Top 100 Start Talking Quotes
#1. And when they start talking, and they always do, you find that each of them has a story they want to tell. Everyone, no matter how old or young, has some lesson they want to teach. And I sit there and listen and learn all about life from people who have no idea how to live it.
Paul Neilan
#2. Lots of time you don't know what interests you most till you start talking about something that doesn't interest you most.
J.D. Salinger
#3. When people start talking of man's inhumanity to man it means they haven't actually walked far enough.
Bruce Chatwin
#4. The great fun of doing new plays is that people have no idea what's going to happen next. That goes quite soon, as people start talking about it, and the only way you can keep hold of that is genuinely to keep changing it.
Stephen Daldry
#5. Let's stop talking about new taxes and start talking about creating new taxpayers, which basically means jobs.
Marco Rubio
#6. Christian turned around and penetrated Slater with his obsidian eyes. "Better talk or I'll introduce you to my two best friends," he said harshly, holding up his fists. "Meet thunder and lightning. If you don't start talking, it's going to storm all over your face.
Dannika Dark
#7. Start calling yourself healed, happy, whole, blessed, and prosperous. Stop talking to God about how big
your mountains are, and start talking to your mountains about how big your God is!
Joel Osteen
#8. With some people ,the minute you start talking, it feels like you've known them for years. It only means that you were supposed to meet sooner. You're feeling all the time you should have known each other, but didn't. That time still counts. You can definitely feel it.
David Levithan
#9. I listen like mad to any conversation taking place next to me just trying to hear why this is funny. Women's restrooms are especially great. I wash my hands twice waiting for people to come in and start talking.
Lynda Barry
#10. When you start talking about the known knowns and the unknown unknowns, you're thrown into a crazy meta-level discussion. Do I know what I know, do I know what I don't know, do I know what I don't know I don't know. It becomes a strange, Lewis Carroll - like nursery rhyme.
Errol Morris
#11. As a college student, you're depending on your scholarship money, money your parents send you. So I guess when people start talking about big figures, it doesn't hit me.
D'Brickashaw Ferguson
#12. This simple truth is the essence of my message to Muslims throughout the world: know who you are, who you want to be, and start talking and working with whom you are not. Find common values and build with fellow citizens a society based on diversity and equality.
Tariq Ramadan
#13. BELINDA: People say you shouldn't speak ill of the dead. I say tell the truth. The dead will know what God will tell them. So start talking.
Billy London
#14. It takes a lot to get people talking in airplanes. But once they start talking, you just can't shut them up.
Chuck Palahniuk
#15. Smitty leaned forward, resting his arms on this raised knees. "I am fixin' to get mad, Jessie.
"You're fixin' to get mad?"
"Yeah."
"Why don't you just get mad?"
"I'm not there yet. But I will be if you don't start talking to me."
Smitty to Jessie Ann
Shelly Laurenston
#16. When people start talking about enjambment and line endings, I always shut them up. This is not something to talk about, this is a private matter, it's up to the poet.
James Tate
#17. You know, that's what I hate: when you start talking like this, like you just pull in these things from the shit you read, and you haven't thought it out for yourself, no bearing on the world around us, and totally unoriginal.
Richard Linklater
#18. Sixty-four percent of managers in the U.S. are afraid to be alone in a room with a woman. Mentoring is all about being alone in a room with someone. Let's start talking about this honestly. The lack of equal access is the silent killer for women and no one wants to talk about it.
Sheryl Sandberg
#19. Instead of talking yourself out of your future start talking yourself into it.
Joel Osteen
#20. You can bring down governments, you can do a lot of things that are in your own interests even though liberals will get very antsy when you start talking about it.
Tom Tancredo
#21. You cannot talk about race without talking about privilege. And when people start talking about privilege, they get paralyzed by shame.
Brene Brown
#22. Whatever the press is talking about, they want to keep talking about it. So instead of asking yourself, 'How can I get them to start talking about me?', figure out a way to get yourself involved in what they're already talking about.
Brian Chesky
#23. Shit. Next I'll hold her hand and start talking about butterflies and rainbows. Fuck me.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#24. Oh God", Nate dropped his head down on the arm of the couch next to Si. "Has my love life really been reduced to talking to my cat about this?" Si just licked his whiskers and waited for Nate to start talking. So he did...
Erin Shaw
#25. You're right not to talk. It's a sort of higher honesty, I think. Once you start talking, there's no telling what you'll say.
Marilynne Robinson
#26. Tweets? That stuff kills conversation. And people taking pictures with their phone or recording you, sometimes surreptitiously, is creepy. They come up and just start talking to you, and you can see the red light on their phone.
Robin Williams
#27. I was very serene, and I still am, until I start talking in another voice, then suddenly I have a lot of volume and I'm frantic. But I didn't want to be one of those people who's always talking in accents in real life, so I started doing sketch comedy.
Kate McKinnon
#28. If you go to a tree and start talking, or to a flower, a rose, people will think you are mad. If you go to the church and talk to the cross or to an image, nobody will think you are mad, they will think you are religious.
