“The beautiful thing about podcasting is it's just talking. It can be funny, or it can be terrifying. It can be sweet. It can be obnoxious. It almost has no definitive form. In that sense it's one of the best ways to explore an idea, and certainly much less limiting than trying to express the same idea in stand up comedy. For some ideas stand up is best, but it's really, really nice to have podcasts as well.” WayTryingWellsIdeasBeautifulFormTalkingComedyNiceSweetBest WayBeautiful ThingsReally NiceObnoxiousStand Up ComedyPodcasting Author:Joe Rogan
“Talking about sexual morality, I wouldn't agree that it's declining, but it's certainly changing. Young and old, we are very much in the process of taking a fresh look at the whole issue of morality. The only decline that's taking place - and it's about time - is in the old puritanical concept that sex is equated with sin.” LooksWholeYoungSexProcessSinTalkingIssuesMoralityConceptsAgreeDeclineYoung And Old Author:Johnny Carson
“I'm not big on trying to label it [my rap] or trying to prove people otherwise. I'm just making records that I like and that I wanna make. I'm just making records that relate to me and that relate to my life. If you listen to what I'm saying I'm not talking about anything that isn't my life. I take pride in having truthful lyrics.” PeopleIfsTryingBigsTalkingRecordsPrideProveRapLabelsRelateTruthfulNot Talking Author:Mike Stud
“I never could tell a joke. I just started talking to the audience, and when the drunks would yell, "Hey, when do the broads come on?" I got good at saying, "Relax. Clear your skin up first." They called me "the insult guy," but it's never mean-spirited. I'm just exaggerating everything about us and about life.” FirstsMeanGuyTalkingAudienceClearJokesSkinsHeyInsultRelaxBroadsSpiritedExaggeratingMean Spirited Author:Don Rickles
“Most British playwrights of my generation, as well as younger folks, apparently feel somewhat obliged to Russian literature - and not only those writing for theatres. Russian literature is part of the basic background knowledge for any writer. So there is nothing exceptional in the interest I had towards Russian literature and theatre. Frankly, I couldn't image what a culture would be like without sympathy towards Russian literature and Russia, whether we'd be talking about drama or Djagilev.” FeelsWritingWellsWould BeCultureLiteratureInterestTalkingGenerationsDramaFolksBritishTheatreRussiaBackgroundsExceptionalObligedPlaywrightMy GenerationRussian LiteratureBackground Knowledge Author:Tom Stoppard
“Desirelessness or renunciation does not come for the mere talking about it.” DoeTalkingMereRenunciation Book:Gandhi: Selected Writings Source: Gandhi: Selected Writings
“In order to move our self image higher on the spectrum of performance, we must specifically attack our self-talking and our self-thinking? By using constructive imagination - the eye of faith - we can change our self image.” ThinkingSelfEyeMovingOrderPeaceImaginationTalkingHigherPerformancesSpectrumConstructive Author:Hyrum W. Smith
“I like to use big words so people will think I know what I'm talking about.” PeopleThinkingKnowsUseHumorBigsFunnyTalkingBaseball Author:Jerry Coleman
“I have no skills. I mean, I can make jokes, I'm pretty good at talking to people on the Judge John Hodgman podcast. I can figure out what makes a pretty good story, and I can make eggs really well.” PeopleWellsMeanI CanStoriesTalkingFiguresJudgingSkillsJokesEggsGood Story Author:John Hodgman
“I need to be able to hear what is being said to me by the voices I create. Just on the other side of creativity is the nuthouse - and I often notice people looking at me strangely when I am talking out loud, but there is no other way.” PeopleWayNeedsSaidAbleSidesVoiceTalkingCreativityLoud Author:Jeanette Winterson
“Reporters aren't stupid. We were standing around talking about which of the 900 health-care proposals that nobody's going to accept is that day's hot news. They know how silly that is. But that's what they do.” KnowsCareTalkingAcceptingKnow HowStupidNewsStandingHotSillyHealth CareReportersProposal Author:Dave Barry
“If you're writing, you're a writer. If you're talking about it or thinking about it, I'm not so sure. Writing is ninety-eight percent work and two percent magic.” IfsThinkingWritingTwoTalkingMagicPercentEightNinetyNinety Eight Author:Barbara Kingsolver
“If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.” IfsInspirationalGivingWritingYoungTalkingAdviceWriting A BookWriters And WritingFiction WritersWriting FictionTalkersWriting By WritersYoung Writers Author:Lillian Hellman
“I love being involved in all of the creative stuff; I love talking ideas with directors. Anyone with an imagination can create something fun.” IdeasFunStuffImaginationLove IsTalkingCreativeInvolvedDirectors Author:Brendon Urie
“I guess libertarianism is always considered so weird and fringe that people assume that you're in the closet if you don't go around talking about it.” PeopleIfsTalkingAssumingLibertarianismClosetsFringe Author:Dave Barry
