Talk Quotes

#1. I grew up in a very westernised environment and went to a private American school. But my personality was shy and quiet, and I wanted to wear the hijab but didn't have the courage, as I knew my friends would talk me out of it.

Leila Aboulela

#2. Small talk is a lubricant, not an insult,

C.D. Reiss

#3. Today, we don't talk about history. The past is two weeks ago, and the future is two weeks after.

Marjane Satrapi

#4. I can't talk religion to a man with bodily hunger in his eyes.

George Bernard Shaw

#5. Let's talk about why I'm naked and you're not.

Kenya Wright

#6. At the beginning of a marriage ask yourself whether this woman will be interesting to talk to from now until old age. Everything else in marriage is transitory: most of the time is spent in conversation.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#7. Nikki lives around the corner from me and I see him all the time. We talk a lot, and of course we're still friends. That was our baby, Motley Crue, we put that band together.

Tommy Lee

#8. We all talk about how much we hate lies. Yet we prefer, so often, to be lied to ... because it allows us to dodge all those painful truths we'd rather not hear.

Douglas Kennedy

#9. Bill Clinton valued my opinion and always made sure that my views were heard, and people knew that he wanted me to talk.

Madeleine Albright

#10. I think buddy is man talk for sweetie.

Emma Donoghue

#11. We should not talk about our friends: otherwise we will talk away the feeling of friendship.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#12. Being able to read well in public and talk about your work in an engaging fashion is part of most writers' job specification.

Sara Sheridan

#13. Households that have lost the soul of cooking from their routines may not know what they are missing: the song of a stir-fry sizzle, the small talk of clinking measuring spoons, the yeasty scent of rising dough, the painting of flavors onto a pizza before it slides into the oven.

Barbara Kingsolver

#14. Why is it that the people with whom one loves to be silent are also the very ones with whom one loves to talk?

Kate Douglas Wiggin

#15. I wished I could take every course in the curriculum and read every book in the library. Sometimes after I finished a particularly good book, I had the urge to get the library card, find out who else read the book, and track them down to talk about it.

Susan Crandall

#16. You know, there're no rules between Russell and I. We don't want to have to have to talk too much, because it's really precious, really special to play music.

Benny Green

#17. Perils of solitude #1: People talk to you. I'd rather listen.

Neil Peart

#18. And as you point out, for American families who struggle every day to figure out how do they pay, we talk about gasoline prices. That throws budgets into a real problem when you have budgeted really tight.

Allyson Schwartz

#19. Throughout my journey in basketball, I always have someone to talk to in my father. I know how hard he had to work as an athlete.

Joakim Noah

#20. To better avoid errors, you should talk to people who disagree with you and you should talk to people who are not in the same emotional situation you are.

Daniel Kahneman

#21. In 2012, I started writing songs - not for the world to hear, but for certain people I needed to talk to. My family, we were not big communicators. I had a hard time talking to people in general.

Benjamin Booker

#22. I'm creating a self help show called Self Talk. I'll insult myself for an hour then open phone lines to a fitness coach & my mother-in-law.

Ryan Lilly

#23. I think that it's so powerful for me to go see someone like Bridget Everett at Joe's Pub and watch her weave her songs in and out of these funny, tragic stories - you can talk and sing and it's not this horrible offense, you're going to get thrown in artistic jail.

Kathleen Hanna

#24. When I talk about music in Memphis, it's a place you can go if you are a beginning artist or anywhere in your career, and you can incubate.

Valerie June

#25. I think it's because most of us talk one way and live another. There are a few people who truly, truly walk the talk.

Olympia Dukakis

#26. Talk peaceful to be peaceful.

Norman Vincent Peale

#27. It's easier to get over a thing" Scobie said, "if you talk about it

Graham Greene

#28. I think you have to work with people, and when I talk about managing relationships, don't think the derogatory 'managed relationships'. It is a question of sharing emotion and feelings. The common denominator of everything can't be money, and it should not be money.

Anil Ambani

#29. I remember hearing other models talk about going to castings for Givenchy, and I was like, 'What are they saying?' And then I realized and was like, 'Oh, the Give-in-chee one.' I had been calling it Give-in-chee the whole time. I was shocked.

Jacquelyn Jablonski

#30. If I'm doing a talk show or an interview, or pretty much anything where I can't control the context, I'm loath to do the character.

Stephen Colbert

#31. I'd love to talk to Joaquin Phoenix because he's a very private guy. Also, he's creating a new kind of sexy leading man. To me, his face is new and might be legendary someday.

Isaac Mizrahi

#32. She didn't want to talk with Levi. And wasn't that the problem. She wanted to do things that didn't involve any talking. Well, maybe it did if you counted dirty talk.

Katie Reus

#33. I don't want to force somebody to talk about sensitive subjects if they're not into it, but at the very least, even if that's happening off camera, it's allowing everybody to be on the same level, and creates an atmosphere on set that engenders trust.

