Top 100 Quotes About Talking
#1. Anna spoke not only naturally and intelligently, but intelligently and casually, without attaching any value to her own thoughts, yet giving great value to the thoughts of the one she was talking to.
Leo Tolstoy
#2. Certain persons are malicious solely through a necessity for talking. Their conversation, the chat of the drawing-room, gossip of the anteroom, is like those chimneys which consume wood rapidly; they need a great amount of combustibles; and their combustibles are furnished by their neighbors.
Victor Hugo
#3. This might be one way to start talking about differences between the early postmodern writers of the fifties and sixties and their contemporary descendants.
David Foster Wallace
#4. To me this is not yelling. I am not yelling. I'm just passionate about my opinions and I want to tell you all of them before you start talking again.
Bill Burr
#5. The more I like a book, the more slowly I read. this spontaneous talking back to a book is one of the things that makes reading so valuable.
Anatole Broyard
#6. When I stop learning something new and start talking about the past versus the future, I will go.
Jack Welch
#7. Whether you're talking about Chris Christie, or you're talking about Rick Perry or Scott Walker or John Kasich, there's more interesting evolution at the state level than there is in Washington.
Newt Gingrich
#8. It is well known that, when two authors meet, they at once start talking about money-like everyone else.
V.S. Pritchett
#9. Peace, development, and justice are all connected to each other. We cannot talk about economic development without talking about peace. How can we expect economic development in a battlefield?
Aung San Suu Kyi
#10. Aw, come on. I barely speak English, unless we're talking about the Lowcountry kind.
Kami Garcia
#11. Didn't anyone ever tell you that men have a specified word count set aside each day and if I don't stop talking, my tongue will explode?
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#13. Gordon Gekko was right: greed is good. Because, the potty-trained Republicans have now stepped forward - like the Koch brothers - to say, 'You know what? You yokels stop talking about defaulting on the debt, because I'm going to lose a fortune!'
Bill Maher
#14. There are details within details within details to anchor you in the fact that we are talking about the real world, not an illustrated children's book fantasy world.
Joe Rohde
#15. Are we talking about sending the FBI or the National Guard to close abortion clinics?" I asked. "We'll see when I get to be president," he answered. Huckabee smiled.
Matt Taibbi
#16. Here Sidney sat, with the ham sandwich and flask of tea that Mrs Maguire had prepared, and let thoughts come to him. It was a form of prayer, he decided. It was not asking or talking but waiting and listening. The
James Runcie
#17. If you are not in good terms with the one who sent you, you can't have the right direction to the errands he wants to send you for. Be in good talking terms with God; pray without ceasing!
Israelmore Ayivor
#18. Talking to them was like being placed into conversational purgatory, with no hope of being released without significant damage to one's self-esteem.
Elizabeth Eulberg
#19. I think you can get better in mathematics on a school level, but when you're talking about being a mathematician, I think that's definitely a gift of genes or whatever, you know? Whatever your pool is.
John Hurt
#20. I agree that Ruskin has done much harm to counter balance much good in giving people the trick of talking about Art instead of really doing a little of it to enable them to understand.
William H. Hunt
#21. I discovered that Thailand was one of those countries, like Sri Lanka and India, where memory of past lives used to be commonplace. Go back a few generations, and you find people talking about earlier lives with total certainty.
John Burdett
#22. We didn't have sex."
"What?" Cale blinks at her.
"We just talked."
Talked. Like ... talking? "That isn't a euphemism for some complicated sex act I don't know about, is it?
Dominique Frost
#23. I heard about the project over a year before we began. My American agent said, 'Oh, you might want to read 'In Cold Blood' because they're talking about you for Capote, but the script's with Johnny Depp and Sean Penn at the moment.' So, these things take their time to dribble down the food chain.
Toby Jones
#24. Usually, when you talk about serialized TV, you're talking about one specific beat that you play, over and over again.