“When you find yourself talking about less and less and forgetting the love that you bring, never forget there are things you can replace but others you can not.” ForgetTalkingFinding YourselfNever ForgetCan Not Author:Bill Walton
“Early on when I started talking about my weight, it was self-deprecating; everything was a joke.” SelfTalkingJokesWeightSelf Deprecating Author:Gabriel Iglesias
“The greatest power you have is your faith. F-A-I-T-H. And the word faith stands for Fantastic Adventures In Trusting Him. God will be there to fight all your battles, all you have to do is let him. Faith is very strong. Part of my life ministry is talking about God in terms of bringing back who I really am to the forefront of my identity.” FightingStrongTermTalkingIdentityAdventureBattleGods WillFantasticVery StrongMinistryTrusting Him Author:Gary Busey
“Racism is a form of insanity. Human beings became racist when they started talking. Speech has a lot to do with it.” HumansFormHuman BeingsTalkingSpeechRacismInsanityRacist Author:Paul Mooney
“Well digital media and social media are eliminating the middle man - in the old days, you had to go through the editors. Or the television producer, you know? Now you have people talking directly to each other, globally who have never met. I think you put the "word" in "word of mouth."” PeopleThinkingKnowsMenWellsSocialTalkingMiddleMediaTelevisionMetsMouthsSocial MediaProducersDigitalEditorsOld DaysEliminatingPeople TalkingWord Of MouthDigital Media Author:Kelly Cutrone
“If we're talking about the science fiction or action genres, I've always tried when I could to do them in a way that's not just cookie-cutter - that they bring something fresh or original to it, have some kind of ideas to it. I've been fortunate, in some sense, to do those kinds of movies that are unique.” IfsWayKindIdeasActionFictionTalkingUniqueOriginalsScience FictionGenreFortunateCookiesCuttersCookie Cutters Author:Keanu Reeves
“You gotta not care about what people think in general about you. I'm not talking about bad stuff, if you're a nasty person, because I don't consider myself a mean person, I consider that I know what i want and I'm tough. But I'm very emotional and un-tough on a lot of levels, I cry very easily, I'm sensitive and I don't think that's a bad thing.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsWantMeanPersonsCareStuffLevelsTalkingCryEmotionalToughSensitiveBad ThingsNastyNot TalkingBad StuffMean Person Author:Joan Jett
“I think it's what the times are demanding. If you're talking about the popular artists, they collaborate with a lot of different people and it seems to be in vogue now. It probably is indicative of the times.” PeopleIfsThinkingDifferentSeemsArtistTalkingDifferent PeoplesVogue Author:Joan Jett
“I've always been fascinated by dark subjects, especially people's reactions to them. Why are people so uncomfortable talking about death if everyone dies?” PeopleIfsDiesDarkTalkingSubjectsReactionsUncomfortableFascinated Author:Anthony Jeselnik
“It's really hard to fit a complex idea into a 3-minute pop song. And when you're dealing with issues that you're passionate about, usually they have various levels. And within a poem, you can get around the issue of space, and in a song the same way, by simply leaving holes and alluding to what you're talking about.” WayIdeasHardSongSpaceLevelsTalkingIssuesMinutesFitComplexesLeavingPassionateVariousPopsHolesPop Song Author:Jon Foreman
“I started writing because it was about making my friends laugh, and when you're talking to your friends, you can't bullshit.” WritingTalkingLaughingMy FriendsBullshit Author:Tucker Max
“I used to kind of blame someone for not being able to get through that - I'm talking about the addiction part - but I've had a few experiences recently where you don't blame the person anymore.” KindPersonsAbleUsedTalkingBlameAddictionBlame Someone Author:Eddie Vedder
“I hate normal studios, because you have to say "hi" to the person at the front desk. And then you go into the studio, and there's a second engineer in there that you don't know, and then you're stuck in a glass box with someone talking to you through a walkie-talkie.” KnowsPersonsHateTalkingFrontsNormalI HateGlassesBoxesStudiosStuckNow And ThenEngineersDesksTalkiesFront DeskWalkie Talkies Author:Marilyn Manson
“Sometimes I write notes that I have difficulty singing. And you start talking yourself out of the bold melody and start wanting to arrange it in another key or something. Maybe I just never learned my harmony part, because what everybody says sounds odd to them sounds perfectly natural to me.” WritingSometimesSoundNaturalTalkingKeysSingingDifficultyHarmonyNotesOddMelodyPerfectly Natural Author:Elvis Costello
