Talking famous quotes

There's the South Pole, said Christopher Robin, and I expect there's an East Pole and a West Pole, though people don't like talking about them.
-- A. A. Milne

#Travel #Talking #People

If the person you are talking to doesn't appear to be listening, be patient. It may simply be that he has a small piece of fluff in his ear.
-- A. A. Milne

#Teacher #Sweet #Talking

Talking to Yogi Berra about baseball is like talking to Homer about the Gods.
-- A. Bartlett Giamatti

#Baseball #Talking #Yogi

The test of a good letter is a very simple one. If one seems to hear the other person talking as one reads, it is a good letter.
-- A. C. Benson

#Simple #Talking #Letters

A lot of people get flipped out if you're quiet. They say stuff like, What are you thinking? And if they don't start interrogating you, they start talking, going on and on about stuff that's totally irrelevant, and the silence gets so big and loud that it's scary.
-- A.M. Homes

#Thinking #Talking #People

Tomer: “What's this?” Cabinet: “Wt's ths?” Wedge: “Cabinet.” Tomer: “I know it's a cabinet, but it's talking.” Cabinet: “...ts tlkng” Janson: “Oh that. It's the Catann Minister of Crawling Into Very Small Spaces.” Tycho: “He bet Wedge he could fold himself in the that cabinet, around the shelves and all.” Hobbie: “Never bet against Wedge. The Minister gets to stay in there until he admits that it was a stupid bet and that Wedge doesn't owe him anything.
-- Aaron Allston

#Stupid #Space #Talking

If we're talking about masculinity and tenderness, I don't look at Clinton.
-- Aaron Eckhart

#Talking #Looks #Clinton

You'll learn more in a day talking to customers than a week of brainstorming, a month of watching competitors, or a year of market research.
-- Aaron Levie

#Talking #Years #Research

Producing a photographic document involves preparation in excess. There is first the examination of the idea of the project. Then the visits to the scene, the casual conversations, and more formal interviews - talking, and listening, and looking, looking. ... And finally, the pictures themselves, each one planned, talked, taken and examined in terms of the whole.
-- Aaron Siskind

#Photography #Taken #Talking

Of course, I'm not allowed to talk about the script, but I can say it is a really good story.
-- Aaron Stanford

#Talking #Stories #Scripts

When I'm in the process of making a movie I'm not thinking about the finished result, and whether people have to see it once or more than once, and what the reaction to it will be. I just make it, and then I live with the consequences, some of which may not be as pleasant as I'd like! I know one thing, however. Many viewers may come out of the theater not satisfied, but they won't be able to forget the movie. I know they'll be talking about it during their next dinner. I want them to be a little restless about my movies, and keep trying to find something in them.
-- Abbas Kiarostami

#Thinking #Talking #People

Through Hamas, Iran has been able to buy itself a seat on the table in talking about the Palestinian issue. And, as a result, through Hamas it does play a role in the issue of the Palestinians, as strange as that should sound.
-- Abdallah II

#Issues #Iran #Talking

I, talking about my children, of course I wanted them to succeed in life, they have to choose whatever job or occupation that they want, I will not try to influence.
-- Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

#Jobs #Children #Talking

No one can stop me from talking about my movie.
-- Abel Ferrara

#Talking

I'm not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.
-- Abel Ferrara

#Talking #Dying #Fans

All really frank people are amusing, and would remain so if they could remember that other people may sometimes want to be frank and amusing too.
-- Ada Leverson

#Talking #People #May

There's no conversation more boring than talking about what it's really like to live in Newport and how the show compares to the real thing. I just don't care.
-- Adam Brody

#Real #Talking #Care

Emphasis in the Marine Corps isn't on talking about your feelings.
-- Adam Driver

#Marine #Talking #Feelings

My life isn't necessarily more important than anyone else's: I'm just better in talking about it.
-- Adam Duritz

#Talking #Important

I got the sense that Alabama is a place where people don't want handouts and don't much care for people talking out of the side of their mouth.
-- Adam McKay

#Talking #People #Alabama

I don't mind him not talking so much, because you can hear his voice in your heart; the same way you can hear a song in your head even if there isn't a radio playing; the same way you can hear those blackbirds flying when they're not in the sky
-- Adam Rapp