Joe Swanberg

#34. You could have gotten a car with GPS," Total said helpfully.
Yes," I said "Or we could have brought along a dog that doesn't talk." I gave Angel a pointed look, and she smiled, well, angelically, at me.
Total huffed, offended at me and climbed into her lap ...

James Patterson

#35. I'm always trying to find something unique or a project that I can do something unique in. When the director has a vision for a piece that I've never heard before, and they can back that up with visuals and they talk a good game, I get really interested in the world that they're trying to create.

Josh Hartnett

#36. I've been singing since I could talk, pretty much. My dad was really musical and taught me how to sing harmonies and got me a karaoke machine with tape decks.

Bonnie McKee

#37. I vaguely hoped that someone would come up and talk to me.

John Green

#38. If you talk to people nowadays, nothing exists unless it has been seen on TV. It gives people the idea they have seen and know everything, when really they have seen and know nothing.

G.B. Edwards

#39. That, my dear Liv, was confidence. Talk to someone. Make jokes with them. Seem interested in what they are saying even if they're dull as mud." He shrugged. "Anyone... anyone at all, can be glamoured if you know how.

Danika Stone

#40. His blessed count'nance; here I could frequent, With worship, place by place where he voutsaf'd Presence Divine, and to my Sons relate; On this Mount he appeerd, under this Tree Stood visible, among these Pines his voice I heard, here with him at this Fountain talk'd: So

John Milton

#41. Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#42. 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

#43. Somebody steals from me, I'm gonna say you stole. Not talk to him for spitting on the sidewalk. Understand?

Robert De Niro

#44. A lot of the stuff I've done is inspired by the location. Usually my works are pretty site-specific. There are a lot of shows that are older works, but often when I do new work for a show, it tends to talk to the space or the idea of the museum.

Ragnar Kjartansson

#45. Perception number one, how you want people to think about you when you arrive and perception number two, how you want them to talk about you once you have left.

Chris Murray

#46. There was a rumor that Jesse Jackson was going to go over there to talk with the Taliban, apparently they were having trouble rhyming the word Jihad.

Jay Leno

#47. I think the success of a talk show depends on how true it is to the personality of the person hosting it. The shows I really admire, like 'Oprah' and 'Ellen,' are distinctively like their hosts, so I think my show will be successful only if we try to stay consistent to my own sense of myself.

Jane Pauley

#48. There's nothing worse - I don't like listening to actors talk about the process, especially when - I mean, for me I've played a lot of guys, dudes, boys in a sense and this was a challenge for me just to play that official character.

Scott Speedman

#49. I play guys who are willing to go really far. If the dung really hits the fan, I don't know if I could walk the talk. But anyone who isn't willing to die for his convictions isn't worth living. My characters, no matter how demented they are, they have their convictions.

Elias Koteas

#50. Losing my father at a tender age was hard, and I felt it more so while growing up when I needed a father to talk to. Especially while pursuing an acting career where I would have loved his guidance and advice, since it was his passion as well.

Ajay Mehta

#51. I'm good friends with The Rock, and I talk to him all the time. And he says that, even though his movie career has taken off, he misses the instant gratification of wrestling, and the live crowds, and I could see being that way myself.

Trish Stratus

#52. People sometimes find Buddhism pessimistic, saying there is too much talk about death. It's essential to understand that Buddhists don't contemplate death because they are morbid or depressed; they focus on death, mortality, and human frailty as a means of better understanding and appreciating life.

Lama Surya Das

#53. People talk about me as if I am the sole inheritor of the Guinness family fortune and worth masses, but I have hundreds of cousins.

Jasmine Guinness

#54. Talk and tea is his specialty," said Giles. "He has about five cups of tea a day. But he works splendidly when we are looking.

Agatha Christie

#55. When you want to talk about who made me, you talk to me. Who made me is ME.

Muhammad Ali

#56. To think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life-daily and hourly. Our answer must consist, not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct.

Viktor E. Frankl

#57. I can't talk you in terms of time
your time and my time are different

Graham Greene

#58. Here I am, wasting away inside
a book I wish I could escape, and all she wants to do is
stay in the story.
If I could talk to this girl Delilah, I'd ask her why on
earth she would ever trade a single second of the world
she's in for the one in which I'm stuck

Jodi Picoult

#59. I get so nervous on stage I can't help but talk. I try. I try telling my brain: stop sending words to the mouth. But I get nervous and turn into my grandma. Behind the eyes it's pure fear. I find it difficult to believe I'm going to be able to deliver.

Adele

#60. He said, "You need not go to a place to talk to God. He is here. Everywhere." He raised his hands up to the sky to emphasize his point. "Yes, you're right," she said,

Anne-Rae Vasquez

#61. It is no accident that I mention our American friends, as they are always influencing our relations with our neighbors either directly or behind the scenes. Sometimes you don't even know who to talk to - the governments of certain countries or directly to their American patrons,

Vladimir Putin

#62. I got a huge knot in my stomach because if Antarctica could talk, it would be saying only one thing: you don't belong here. (277)

Maria Semple

#63. When confidence is deemed arrogance..
Happiness and joy deemed showing off self..
Strong words deemed mere big talk and rhetoric..
Small minds..only time will prove and show the truth..

