Talking Quotes

• Every time I say anything, people seize on it for all kinds of meanings so I am uncomfortable with talking. At least this way, I can think about the answers and phrase them carefully.

  

  P. V. Narasimha Rao
  • Think
  • Talking
  • Uncomfortable

• While Laurence was talking, a Tater Tot hit him in the head, but he just kept talking as if nothing had happened.

  

  Charlie Jane Anders
  • Head
  • Hit
  • Laurence

• At the time, it was a really funny joke [Fluffy] and I went back and forth with going against the joke or embrace it. I decided to embrace it and now we're talking about it, so it was a good call.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • Time
  • Good
  • Funny

• Screaming, it's not me. I tried it before! Action is more my thing. Not talking. It's hard for me to have word fights, fighting with words. I'd rather just listen.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Words
  • Action
  • Fighting

• If you want to get over a problem, stop talking about it. Your mind affects your mouth, and your mouth affects your mind. It's difficult to stop talking about a situation until you stop thinking about it.

  

  Katrina Mayer
  • Stop
  • Problem
  • About

• Go back to - my first campaign for the United States Senate. I got a bunch of people now talking about inequality. But back then they sure weren't. Back then, folks were saying I was preaching class warfare. Now it's suddenly their campaign platform.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Talking
  • Class

• Everyone's alone - or so it seems to me. They make noises, and think they are talking to each other; They make faces, and think they understand each other. And I'm sure they don't. Is that a delusion?

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Thinking
  • Alone
  • Loneliness

• As a child, all you see is that adults are not playing. Adults are not talking too much. Adults don't want to relate to each other.

  

  Alejandro Zambra
  • Child
  • Adults
  • Relate

• One thing that took a while to really adjust to was, you do it for the the art, for the money, for being together and having a good time, but you do it for all those people out there who really care about the show. We are now talking about a show we did over 20 years ago.

  

  Steve Kanaly
  • Art
  • Together
  • Care

• Stand up for what you believe. Follow your gut, which most of the time is your heart talking. This has been my hardest lesson. I have given this advice and not always followed it myself. The truth is, there is no other way.

  

  Faith Hill
  • Up
  • Time
  • Believe

• Hollywood is like being nowhere and talking to nobody about nothing.

  

  Michelangelo Antonioni
  • Nothing
  • Hollywood
  • Nobody

• We've got all these politicians talking about better health care and what all, but believe me, we're not going to have the money to take care of sick people.. or anyone else as far as I'm concerned.. if we don't fix our energy problem right now. I've got an idea what to do. It might not be a perfect idea, but hell, none of my best ideas have been perfect.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • People
  • Believe
  • Money

• Is Thom Yorke there? Oh he is? Well then how the can I be Thom Yorke, talking to you, right here, on the phone.

  

  Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
  • Talking
  • Wells
  • Phones

• The bike accident caused me to start talking about spiritual truths. This accident - where I faced my own death - compelled me to talk about these truths and try to make a movie about them.

  

  Tom Shadyac
  • Trying
  • Spiritual
  • Bike

• We were still able to see the phone records of a potential terrorist cause, we held them, now you have to hope the phone company still has them, you have to argue with their chief counsel by the time you get access to it, and try to find out who they've been talking to before it's too late.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Hope

• The way I write is really like putting one foot in front of the other. I really let the characters do most of the work, they start talking and they just lead the way.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Character

• Don't take up a man's time talking about the smartness of your children; he wants to talk to you about the smartness of his children.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Up
  • Time
  • Men

• I think of the thrill of an intelligent woman talking just to me.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Thinking
  • Intelligent
  • Thrill

• Sometimes you're talking to a tennis ball on a stick, and you have to imagine what is supposed to be there and trust that the editors and the animators are going to make it all convincing to the audience. You have to pull a lot from within.

  

  Ray Fisher
  • Supposed
  • Convincing
  • Animators

• When you talk to a human in 2035, you'll be talking to someone that's a combination of biological and non-biological intelligence.

  

  Ray Kurzweil
  • Intelligence
  • Someone
  • Combination

• Don't get roped into talking about something that you don't really have passion for, and don't get roped into something you don't have expertise in. Why should somebody listen to you? If you're going to take somebody's time, you better deliver.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Passion
  • Should
  • Expertise

• I don't know why I've spent over half of My life talking about dying

  

  Cold Cave
  • Knows
  • Dying
  • Half

• You're talking about meaning. I want to talk about the picture.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Want
  • Picture
  • Talking

• I did a show called 'Wonderland' a few years back, and I was fortunate enough to spend a full-on two weeks - I'm talking 13-15 hours a day - with the doctors and patients at Bellevue in New York. That served me well for 'Durham County.

  

  Michelle Forbes
  • Hours
  • Patient
  • Wonderland

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