#Song #Heart #Talking

Bedtime stories were definitely a big part of my life because I was just so excited my father was talking to me.
-- Adam Sandler

#Father #Talking #Stories

When I do stand-up shows at colleges, girls will talk to me after the show, and that always feels good. I like talking to them.
-- Adam Sandler

#Girl #College #Talking

When I spoke, I was listened to; and I was at a loss to know how I had so easily acquired the art of commanding attention, and giving the tone to the conversation.
-- Adelbert von Chamisso

#Art #Loss #Talking

I want to speak, to sing to total strangers. It's my way of talking to the world.
-- Adrian Mitchell

#Talking #World #Want

And so, when I was a young writer I always worked hard on imagery, and I knew that the roots of imagery were the senses - and that if my readers could feel, taste and see what I was talking about, I would be able to tell them a story.
-- Adriana Trigiani

#Talking #Roots #Would Be

I had the honor to meet Geraldine Ferraro on a few occasions over the years at the DNC and what struck me was how she managed to be both gutsy and graceful at the same time. Without a doubt she was a trailblazer who not only stepped outside the box but who dared to redefine it. I always left her presence with the sense that she truly knew what she was talking about but that she never felt the need to browbeat you with it - instead she inspired people to listen and then act, and to me thats the hallmark of a true leader.
-- Adrienne Maloof

#Talking #Years #People

A lot of times, when people say hip-hop, they don't know what they're talking about. They just think of the rappers. When you talk about hip-hop, you're talking about the whole culture and movement. You have to take the whole culture for what it is.
-- Afrika Bambaataa

#Thinking #Rapper #Talking

Everyone likes talking about himself. - Hercule Poirot
-- Agatha Christie

#Talking #Likes #Hercule Poirot

In interviews, on the set, talking to people, I'll just start talking about my parents' divorce, and go on and on. My mom's always like, 'You don't have to be that honest. You have to be more fake.' You see some of these actors, they have a permanent smile on their face. How can they do that? It really fascinates me.
-- Agnes Bruckner

#Mom #Divorce #Talking

People with theories of life are, perhaps, the most relentless of their kind, for no time or place is sacred from their devastating elucidations.
-- Agnes Repplier

#Talking #People #Sacred

Burning logs can carry on quite a conversation! ... Have you ever heard apple wood talking? It's the most loquacious of all. You really can't get a word in edgeways.
-- Agnes Sligh Turnbull

#Fire #Talking #Apples

The way this whole novel thing came together was, I sold them one bill of goods and then didn't communicate very well. I am like Captain Run-on Sentence.
-- Ahmet Zappa

#Running #Talking #Together

It took us five hours to reach Tokyo, but I was really happy. I kept talking about myself, and didn't hear anything about Nana. But now that I know you better; I know you wouldn't say anything.
-- Ai Yazawa

#Talking #Say Anything #Tokyo

Is it ever possible to overdo the talking about the glory of Christ? Is it ever too often to be in God's presence?
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer

#Talking #Christ #Glory

I am talking about societies drained of their essence, cultures trampled underfoot, institutions undermined, lands confiscated, religions smashed, magnificent artistic creations destroyed, extraordinary possibilities wiped out.
-- Aime Cesaire

#Talking #Land #Essence

We should put away the militaristic outlook. The U.S. should start talking about disarmament, nuclear disarmament, of the region.
-- Akbar Ganji

#Talking #Nuclear #Outlook

Although human beings are incapable of talking about themselves with total honesty, it is much harder to avoid the truth while pretending to be other people. They often reveal much about themselves in a very straightforward way. I am certain that I did. There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.
-- Akira Kurosawa

#Honesty #Talking #People

When I first heard hip-hop I thought it was rubbish because I didn't understand the concept of people talking over music,
-- Akon

#Talking #People #Hip Hop

To sing the ballad with a knowingness about what you are talking about. If it's somebody else's lyric, and the message is a little unusual for you, it requires that you learn that new message.
-- Al Jarreau

#Talking #Littles #Messages

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.
-- Al Pacino

#Talking #Years #Way

It was repugnant, but it was the only way to communicate.
-- Alain Resnais

#Talking #Way #Communicate

The pleasure of talking is the inextinguishable passion of a woman, coeval with the act of breathing.
-- Alain-Rene Lesage