Boris Kodjoe
#25. If you are considering marriage, ask yourself one question: Will I still enjoy talking with her when I'm old?
Friedrich Nietzsche
#26. I am not sure what it is that finally allows people to just turn to each other and touch. There is some hidden trigger. There is a secret language people learn, so they can signal to stop talking and just move. I don't know it.
M T Anderson
#27. I was speaking well because I was talking to her; there are people who dry up language.
Maxine Hong Kingston
#28. I was so self -conscious, every time football players went into a huddle, I thought they were talking about me.
Jackie Mason
#29. I write because I suck at talking. -Kelley Powell
Kelley Powell
#30. When Talking Heads started, we called ourselves Thinking Man's Dance Music.
Tina Weymouth
#31. I could go days, weeks, without talking to another human being.
Megan Fox
#32. I get a lot of kids distracted. Sometimes they got to go cover left field, but they're over here talking to me, getting an autograph.
Pedro Martinez
#33. The mind is constantly talking. If the inner talk can drop even for a single moment you will be able to have a glimpse of no-mind. That's what meditation is all about. The state of no-mind is the right state. It is your state.
Rajneesh
#34. There was a point in time where the thought of people even talking about me made me anxious. Physically.
Chris Ofili
#35. You don't seriously suggest that thet're talking when they make that rattling noise.
John Wyndham
#36. I didn't really get the chance to talk to girls. I was a straight boy with hormones kicking in, and I wanted to talk to girls, but they weren't interested in talking back to me, so there was a real sense of loneliness.
Andy Biersack
#37. Any eyes on me - a late-night street sweeper, some dude texting in his parked car, the homeless guy talking to himself - make me feel uncomfortable when I skate. Everyone expects me to do certain things.
Rodney Mullen
#38. My face was growing hot, but I kept talking. "You're the only one who believes in me most of the time."
He shook his head. "You keep us going. Everybody knows that."
"But you're the one who keeps me going. You're what I'm fighting for in all this.
Tarah Benner
#39. I had a talk with God today. However, it was very boring talking with God. You cannot learn something from someone who knows exactly everything that you do.
Lionel Suggs
#40. It's unfortunate that a certain type of stripped-down classicism became the in-house architectural language for 20th-century fascism. Can an architectural language recover from such an association? Yes, I think it can, because in the end what you're talking about is a column and beam.
David Chipperfield
#41. When you love something you just don't want to stop talking about it.
Neil Gaiman
#42. Psychology, the talking cure, linguistics, and semantics - they're all like dogs poking around and sniffing their own vomit. There might be some gems in there, you never know. For certain you will at the very least know what you had for lunch. And you can ascertain what not to eat again.
David Byrne
#43. If you told my 13-year-old self that one day I'd be talking about how Tom Cruise and I had good chemistry, she'd think you were completely mad.
Rosamund Pike
#44. He's a good sportsman but his best at world trash talking.
Vitali Klitschko
#45. After all, the bible was always talking about miracles. i figured that if Daniel could get out of the lion's den alive and Jonah could come up unharmed from the belly of a whale, then surely ole T.j. could get out of going to prison.
Mildred D. Taylor
#46. New York became the first state to ban talking on hand-held cell phones while driving. First-time violators could receive a fine of $100, with an additional mandatory six-month jail sentence if your ringer plays a Latin-themed novelty song.
Jon Stewart
#47. We're not talking about insignificant amounts of code. It's substantial System V code showing up in Linux.
Darl McBride
#48. Talk to people no one else is talking to. Who would have thought that giving a speech at a funeral at age 12 would introduce me to a man who would introduce me to my first business contact who would introduce me to several other important people in my life. That's luck. That's randomness.
Ben Casnocha
#49. Eve tasted the apple in the Garden of Eden in order to slake that intense thirst for knowledge that the simple pleasure of picking flowers and talking to Adam could not satisfy.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
#50. You don't learn about sex from doing it with boys, but from talking about it with girls.
