Top 100 Talk About Quotes
#1. Books that talk about 'contemplation' often seem to have been written on Jupiter. This one is a sterling exception.
Martin Laird
#2. People talk about the horrors of war, but what weapon has a man invented that even approaches in cruelty some of the commoner diseases? 'Natural' death, almost by defintion, means something slow, smelly and painful.
George Orwell
#3. I work primarily for the camera-it's not something I really talk about a lot, but it's part of the way I am as a movie actor. The camera is my girl, as it were.
Terence Stamp
#4. You can't show somebody what it's like to experience loss, but you can soundtrack it and help them experience their own loss. I am so lucky to have this venue to be able to say and talk about all the stuff I've been through.
Zachary Cole Smith
#5. Rock and Roll has certainly tried to take its toll on me. I'd rather not talk about my past excesses here, although some hardcore rockers might argue that those excesses were responsible for some great records, but I know which side I came out on.
Tony Visconti
#6. It's interesting if you can talk about the large moments and also the small moments to understand the deepest complexities of a man by trying to imagine who they are.
Colum McCann
#7. I think we should be talk about what we want to do for the country. But if we're going to get into labels, I don't think it was particularly progressive to vote against the Brady Bill five times.
Hillary Clinton
#8. I heard about the movie business before I even knew what it was. So I surround myself now with people who are like, 'Can we not talk about movies for an hour?'
Jake Gyllenhaal
#9. I thought the first rule was do not talk about strip club."
"Depends on who you talk to," Officer Sexy said. "Tonight the first rule is not to strip for your neighbors.
Jody Wallace
#10. Nobody recognizes that a bookstore or library can also be a drowning polar bear. And in this country [US], magazines, newspapers, and bookstores are drowning polar bears. And if people can't see that or don't want to talk about it, I don't understand them at all.
Sherman Alexie
#11. Of course, I'm not allowed to talk about the script, but I can say it is a really good story.
Aaron Stanford
#12. What was I supposed to do? I was stuck in between you and a hard place ... we won't talk about the hard place
MoZella
#13. You can talk about capitalism and communism and all that sort of thing, but the important thing is the struggle everybody is engaged in to get better living conditions, and they are not interested too much in government.
Bernard Baruch
#14. I think the darker aspect of my fiction-or anybody's fiction-is by its very nature somehow easier to talk about.
Richard Russo
#15. You couldn't talk about the way things should be in somebody else's family. Families were like oceans. You never knew what was under the surface, in the parts you hadn't seen. Caro
Kelly Braffet
#16. I was happy but happy is an adult word. You don't have to ask a child about happy, you see it. They are or they are not. Adults talk about being happy because largely they are not. Talking about it is the same as trying to catch the wind. Much easier to let it blow all over you.
Jeanette Winterson
#17. As long as they talk about you, you're not really dead, as long as they speak your name, you continue. A legend doesn't die, just because the man dies.
Rod Serling
#18. These days, of course, the focus of talk about popular liberation through products is mostly associated with the Internet. I've been collecting computer ads and ads dealing with Internet industries.
Thomas Frank
#19. People talk about "job creation," as if that had ever been the aim the industrial economy. The aim was to replace people with machines.
Wendell Berry
#20. Being famous is such a gift for me because small things make people's lives brighter. You just shake somebody's hand. You just smile and write your name and people will talk about it for the rest of their lives.
Will Smith
#21. Most things that I think about not talking about, ultimately I decide to talk about, and I feel better.
Alison Rosen
#22. I certainly think it's very important that writers as citizens - not necessarily as writers, but just as ordinary citizens - should talk about things that matter to them.
Vikram Seth
#23. I don't talk about my politics. I am registered as an independent.
Charlie Rose
#24. I just loved to play. I liked to study the other ballplayers. I could talk about it for ages, because I played professional ball for 20 years, and I was still learning when I quit.
Lloyd Waner
#25. I've always wanted to do more significant stuff. I think of myself as well-informed, but the hardest thing to do is talk about politics and current events and be funny and not just preachy.
Gary Gulman
#26. I usually don't like to talk about money, but I talk about the movie, and the other aspects of directing, etc.