#Women #Passion #Talking

Growing up in a Canadian household that was more British than Big Ben, I dreamed of flying to England myself and visiting the places my family never tired of talking about. I always woke up before the plane landed.
-- Alan Bradley

#Growing Up #Tired #Talking

I'd been depressed before, of course. But I'm talking about really depressed. Not just feeling a bit down or sad, a depression that has something to do with biorhythms. I'm talking about the kind of depressed that floats in upon you like a fog. You can feel it coming and you can see where it is going to take you but you are powerless, utterly powerless to stop it. I know now.
-- Alan Cumming

#Depression #Fog #Talking

Politicians were like talking dogs in a circus: the fact that they existed was uncommonly interesting, but no sane person would actually believe what they said
-- Alan Furst

#Dog #Believe #Talking

By the way, I have trouble listening to what [Cheney] says sometimes because of the blood that drips from his teeth while he’s talking, but my response is this: he’s just angry because the president doesn’t shoot old men in the face. But by the way, when he was done speaking, did he just then turn into a bat and fly away?
-- Alan Grayson

#Men #Blood #Talking

I don't know where the stock market is going, but I will say this, that if it continues higher, this will do more to stimulate the economy than anything we've been talking about today or anything anybody else was talking about.
-- Alan Greenspan

#Talking #Today #Economy

Every time one of us starts talking about more effective immigration controls, somebody else throws up the Statue of Liberty, how we're a nation of immigrants and all of that. The debate takes on tinges of racism, emotion.
-- Alan K. Simpson

#Talking #Racism #Liberty

What is it about actors? God knows I get bored with actors talking about themselves.
-- Alan Rickman

#Talking #Bored #Actors

If you spend any time in Los Angeles, there's only one topic of conversation.
-- Alan Rickman

#Talking #Topics #Los Angeles

There is another side to me which people don't often see, but it's very hard for me to show that. When I do interviews, I'm talking to people I don't know and when you speak to a stranger you don't open up, do you? In my position, people are always looking for something to say about me. And anything I do say, given half-a-chance they'll turn it round into something spectacular so I've got to be very careful. That's why it's only my friends and family who know the real me. Now my wife, Lainya, she could tell you a few stories.
-- Alan Shearer

#Real #Talking #People

The future is a concept, it doesn't exist. There is no such thing as tomorrow. There never will be, because time is always now. That's one of the things we discover when we stop talking to ourselves and stop thinking. We find there is only present, only an eternal now.
-- Alan Watts

#Thinking #Talking #Tomorrow

To look at life without words is not to lose the ability to form words- to think, remember, and plan. To be silent is not to lose your tongue. On the contrary, it is only through silence that one can discover something new to talk about. One who talked incessantly, without stopping to look and listen, would repeat himself ad nauseam. It is the same with thinking, which is really silent talking. It is not, by itself, open to the discovery of anything new, for its only novelties are simply arrangements of old words and ideas.
-- Alan Watts

#Thinking #Discovery #Talking

We are sick with fascination for the useful tools of names and numbers, of symbols, signs, conceptions and ideas. Meditation is therefore the art of suspending verbal and symbolic thinking for a time, somewhat as a courteous audience will stop talking when a concert is about to begin.
-- Alan Watts

#Art #Thinking #Talking

You suffer from the oldest delusion in politics. You think you can change the world by talking to a leader. Leaders are the effects, not the causes of changes.
-- Alasdair Gray

#Thinking #Talking #Leader

Think of it like the best mac and cheese you've ever had. No neon yellow Velveeta and bread crumbs. I'm talking gourmet cheddar, the expensive stuff from Vermont that crackles as it melts into the crust on top. Imagine if right before you were about to tear into it, the mac and cheese starts talking to you?
-- Alaya Dawn Johnson

#Thinking #Talking #Yellow

Everybody's talking about the new democratic world and whether high fashion is relevant. But without high there is no low. I don't like to intellectualize. I've always said fashion is like roast chicken: You don't have to think about it to know it's delicious.
-- Alber Elbaz

