Best Talking Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“For every man that ever walked the Earth, except maybe the sociopaths, when it comes to talking to pretty girls... it's just stark terror.”

Men Earth Girl Talking Terror Every Man Starks Sociopath Pretty Girl

Author:Chuck Lorre

“I'm such a fangirl when it comes to other writers. I read 250 books a year, and I'm always talking up books by other authors.”

Years Book Talking Fangirl

Author:Jen Lancaster

“I think Baltimore suffers from nostalgia and it keeps us from being honest in talking about what really happened here. A place doesn't have to be perfect to be beloved, and I love this city and I love it better for seeing its flaws.”

Thinking Suffering Perfect Cities Talking Seeing Happened Honest Nostalgia Being Honest Beloved Flaws Baltimore

Author:Laura Lippman

“If war occurs, that positive adult contact in every shape is needed more than ever. It will be a matter of emotional life and death. There's not a handy one-minute way of talking to your kid about war.”

Ifs Way War Matter Kids Talking Minutes Emotional Needed Shapes Adults Contact Life And Death One Minute Handy Emotional Life Way Of Talking

Author:Richard Louv

“Until the year 1967, it was a crime, for which you could be put in prison, to make homosexual love to someone in your own house. If they came in and caught you at it, you could be put into prison. This has changed - I'm talking about England, incidentally.”

Ifs Years House Talking Crime Changed England Prison Caught Homosexual

Author:Patrick Macnee

“I get a lot of kids distracted. Sometimes they got to go cover left field, but they're over here talking to me, getting an autograph.”

Sometimes Kids Left Talking Fields Distracted Autographs Left Field

Author:Pedro Martinez

“When you've been raised in care, rap music isn't just about guns and sexism. They're talking about real things you can hang on to, problems of identity that you have sympathy with. It's not just about the music, with rap: when I was in care, it meant a whole lot more than that.”

Real Whole Problem Care Talking Identity Music Is Gun Raised Rap Sexism Sympathy Real Things Rap Music

Author:Samantha Morton

“Why are we talking about talking? Why negotiating about negotiating? It's very simple. If you want to get to peace, put all your preconditions on the side, sit down opposite a table, not in a studio, by the way.”

Ifs Way Want Sides Simple Talking Opposites Tables Studios Negotiating

Author:Benjamin Netanyahu

“As soon as I feel people are talking too much about my character, it's time to leave.”

People Feels Character Talking Too Much Talking Too Much Time To Leave

Author:Chris Noth

“I like talking to priests, to Catholics. Everyone has their beliefs.”

Belief Talking Catholic Priests

Author:Oscar Niemeyer

“Sometimes I lose a whole morning waiting on journalists and other people who look for me. But I always find some time for reading, talking to my friends and feeling what is happening in this world.”

People World Looks Sometimes Whole Feelings Reading Waiting Loses Talking Morning This World Happenings My Friends Journalist

Author:Oscar Niemeyer

“There was a point in time where the thought of people even talking about me made me anxious. Physically.”

People Made Talking Anxious Talking About Me

Author:Chris Ofili

“Society as a whole is better off when information is available to the public. Whether you are talking about how to prevent disease, or about who does the best job of treating disease, it is useful to provide as much information to the public as possible.”

Doe Whole Jobs Talking Information Disease Available Better Off Best Job

Author:Dave Obey

“To play a lawyer and have one year of law school under your belt, you sort of know what you're talking about! I'm able to memorize the legal courtroom stuff a lot faster than I would have been able to otherwise.”

Knows Years Has Beens Play Able School Law Stuff Talking Lawyer Faster Belts Law School Courtroom

Author:Jerry O'Connell

“Now, what we are not talking about, what you're really coming to, is what compromises one makes so that the listener understands somewhat of what you're doing, what you're trying to express.”

Trying Talking Compromise Listeners Not Talking

Author:Leo Ornstein

“It's all too easy when talking about female gymnasts to fall into the trap of infantilizing them, spending more time worrying more about female vulnerability than we do celebrating female strength.”

Fall Easy Talking Worry Female Spending Celebrate Vulnerability More Time Traps Gymnast

Author:Meghan O'Rourke

“I think perhaps Pakistan can take the lead. Perhaps Turkey can as well, being part of Europe. But someone has to start talking about why the Muslim world has become a boiling pot and look beyond these cartoons to what the ideological reasons are for this divide.”

