“As an author, you need to keep talking to your audience to remind yourself what they like and what they don't like. You spend most of your life locked in a room, and you need to be social occasionally.” NeedsSocialRoomsTalkingAudienceLike YouLockedKeep Talking Author:Jonathan Stroud
“Michael Harris opens the doors and gently guides you into a magic world. Once inside, you can't help but feel mesmerized, eager to see how deep the rabbit hole goes. And no wonder: a major thinker of our time is talking to you about math and so much more, like you've never heard before.” WorldFeelsHelpingTalkingWonderDoorsMagicHeardLike YouMajorsMathGuidesHolesOur TimeThinkerRabbitsRabbit HolesMesmerized Author:Edward Frenkel
“Since I move about with you, eat like you, and talk with you, you are deluded in the belief that this is but an instance of common humanity. Be warned against this mistake. I am also deluding you by My singing with you, talking with you, and engaging Myself in activities with you. But, any movement, My Divinity may be revealed to you; you have to be ready, prepared for that moment.” MayMomentsMovingHumanityBeliefCommonMistakeTalkingMovementReadyLike YouActivitySingingPreparedInstanceDivinityThat MomentEngagingDeludedCommon Humanity Author:Sathya Sai Baba
“I feel there is something nice about not talking. Like you can say more by actually saying less.” FeelsTalkingNiceLike YouNot TalkingSaying Less Author:Ryan Gosling
“It is just like your tape-recorder. It records, it reproduces - all by itself. You only listen. Similarly, I watch all that happens, including my talking to you. It is not me who talks, the words appear in my mind and then I hear them said.” MindSaidHappensTalkingWatchesRecordsLike YouIncludingTapeRecorders Author:Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
“As I go on in standup, I keep being described as cleaner and cleaner as I do each hour, they're like, 'It's unbelievable how clean,' 'He's the cleanest person in the world.' And then I'll do shows and people will be like, 'You're supposed to be so clean, but you're talking about cancer.'” PeopleWorldPersonsShowsHoursTalkingLike YouGoes OnCleanCancerSupposed To BeUnbelievableCleaners Author:Jim Gaffigan
“You're talking to a modern, nice, affable German person and they're saying to you something like 'You know, vell, it's a critical time now for Germany within Europe, also globally, economically ve are pretty good, ve have been better. But ve are very vibrant in the theater and arts...' and all the time you'll be listening to this, you're thinking Mmm, yeah, mmm... Hitler, Hitler, Hitler, Hitler, Hitler.” ThinkingKnowsPersonsHas BeensArtHumorFunnyTalkingNiceModernLike YouListeningEuropeTheaterYeahCriticalGermanyAffable Author:Dylan Moran
“I'm not very nostalgic, you see. I just don't think anybody has that kind of thing anymore. By culture, by breeding, by whatever, it's not there. The kids today-what the hell are they going to be? I like young people - yes, I do. But when I talk to people at the schools, and they say, "I saw you on the Twit," I don't even know what they are talking about.” PeopleThinkingKnowsKindKidsTodaySchoolYoungCultureTalkingHellSawsLike YouBreedingNostalgicI Like YouTwits Author:Manolo Blahnik
“When you're president, you learn to act like you know what you're talking about. And it's a great skill.” KnowsPresidentTalkingLike YouSkills Author:William J. Clinton
“If people are talking about my weight cut all the time and are telling me how skinny I like, you have to respect the audience. You also have to respect all of the fighters who do this.” PeopleIfsTalkingAudienceCuttingLike YouWeightFighterSkinnyI Like You Author:Jonathan Tucker
“Because if you remember - and people forget this - the first two years of Game of Thrones everybody was going, "I don't know what's going on, but I really like it." And you really didn't know what to make of a lot of people, and now it's changed and people aren't really talking about that. Now it's like you're watching West Wing or Friends, you know the characters and you're like, "What in the world is going to happen?"” PeopleIfsKnowsWorldYearsFirstsTwoCharacterHappensRememberGamesForgetTalkingChangedLike YouWingsWestTwo YearsThrones Author:Alex Graves
“There was one incident at a movie theater where my girl got mad at these guys who were talking behind us. I never looked back there, but she was like, 'Will you all just shut up!' And I just got up and moved three rows in front. She was like, 'What are you doing?!' I was like, 'You better get up here! I don't play the fighting games.'” PlayGuyGirlFightingThreeGamesBehindsTalkingFrontsLike YouTheaterMadMovedGet UpShut UpIncidentsMy GirlMovie Theater Author:Kevin Hart
“I have the weirdest job. The hair and makeup people were talking the other day about how weird their job is. And costumes, they have to be in people's faces and have to reach in their skirts to pull their shirts down and stuff. I was like, "You guys, I meet someone, I shake their hand, and then I kiss them. And sober. During midday. For money."” PeopleHandsJobsFacesGuyStuffTalkingLike YouHairKissingDown AndShirtsShakesMakeupSoberCostumesSkirtsHair And Makeup Author:Mary Elizabeth Ellis
“We're talking about everybody's free right to have choice. And so what we're also getting are interesting messages like you really need to obey the command of Allah and put a scarf on your head. And what we caution well-intentioned Americans and others to think about is whether the scarf matches their own values related to issues of honor and shame.” ThinkingNeedsWellsValuesChoicesInterestingTalkingIssuesLike YouHonorMessagesShameCommandRelatedCautionScarves Author:Asra Nomani
