Talking Quotes

• Back in the '50s and '60s, most politicians were concerned about not talking about faith, partly because there were consequences you had to deal with - (for instance) Catholicism had been made an issue.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Faith
  • Issues
  • Politician

• It is hard to stay focused with so much swirling around me. God is distracting. He never stops talking, and I can never stop listening. There is a reason we sleep.

  

  N.D. Wilson
  • God
  • Stop
  • Sleep

• You have to be really careful with what you put out on social media and who you're talking to online.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Media
  • Talking
  • Social Media

• Remember that the people you are talking to are a hundred times more interested in themselves and their wants and problems than they are in you and your problems.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • People
  • Remember
  • Life-Changing

• When people are in trouble they need to talk.

  

  A. I. Bezzerides
  • People
  • Needs
  • Talking

• Make a habit of dominating the listening, and let the prospect dominate the talking.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Listening
  • Habit
  • Dominating

• 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

• Nobody is talking about the different - until you raised the issue.

  

  Andrea Mitchell
  • Different
  • Issues
  • Raised

• Nothing is going to change. I’m going to wear my hair like this during beam and bar finals. You might as well stop talking about it.

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • Stop
  • Hair
  • Finals

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

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Thinking
  • Intelligent
  • Thrill

• A lot of people have many misconceptions about religion. I know what I'm talking about for myself. My mind is very ordered, so to speak. I need to put things in order.

  

  Dion
  • People
  • Mind
  • Speak

• I believe tactics have to be based on a strategy of creative tension. … If what you’ve done is made everything about ‘Oh, they just broke a bunch of windows,’ not ‘Oh, man, this is serious,’ you’re in trouble. That being said, if you look at what happened in Baltimore, there was a lot of righteous anger in that uprising that did advance the conversation. It wasn’t until Baltimore that people started seriously talking about the social conditions in a lot of these communities.

  

  Eugene Puryear
  • Strategy
  • Conditions
  • Tactics

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

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Waiting
  • Listening
  • Talking

• When we [Migos] talk about whatever we're talking about, and you visualise it, that's what we really went through.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Talking

• Some people can't stand being alone. I love solitude and silence. But when I come out of it, I'm a regular talking machine. It's all or nothing for me.

  

  Celine Dion
  • Alone
  • Silence
  • Being

• Whenever a critic mentions the salary of an actor, I'm thinking, He's not talking about the movie.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • Thinking
  • Movie
  • Actor

• I like talking about sex. Especially when I'm horny, but even when I'm not.

  

  John Travolta
  • Sex
  • Talking
  • Horny

• You meet new people. We just spent two hours with people we didn't know before, just talking about the Badgers.

  

  Steve Bartlett
  • People
  • Talking
  • Meet

• He did not like the grown-ups who talked down to him, but the ones who went on talking in their usual way, leaving him to leap along in their wake, jumping at meanings, guessing, clutching at known words, and chuckling at complicated jokes as they suddenly dawned. He had the glee of the porpoise then, pouring and leaping through strange seas.

  

  T. H. White
  • Words
  • Sea
  • Leaving

• Growing up, I didn't know anything about comedy and didn't know anything about comedians or what standup was. I grew up in the projects with no dream of anything, it was in my formatting when i got older and started talking to my friends about how I felt, they would be like, "dude, that's funny." Then one day my friend was like, "Dude, you don't understand how funny you are, you need to do standup"!

  

  Carlos Mencia
  • Dream
  • Growing
  • Needs

• 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.

  

  LL Cool J
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Should

• For me, Paul Scholes is on the same level as Ronaldo. The real Ronaldo, not Cristiano. I always thought he was a great player but after I played alongside him I realised he was Manchester United's greatest player of all time. He did his talking on the pitch which I respected most.

  

  Fabien Barthez
  • Time
  • Great
  • Real

• The ancient sages never put their teachings in a systematic form. They spoke in paradoxes, for they were afraid of uttering half-truths. They began by talking like fools and ended by making their hearers wise.

  

  Okakura Kakuzo
  • Wise
  • Teaching
  • Talking

• I think there is a good deal of promise in those discussions as well. I think there is a range of matters that might be discussed between NATO and Russia that can provide a mechanism for talking through these issues, a way to give reassurance on these issues.

  

  Warren Christopher
  • Good
  • Think
  • Promise

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