Top 100 Talk Back Sayings
#1. We can all talk to the dead. It's getting them to talk back that's the hard part."2
Bruce M. Hood
#2. The image I gravitate towards are spunky women, women who talk back.
Catherine Hicks
#3. Before I had published anything, I still hung out with people who liked to write. None of us had published, so there was no talk about the business, and there was probably a lot more angsty talk back then. But these days maybe there are some more laments about the culture, but I would say no.
Chang-rae Lee
#4. In order always to learn something from others (which is the finest school there can be), I observe in my travels this practice: I always steer those with whom I talk back to the things they know best.
Michel De Montaigne
#5. Never talk back to a teacher. Teachers are like God. Actually, teachers are God's boss.
Deborah Wiles
#6. Most of what we know about sales comes from a world of information asymmetry, where for a very long time sellers had more information than buyers. That meant sellers could hoodwink buyers, especially if buyers did not have a lot of choices or a way to talk back.
Daniel H. Pink
#7. No, you have to talk first. You wanted to talk. It means you say something and I respond and you talk back again. It's one of the human race's most shining achievements. It's called a conversation.
Maggie Stiefvater
#8. Sermons remain one of the last forms of public discourse where it is culturally forbidden to talk back.
Harvey Cox
#9. The art is in preparing the content for optimal human consumption. The data doesn't just talk back to you. You collect, you analyze, you tell stories.
Leslie Bradshaw
#10. When asked the inevitable question of "Does the ball ever talk back?" Mark answered, "The only time that happens is when it's going over the fence, it yells back to me that I shouldn't have thrown that pitch.
Doug Wilson
#11. Connectivity doesn't just mean you get a lot more chances to deliver messages about customer service and pricing plans. This isn't one-sided. It enables people to talk back.
James Murdoch
#12. This is the problem with having a barrier between you and everyone else - you see it, but they don't. They talk to you, but you can't talk back to them.
David Levithan
#13. Objectifying is kind of a funny thing. Art is objectification, all art, because you're taking someone and making them into an object. But people can also talk back more to you when you're sketching them. They can look at you and say, 'Oh man, you got me wrong.'
Molly Crabapple
#14. In Chinese culture, it wouldn't occur to kids to question or talk back to their parents. In American culture, kids in books, TV shows and movies constantly score points with their snappy back talk. Typically, it's the parents who need to be taught a life lesson - by their children.
Amy Chua
#15. Too timid to talk back, I shot my adversary.
Mason Cooley
#16. Jimmy Lee Baylis was a wise man, and knew better than to talk back to the man who signed his paycheck.
Carl Hiaasen
#17. In my family, if I talk back to my dad, I get in trouble.
Joel Courtney
#18. He'd always liked women who'd talk back to him just a little bit. "Girls with balls" were good. Women with an actual mind of their own who could prove him wrong in something were, of course, castrating bitches who should be drowned in bottomless wells.
Warren Ellis
#19. Judge [Gonzalo] Curiel has not said anything, and in fact, cannot say anything. But I would even broaden it out to, you know, judges who are victims of attack ads in say state Supreme Court elections can't talk back. Judges are really barred from commenting on this kind of huge public hue and cry.
Dahlia Lithwick
#20. Of course I'm sane, when trees start talking to me, I don't talk back.
Terry Pratchett
#21. There are some people that will not pick up a phone and call you, but if you knock on a door and talk to them, they'll talk back to you.
Steve Martin
#22. Different vodkas have different effects. Some make you feel a little ... poly-lingual. Some make you feel like you want to talk back to someone who's giving you a hard time. Some make you feel like lifting kettle bells.
Bill Murray
#23. The middle-class parents talked things through with their children, reasoning with them. They didn't just issue commands. They expected their children to talk back to them, to negotiate, to question adults in positions of authority.
Anonymous
#24. I refuse to remember the dead.
And the dead are bored with the whole thing.
But you - you go ahead,
go on, go back down,
into the graveyard,
lie down where you think their faces are;
talk back to your old bad dreams.
Anne Sexton
#25. I needed to find a real sub. Someone who knew better than to talk back to me. Someone who took my word as law and didn't question what I did.
