manfred Von Richthofen

#37. Don't go to eighth grade ... don't talk about something old ... don't bring up old memories that have nothing to do with who we are now. THIS is all that matters! TODAY.

Brad Meltzer

#38. In the hallowed hall where one of my ancestors, Crazy King Clifford II, once wore his crown - and nothing else. Because he was hot. We're not supposed to talk about him. Finally,

Emma Chase

#39. No, of course she didn't say it. But there is no other reason she should have called, except to pave the way for her brother. she had nothing whatsoever to talk about. Just sat there like a stick, sipping tea."
"I didn't know sticks could sip tea.

Tessa Dare

#40. Baby, you want to talk about what happened, go for it. I'm listening. But you know, I'm no angel, and I'm not finished dancing with the devil. If anyone ever hurts you like that again, there's nothing I won't do to protect you. To make sure you're never hurt again.

Cristin Harber

#41. There's nothing giggly about Heather usually. She's the opposite; hanging out with her is like sitting in an empty church. That's why I like her. She's quiet and serious and a thousand years old and seems like she can talk to the wind.

Jandy Nelson

#42. You have to watch your step with women these days, Pops. She could be involved with Yakuza or something. Even some of the girls in my class
you should hear the stuff they talk about. Fifteen years old, and there's nothing they don't know. We're not in the age of Peace and Love anymore.

Ryu Murakami

#43. The prospect of dating someone in her twenties becomes less appealing as you get older. At some point in your fife, your tolerance level goes down and you realize that, with someone much younger, there's nothing really to talk about.

Clint Eastwood

#44. The bad news is that Iran wants to talk about everything except their nuclear program. They want to talk about regional cooperation, they want to talk about the sanctions issues, and it seems like the western powers want to talk about nothing more than the nuclear issue.

Reza Aslan

#45. I love to work. You want to talk about natural highs? There's nothing like it.

Jolene Blalock

#46. If you do not have the courage & conviction to talk about yourself..
Who on Earth will ever listen to you or ever talk about you..NO ONE! Confidence has nothing to do with HUMILITY,it is pure CONVICTION!

Abha Maryada Banerjee

#47. I wish I could talk to twenty-three-year-old Sarah again. Ten-year-old Sarah doesn't understand my struggle. She hasn't come to this yet. She hasn't come to the place where my present means nothing but my future is all everyone talks about. Twenty-three-year-old

A.S. King

#48. Maybe they have nothing else to do in America but to talk about me.

Vladimir Putin

#49. No, I don't want to talk about River. I have nothing to say about it that I would want to be public.

Joaquin Phoenix

#50. A lot of people who find out about the things I do immediately figure I'm just a pathetic "druggie" with nothing to say that is worth hearing. They talk endless bull shit of "recovery!" They make it sound like some amazing discovery ... don't they know I'm far too busy trying to recover me?

Ashly Lorenzana

#51. Now they talk on the radio about the record set by (Babe) Ruth, and (Joe) DiMaggio and Henry Aaron. But they rarely mention mine. Do you know what I have to show for the sixty-one home runs? Nothing, exactly nothing.

Roger Maris

#52. I knew absolutely nothing about acting, and had to be taught everything. Some people are born naturals and know how to walk, talk and hold themselves. I didn't and had to learn everything.

Richard Briers

#53. The Almighty appeared on earth as a helpless human baby, needing to be fed and changed and taught to talk like any other child. The more you think about it, the more staggering it gets. Nothing in fiction is so fantastic as this truth of the Incarnation.

J.I. Packer

#54. There is this advantage about German beer: it does not make a man drunk as the word drunk is understood in England. There is nothing objectionable about him; he is simply tired. He does not want to talk; he wants to be let alone, to go to sleep; it does not matter where - anywhere.

Jerome K. Jerome

#55. Nothing does more to activate Christian divisions than talk about Christian unity.

