Talking Quotes

I want to go to Sierra Leone with something - whether it's some sort of contribution to healthcare, or to the entertainment industry. My cousin is a nurse; we are talking about opening a clinic.

Nothing is as frustrating as arguing with someone who knows what he's talking about.

Listening is more important than talking. Just hit your mark and believe what you say.

Listening is more important than talking. Just hit your mark and believe what you say. Just listen to people and react to what they are saying.

No one can stop me from talking about my movie.

How time files when you's doin' all the talking.

Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first takes the pressure off the second.

I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.

I don't like talking to celebrities.

Sports broadcasting is very open now. In the beginning you did encounter more traditional attitudes and get comments. But I'm talking about 12 years ago.

I have heard all kinds of stories about telling employers about MS and I really don't know what the answer is. I am a private person, but I have found support by talking to fellow MSrs in the community.

I do a lotta trash talking to keep me motivated, to keep me to not want to lose.

If you'd have said Evangelical in 1957, most people wouldn't know what you were talking about. And then, they'd be against it.

But one led to two, two led to four, four led to eight, until at the end it was about 85 a day - the doctors could not believe I was taking that much. And that was just the valium - I'm not talking about the other pills I went through.

When you're talking about Tim Burton, you're talking about a guy that has such a visual sense, an aesthetic, a storytelling style. It's like he's got his own genre.

Ultimately, I'm a mess. I don't mean I'm a mess, like, emotionally - I mean, I think probably everybody's a mess. David's a mess. But. I'm talking about... I'm messy.

I don't like talking about myself, if I'm honest.

It was very hard to get any records, so the only source for us to really hear what was happening was listening to the Voice of America. We would be taping all the broadcast and then sharing the tapes and talking about it.

Playing is my way of thinking, talking, communicating.

It is not talking but walking that will bring us to heaven.

I never learn anything talking. I only learn things when I ask questions.

Musicians always come off sounding a little bit pretentious, and a little bit... I don't know, hypocritical, from what they do, talking about strong issues.

When I talk to the camera, mate, it's not like I'm talking to the camera, I'm talking to you because I want to whip you around and plunk you right there with me.

I don't think you should go around talking trash about people because I think that's how you get your hat handed to you.

If you go to a party populated by the NPR crowd and you start talking about JonBenet Ramsey, people will look at you as if you had forgotten your pants.

We can go on talking about racism and who treated whom badly, but what are you going to do about it? Are you going to wallow in that or are you going to create your own agenda?

You aren't learning anything when you're talking.

Talking doom and gloom all day no longer fit who I was as a person.

Players shy away from talking to announcers today.

I love talking about clothes with women; it's like a code because women dress for women.

You know you haven't stopped talking since I came here? You must have been vaccinated with a phonograph needle!

What I read is so distorted that I cannot believe that the person they are talking about is myself.

A democratically elected congressman of the United States of America should not be talking of an ethnic divide in Afghanistan, should not be interfering in Afghanistan's internal affairs.

In talking with people that have experienced it, I learned that PTSD is something that a person in a position of authority sometimes thinks they're not supposed to have. They don't always have an avenue to personally address it or even discuss it.

Constantly talking isn't necessarily communicating.

You set up the story, but the characters start talking, and they go places that you didn't expect. You have to follow.

When a writer talks about his work, he's talking about a love affair.

My mother was a listener. I'm a talker. I'm very comfortable talking.

We knew we were talking about spies. I knew he knew I knew. I was digging my own grave.

The consciousness of lucid dreaming is a cultural evolution. It's something that we are talking about and learning about, not biological evolution.

I'd much rather be playing songs than talking to people.

If I were to name my favorite pastime, I'd have to say talking about myself. I love it and I think most other people do too. We need, people like us, more listeners and less talkers.

Talking with other parents really gave me some lessons that I try to hold on to now, as a parent of two boys.

The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.

I've been traveling all over the world for 25 years, performing, talking to people, studying their cultures and musical instruments, and I always come away with more questions in my head than can be answered.

It is a common delusion that you make things better by talking about them.

On average, Australians watch more than three hours of television a day, compared with 12 minutes a day spent by the average couple talking to each other.

I like to direct movies, but I don't like to goof around for eight years talking about it.

We are not only talking about waves of refugees coming to Greece, to Italy, and elsewhere. Destabilizing the Balkans means Lebanonization, and that means destabilizing all of Europe.

Our chief defect is that we are more given to talking about things than to doing them.

There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about.

I don't like the term 'chick flick.' I think it denigrates a movie. It has overtones of talking down to women, like they are second best.

It is hard to know what you are talking about in mathematics, yet no one questions the validity of what you say. There is no other realm of discourse half so queer.

I once had dinner with Madonna and I wasn't nervous but within about a minute I found myself talking about underwear.

Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.

Scientists announced that they have located the gene for alcoholism. Scientists say they found it at a party, talking way too loudly.

I sort of thought the framers of the Constitution were talking about the rights of individuals, not corporate entities.

When did I realize I was God? Well, I was praying and I suddenly realized I was talking to myself.

I was probably being a little cocky, which I do when I feel that I don't know what I'm talking about.

The problem with me is, I guess, the way I express myself, you have to be with me 50 years before you can get a sense of what I'm talking about.

I established a certain standard of behavior, that, during my playing, there must be no talking.

I can let the team do the talking for me.

It takes a lot to get people talking in airplanes. But once they start talking, you just can't shut them up.

I've been sort of traveling around the country for ten years talking about independent features.

There's been quite a clear upswing in nationalist sentiments. Everyone is talking about it, in Turkey as well.

They've been talking about Pi, which I haven't seen, they've been comparing it to Usual Suspects, Sixth Sense, and Fight Club, and I didn't see that either.

I spent a lot of time with my teams, especially in the East Coast teams, talking about dealing with the elements a lot of time, and a lot of instruction about field position and those kind of things. I like that variable.

Start-up teams are always in flux, so, like all start-ups, we're always talking to candidates for various key roles.

When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself.

There are lots of countries that are having these kinds of internal civil wars in other parts of the world and nobody is talking about intervening.

The Australian way of affirmative action is setting goals and recognising discrimination and lack of opportunity and deciding to take action and setting some goals and targets. I guess I prefer that language to talking about quotas.

You're talking about a younger generation, Generation Y, whose interpersonal communication skills are different from Generation X. The younger generation is more comfortable saying something through a digital mechanism than even face to face.

I don't mind snakes. Growing up in South Africa there were a couple a snakes around... and I'm not talking just about the government!

I personally don't feel any pressure to make jokes about multiple baby-fathers and stereotypical black jokes, because one, that's just not my life, and two, I wouldn't even sound right talking about those things.

R is for wussies if you're talking about blood and guts.