Top 100 Talk In Quotes
#1. Just to let you know, I talk in my sleep." He shifted on his bed and chucked something on the floor. It could only be one thing. "Also, I sleep naked.
Chelsea M. Cameron
#2. There's a sense of spontaneity, and no emphasis on jokes in this show. People generally talk the way they talk in life if you were in this particular situation.
Larry David
#3. I went to a very posh school, I had a very privileged upbringing with parents who were incredibly loving and brilliant. I've never tried to hide that; I'm not going to change my accent or talk in a different way.
David Cameron
#4. Our rights come from our Creator and it is impossible to define America if you do not talk in public about where your rights come from.
Newt Gingrich
#5. Some people talk in a telephone
And some people talk in a hall;
Some people talk in a whisper,
And some people talk in a drawl;
And some people talk-and-talk-and-talk-and-talk-and-talk
And Never say anything at all.
Walter R. Brooks
#6. I wish I could go visit them and talk in my own language, the English I knew before I grew thorns on my tongue.
Barbara Kingsolver
#7. People joke about me that I talk in voiceovers. I have that sort of inflection. But I do talk in voiceovers. I have done it my whole life.
Matt Nix
#8. The first few years after Samuel came to Salinas Valley there was a vague distrust of him. And perhaps Will as a little boy heard talk in the San Lucas store. Little boys don't want their fathers to be different from other men. Will might have picked up his conservatism right then.
John Steinbeck
#9. The important question has nothing to do with whether the talk in your story is sacred or profane; the only question is how it rings on the page and in your ear. If you expect it to ring true, then you must talk yourself. Even more important, you must shut up and listen to others talk.
Stephen King
#12. Politicians ... talk in generalities and lies, and I think they've caused all our grief. They're so awful, they're really funny. I hate thinking this because my dad loved politics.
Paul Lynde
#13. But it is infamous that they have not told you!' declared Eustacie. 'Je n'en reviendrai jamais!'
'If it's all the same to you, miss, I'd just as soon you'd talk in a Christian language,' said Mr. Stubbs.
Georgette Heyer
#14. Talk in order that I may see you.
Socrates
#15. Won't you stay We'll put on the day And we'll talk in present tenses
Joni Mitchell
#16. This was dangerous talk - in these enlightened times, a wise woman would never be too clever. The accusation of witchcraft had rid many men of an ugly wife and yet more women of an attractive rival.
Joss Alexander
#17. The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters - not to talk in armies and nations and numbers - but to track it home.
D.H. Lawrence
#18. Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#19. It was before him again in its completeness
the choice in which she was content to rest: in the stupid costliness of the food and the showy dulness of the talk, in the freedom of speech which never arrived at wit and the freedom of act which never made for romance.
Edith Wharton
#20. And I shall watch the ferry boats, and they'll get high, on a bluer ocean against tomorrow's sky. and i will never grow so old again, and i will walk and talk, in gardens all wet with rain ...
Van Morrison
#21. There is a lot of talk in publishing these days that we need to become more like the Internet: We need to make books for short attention spans with bells and whistles - books, in short, that are as much like 'Angry Birds' as possible. But I think that's a terrible idea.
John Green
#23. When the sands are all dry, he is gay as a lark,
And will talk in contemptuous tones of the Shark:
But, when the tide rises and sharks are around,
His voice has a timid and tremulous sound.
Lewis Carroll
#24. When I was a child, I pretended that I had my own cooking show. I would stand at the kitchen counter with an empty bowl and spoon and talk in a silly voice, explaining the concoction I was creating.
Kimberly Schlapman
#25. When we talk about compassion we talk in terms of being kind. But compassion is not so much being kind; it is being creative [enough] to wake a person up
Chogyam Trungpa
#27. She remembered Grace telling her about Lorcan's evasiveness when she'd first joined the Noctourne-his ability to speak without saying anything, to talk in riddles.
He's a conundrum, thought Cheng Li. A walking, talking conundrum
Justin Somper
#28. I talk in that baby talk voice when I'm on TV, it's a put on.
Paris Hilton
#29. Despite much talk in this land about religious freedom, churches and their schools now confront grave difficulties.
Russell Kirk
#30. In Eastern lands they talk in flowers,
And they tell in a garland their loves and cares;
Each blossom that blooms in their garden bowers,
On its leaves a mystic language bears.
James Gates Percival
#31. It's nice to be able to do things for other people, isn't it?
That's why it's fun to talk in the third person sometimes.
Patrick Bryant
#32. I wish you were here so we could walk and talk in the soft rain.
Ben Harper
#33. I didn't think the teachers had the right to tell me what to do. I would just disobey, talk in the classroom, get very bad grades.
Rachel Weisz
#34. Poetry is its own medium; it's very different than writing prose. Poetry can talk in an imagistic sense, it has particular ways of catching an environment.
Story Musgrave
#35. If you talk in your sleep, don't mention my name. If you walk in your sleep, forget where you came.