Conor Cruise O'Brien

#56. In paradise there is nothing to say. Eden was sacrificed not for the pleasure of a fruit, but for the pleasure of the word. Now we have shame and pain and knowledge of death and whatnot, but at least we can talk about it.

Benjamin Hale

#57. Cedric nodded to Snape. Snape knew the ghost didn't like to talk to him. Something about a ghost talking to a painting seemed to disturb the boy. Nothing technically human on either end, Snape figured.

G. Norman Lippert

#58. To deny the reality of things is to miss their reality; to assert the emptiness of things is to miss their reality. The more you talk and think about it, the further astray you wander from the truth. Stop talking and thinking and there is nothing you will not be able to know.

Sengcan

#59. If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.

Thomas Carlyle

#60. Every role affords me something different in the way of understanding, and that's really why you take these roles, not to show that thing that people talk about of showing what you can do - that has nothing to do with anything.

Phylicia Rashad

#61. So the last part, the bit we can all talk about, is kind of deciding on the fear.
We've got to talk about this fear and decide there's nothing in it.

William Golding

#62. People can talk about my age for as long as they like. There is nothing better in football than proving people wrong, and I'll try to do that for as long as I can.

Frank Lampard

#63. There's nothing more tedious than people who like to talk about themselves.

Lisa Kleypas

#64. I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#65. Reflection is nothing more than what it sounds, and pondering one's own life is about as productive as talking to one's image in a mirror: both acts are egocentric and neither produces a dialog. People who talk to themselves in public are not self-actualized; they're crazy.

Anthony Marais

#66. If I had anyone to talk to about it, I knew they would say to give her time. I also knew that was just something people said when there was nothing left to say and nothing you could do.

Kami Garcia

#67. Emptiness is in fact form when we forget the self. There's nothing in the universe *other* than ourself. Nothing to compare, name, or identify. When it's the only thing there is, how can we talk about it?

Taizan Maezumi

#68. People who talk about the weather would be better served by admitting they've nothing to say but like the sound of their own voice.

Mark Lawrence

#69. Whenever people talk about dyslexia, it's important to know that some of the smartest people in the world, major owners of companies, are dyslexic. We just see things differently, so that's an advantage. I just learn a different way; there's nothing bad about it.

Charlotte McKinney

#70. There's nothing more boring than unintelligent actors, because all they have to talk about is themselves and acting. There have to be other things.

Tim Robbins

#71. To talk about paintings is not only difficult but perhaps pointless too. You can only express in words what words are capable of expressing
what language can communicate. Painting has nothing to do with that.

Gerhard Richter

#72. The needed to talk about Annie, the thoughts she was thinking. Why shouldn't they know them? The world deserved nothing less and would not wait.

Dave Eggers

#73. Very often, if I know the orchestra doesn't know a piece or it's a new piece, I have main ideas about it. But then we start to play and I never talk about places where they played so beautiful and so clear in the beginning that there is nothing to say.

Kurt Masur

#74. If we just had some time to ourselves, we could talk to each other the way we used to. Maybe about nothing in particular at first, but even that would be a start.

A. Manette Ansay

#75. Sometimes you don't let us talk about how we're feeling. If we feel scared, you say, 'Nothing to worry about, guys,' but that doesn't make it go away. It makes it grow.

Melina Marchetta

#76. Stripping away artifice - it's the constant standard I aim for in acting, to approximate life. People talk about being bigger than life - but there's nothing bigger than life.

Robert Duvall

#77. It bothers me to hear people talk about things they know nothing about.

Carmelo Anthony

#78. As a wheelchair user, you can't move about freely. That's the only thing that bothers me a little. When I'm in the Euro Group in Brussels, colleagues who want to talk to me have to come to me. But I hope they know that this has nothing to do with arrogance.

Wolfgang Schauble

#79. History does show that nothing means a hell of a lot more than nothing when teenagers talk. In this case, Robby knew it meant that I did not want to talk about it, so he left me alone.
Robby Brees was such a good friend.