Thinking World Wells Looks Reason Talking Europe Well Being Pot Divides Cartoon Pakistan Turkeys Ideological Boiling Muslim World

Author:Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

“I see the winos talking to themselves and I can understand.”

I Can Talking Insanity Winos

Author:Billy Joel

“I don't think we're going to save anything if we go around talking about saving plants and animals only; we've got to translate that into what's in it for us.”

Ifs Thinking Animal Talking Plant Environmental Saving Translate Plants And Animals

Author:Jim Fowler

“I spent most of my time talking to God more than to people.”

People God Talking My Time Talking To God

Author:Elie Wiesel

“I had gone away from Twitter because before people had been so mean to me. Talking about my lisp and my enormous forehead and all these things. I do have a lisp, I do have a forehead I know you could land a plane on, it's no mystery to me. I just didn't have the skin for it.”

People Knows Mean Talking Gone Mystery Land Skins Enormous Planes Foreheads Lisp Gone Away

Author:Sarah Paulson

“A lot of the listeners don't realize that the Daytona 24 Hours is the most difficult race in the world. It's 24 hours, a lot of darkness because it's held at the end of January, so you're talking about 13-14 hours of darkness.”

World Ends Difficult Realizing Hours Race Talking Darkness Listeners January Daytona

Author:Scott Pruett

“I had an extremely boring time doing 20 to 30 trades a day while everyone was talking about baseball or basketball. So I stood there fantasizing about a device that could do the same thing I was doing.”

Talking Basketball Baseball Trade Boring Devices

Author:Thomas Peterffy

“When we talk about feminism - equality without apology for ALL - we can't be talking about for all white women or all highly educated women but all women, regardless of color, class, creed, sexual orientation or identity.”

White Talking Class Feminism Identity Color Educated Apology Creeds Orientation Educated Women

Author:Christine Pelosi

“The first time my father saw me in the flesh was on the stage, which is a bit weird. We went out to dinner, and he was charming and sweet, but I did all the talking.”

Firsts Father Bits Talking Saws Stage Sweet First Time Dinner Flesh Charming

Author:Christopher Plummer

“The thing is, I am a loving person. I am super sappy when it comes to romance. But I'm not the Antonio Banderas, swashbuckling, Pierce Brosnan, smooth-talking type.”

Persons Romance Talking Type Smooth Pierce Antonio Loving Person

Author:Dev Patel

“First of all, Greece won't go down. We're talking about a country that is capable of making change. Europe will not allow the destabilization of the 27-country euro zone. But if there were no action, then markets would start becoming jittery about other countries - and not only Spain and Portugal, but other countries in the European Union.”

Ifs Firsts Country Action Talking Becoming Capable Europe Unions Zone Other Countries Spain Greece Making Changes European Union Euro Portugal

Author:George Papandreou

“It's a shame, but every time I get something scientific in the script, I read up to find out what I'm talking about - but then I'm on to the next script and it's forgotten.”

Next Talking Shame Forgotten Scripts

Author:Jim Parsons

“I'm smart and I can be really funny and interesting and I can go toe-to-toe with anybody in a conversation.”

I Can Funny Interesting Talking Conversation Smart Intelligence Toes

Author:Megan Fox

“People's - most people's job is talking about the future or like money not even in the present tense. It's not even paper.”

People Jobs Talking Paper Tense Present Tense

Author:Colin Quinn

“The idea of 'talking white,' a lot of people grew up around that, just the idea that if you speak with proper diction and come off as educated that it's not black and that it's actually anti-black and should be considered only something that white people would do.”

People Ifs Should Ideas Speak Black White Talking Grew Grew Up Educated Diction

Author:Chance the Rapper

“As a partner in a firm full of women who work outside of the home as well as stay at home mothers, all with plenty of children, gender equality is not a talking point for me. It is an issue I live every day.”

Wells Children Home Mother Talking Issues Work Out Gender Partners Plenty Firm Gender Equality Stay At Home Live Every Day

Author:Hilary Rosen

“There are some very real areas where working together is critical, whether it's talking about public policy issues, enforcement, or how to work together to facilitate new business opportunities. The RIAA has gotten much more involved in that.”