Tommy Wiseau
#27. I know you are going to be embarrassed. We're all embarrassed by it, but to hide the embarrassment ... silence has never protected women or helped them. We need to talk about it more with our, you know - whoever - our friends, our family.
Cybill Shepherd
#28. I think there are all kinds of aspects to reality, to domestic reality, and why don't we just talk about them all?
Anne Michaels
#29. People who say Jane or talk about Janeites revolt me. The sort that can walk with kings and not lose that common touch. 'Miss Austen to you' is what I feel inclined to say.
Angela Thirkell
#30. The Master of Ceremonies in 'Bridge and Tunnel' is a wonderful man, if I do say so myself. I talk about all the characters in the third person. But, he is a really congenial ... just a good stand-up guy, who happens to be Pakistani-American. He's been here for years.
Sarah Jones
#31. Just as it's painful to hear any woman talk about sexual assault, whether true or not, it's just as painful to watch my friend and mentor go through this.
Malcolm-Jamal Warner
#32. [ ... ] morals are worn as a badge to make you look good and [ ... ] it's so much easier to talk about your beliefs than to live up to them
Marilyn Manson
#33. Most politicians - those people who live, eat and breathe politics - like to sit around and talk about politics and tell political war stories. Reagan didn't do that. His war stories were movie war stories and Hollywood war stories. He loved that.
Lyn Nofziger
#34. A wise man once said to me, "Don't ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive." Actions speak louder than words. Don't just talk about what you plan to do. Make it happen.
Jes Fuhrmann
#35. It took so long to make it in America. The year I arrived was a bad year for women singers, the record company told me. So I starved. I lived in a hotel so dreadful I can't even talk about it.
Helen Reddy
#36. Disappear while you are alive! The less you talk about yourself, the less you think about yourself, the journey to disappearance begins! Forget about yourself! Disappear! When you go, universe will replace your place!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#37. Men need to be aware of the health of their bodies, as well - prostate cancer and breast cancer are almost on the same level. It's fascinating to me that the correlation between the two is almost the same - people don't talk about it so much, but they are almost equal in numbers.
Olivia Newton-John
#38. People talk about smart sanctions and crippling sanctions. I've never seen smart sanctions, and crippling sanctions cripple everyone, including innocent civilians, and make the government more popular.
Mohamed ElBaradei
#39. I think art has a right - not an obligation - to be difficult if it wishes. And, since people generally go on from this to talk about elitism versus democracy, I would add that genuinely difficult art is truly democratic.
Geoffrey Hill
#40. I think Barack Obama 'll talk about the actions that we've taken, not just since 9/11, but since Paris, to help keep the American people and American interests safe.
Barack Obama
#42. Like old married people who no longer have anything in common, to do or to talk about, save the same general weight of air to displace and breathe and general oblivious biding earth to bear their weight ...
William Faulkner
#43. Eulogies never talk about what was on your resume. Be remembered for how you made people feel and your passions
Arianna Huffington
#44. No one likes to talk about the positive parts of getting older and aging into orphanhood, how with your parents you often bury a lot of things you were never able to confront or fix or let go of.
Jill McCorkle
#45. It felt like they were telling each other secrets. Everything they said felt like that - whispered, tender, full of other meanings, like when you tell someone a dream or talk about your astrological signs as code for all the things you love about each other.
Francesca Lia Block
#46. Notice, for example, that people who talk about "the joys of childhood" are always adults. Only an adult, utterly remote from the reality of childhood, could suppose it is time of joys.
Russell Baker
#47. If people want to talk about anything I do, they can give it any name they want. As long as they're talking about it, I think it's great.
Katie Aselton
#48. Money is the last taboo. People will talk about their sex lives before they discuss their finances.
Marvin H. McIntyre
#49. When the newspapers have got nothing else to talk about, they cut loose on the young. The young are always news. If they are up to something, that's news. If they aren't, that's news too.
Kenneth Rexroth
#50. I feel like if I had my personality but was an OB/GYN, you would be psyched. You'd be like, 'My chatty, pop-culture-interested but plainspoken, wants-to-talk-about-clothes but serious-minded doctor.' I feel like I would clean up with patients. That's kind of a cocky thing to say.