“Surprisingly I've never really stolen anything. One time when I was really young, I was walking down the street, found a GI Joe in the mud, and took it home and I was like, "I got a GI Joe!" And then my great grandmother was like, "You stole that." I said, "What are you talking about?" and she said, "That's not yours." I'm like, "But I found it!" She's like, "But it's not yours, and therefore you stole it." So I just went and put it right back in the mud where I found it.” SaidHomeYoungFoundTalkingStreetsLike YouWalkingGrandmotherOne TimeMudStolenGreat GrandmotherGis Author:Baron Vaughn
“I was just talking to Bono the other day, and he was like, "Are you doing shows?" I've just been off the road for a month-and-a-half, and he was like, "You lucky girl."” ShowsGirlHalfTalkingLike YouMonthsLuckyLucky Girl Author:Alicia Keys
“I have a conscience, man, and I've worked really hard to keep it where you would feel like you were talking to the same man at one of my shows or sitting down at my dinner table.” MenFeelsHardShowsTalkingLike YouConscienceSittingTablesDinnerSitting DownDinner Table Author:Cody Johnson
“I think I was in high school, actually, and it was a guidance counselor or someone said, you know, you're just too loud; like you need to just stop talking so much and stop being so opinionated; like no one wants to listen to you because you're really annoying. And I'm glad that I didn't shut up, because it seems like people are listening.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWantNeedsSaidSeemsSchoolTalkingLike YouListeningHigh SchoolGladLoudGuidanceAnnoyingShut UpCounselorOpinionatedGuidance Counselor Author:Jessica Valenti
“You know, in the sentence of humanity this place needs to be a parentheses. And when I say parentheses I mean I'm talking like you go around it. Leave it alone. Let it exist. And what I want people to see with this film is not only a respect for this place from the bottom of my heart.” PeopleKnowsWantNeedsHeartMeanFilmHumanityTalkingLike YouMy HeartBottomSentencesParentheses Author:DJ Spooky
“When I am talking to people from Germany, we should know that there are certain things and certain histories that are very important for people. If you look at all the Muslims living in the West, they didn't react in a violent way. They don't like what they saw but they are citizens like you and me and they look at it and say: "This is a silly video but we are not going to react."” PeopleIfsKnowsWayShouldLooksImportantCertainTalkingSawsLike YouCitizensWestSillyViolentVideoGermany Author:Tariq Ramadan
“My mom [comes] to see my shows because she's so proud, but I'm talking about losing my virginity, my ex-wife and our sexual problems, and she's sitting in the front row smiling. I just go, "Mom, you can't sit in the front row, you can't smile. You have to go way in the back and dress in black. If I see you it's like you're breaking in when I'm having sex with my wife. It's just wrong."” IfsWayShowsProblemSexBlackTalkingWifeFrontsLike YouMomProudLosingSittingDressesMy MomMy WifeExesVirginityHaving SexEx Wife Author:John Leguizamo
“I really love it, I love working with directors that are very collaborative and allow me input. I've done over 75 films, it's just like you're an apprentice. You learn so much about camerawork, lenses, and I'm always talking about DPs and directors and they always give me lists. I think pretty soon, I'll be ready to move away from being in front of the camera.” ThinkingGivingDoneFilmMovingTalkingFrontsReadyLike YouDirectorsGive MeCamerasListsLensesInputApprentice Author:John Leguizamo
“It's at my mom's house! She keeps everything. We were talking about it the other day - I threw something away, like our passes from Hollywood Horror Nights, and she was like, "Where are they?" I was like, "I threw them out." She was like, "You are just not the sentimental type."” NightHouseTalkingLike YouMomTypeHorrorHollywoodMy MomSentimental Author:Jodi Sweetin
“I think it's important if you're going to write a cookbook, it should sound like you talking - it should be things you actually believe, otherwise I'm not interested.” IfsThinkingShouldWritingBelieveImportantSoundTalkingLike YouNot InterestedCookbook Author:Anthony Bourdain
“There was things just like not being able to date or - I'm talking like 15, 16 - like just certain things that my friends started to do. Like, they started to get phone calls from girls or like, you know, go and hang out 10, 11 at night, kind of going to the movies. There were just certain things that - it's not that I couldn't do all of those things. It's just that every choice was really deliberate and conscious and thought out and sort of balanced against the religion in a way where I felt - I wasn't necessarily trying to convert at 12 like [my mother] was.” KnowsWayTryingKindAbleMotherNightCertainChoicesGirlFeltTalkingLike YouConsciousMy FriendsPhonesHanging OutBalancedDeliberatePhone Calls Author:Mahershala Ali
“I had no clue what anyone was talking about like, you know I don't think I, I don't think any of the depictions of sex were more to me than just like an image of two people's arms rubbing together [when I was eight], I just had no clue.” PeopleThinkingKnowsTwoTogetherSexTalkingLike YouArmsEightClueDepiction Author:Lena Dunham
“It's really a trade-off: you're always having to decide whether you're going to say the more ambitious thing, and lose a little clarity - or are you going to say something really clearly, and sacrifice a little nuance? Get too obscure, and you sound like a pretentious asshole; go overboard with the clarity, and you sound like you're talking down to your audience, or like you yourself are a reductive simpleton.” LittlesSoundLosesTalkingAudienceSacrificeLike YouTradeClarityAmbitiousObscurePretentiousNuanceOverboardTrade OffsSimpletonsTalking Down Author:Elif Batuman