Real Together Opportunity Talking Issues Policy Involved Areas Critical Working Together Enforcement Public Policy Facilitate New Business Business Opportunity

Author:Hilary Rosen

“Well you're talking about a long career, a lot of movies, a lot of stars. I guess working with Henry Fonda and Katherine Hepburn was a great privilege.”

Wells Long Stars Talking Careers Privilege Hepburn Long Careers Katherine Hepburn

Author:Mark Rydell

“R is for wussies if you're talking about blood and guts.”

Ifs Talking Blood Guts

Author:Sam Raimi

“When I finished a song that I thought was good, I thought, I don't know where that came from, so I have no idea if I can do that again. I'm talking like, a hundred and fifty songs down the line. I still feel that.”

Ifs Knows Feels Stills I Can Ideas Song Can Do Lines Talking Hundred Finished No Idea Fifty

Author:Trevor Rabin

“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.”

Needs Social Rooms Talking Audience Like You Locked Keep Talking

Author:Jonathan Stroud

“Black people don't know what white people are talking about when they talk about a Sister Souljah moment. I tell them it's the moment you meet a proud, beautiful black woman you can never forget.”

People Knows Moments Beautiful Black White Forget Talking Proud Never Forget Black People Black Women

Author:Sister Souljah

“When I first started talking about gay marriage, most people in the gay community looked at me as if I was insane or possibly a fascist reactionary.”

People Ifs Firsts Community Talking Gay Insane Gay Marriage Fascists Reactionaries Gay Community

Author:Andrew Sullivan

“When we talk about the healthcare crisis in America we've got to also be talking about the dental crisis and how to address it.”

America Talking Crisis Addresses Healthcare Dental

Author:Bernie Sanders

“Yet there are some people - Steve Allen would dissect comedy forever; he's a really funny guy, but he would love talking about comedy. I'm doing it right now and you all seem bored.”

People Seems Guy Talking Forever Comedy Right Now Bored Funny Guy

Author:Bob Saget

“If anyone was talking about journalism in the '50s - it was Edward R.Murrow.”

Ifs Talking Journalism Edward R Murrow

Author:David Strathairn

“Before I start directing a show, I try to spend a few weeks hanging around the set, getting to know the crew and talking to the actors about how they like to work. Who is fussy? Who is left-handed? Who wants to go home early, and who is the perfectionist?”

Knows Want Trying Shows Home Actors Left Talking Week Crew Perfectionist Hanging Around Left Handed Fussy

Author:Eric Stoltz

“We are talking about institutionalizing a program on solar development that will outlast the Obama administration.”

Talking Development Program Administration

Author:Ken Salazar

“Don't listen to voices. If you hear voices talking to you, forget it. Disregard the information, even if it is right occasionally. You are dealing with non-physical forces that are trying to influence you.”

Ifs Trying Force Voice Forget Talking Influence Information Forget It Disregard Physical Force

Author:Frederick Lenz

“My prescription for writer's block is to face the fact that there is no such thing.... Writing well is difficult, but one can always write something. And then, with a lot of work, make it better. It's a question of having enough will and ambition, not of hoping to evade this mysterious hysteria people are always talking about.”

People Writing Wells Enough Facts Faces Difficult Talking Ambition Block Mysterious Prescriptions Hysteria Writer's Block Writing Well

Author:Thomas Mallon

“We reproach people for talking about themselves but it is the subject they treat best.”

People Self Talking Subjects Treats Reproach

Author:Anatole France

“Usually people have gone through years of in vitro, just trying. The dilemma that faces infertile couples right now in America, there's so many of them. That's why - you know that's why I started talking about it, so that they didn't hear just the terrible stories.”

People Knows Trying Years Stories America Faces Talking Gone Couple Terrible Right Now Dilemma Through The Years

Author:Joan Lunden

“If someone had told me in 1963 that one day I would be in Congress, I would have said, 'You're crazy. You don't know what you're talking about.'”

Ifs Knows Said Would Be Talking Crazy One Day Congress

Author:John Lewis

“Business has a way of talking about how to create value, which is in some way isn't bad... We just need to start thinking about if the value we want to create is consistent with all social and environmental well being.”

Ifs Thinking Way Want Needs Wells Values Social Talking Environmental Well Being Consistent Way Of Talking

Author:Peter Senge

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