Mindy Kaling
#51. We used to talk about wanting to get some money, but that's when hip-hop was based on your dreams and your fantasy. The whole thing now is the dreams and fantasies were achieved, and you don't want to make it the focal point. You can't keep beating that dead horse.
Sean Combs
#52. I forced myself to comply. When the media reports that a suspect in custody was killed after resisting arrest, they never tell you how hard it is to assist passively with your own kidnapping. They never talk about the discipline it takes to submit.
Molly Crabapple
#53. I was wondering if you had a second. To talk about anything at all.
Pleasefindthis
#54. You ever talk about a movie with someone that read the book? They're always so condescending. 'Ah, the book was much better than the movie.' Oh really? What I enjoyed about the movie: no reading.
Jim Gaffigan
#55. I sure saw a lot of kids that I'm sure didn't know a lot about us, or we were definitely new to them. The kids who came up to me afterward, we'd talk about music, sign a lot of autographs. So I'm sure we made a lot of new fans.
Joan Jett
#56. Let me first talk about our brains as a personal radio telescope. Let me talk first about its wonderful built-in wiring for tuning out the static of our civilization in order to better tune in its symphony.
E.L. Konigsburg
#57. There's always a lot of talk about motivation to race, but nobody really knows what I do or what I think apart from myself, so I don't really care what people think.
Kimi Raikkonen
#58. It does not matter whether I am in Hong Kong or Sao Paolo - people always want to talk about toxic bosses and what to do about them.
Srikumar Rao
#59. Is a cardigan what women wear when they don't want to talk about themselves?
Don DeLillo
#60. Maybe you shouldn't talk about anal sex behind our backs," I retort, able to deduce the subject of their conversations.
"Fine, I'll talk about it to your face," Lo challenges. "I hear you like it in the ass." He raises his can of Fizz Life to me. "Cheers.
Krista Ritchie
#61. I come from a background where you don't really talk about yourself much.
Michael Keaton
#62. Naturally, no one knows more about music than musicians. They talk about their own work all the time, but they rarely get to talk about other people's music.
Michael Azerrad
#63. You can't stop people from talking about you, but you can stop giving them something to talk about.
Miley Cyrus
#64. All of my friends are my age and we are all ageing at the same time. We talk about it and moan, but it doesn't bother me.
Claudia Schiffer
#65. If I had children, I would be very selfish. I wouldn't be out doing things. But by not having kids, it makes me freer to travel the world and talk about things I feel are important.
Linda Blair
#66. But everybody is afraid of death; that too is contagious. Your parents are afraid of death, your neighbors are afraid of death. Small children start getting infected by this constant fear all around. Everybody is afraid of death. People don't even want to talk about death.
Rajneesh
#67. I don't want to talk about it anymore," I said, focusing on the dashboard in front of me to prevent the tears that filled my eyes from falling. "Please don't ask me again." Then I got out of the car. I closed the door and didn't look back, fighting the newly created anxiety in my belly.
Erin Dionne
#68. Westerners respect privacy, and they are very competitive in terms of work and personalities. My teammates in China and I can talk about everything. But with my Houston Rockets teammates, even though we're friends, we cannot ask each other about everything.
Yao Ming
#69. It's just easier to talk about product attributes that you can measure with a number. Focus on price, screen size, that's easy. But there's a more difficult path, and that's to make better products, ones where maybe you can't measure their value empirically.
Jonathan Ive
#70. '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
#71. I do not know what it means to be okay. I have never known and maybe I will never know.
Okay is just a word I use so I won't have to talk about what's inside.
Okay is a word that means I am going to keep my secrets.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
#72. I don't believe a thing about a curse. I don't understand how we can talk about a curse. You have to remember, God is blessed and man can't curse, no matter how hard they try.
Ray Lewis
#73. The key to the many is often the one; it is how you regard and talk about the one in that one's absence or presence that communicates to the many how you would regard and talk about them in their presence or absence.
Stephen Covey
#74. To be able to sit in Donald Trump's apartment and talk about the future of corporate real estate was amazing.
