“Sometimes he does talk back, but sometimes he doesn’t. Sometimes he’s not there; and from time to time I believe this was all nothing but imaginary.” LoveLifePastImagineRelationshipThinking About YouHard LoveTalking Back Author:Dominic Riccitello
“I didn't really get the chance to talk to girls. I was a straight boy with hormones kicking in, and I wanted to talk to girls, but they weren't interested in talking back to me, so there was a real sense of loneliness.” RealWantedGirlChanceTalkingBoysLonelinessKickingHormonesTalking Back Author:Andy Biersack
“I'm increasingly on the side of thinkers like David Graeber who are talking back to this notion of totality and emphasizing how there are all kinds of moments in our daily lives that break - or at least could break - from the logic of profit and the modes of domination it entails. Zones of freedom, even if it's never pure.” IfsKindMomentsSidesTalkingBreakPureLogicNotionProfitAll KindsZoneDaily LifeThinkerDominationTotalityTalking Back Author:Ben Lerner
“Never demean yourself by talking back to a critic, never. Write those letters to the editor in your head, but don't put them on paper.” WritingTalkingPaperLettersCriticsEditorsTalking BackLetters To The Editor Book:Truman Capote: Conversations Source: Truman Capote: Conversations
“I heard the other day of a man who paid a psychologist $50 to cure him of an inferiority complex - and later was fined $25 and costs for talking back to a traffic cop.” MenTalkingHeardCostPaidComplexesCuresCopTrafficPsychologistInferiorityInferiority ComplexTalking Back Author:Shelley Berman
“The fear is that talking back, that engaging at all, is to open the door for god-knows-what.” KnowsTalkingDoorsEngagingGod KnowsTalking Back Author:Rose McGowan
“I think blogging and the ability to instantaneously respond to news items has changed the way we approach all media. We're seeing people talking back to columnists, and going much further in the sexual realm than most papers, even alternative weeklies, will publish. I'm surprised more papers aren't having people do what you're doing with an online only column, and to be honest, I read almost all the media I do read online, and plenty of other people do, too, so I don't know what's stopping them.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWayAbilityTalkingSeeingHonestMediaChangedPaperApproachNewsPlentyAlternativesBeing HonestRealmsOnlineStoppingPapersItemsPublishColumnsBloggingColumnistsPeople TalkingTalking Back Author:Rachel Kramer Bussel
“Doesn't it seem ironic that people fear that we might become alienated by communicating with each other through computers, when we are already staring at these boxes in our living rooms for seven or eight hours a day, slack-jawed and saying nothing to anyone on either side and not talking back to it.” PeopleSeemsMightSidesHoursRoomsTalkingComputerSevenBoxesCommunicateEightStaringIronicLiving RoomNot TalkingSaying NothingTalking Back Author:Howard Rheingold
“He gaped at the controls. "Why is my ship talking back to me?” TalkingShipsTalking Back Author:Marissa Meyer
“As a novelist, I have a somewhat higher soapbox to stand on than most people do when it comes to talking back to the merchants of fear.” PeopleTalkingHigherNovelistsMerchantsSoapboxTalking Back Author:L. Neil Smith
“The more I like a book, the more slowly I read. this spontaneous talking back to a book is one of the things that makes reading so valuable.” BookReadingTalkingValuableSpontaneousSpontaneityTalking Back Author:Anatole Broyard
“Talking back and being quite aggressive about stuff and not giving a care in the world about anyone. So it was more, I think, that way and I think that's what happened in that party when I stood in between two people.” PeopleThinkingWorldWayGivingTwoCareStuffPartyTalkingHappenedAggressiveTalking Back Author:Caroline Dhavernas
“Dear Lord, make me a better parent. Teach me to understand my children, to listen patiently to what they have to say and to answer all their questions kindly. Keep me from interrupting them, talking back to them, and contradicting them. Make me as courteous to them as I would have them to be to me.” ChildrenParentAnswersTalkingLordTeachCommunicationDearMy ChildrenCourteousContradictingInterruptingDear LordTalking Back Author:Gary Myers
“I listen to a lot of rap where men talk a certain way about women and I'm not offended. It's meant to be funny. I'm throwing it right back at them with humor, but some people can't take it. They're not used to women talking back.” PeopleMenWayUsedCertainTalkingRapMeant To BeThrowingOffendedTalking Back Author:Kesha
“Concrete you can mold, you can press it into - after all, you haven't any straight lines in your body. Why should we have straight lines in our architecture? You'd be surprised when you go into a room that has no straight line - how marvelous it is that you can feel the walls talking back to you, as it were.” FeelsShouldBodyLinesRoomsTalkingHavensWallPressesArchitectureYour BodyConcreteMarvelousMoldStraight LinesTalking Back Author:Philip Johnson