Osho
#29. If this were an indie movie, we'd start talking about the constellations," Solomon said, looking up at the stars.
John Corey Whaley
#30. When you're a child you're able to assimilate so easily into any situation. You even start talking like the people you're around. I wasn't conscious that I was so good at that until I started to truly feel like an actor.
Vincent D'Onofrio
#31. The lesson from Hurricane Katrina was communication, communication, communication, .. Public safety has to be a priority. Then we can go to constituents and start talking about investments that have to be made in upgrading the networks.
Mufi Hannemann
#32. My philosophy is never start talking about 'if,' 'and,' 'but' or the past, because 90 percent of what follows will be negative.
Gordie Howe
#33. Is so interesting, is that when you're blindfolded and you're talking to somebody the conversation goes to places that it would never go if you could see the other person's reaction. You start talking about very intimate things. It's such an interesting experience.
Fernando Meirelles
#34. If you talk about your personal life to the press, you can't be mad at them when they start talking about you, because you invited them in.
Bryan Greenberg
#35. Before we start talking about genetic differences, you gotta come up with a system where there's equal opportunity,
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#36. A bore finds it easy to start talking, and even easier to get others to stop listening.
Evan Esar
#37. You play for a club like Real Madrid, the people outside start talking.
Royston Drenthe
#38. It takes a while to get a movie together, and they don't start talking books until the movie is close to being finished.
Gregory Keyes
#39. When men start talking about 'honor', there is sure to be trouble ahead.
Barbara Mertz
#40. Of course I'm sane, when trees start talking to me, I don't talk back.
Terry Pratchett
#41. When you're dating someone, you need to have intercourse at least ten times before you start talking about The Future.
Mimi Strong
#42. Izzy was full of people who were skewed toward the Asperger's end of the social spectrum, and there was no better way to get them to start talking than to ask them a technical question.
Neal Stephenson
#43. None of these people who are talking know Craig or Harry, or even care about who Craig or Harry are. The minute you stop talking about individuals and start talking about a group, your judgment has a flaw in it.
David Levithan
#44. So when we start talking about the state and all those that are so important and engaged and supportive around Florida, we've gotten overwhelming support, and it's so exciting.
Katherine Harris
#45. That's the problem with falling in love. It makes you start talking like a bad country song
Harlan Coben
#46. If I ever start talking to you about my 'craft', my 'instrument', you have permission to shoot me.
Drew Barrymore
#47. The world's urban poor and the illiterate are going to be increasingly disadvantaged and are in danger of being left behind. The web has added a new dimension to the gap between the first world and the developing world. We have to start talking about a human right to connect.
Tim Berners-Lee
#48. Some day, somebody is going to have to start talking about what happens to us all a decade from now if we let these North Koreans and the Iranians go forward with their nuclear weapons program.
Lawrence Eagleburger
#49. We should put away the militaristic outlook. The U.S. should start talking about disarmament, nuclear disarmament, of the region.
Akbar Ganji
#50. Growing up in a small Alaska town, domestic violence was that dirty little secret nobody talked about. We must start talking about it. For too long, we have been providing protection to the wrong people.
Lisa Murkowski
#51. I've spoken with a few employers who have moved away from what has to be some of the least attractive language you could use about health risk to start talking about wellbeing.
Tom Rath
#52. To his and everybody else's way of thinking, you should build a house with your own hands before you start talking about being an engineer.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#53. You don't need to go all deep and meaningful and start talking about Daddies. It's yes or no answer.
Carl Froch
#54. We must start talking differently about poverty
and start doing something differently.
Gary Haugen
#55. If we start talking about we and us, just think of how many things can actually take place and change in the world.
Bobby Williams
#56. At parties, I'll start talking and notice everyone is looking at me and feel dumb and say, 'Forget it,' and then start eating things.
Kristen Wiig
#57. Stop talking about "rape" and start talking about "sex", and within a few decades India will attain the true mindset to prevent sexual assaults.
Abhijit Naskar
#58. For a lot of actors, our biggest fear is that we're going to start talking about things we don't fully understand and sound like idiots.
Matt Damon
#59. I don't find the business easy. The moment you start talking about the business, you start sounding like someone in Spinal Tap.
Robert Wyatt
#60. 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 talking about him all the time to people.
Norah Jones
#61. If you wanna live a good life, start thinking positive and start talking positive. Use your brains and mind.
Reason Nkosinathi Makhubela
#62. I don't have a very clear idea of who the characters are until they start talking.
Joan Didion
#63. As a presenter, while I might suddenly want to start talking about something completely different, I have to stick to what we've agreed in order for all these other people to get their bits into the programme. So you have to be quite disciplined.
Jill Douglas
#64. Whenever people start talking about curing too many things with science, I'm always glad bioethics wasn't
Jodi Picoult
#65. You can tell that the capitalist system is in trouble when people start talking about capitalism.
Terry Eagleton
#66. The way I write is really like putting one foot in front of the other. I really let the characters do most of the work, they start talking and they just lead the way.