#Fashion #Thinking #Talking

If anything happens to me, tell every woman I've ever gone with I was talking about her at the end. That way, they'll have to reevaluate me.
-- Albert Brooks

#Talking #Life And Death #Way

But all the long speeches, all the interminable days and hours that people had spent talking about my soul, had left me with the impression of a colorless swirling river that was making me dizzy.
-- Albert Camus

#Talking #Rivers #Long

You will never have to talk religion to anyone; men will see it talking in your life! You will radiate a positive influence at all times, which will in turn bring you happiness and health in good measure.
-- Albert E Cliffe

#Life #Men #Talking

We're all collectors by nature. But if you're talking about an orderly life, there has to be a stop sign somewhere. Building a collection requires a strong constitution and the ability to resist.
-- Albert Hadley

#Strong #Talking #Design

Projecting yourself until everything is talking about you is, of course, a self-flattering form of self-pity
-- Aleksandar Hemon

#Self #Talking #Pity

I'm no f****** talking to you. He's a f****** great player. Yous are f******* idiots.
-- Alex Ferguson

#Inspirational #Player #Talking

When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth.
-- Alex Haley

#Family #Talking #Earth

And everybody’s running around talking about ‘Zionists’ all day. Okay, just keep parroting that over and over again.
-- Alex Jones

#Running #Talking #Zionist

For carbon-neutral cities, there are things worth talking about in how our consumption patterns can change - sharing goods, etc. - but those are a fraction of the impacts of transportation and building energy use. If we need to choose priority actions, the most important things are to densify, provide transit, and green the buildings.
-- Alex Steffen

#Talking #Cities #Impact

Theres nothing worse than having everybody thinking alike, talking alike and having the same direction in mind. It gets stale that way.
-- Alex Van Halen

#Thinking #Talking #Mind

Sometimes I want to joke but my English isn't perfect. Sometimes people are wondering what I'm talking about.
-- Alexander Ovechkin

#Talking #People #Perfect

I don't think so much about verbal comedy. I always think about visual comedy. I was raised watching silents, and I'm always thinking about how to make cinema, not good talking - although I want good talking. I'm much more interested in framing, composition, and orchestration of bodies in space, and so forth. My goal is always what Chuck Jones wanted his Warner Brothers cartoons to be, which was if you turn down the sound, you could still tell what's going on. I think if you watch most of my films with the sound off, you could still tell what's going on.
-- Alexander Payne

#Brother #Thinking #Talking

Comedy is a wonderful device for distance that allows us to look at what we're talking about with some degree of distance and hopefully with a bit more perspective and honesty. With many exceptions, a movie with no jokes is far less appealing to me.
-- Alexander Payne

#Honesty #Distance #Talking

In outstanding classrooms, teachers do more listening than talking, and students do more talking than listening.  Terrific teachers often have teeth marks on their tongues.
-- Alfie Kohn

#Teacher #Talking #Listening

You can write a whole fiction, and you're talking to people who have gone through that, in real life. But the truth of it is that when you're talking to those people, you don't care about your movie anymore. You just want to hear about what they have gone through. You want all of the details. It's amazing.
-- Alfonso Cuaron

#Real #Writing #Talking

Talking about things that are understandable only weighs down the mind.
-- Alfred Jarry

#Communication #Talking #Mind

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

#Talking #Affair #Love Affair

The point of mathematics is that in it we have always got rid of the particular instance, and even of any particular sorts of entities. So that for example, no mathematical truths apply merely to fish, or merely to stones, or merely to colours. So long as you are dealing with pure mathematics, you are in the realm of complete and absolute abstraction. . . . Mathematics is thought moving in the sphere of complete abstraction from any particular instance of what it is talking about.
-- Alfred North Whitehead

#Moving #Talking #Long

Don't always know what I am talking about, feels like I'm living in the middle of doubt.
-- Alice Cooper

#Honesty #Talking #Doubt

even when we say nothing our clothes are talking noisily to everyone who sees us, telling them who we are, where we come from, what we like to do in bed and a dozen other intimate things ...
-- Alison Lurie

#Talking #Clothes #Bed

I talk to my typewriter and that is what I've been working on for 40 years-how to write for talking.
-- Alistair Cooke