Abha Maryada Banerjee

#64. There is a lot of talk about a centre party - and that I might lead it. I find this idea profoundly unattractive

Roy Jenkins

#65. Why was Barack Obama attractive to people in 2008? If you think about Barack Obama, there's all this anxiety about society, just kind of wracked by centripetal forces - the idea that the center's not holding, no one can talk to each other, the idea of a political system that's broken.

Rick Perlstein

#66. I don't stutter when I talk to God. He loves me.

Bennett Cerf

#67. People talk about writing convincing teenagers like it's a really clever thing to do, but it comes incredibly naturally to me. Which, of course, is slightly a worry.

Meg Rosoff

#68. If we were meant to talk more than listen, we would have two mouths and one ear.

Mark Twain

#69. I come from a place where you don't need to talk all the time. There are sign languages you learn.

Warwick Thornton

#70. I had spent my entire career not wanting to talk about weight, not wanting to deal with it, wanting to be an actor first.

Sara Rue

#71. Some people talk about children wanting to be born as though somewhere out there in the collective unconscious there's a spirit, or a thought or an idea that wants to be born. And I sometimes feel that way about stories ... that they're there and they want to be told.

Ann-Marie MacDonald

#72. People talk of the new economy and of reinventing themselves in the workplace, and in that sense most of us are less secure.

Daniel Kahneman

#73. It's difficult to talk to people who whisper even at home, afraid of Americans eavesdropping on them. It's not a figure of speech, not a joke, I'm serious.

Vladimir Putin

#74. It's a deeper connection when you meet someone online and talk to them every day.

Michelle Phan

#75. That wasn't sex talk, Lilli. I'm tellin' you I love you. Don't make a fuss. Just sayin' what I feel.

Susan Fanetti

#76. The question is always the same with a dragon: will he talk with you or will he eat you?

Ursula K. Le Guin

#77. We consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important.

Berthold Auerbach

#78. I tell people to write the stories that you're afraid to talk about, the stories you wish you'd forget, because those have the most power. Those are the ones that have the most strength when you give them as a testimony.

Sandra Cisneros

#79. I try to limit my time with Michael Davies to as little as possible per week, and he is pretty good with that, since he has a bazillion things to do. When I do see him, I try not to talk about dental work or anything like that because I know the Brits get very sensitive.

Katie Nolan

#80. There are Katy-Perry-in-concert-type pieces that I look at and am like, 'This dress has a hundred cupcakes on it - I want it!' My mom will always talk me down.

Ireland Baldwin

#81. Every year we discuss Jackie Robinson Day, which is April 15. We talk about it throughout baseball, promote it throughout baseball.

Curtis Granderson

#82. Shhh," he murmured against her mouth. "Don't talk. Don't think. Just feel.

Elizabeth Hoyt

#83. A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself.

Jean De La Bruyere

#84. Today it would be progress if everyone would stop talking about values. Instead, let us talk, as the Founders did, about virtues.

George Will

#85. There's nothing to be said for opposition. You can only talk about things and you can lay your plans. You can't actually achieve very much; you have to be in government for that.

Andrew Mitchell

#86. We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.

Diogenes

#87. I half knew what to expect when I saw the cricket ground in the morning. It was when I started to talk to people working out there, I began to find what I was looking for.

Ian Botham

#88. 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

#89. We love each other like matches in the dark. We don't talk, we catch fire instead

Mathias Malzieu

#90. Don't talk yourself out of following your heart. Talk yourself into it.

Alan Cohen

#91. There's no need to talk about it, because the truth of what one says lies in what one does.

Bernhard Schlink

#92. Idioms are a big thing in Ireland. They want to fill the time, to show how good they are at talk - it's a talk-off

Dylan Moran

#93. Why should I talk to you? I don't know where you're from.

Al Davis

#94. I don't mind being accused of being a bad comedian and I don't even mind being accused of being a bad talk-show host, but I never want to be accused of being an arrogant, pompous showbiz asshole.

David Letterman

#95. Tom Snyder was big enough to fill the night with talk and his own persona. The Snyder we saw on TV was not a replica of the real guy; it was the real guy.

Tom Shales

#96. have to know, he thought. I have to get out there and talk to people and see for myself. But there's nothing I can do now, and, dammit, I need some sleep.

Jeff Shaara

#97. We all, as parents, are laughing at ourselves and helicopter parenting and saying, 'This isn't the way we were parented; we were allowed to run free.' When I talk to my friends, we are all fascinated by what we are doing, but we can't seem to stop ourselves.

Liane Moriarty

#98. I found that when I talk to the little flower or to the little peanut they will give up their secrets ...

George Washington Carver

#99. More depends on my walk than talk.

Dwight L. Moody

#100. I hope that whenever my daughter has a negative experience, I'm there to talk about it and remind her how we feel when it's done to her so that she doesn't do it to others.

Lorraine Toussaint