Suzanne Moore
#51. We like talking so much because we hope by our conversations to gain some mutual comfort, and because we seek to refresh our wearied spirits by variety of thoughts.
Anonymous
#52. My type of humor is almost pure identification. A housewife reads my column and says, 'But that's happened to ME! I know just what she's talking about!
Erma Bombeck
#53. I'm just a propagandist and a propagandist doesn't have to know what he is talking about, just so he talks about it most convincingly.
Clifford D. Simak
#54. I don't walk around talking about my life and spouting my philosophy to people I don't know. I mean, if I get to know them, I'll talk for hours. I guess I like a lower-key scene.
John Cusack
#55. Writing is talking to yourself-with the hope of being overheard.
Marty Rubin
#56. I still go to a salon where a gal does my hair, and I don't know if it's because I'm a celebrity but by the time I leave there, we are eating chicken and talking and screaming.
Jenifer Lewis
#57. I don't want ISIS using our Internet to take our young, impressionable youth and watching the media talking about how they're masterminds - these are masterminds. They shouldn't be using the word "mastermind."
Donald Trump
#58. You keep distracting me," I tell her.
"All I'm doing is sitting here talking to you!"
"Exactly," I say, and I smile at her.j
Jodi Picoult
#59. I'll be here when you get back," Kane promised. He wasn't going anywhere. "Call me if you feel like talking. Text me if you don't." He smiled. "Either way, stay in touch. Please.
Avril Ashton
#60. Loneliness is amplified when everyone you know is busy talking to everyone but you.
N.K. Smith
#61. People give themselves to you, in their talking, and in other ways, if you are quiet and patient and let them, and not in such a damned rush to give yourself to them you go bat-blind and deaf.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#62. Nothing puts me so completely out of patience
as the utterance of a wretched commonplace
when I am talking from my inmost heart.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#63. In an exclusive interview with the Christian Broadcasting Network Donald Trump said "I believe in god." But of course The Donald was talking about Himself.
Jay Leno
#64. Years ago, when James Bulger was murdered, every newspaper front page was talking about evil. At that point, having suppressed it for years, I remembered when I was four or five, I tried to kill my own brother.
Tilda Swinton
#65. It's hard for me to assess what I brought because each time you pick up a camera and point it at a person, you're trying to define that person so to talk generally is difficult because I have to think of a given image in order to conjure up what we're talking about.
Eve Arnold
#66. As you do not sweeten your mouth by saying honey, so you do not grow virtuous by merely talking of virtue.
Ivan Panin
#67. Nixon is one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides.
Harry S. Truman
#68. When you start talking about government as 'we' instead of 'they,' you have been in office too long.
Ronald Reagan
#69. When we speak of "gods," we are really talking about "the opinions of priests." When we speak of "the government," we really mean "the violence of a tiny minority.
Stefan Molyneux
#70. I'm just about that action, boss. I ain't ever see no talking win me nothin'.
Marshawn Lynch
#71. My heart is burning a hole in my chest and every time you speak to me, it keeps sinking, and I'm left with nothing but ashes. I wish she were talking to me, because the more she speaks to me, the more my heart flutters like a rising phoenix.
-Karen Quan and Jarod Kintz
Karen Quan
#72. Whenever you're talking about meaning, basically ... I think a lot of the human experience has to do with trying to understand what things mean, and there's not really any tools to do that unless you're thinking about it in a more spiritual or philosophical realm.
Win Butler
#73. Matthew, much to his own surprise, was enjoying himself. Like most quiet folks he liked talkative people when they were willing to do the talking themselves and did not expect him to keep up his end of it.
L.M. Montgomery
#74. Immediately after games, we're talking about what we need to do for the next game. We're not satisfied in the moment that we're in.
Dwyane Wade
#75. My relationship with Salman Khan is too personal to talk about. I take my work like any other regular job, and what I do in my personal life is no one's business. I'd rather let my work do all the talking.