Teresa Mummert
#26. The press like to talk to actors. They mustn't be surprised when actors talk back to them.
Ian McKellen
#27. Talk Back? That's really what it's called? You're supposed to walk into some church basement and say, 'I'm here to learn how to Talk Back'?
Catherine Gilbert Murdock
#29. I hate it when she quotes Scripture. Who can talk back to the Bible?
Adrian Fogelin
#30. Books are the best friends you can have; they inform you, and entertain you, and they don't talk back.
John Steinbeck
#31. Your hair is so white now it can talk back to the police.
Cecily Strong
#32. I talk to millions of people every day. I just like it when they can't talk back.
Don Imus
#33. You are such a piece of shit," I yell into the quiet cab, slapping the horn accidentally. It makes a sound like a wounded duck. "Don't you talk back to me! You're this close to going to car heaven at the junk yard.
M. Leighton
#34. Whenever a woman says 'We need to talk,' it means she's reached a decision and it's already too late for you to talk back.
Tim Sandlin
#35. I had got where I talked to her all the time. Like I would say, I didn't hear her talk back, so I hadn't lost my sanities.
Sue Monk Kidd
#36. And it's always possible that you will not get a nice review. So - and that's enraging of course, to get a bad review, you can't talk back, and it's sort of shaming in a way.
Peter Carey
#37. I have nothing. My model is I have nothing figured out, and I'm starting with some little nugget and hoping that it will talk back to me enough to let it grow.
George Saunders
#38. Since I'm not dead yet I can talk back.
Amy Tan
#39. I never talk back. I listen and always remember your every word, so come pen or mouse, never forget that I will treasure your thoughts forever. Yours truly, Paper.
L.M. Fields
#40. The thing about oracles is that they talk back.
Darin Bradley
#41. We praised them when they were kind to others but told them not to expect to be rewarded for their good deeds. We scolded them whenever they tried to talk back. We taught them never to accept a handout. We taught them never to brag. We taught them everything we knew.
Julie Otsuka
#42. That's not fair! You can't talk back to the Tales! They are all we have!
John C. Wright
#43. There is nothing more aggravating than a man who won't talk back - unless it is a woman who won't.
L.M. Montgomery
#44. Mahad had done wrong, but I had been unforgivably trusting, which meant I was fatally dense. I had failed to be suspicious. I deserved my grandma's scorn. I was not allowed to talk back to Grandma, and Ma said nothing to defend me. I could only sob, and seethe.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
#45. I love commercials. I love to hate commercials, too. I talk back to them.
Hank Stuever
#46. I wish
our cowboy could be persuaded
to buy a horse,
that I could be invisible
until I can talk back
Thanhha Lai
#47. One day that is what will happen, West. And it will be incredibly hard. But what you can do now is make the most out of the time you have left. Talk to him even if he can't talk back. Hold his hand. Tell him everything you want him to know. So when he's gone you don't have regrets.
Abbi Glines
#48. I just sit ther and do what I vowed I would never do - talk back to the television.
George H. W. Bush
#49. Bad girls don't feel the need to act the way girls are "supposed" to act. They don't wear pretty clothes or subtle pink makeup or waves in their hair. They talk back, often and loudly. They are viciously honest and witty and mean. They are independent and tough.
Katie Heaney
#50. I have developed a very strong partiality for the dead: they don't talk back, they don't sue, and they don't have angry relatives.
Ron Chernow
#51. Before I ever put anything on paper, Jerry and I would talk back and forth.
Joe Shuster
#52. It's perfectly possible to enjoy a good, civilized, person-to-person conversation with a picture on a museum wall. Talk to it, listen carefully, and it will more than likely talk back to you.
Peter Clothier
#53. I would rather my enemy's sword pierce my heart then my friend's dagger stab me in the back. Faustus - Don't Talk Back To Your Vampire
Michele Bardsley
#54. The mission or ministry of backbiters is to bite you at the back. When they backbite you, move forward. If you turn back to talk back or fight them, you descend to their low class.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
#55. They talked in the car always, he trying to find the key to her own ignition behind the hooded eyes, she sitting back of the right-hand steering wheel and talking, talking, nothing but MG-words, inanimate-words he couldn't really talk back at. Soon
Thomas Pynchon
#56. I do a lot of referendums. They can't talk back. They don't have wives. They don't have friends who tell you how to run the campaign. They are supported by special interests, so there's a lot of money in them.