Elvis Presley
#36. I hope readers will do what I do when I read a novel I like: talk in ways that will illuminate their own lives.
Anna Quindlen
#37. But I do not slay man or beast needlessly, and not gladly even when it is needed. Neither do I talk in vain.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#38. Over the years I've learnt to live with two persons in my heart. One is Edson, who has fun with his friends and family; the other is the football player Pele. I didn't want the name. 'Pele' sounds like baby-talk in Portuguese.
Pele
#39. I remember so vividly playing a scene with Jimmy Stewart. I was in the back of a covered wagon, and we were doing this little talk in the wilderness. They did his close-up first. I was looking at him and thinking, 'How does he do that?' He is not 'doing' anything, and yet everything is there.
Julie Adams
#40. Don't preach too much to your pupils or abound in good talk in the abstract. Lie in wait rather for the practical opportunities, be prompt to seize those as they pass, and thus at one operation get your pupils both to think, to feel, and to do.
William James
#41. It comes out sounding too loud. Something about Davey makes me want to raise my voice and talk in all caps. Like, NO MATTER WHAT I'M SAYING I JUST WANT YOU TO KNOW I'M HERE AND VERY EXCITED.
Kathleen Hale
#42. You don't wear all your jewellery at once. You're much more believable if you talk in your own voice.
Maeve Binchy
#43. It is not productive to see things in simple black and white, and talk in either anti-nuclear or pro-nuclear terms.
Yoshihiko Noda
#44. It has always been my conviction that Indian parents who train their children to think and talk in English from their infancy betray their children and their country. They
Mahatma Gandhi
#45. In all the talk in the Principles (as opposed to the formal analysis) it is not the saving of rentiers but the energy of entrepreneurs which governs accumulation.
Joan Robinson
#46. WikiLeaks is really a litmus test for those people who walk the talk in the media. How much will they really follow their protestations to be brave publishers, and how much do they really want to lick the boots of power? Well, you can tell by their engagement with us and what they do.
Julian Assange
#47. I wanted to write a song about sexism, but I didn't want to do it in a mechanical way and be like, "Don't be sexist!" because that's not how I talk in regular life.
Boots Riley
#48. It's almost better most times to not talk in a scene. I think you can actually express a lot more without words.
Neve Campbell
#49. To talk in public, to think in solitude, to read and to hear, to inquire and answer inquiries, is the business of the scholar
Samuel Johnson
#50. Life smacks Tracy Morgan in the face, and I don't mean to talk in third party, but no, it doesn't stop raining when I come outside, no, absolutely not. I'm very in touch.
Tracy Morgan
#51. It's never a good thing to see a government agency talk in secret about the need to 'control protestors' - especially when that agency is charged with protecting the homeland against terrorists, not nonviolent demonstrators exercising their First Amendment rights to peaceable dissent.
Michael Hastings
#53. As long as there are two nations, two parties, two sexes or even two people there are going to be divisions. And all the talk in the world isn't going to change that. Thank goodness!
Lyn Nofziger
#54. When men learnt to talk in the beginning of the civilised word they used language not as a means of communication alone but as a means of excluding others
using it as a way of setting themselves apart and shutting out strangers.
Charlotte Lamb
#55. She taught me I should never do anything in private I did not want talked about in public, and cautioned me not to talk in my sleep.
Patrick Rothfuss
#56. Males categorize their worlds by counting, naming, and organizing the objects they confront. Women, in addition to personalizing their topics, talk in a more dynamic way, focusing on how their topics change. Discussions of change require more verbs.
James W. Pennebaker
#57. I never, with important air, In conversation overbear ... My tongue within my lips I rein; For who talks much must talk in vain.
John Gay
#58. I see stuff from the future, and I'm such a futurist that I have to slow down and talk in the present.
Kanye West
#59. Who talks much, must talk in vain.
John Gay
#60. When I rap, I get to express myself in a way where putting words together is like poetry, and sometimes it's better to talk in certain expressions than sing, you know? So I love, I love to rhyme when I want to express certain things.
Wyclef Jean
#61. So, we skipped Annabel, and discussed condoms. I said I liked the orange ones, and we ended our talk in laughter.
Steven Herrick
#62. I think the best writers use the language they use every day when they talk to friends. When we talk to each other, we tend to talk in short grabs rather than in long flowing sentences. I think that's not a bad way to write.
Morris Gleitzman
#63. If you're a kid, it's all you think about if you stutter. Kids can be so mean. My grades suffered. Class participation weighs heavy in grading, and I wouldn't open my mouth to read or talk in front of anyone.
Kenyon Martin
#64. We don't really communicate [ ... ]. We talk all right, talk in that strange language we've evolved for the purposes of avoiding communication. That non-language we've created. Perhaps it's a sign that civilisation is regressing. Something is anyway.
Irvine Welsh
#65. Everyone likes to talk shop, which is the most interesting talk in the world, in the beginning.
