Talk Quotes

Journalism talk is part of the nonstop background noise of American life.

You should not quarrel with your neighbour, for he will remain where he is, but your high handedness will become the talk of the people.

For me, for the type of addict I am, when I start getting those swirly thoughts and stuff, and they talk about slippery places, slippery people and slippery things, you know, I need to - I needed to take my cell phone and eliminate all the phone numbers, change the phone numbers so no one I knew before could call me or reach me.

It's difficult to talk about, you know, my inadequacies, my inability to stay sober when I'm a relatively bright man and I've had a lot of great blessings and a lot of great opportunities.

I'm an actor I'm not a politician. I always kick myself when I talk too much about family, or personal things.

I don't like journalists and I hardly ever talk to them.

When we talk about stem cells, we are actually talking about a complicated series of things, including adult stem cells which are largely cells devoted to replacing individual tissues like blood elements or liver or even the brain.

When you talk about rap you have to understand that rap is part of the Hip-Hop culture.

How you act, walk, look and talk is all part of Hip Hop culture. And the music is colorless. Hip Hop music is made from Black, brown, yellow, red and white.

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.

I don't want to talk about Nicki Minaj anymore.

When I rap, it's just an extension of how I speak, and that's how I talk. If you don't like it, don't listen.

Journalists told me that a talk show wouldn't work. Some told me I was going to get canceled before my first season was up.

I made so many films which were more important, but the only one people ever want to talk about is that one with Bogart.

There's been a lot of talk of me being a one-man show but that's simply not the case. We win games when I score 40 points and we've won when I score 10.

You know, people talk about this being an uncertain time. You know, all time is uncertain. I mean, it was uncertain back in - in 2007, we just didn't know it was uncertain. It was - uncertain on September 10th, 2001. It was uncertain on October 18th, 1987, you just didn't know it.

We've used up a lot of bullets. And we talk about stimulus. But the truth is, we're running a federal deficit that's 9 percent of GDP. That is stimulative as all get out. It's more stimulative than any policy we've followed since World War II.

And when I perform on my own tour, I have to talk myself into going out on that stage every single night.

My most useful acting tip came from my pal John Wayne. Talk low, talk slow, and don't say too much.

I never thought I would become a television host, but I never thought anybody would pay me to just talk.

Don't talk to me about rules, dear. Wherever I stay I make the goddam rules.

What are you gonna do, talk the alien to death?

I make a lot of money, but I don't want to talk about that.

It's almost better most times to not talk in a scene. I think you can actually express a lot more without words.

When you talk about evangelicals, don't forget that a significant proportion of the evangelical community is African American. And most African Americans - well over 90 percent, thoroughly evangelical, thoroughly biblical - will probably vote Democratic.

Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.

Not many shows bring fans and artists together, and 'Rock Dinner' is one of the few shows that does it. Every opportunity I get to get closer to one of my fans - and get to know them and talk to them - I'm always going to take that opportunity with arms wide open and make it a priority.

It is a universal principle that you get more of what you think about, talk about, and feel strongly about.

If dogs could talk, perhaps we would find it as hard to get along with them as we do with people.

I like to talk on TV about those things that aren't worth writing about.

Before I could talk, I would try to sing.

I always feel so pretentious talking about comedy and deconstructing it. It always feels somehow self-centred to talk about any sort of process.

It's hard to be someone that people talk about and write about, you know? They don't know me.

People are constantly asking me if I'm pregnant, but I don't like to talk about it too much. I just think about it as the next phase. We'll see.

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.

The reason I talk to myself is that I'm the only one whose answers I accept.

I don't like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is amusing to coquette with an echo for a little while, but one soon tires of it.

Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.

The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.

Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.

'The time has come,' the walrus said, 'to talk of many things: of shoes and ships - and sealing wax - of cabbages and kings.'

If you love it enough, anything will talk with you.

People who lead a lonely existence always have something on their minds that they are eager to talk about.

Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes.

People are very reluctant to talk about their private lives but then you go to the internet and they're much more open.

With the media how it is these days, people expect to know everything. I don't talk about my girlfriend because essentially she doesn't want to be talked about.

I don't want reporters to talk to me because I'm a revolutionary and if it got out that I'm basically friendly with Obama it would hurt Obama.

People talk to people who perceive nothing, who have open eyes and see nothing; they shall talk to them and receive no answer; they shall adore those who have ears and hear nothing; they shall burn lamps for those who do not see.

It just gets draining on a person being in the papers every day. So I was like, I'm gonna come back here. I want to talk to all the people, the fans. I want to let them know how much I appreciate all their support.

You talk to the farmers, the ranchers, our small community bankers, and boy, one of the No. 1 issues is the regulations coming out of Washington.

With journalism, films always have to be to do with some personal statement of your own. As a general rule, I resist that. In the States, a question that kept coming up was this: 'How can you, as a man, talk about three women?'

My son now is 22 months old, he's been playing since he was 12 months old and he gets standing ovations on the drums. He's been with us since he was 10 weeks old, he's been on the drums. He's got blisters on his fingers before he can even talk.

When I start playing I'm just a rollercoaster of sound. I don't know what's coming next, I never do, and I sit and sign and talk to the people afterwards.

I got beat up by the comic-book kids when I was younger! They were cooler than me. Talk about levels of geekdom, I was a couple rungs below the kids who read comic books. Yeah. Not so cool, man.

We talk about theatre museums filled with old costumes and things. What we also need is a theatre museum of the old routines on videotape. We are only the custodians of those techniques, and they should be preserved.

I've always been the type of person that has told friends, if they're going through a rough time, I'm always there to talk to.

When we talk about emotion, we really talk about a collection of behaviors that are produced by the brain. You can look at a person in the throes of an emotion and observe changes in the face, in the body posture, in the coloration of the skin and so on.

I did Vibe, and I felt old and paternal. I've got ties older than people in that audience. I had a talk with myself. I said, You've got to deal with this better.

I think the key to being a journalist is getting your subject to feel comfortable enough to talk about stuff they want to talk about and the stuff they like and don't like, and still feel comfortable about it.

There's going to be a flood of opportunities right now but I don't think I could really talk about them.

There's also a certain rhythm to the way Jews talk that might be funny.

If I was going onstage, of course I would talk about it. How could I not?

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.

Physical activity can get you going when you are immobilized. Get action in your life, and don't just talk about it. Get into the arena!

I'm a creature of adaptation. I take advantage of the second and the moment. My comedy breathes; it's not really that predictable. I do have a linear style, but other than that, there's a lot of abstract. I just go off on what I'm thinking. I'm not that topical. I like to talk about me and my experiences.

Recently I've been participating in radio and television talk programs doing broadcasts and conferences, and shooting my mouth off and really going to town.

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

We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.

You talk about the values that you have whether they're in favor or not in favor. That's how you lead. The reality is, we're losing more and more elections.

I never did pal around with actresses. Their talk usually bored me to tears.

Now I can broadcast to an audience of several million people on the 'Today' programme. I can talk about the day's news. But on radio, believe it or not, we have notes and scripts. And while we might ad lib the odd wryly amusing asides, they come at the frequency of a suburban bus. About one every 90 minutes.

We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.

Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.

Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.

In the dime stores and bus stations, people talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, draw conclusions on the wall.