Roger Stone
#57. Parents should talk to their children, even when they are babies and can't talk back.
Robert Winston
#58. You see, people don't really listen anymore, no... they just sit around waiting for everyone else to shut up, waiting until it's finally their turn to talk. Back and forth, an endless cycle that gets us nowhere, because nobody really gives a shit about what's being said.
J.M. Darhower
#59. I laugh when Floyd Mayweather says that if he went back in time he would beat us all. I'll tell you this: if he was in the same era as Hagler and Hearns and Leonard and me, I don't think he would be such a big name. There is too much talk.
Roberto Duran
#60. Once you become successful, people know where you live, the type of house you live in, the kind of car you drive, the clothes you wear, and so it would be patronising to go and talk like a welder. Welding's a mystery to me now. You can't go back, your life changes every day.
Billy Connolly
#61. I like it when people talk s**t. Because if people weren't talking s**t, there would be nothing for me to come back with. I need that. If I don't have any ammo, what am I going to say?
Eminem
#62. We didn't talk about the decision at all, which was great, just to get together as friends. The only thing he said to me was 'It's your decision. Just do what you have to do and I will back you 100 per cent.
Craig Stevens
#63. I need to be in front of my obstacle. I like to have a back dialogue; I like to talk with people; I like to share ideas.
Maiwenn
#64. In the sheltered heart of the clumps last year's foliage still clings to the lower branches, tatters of orange that mutter with the passage of the wind, the talk of old women warning the green generation of what they, too, must come to when the sap runs back.
Jacquetta Hawkes
#65. When you decide to find that shriveled little heart of yours and inflate it back to an acceptable human-size, then we can talk.
Jessica Gadziala
#66. They smile in my face, behind my back they talk trash,
Mad and stuff because they don't have cash.
Erick Sermon
#67. Jared glanced at Dad, then back at Kami, and said, "I'll call you later."
You have never called me once in the entirety of your life, said Kami. I'll talk to you in a few minutes.
Sarah Rees Brennan
#68. Alvin smiled back, and kissed her. People talk about fools counting chickens before they hatch. That's nothing. We name them.
Orson Scott Card
#69. Millie ran back and forth, first jumping on Diego, then Henry, then Diego. "Arff!" she said, which means "let's help" in the way dogs talk.
Tracy Aiello
#70. After Lucca died, everything shut down. I couldn't eat. I couldn't sleep. I couldn't talk. Somehow they got me on the plane and back home.
Lisa Schroeder
#71. I think a lot of times when people talk about merchants, it's almost a nostalgic look back at the time where the world moved at a very different pace, and information was very different.
Edward Lampert
#72. I don't talk about my friends behind their back.
Tom Sturridge
#73. Many immigrants do not talk about what they endured back home. They were fleeing that world, and when they left they didn't want to talk about it because there had been pain and heartbreak under the caste system of the South. They didn't want to burden their children with what they had endured.
Isabel Wilkerson
#74. I will come back as a little breeze. You will feel me on your face, and you will know that I am still listening. So you can still talk to me.
Elizabeth Berg
#75. He didn't want to talk about London's wreck, and so he steered the conversation back towards Professor Pennyroyal's favourite subject: Professor Pennyroyal.
Tom Reeves
#76. It's not about being upset about the things you might have said or done yesterday, which is quite appropriate at the moment. It's about looking forward rather than looking back. I hate people who look back on the past or talk about what might have been.
Noel Gallagher
#77. I tried to go back and talk about what I did know. I told her about one girl he'd brought home from Cornell; I'd asked if she was his girlfriend, and he's said, When you define something, you limit it.
Melissa Bank
#78. My ex would know not to talk to me until I came back from running. I'd always be in a better place.
Arielle Kebbel
#79. I was a jaded high schooler, I was still into pop music, though not as sincerely as I am now. It was more tongue-in-cheek back then.