Carolyn Heilbrun
#66. We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#67. Most American and European scholars believe that the Chinese speak their languages, only that they "talk" in Chinese.
Thorsten J. Pattberg
#68. He talked to her as people commonly do talk in society - all sorts of nonsense, but nonsense to which he could not help attaching a special meaning in her case.
Leo Tolstoy
#69. When we talk in company we lose our unique tone of voice, and this leads us to make statements which in no way correspond to our real thoughts.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#70. 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
#71. I have very girly hands and I use them a lot when I talk in a way that I think is very feminine.
Janet McTeer
#72. You are a real champion. You talk a lot over the past six months and it is going to be great to show you inside the ring how it is better to resolve wars. Let's talk in the office.
Vitali Klitschko
#73. I like a lot of talk in a book and I don't like to have nobody tell me what the guy that's talking looks like. I want to figure out what he looks like from the way he talks.
John Steinbeck
#74. When I was a kid, I hated being talked to as a kid. I don't know if all kids feel that way, but I seem to remember awful things in the crib, something like people doing baby talk in the crib and sticking their big, fat faces in there and scaring me. So I always talk to kids as if they were a person.
Michael Feldman
#75. We need to get away from labels. That's the way people talk in Washington, D.C. - through labels, through ideological frames, through partisan frames.
Wendy Davis
#76. Trying to tart the rock business up a bit is getting nearer to what the kids themselves are like, because what I find, if you want to talk in the terms of rock, a lot depends on sensationalism and the kids are a lot more sensational than the stars themselves.
David Bowie
#77. It is blessed to eat into the very soul of the Bible until, at last, you come to talk in Scriptural language, and your spirit is flavored with the words of the Lord, so that your blood is Bibline and the very essence of the Bible flows from you.
Charles Spurgeon
#78. Losing the Internet has forced them to interact verbally instead of microblogging their lives, but a lot of them still talk in Tweets:
"Ugh! I'm standing in line at the post office."
"I'm not eating the crusts on my sandwich because apparently I'm five.
Wayne Gladstone
#79. I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn
Robert Frost
#80. Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
Albert Camus
#81. The world doesn't just revolve around you. There's a lot of talk in this country about the federal deficit. But I think we should talk more about our empathy deficit.
Barack Obama
#82. I mean Iggy and The Stooges first couple of albums I think sold twenty five thousand between the two of them you know and so to talk in terms of an underground I mean you have to go really to the independent labels and things like that.
Lester Bangs
#83. It is called understanding when one accepts other's talks of wisdom; but, where is the wisdom filled talk in this era?
Dada Bhagwan
#84. As Perel puts it in her TEDx talk, In desire, we want a bridge to cross.
Emily Nagoski
#85. There has been talk in Europe about American hegemony being somehow based upon the use of the dollar in the world. I just don't see that connection at all.
Robert C. Solomon
#86. Peace talk when war is impending is hazardous for the talker, and in war time it is criminal. War talk in peace time, which is infinitely more wicked, runs no risk at all.
Charles Clayton Morrison
#87. buttons, and turns out his toes.' [later editions continued as follows When the sands are all dry, he is gay as a lark, And will talk in contemptuous tones of the Shark, But, when the tide rises and sharks are around, His voice has a timid and tremulous sound.] 'That's different from what
Lewis Carroll
#88. Tolkien made dwarf sign language because, you know, it's too loud to talk in the mines.
Richard C. Armitage
#89. I've actually done events at radio stations where I feel like I've had to give a little talk in behalf of television as a medium.
Ira Glass
#90. I hear people talk in my head, and I write it down. I choose where they live and how they dress to be real.
Nicole Holofcener
#91. A friend of mine tells that I talk in shorthand and then smudge it.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#92. I've always suffered from being labelled a horror writer - just because I didn't go to university, just because I still talk in my natural voice, just because I'm not as articulate as Martin Amis.
James Herbert
#93. Only it seems to me that once in your life before you die you ought to see a country where they don't talk in English and don't even want to.
Thornton Wilder
#94. The only way to influence people is to talk in terms of what the other person wants.
Dale Carnegie
#95. I talk in a daze, I walk in a maze
I cannot get out, said the starling
Vladimir Nabokov
#96. You want to know what I'm wearing?"
"Not unless you think it'll really get me excited."
"I'm afraid clothes have to have women in them for you to get excited."
"Maybe you could talk in a high voice."
"Cut through the shit, Hap.
Joe R. Lansdale
#97. The Homebrew Computer Club was the highlight of my life. I was too shy to ever talk in the club meeting, but the way that I could communicate sometimes was by doing good designs. I was very skilled at a certain type of circuit design.
Steve Wozniak
#100. I think women are really vicious in the work place, they're really jealous, really competitive. Women are emotional, they cry in toilets. The sisterhood only extends as far as the kitchen door. Men talk in logic and rational terms, they don't squark and make a noise.
Katie Hopkins