Andrew Smith

#80. I cannot make speeches, Emma ... If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more. But you know what I am. You hear nothing but truth from me. I have blamed you, and lectured you, and you have borne it as no other woman in England would have borne it.

Jane Austen

#81. Not much is done to promote non-cricket sports in India. There is a lot of talk about how sports needs to reach the grassroots and how it should be introduced as a subject in school, but nothing has been done to that effect.

Gagan Narang

#82. Did you talk to him about it?"
"Oh, sure. Nothing happened, yadda yadda. The usual. But my maydar went off like crazy."
"Maydar?"
"As in, he may be thinking about super hot sex with her. Like radar, only not as sure.

Rachel Caine

#83. So, yes, there's nothing I love more than listening to directors talk about their movies.

Jodie Foster

#84. ..I will talk about my dances...when I was onstage I simply forgot about the woman I was and offered everything to God. That is why I was able to undress so easily. At that moment, I was nothing, not even my body. I was just movements communing with the universe.

Paulo Coelho

#85. There is nothing more common than for people who want to talk about God to lose interest in the people they are talking to.

Eugene H. Peterson

#86. It's bloody annoying being shy. I'll spend a whole evening at a party asking everyone else about themselves. I'm not being self-deprecating; it's because I'm too shy to talk about myself. So people come away from the evening actually having learnt nothing about me.

Richard C. Armitage

#87. To talk about realizing the Self is discontinuous because there is nothing to realize but the Self. There is nothing but realization.

Frederick Lenz

#88. People talk about the miracle of birth. No. There's the miracle of conception. I did IVF, but nothing happened. So I began to think of adoption, and then I got pregnant. It was definitely a miracle.

Iman

#89. What a dreadful surprise. For everyone knows, is absolutely certain, that nothing will ever happen to me. Others die, I go on. There are no consequences and no responsibilities. Except that there are. But lets not talk about em eh? By the time the consequences catch up to you its too late isn't it?

Ray Bradbury

#90. The thing I try to get across to the writers - and I do a lot of writing, too - is that when I do stand-up, nothing I talk about is funny. Everything is really sad and tragic and then I make it funny.

Chris Rock

#91. I talk different, I walk different, everything. I don't have one single bad memory [there]. Not one. It was my sanctuary. I hated school, wasn't good in school, and me and my dad butted heads about that. But nothing mattered when I went home to Alabama.

Channing Tatum

#92. There was so much to talk about that nothing was said. It was warm sitting there on the steps. Everything seemed to be so right.

Tove Jansson

#93. She mock shudders the way you do when you talk about someone's misfortunes that have nothing to do with you, that don't touch you, and never will. I've never hit a woman in my life, but for one minute I want to punch her in the face, give her a taste of the pain she's so casually describing.

Gayle Forman

#94. Ask photographers to write and they have nothing to say; ask them to talk about their work and they won't shut up.

Bill Jay

#95. I opened my mouth-and had nothing to refute that with. Damn people who argued using logic. Talk about unfair.

Jeaniene Frost

#96. There is nothing that dictates behavior more than what we want others to think of us. When that happens, we become a reflection in our own mind of what we believe is reflected in the mind of another, neither of which has the slightest chance of being correct. Talk about dogs chasing tails.

Dee Hock

#97. I knew that this was what I wanted to talk about on stage. There was no point being coy about it, or pretending that I wasn't gay. That was the substance of my whole act. If you took that away, there would be nothing left.

Julian Clary

#98. Before I accept a job, I always talk to folks about it. 'Why does he kill these 22 people?' If they say, 'What difference does it make?' I know we have nothing more to talk about. A character has to be three-dimensional.

Powers Boothe

#99. They had come to the end of what they could talk about. Beyond that point there was nothing: the random thoughts of men who knew nothing.

Paul Auster

#100. Conversation succeeds conversation, Until there's nothing left to talk about Except truth, the perennial monologue, And no talker to dispute it but itself.

Laura Riding