Girl Talk
#80. Virtually every problem that would show up in your business can be traced back to communications; somebody didn't talk to somebody about something.
David Allen
#81. You turned red all over, Finn," Aiden said helpfully. "So did Teagan. As red as Kool-Aid."
The back of Finn's neck went from pink lemonade to Blastin' Berry Cherry.
"Yeah," Aiden said. "Like that."
"I don't want to talk about it," Finn said.
Kersten Hamilton
#82. As a kid, sometimes you have nobody to turn to. I could always go back to some of the sermons and talk to myself in a righteous manner and put that in a song.
Curtis Mayfield
#83. Ted Lewis could make the clarinet talk. What it said was put me back in the case!
Eddie Condon
#84. It's not that I don't enjoy other people, but what I find with writers is this back and forth. And also, there's no need to talk about work.
Chang-rae Lee
#85. If you are afraid of changes Watch from a distance Whether or not I might do something If you're going to talk about me behind my back It is what it is.
Ayumi Hamasaki
#86. When people ask me what I miss most about the game, it's being in the locker room and getting to know the guys. Back in those days, we had roommates. We had to talk basketball and that was a great way to understand the game itself and form those lasting relationships.
Earl Monroe
#87. Unless he had whiskey running through his veins, Willard came to the clearing every morning and evening to talk to God. Arvin didn't know which was worse, the drinking or the praying. As far back as he could remember, it seemed that his father had fought the Devil all the time.
Donald Ray Pollock
#88. Slowly, we drew away from the kiss. His hands remained on my back and at my hip. I wasn't ready to let go of him either.
"Are we going to talk about that?" I asked.
"Do we need to?"
"Most people would."
"What would most people say?
Devon Monk
#89. In every era going back to Lincoln with Frederick Douglass, presidents talk to those that were leading at that time.
Al Sharpton
#90. Seated in a car full of women, squashed between his six-foot landlady and Sybil Underwood, having to listen to them talk nonstop all the way to Atlanta and back, was too much for him to bear.
Fannie Flagg
#91. Yves did not like showers, he preferred long, scalding baths, with newspapers, cigarettes, and whiskey on a chair next to the bathtub, and with Eric nearby to talk to, to shampoo his hair, and to scrub his back.
James Baldwin
#92. I can't talk about every single film I made. It's not my way to go back into the past and to look at my old pictures and to discuss them.
Otto Preminger
#93. I don't like when actors go around and talk a ton about how they approach their roles, because it's a little like pulling the curtain back on Oz, for me.
Jim Parrack
#94. I had never been to Texas. I'd been through Texas, but I'm so glad to be back in a place that's not L.A. or New York. To talk about Dallas, to talk about there being sweet tea on the catering table, it's rich and saturated in American-ness.
Kelli Giddish
#95. Hi,' he says.
'Hi,' she says back, and then to her great surprise, she begins to cry.
'You know,' Nick says as he hands her a tissue from the bedside table,' for all this talk about how you don't cry, you sure are sprouting a lot of water.
Jennifer E. Smith
#96. People talk about random acts of kindness, and that goes back to the measure of being gentlemanly again. It's about having consideration for others, and not expecting anything back. That's the difference.
Simon Baker
#97. I am so looking forward to seeing the back of you two," Kent pipes up behind me.
"Excuse me?" I spin around to face him.
"Baby. Babe." He mimics our voices, slapping a hand against his forehead. "I swear all your mushy talk has actually irreparably damaged my brain.
Siobhan Davis
#98. Putting his mouth close to her ear, he said, I'm going to ride you raw, baby, but you won't care. It's going to feel so good, all you'll be able to think about is getting me back inside you. Keeping me here, packed up tight and deep, screwing into you so hard you go hoarse from your screams ...
Rhyannon Byrd
#99. I'm shy and can't for the life of me barge around and slap people on the back. I sit in a corner by myself and am tickled to death when someone comes over to talk to me.
Alan Ladd
#100. If I could claw the words out of the back of my throat and give them, dripping of me, to you, we would talk of sticky hands, and the messes they make.
Nicole Lyons