Katrina Kaif
#76. Personally I'm an advocate for healthy marriages and families and I do a lot of speaking around the country sharing my faith and talking to women's groups, even specifically about marriage.
Candace Cameron
#77. I was talking about no nukes, the farm crisis. People said that wasn't stuff that a state auditor was supposed to be talking about. Maybe they were right.
Paul Wellstone
#78. Talking with friends about books harks back to the original impulse behind storytelling, the forging of human bonds. We have told ourselves stories not just, in Joan Didion's phrase, in order to live, but in order to live with one another.
Brian Hall
#79. I have been, earlier in my life, a lazy writer. I'd spend three hours at the gym to avoid writing, or I'd just find other distractions - reading, doing laundry, talking on the phone, etc. But suddenly I was like a laser beam: I was relentlessly focused, sometimes to the detriment of other things.
Emily Susan Rapp
#81. That suit has gone to your head."
"It's not the suit, buttercup."
"I don't do pet names."
"Do you do werewolves?"
"Okay, I'm not talking to you anymore.
Ilona Andrews
#83. It draws you in and creates pictures, so what I do is almost like a talking story book.
Slick Rick
#84. I really enjoy talking to actors or filmmakers that enjoy that process of creating and how they go about doing it.
Jim Caviezel
#85. If Christianity should happen to be true - that is to say, if its God is the real God of the universe - then defending it may mean talking about anything and everything.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#86. And you look like a protagonist." She was talking as fast as she could think. "You look like the person who wins in the end. You're so pretty, and so good. You have magic eyes," she whispered. "And you make me feel like a cannibal.
Rainbow Rowell
#87. Adeline hadn't owned a television since 1992.
She'd suffered fifteen years hearing about how the Internet would transform American culture and open new avenues of expression.
But in the end, it was only more people talking about television.
Jarett Kobek
#88. I'm about to tell Jonah about the safari Dad's going to take me on, but Mrs. Marconi says talking's like ping-pong: you take turns.
David Mitchell
#89. One theory is that we will make war look so attractive that we undermine the deterrent. That's Never Never Land. What we have now would have been enough to deter Hitler. But we are talking in a different order of reality.
Henry A. Kissinger
#90. To genuinely discover your Spirit, stop talking, stop reading, and start listening to your heart.
Sonia Choquette
#91. In talking about the impact of ideas in one field on ideas in another field, one is always apt to make a fool of oneself.
Richard P. Feynman
#92. This is Nature - the balance of colossal forces ... the mighty Cosmos in perfect equilibrium produces - this ... sometimes it seems to me that man is come where he is not wanted ... why should he run about here and there, talking about the stars, disturbing the blades of grass?
from Lord Jim
Joseph Conrad
#94. There is a difference between writing and being an author. Authors talk. I'm standing here talking now. This has nothing to do with writing.
T. R. Pearson
#95. I think, generally, the flawed anti-hero is much more interesting than the normal hero, and that's really what we're talking about here as it relates to outlaws or renegades.
Tod Goldberg
#96. Changing the plan at the last moment. "Oh, come on. The chicken can wait. Can't it? Sure it can." He was talking a mile a minute. "You can put the other thing back
Donna Tartt
#97. When I'm singing I feel like I'm talking to someone. I'm in conversation when I perform - either with myself or with whomever is listening.
Laura Marling
#98. I'm talking about a different type of madness. The kind that follows you into your dreams, only to haunt you when you're awake. A madness that sucks joy out of every good thing in life and makes you feel guilty about smiling.
Rachel Van Dyken
#99. I spend time in the classroom. I think more of them aren't political science than are political science. I particularly like talking to journalism students.
Jim Edgar
#100. Before Nelson Mandela was arrested in 1962, he was an angry, relatively young man. He founded the ANC's military wing. When he was released, he surprised everyone because he was talking about reconciliation and forgiveness and not about revenge.
Desmond Tutu