Shia Labeouf
#75. Guys don't seem to think this, but the stuff that girls talk about is more raunchy than what guys talk about in a football lockeroom.
Scott Porter
#76. The president is out there today trying to talk about health care, and the reality is nobody cares about what he's saying on health care because this news is consuming everything. No president could tolerate that or should tolerate it.
Leon Panetta
#77. I don't think I'm easy to talk about. I've got a very irregular head. And I'm not anything that you think I am anyway.
Syd Barrett
#78. We talk about your drinking
But not about your thirst
You set off through the minefield
Like you were rounding first
Rosanne Cash
#79. Want to talk about Shakespeare's sonnets?" asked Orphu of Io.
Are you shitting me?" The moravecs loved the ancient human colloquial phrases, the more scatological the better.
Yes," said Orphu. "I am most definitely shitting you, my friend.
Dan Simmons
#80. Actors always talk about taking their work home and I always think: 'What are you on? You just turn it off. You are at work and then you go home.'
Bill Nighy
#81. I mean, I hate when actors talk about how hard their job is. It's ridiculous, because we have the best job in the world.
Jon Bernthal
#82. On offense, you can fumble and they still talk about you.
Clinton Portis
#83. It is fatal to one's artistic life to talk about something this is in process.
Denise Levertov
#84. I don't think for this generation, but for my generation and my father's generation, men had difficulty in accessing emotion and then being able to talk about it.
Liam Neeson
#85. We can talk about corporations all day long but my goal is to help the middle class, somebody who makes too much to be on government assistance but still lives paycheck to paycheck.
Lindsey Graham
#86. -Can we have one day when we don't have to talk about the meaning of life?
-I don't think we ever talk about anything else.
Lily King
#87. I think the biggest misconception about me is people really don't know who I really am. They see the party side of me, they see the crazy side of me. But I also have a laid-back side. You know, I'm chill, down to earth. If you want to grab a cup of coffee and just talk about life, I can do that.
Nicole Polizzi
#88. There are a lot of reasons people don't talk about climate change. One of them has to do with the language of science, and people feeling not competent about this issue.
Margaret D. Klein
#89. Never heard you talk about a man this way. Usually you rattle off their attributes like you're fixing to fricassee the poor sons of bitches. God help the poor bastard you ever fall in love with.
Leslea Tash
#90. Politicians could talk about building walls and changing laws to keep people out, but in the end they were just symbols. Neither would stop the tide any more than the rock jetties at the mouth of the port did. Nothing could stop the tide of hope and desire. Bosch
Michael Connelly
#91. Architecture is my first love, if you want to talk about what moves me ... the ordering of space, the visual pleasure, architecture's power to construct our days and nights.
Barbara Kruger
#92. When guys talk about sex, eyebrows don't get raised. It's different for girls.
Lauren Myracle
#93. I daydreamed for motivation. I didn't lie to myself and talk about my passions and how if I was passionate enough about something I could be successful at it.
Mark Cuban
#94. So, now I've been to see a drug counselor who told me I need to lay off the drugs and talk about my feelings, and a shrink who heard what I had to say and immediately put me on drugs.
Libba Bray
#95. People are talking about me more than they talk about Eastenders.
Thierry Henry
#96. We never sit down before we start making a record and talk about this new sonic palette that we are going to try to explore. We always let the record kind of reveal itself to us over time.
Ben Gibbard
#97. Oh, sorry, I'm thinking about Cousin Mary. Talk about a dog. That girl was so ugly we had to put a bag over her head when we went to town so we wouldn't get arrested for public indecency.
Nick Wilgus
#98. The Tories and the Lib Dems talk about social mobility, but, short of winning the lottery, the only way to guarantee young people from all backgrounds the opportunity to do better and to raise aspirations is through education.
Lucy Powell
#99. Talking to the British about sex is like talking to Americans about reading. Nobody does it so why talk about it?
Greg Proops
#100. Once a week I would meet up with the coolest teacher and we'd go over my work. All my friends were like, Soooo ... once a week at lunch you meet up with Mr. Schulenberg to talk about poetry. They all thought I was having sex with my teacher. But I really just loved to write and it was a nice outlet.
Dave Franco
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