#Writing #Typewriters #Talking

We don't want to put a band-aid on our problems that we keep talking about in society; we want to get down to the nitty gritty and do some surgery.
-- Allan Houston

#Talking #Band #Want

When you lose, there is a whole bunch of room for negativity and I don't feed into this stuff and I do not do any talking. I don't run my mouth.
-- Allen Iverson

#Running #Talking #Negativity

Iverson: Man look, I hear you... it's funny to me too, I mean it's strange... it's strange to me too, but we're talking about practice man, we're not even talking about the game... the actual game, when it matters... We're talking about practice ...
-- Allen Iverson

#Mean #Men #Talking

In a manner of speaking, the poem is its own knower, neither poet nor reader knowing anything that the poem says apart from the words of the poem.
-- Allen Tate

#Talking #Knowing #Poet

People say that time is a great healer. Which people? What are they talking about? I think some feelings you experience in your life are written in indelible ink and the best you can hope for is that they fade a little over the years.
-- Allison Pearson

#Thinking #Talking #Years

Talking in one language and talking in another, I think inevitably, produce two different personalities, as far as I've seen in other people. I assume it does the same for me.
-- Alma Guillermoprieto

#Thinking #Talking #Two

I've got to worry about Alonzo Mourning, because a year or two ago there was a chance that Alonzo Mourning wouldn't be standing here talking to you. That's the cold reality of it.
-- Alonzo Mourning

#Reality #Two #Talking

Though we have two eyes, we are supplied with but one tongue. Draw your own moral.
-- Alphonse Karr

#Eye #Talking #Two

I only really fake it anymore with sommeliers who are being really snotty to me and I don't want to take their grief and so I try to do something to kind of throw them off or put them on the defensive, even if I don't know what I'm talking about
-- Alton Brown

#Grief #Talking #Fake

The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together. I'm talking about an organic computer - about biological substances that can function like a semiconductor.
-- Alvin Toffler

#Science #Talking #Together

MALTHUSIAN, adj. Pertaining to Malthus and his doctrines, who believed in artificially limiting population, but found that it could not be done by talking. Herod of Judea, all the famous soldiers have been practical exponents of the Malthusian idea.
-- Ambrose Bierce

#Talking #Ideas #Soldier

Admiral. That part of a warship which does the talking while the figurehead does the thinking.
-- Ambrose Bierce

#Army #Thinking #Talking

Atheist Jews double crossers stole our [black people’s] secrets. . . . They give us to worship a dead Jew and not ourselves . . . . Selling fried potatoes and people, the little arty bastards talking arithmetic they sucked from the arab’s head.
-- Amiri Baraka

#Atheist #Talking #People

I suppose we don't rely on comparison enough to tell us whom it is that we are talking to. We give people the liberty of fashioning themselves in the moment-a span of time that is so much more manageable, stageable, controllable than is a lifetime.
-- Amor Towles

#Talking #People #Giving

Emily Post says that talking about oneself isn't very polite.' 'I'm sure Miss Post is perfectly correct, but that doesn't seem to stop the rest of us.
-- Amor Towles

#Talking #Missing #Polite

I can look back at different times in my life when I felt I could not find my way out of whatever it was. I'm not necessarily talking about marriage, but I wanted to pack it in. I wanted to disappear. A lot of that has to do with being in the public eye.
-- Amy Grant

#Eye #Talking #Way

I think of the chimp, the one with the talking hands.
-- Amy Hempel

#Thinking #Hands #Talking

I think chemistry is about not acting, but reacting, and not talking, but listening.
-- Amy Poehler

#Thinking #Talking #Listening

We [with Les Charles] started talking about hotel stories, and we found that a lot of the action was happening in the hotel bar. We actually thought of that while we were in a bar: "Why would anyone ever leave here?"
-- Amy Poehler

#Talking #Bars #Stories

Symmetry is pleasing but not as sexy. Einstein is cool but Picasso knows what I'm talking about.
-- Amy Poehler

#Sexy #Talking #Symmetry

My favorite band is probably The Cure. We can throw Talking Heads in there too, I listen to them a lot. But The Cure.
-- Analeigh Tipton

#Talking #Band #My Favorite