Quentin Tarantino
#67. People start talking about you and spreading false information, and it can really affect your spirit. So faith is very important to me.
Rochelle Aytes
#68. Most of the time, when I'm writing, I'm writing for myself. I'm thinking, 'What will my character say at this time? What will come out of her mouth?' I create individuals so real to me, I sometimes start talking to them. Then I let them loose on the page.
Katori Hall
#69. Take a pitcher full of water and set it down in the water-now it has water inside and water outside. We mustn't give it a name, lest silly people start talking again about the body and the soul.
Kabir
#70. She is not just some girl. She is my girl, and I will not have you talking shit about my girl. She's mine now, and you owe me an explanation, asshole. So either you start talking, or I keep hitting.
Melissa Collins
#71. A doctor who is interested in sex can advise patients. I became a better doctor by my late private sexual revolution. I ask the right questions in an easy non intrusive way, giving them option not to talk about or talk about it- their choice. They often start talking.
Lucie Novak
#72. We need to start talking about inequality again; we need to start talking about the inequities and unfairnesses and the injustices of an excessively divided society, divided by wealth, by opportunity, by outcome, by assets and so forth.
Tony Judt
#73. Every time I sit with our general manager at a baseball game, and there's number-cruncher and statistician guy - I'm sitting around - they start talking about stuff, and I say, 'What's that? I've never heard of that one before.'
George Brett
#74. Wow," said Fishy. "I don't think I heard a single full stop in there. You know, when you start talking entirely in comma splices, you're probably ready for a time-out and a tranquilizer.
Mira Grant
#75. Once you start talking to people, you find out there's a lot more wrestling fans than you think there are.
John Darnielle
#77. God is another way of talking about the power to break things, that's all. When you mean to break a goblet or a bone, well, just do it and be done. But when the things to be broken get big enough you have to start talking about God.
Catherynne M Valente
#78. I just managed to go around with one of the Great Spells in my head for years without going insane, didn't I?' He considered the last question form all angles.
'Yes, you did,' he reassured himself. 'You didn't start talking to trees, even when trees started talking to you.
Terry Pratchett
#79. You'll start talking, and pretty soon we'll all start nodding, and then the next thing you know, I'm hang gliding off the Eiffel Tower at night, being chased by ninja vampires
Kathy Reichs
#80. Don't have sex man. It leads to kissing and pretty soon you have to start talking to them.
Steve Martin
#81. It's funny, when you start talking about primitive scenes, so many people have seen their parents having sex.
Gaspar Noe
#82. To become a champion, you must first think like a champion, and the best way to think like a champion is start talking like a champion. So start talking today like the champion you could be, and your thoughts and actions will follow.
Hal Elrod
#84. I think that, you know, when we start talking about the Tea Party, people want to marginalize that into some kind of organization or party, but it really isn't.
Sharron Angle
#85. I believe that if we stop talking at one another, and start talking with one another, we can get a lot done.
Barack Obama
#86. You set up the story, but the characters start talking, and they go places that you didn't expect. You have to follow.
Zoe Kazan
#87. I think being an outsider in general always helps you in comedy. I think it helps to have an outsider's eye. And so I have an outsider's voice. You know, as soon as I start talking, I don't belong here. And I think that helps in a way.
John Oliver
#88. There is no Dubai and Abu Dhabi; we are one. Whoever doesn't understand this should do their homework before they start talking. We will be there for each other when we need it.
Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum
#89. One never knows when and why such people start talking; frequently they only open their mouths because they realize they haven't said anything yet, or because they're worried that if they continue to remain silent they will be regarded as insignificant.
Timur Vermes
#90. The trouble with talking about irony is, it's such a slippery thing that the second you start talking about it, you're a better example of it than you are an analyst.
Daniel Handler
#91. [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
#92. I am so used to being up on stage and talking to my fans that it's strange to be on stage and be someone else. I can't look at the audience during 'In the Heights' or I will start talking to them.
Jordin Sparks
#93. People don't finish grieving until they start talking about it.
Jen Nadol
#94. When you start talking about abortion and gay rights, people take that seriously and they're passionate about it - on both sides.
Bob Buckhorn
#95. We need to start talking about child-rearing in the workplace.
Sheryl Sandberg
#96. I'm trying to unify us internally so that we can - instead of firing on each other - fire on the Democrats and communicate a message and start talking about issues.
Jason Chaffetz
#97. Jillian had chosen their cutest dresses that made grown woman start talking in abnormally high voices. ("Oh, just look at you! Aren't you just so cute!" This wouldn't be so worrisome if it wasn't the same voice that women used with puppies.)
Wen Spencer
#98. But what I mean is, lots of time you don't know what interests you most till you start talking about something that doesn't interest you most. I mean you can't help it sometimes.
J.D. Salinger
#99. I sort of write onstage. I'll throw an idea out there, like Home Depot, and just start talking about it.
Harland Williams
#100. Believe me, once you lose a kid in a New York City park, atheist or not, you start talking to God right away.
Jim Gaffigan