“But I think a life of raising prize cattle, going shooting two or three times a year, fishing in the summer, and interspersing the whole thing with some golf and bridge - and whenever I felt like talking or writing, doing it with abandon and with no sense of responsibility whatsoever - maybe such a life wouldn't be so bad.” ThinkingWritingYearsTwoWholeThreeFeltSportsResponsibilityTalkingSummerGolfShootingBridgesFishingPrizeAbandonThree TimesCattleSense Of Responsibility Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower
“An idea that will translate really well musically should work visually. I try to write music that you can feel if you were to close your eyes you can see what I am talking about.” IfsFeelsShouldWritingTryingWellsIdeasEyeTalkingTranslate Author:Ne-Yo
“My writing has to excite people and depict or include their experiences. That's part of my process - to go out and interact with people. It's very much like an archival process. I understand that the Brothers Grimm would go out and get people talking so they could document folk tales that weren't being documented any other way. I try to offer a little bit of myself - some experience from my life that evokes stories in other people.” PeopleWayWritingTryingLittlesStoriesBitsProcessTalkingBrotherOffersLittle BitFolksTalesDocumentsEvokePeople TalkingGrimmBrothers Grimm Author:Chuck Palahniuk
“Intellectual culture seems to separate high art from low art. Low art is horror or pornography or anything that has a physical component to it and engages the reader on a visceral level and evokes a strong sympathetic reaction. High art is people driving in Volvos and talking a lot. I just don't want to keep those things separate. I think you can use visceral physical experiences to illustrate larger ideas, whether they're emotional or spiritual. I'm trying to not exclude high and low art or separate them.” PeopleThinkingWantTryingArtIdeasUseSeemsSpiritualCultureStrongLevelsTalkingEmotionalReaderHorrorIntellectualLowsArt IsDrivingReactionsPornographyComponentsSympatheticEvokeVisceralHighs And LowsHigh ArtVolvo Author:Chuck Palahniuk
“Every artist learns through imitation, but I rather doubt the aim of these things is artistic development. I assume they're either homages or satiric riffs, and are not intended to be taken too seriously as works in their own right. Otherwise I should be talking to a copyright lawyer.” ShouldArtistTalkingTakenDoubtDevelopmentAimAssumingLawyerArtisticImitationHomageCopyright Author:Bill Watterson
“The best type of date is when it's an unexpected thing. It could be starting as a friendship or a first meeting where you meet and then you end up talking for 15 hours in a row. That's kind of where you're so in sync that it's just cohesive and it's fun.” FirstsKindEndsFunHoursTalkingTypeMeetingsStartingUnexpectedSyncUnexpected Things Author:Nolan Gerard Funk
“I have always thought that these two ways of talking, one is the fantastic, the fable, the fairy tale, and the other being history, the scholarly study of what happened, I think they're both amazing ways to understand human nature.” ThinkingWayHumansTwoTalkingStudyHappenedHuman NatureTalesFantasticFairyFairy TaleTwo WaysFablesScholarlyWay Of Talking Author:Salman Rushdie
“In the highest sense, we are all creatures of light. And I have a very difficult time talking with people who are cynical about the world. "The world is no damn good, and we're all animals," and that kind of thing. Well, I'm an animal.” PeopleWorldWellsKindLightDifficultAnimalTalkingCreaturesHighestDamnCynicalDifficult TimesDamn Good Author:Richard Bach
“I was in a conversation and someone said: "You know, we were talking about the whole issue of transgender and how it has become so accepted now, and somebody said, 'You know the Oprah show, I think has had a big impact.'" I said, I don't think so. We did several transgender [shows], but we didn't do as much for transgender as I did for, say, abused kids or battered women. And they said, "But no, you started the conversation. You started the conversation and the conversation has led us to here."” ThinkingKnowsSaidWholeShowsBigsKidsTalkingIssuesConversationImpactAcceptedThey SaidTransgenderBatteredBig ImpactBattered Women Author:Oprah Winfrey
“Interviewing people, I don't miss that at all. I do miss kibitzing with the audience because after every show I would spend half an hour to 40 minutes talking to people.” PeopleShowsHoursHalfTalkingAudienceMinutesMissing Author:Oprah Winfrey
“I'm finding myself very comfortable talking to medical audiences, and proving to them that underlying the material fields of the universe are force fields.” UniverseForceTalkingAudienceFieldsMaterialsProveComfortableFindingsMedicalFinding MyselfForce Fields Author:Deepak Chopra
“Occasionally people would come to me. I was sitting with a woman one day and she was telling me her story and I was in a state of listening, a state of bliss as I was listening to the drama of her story, and suddenly she stopped talking and said, "Oh, you are doing healing."” PeopleSaidStatesStoriesHealingTalkingListeningDramaOne DaySittingBliss Author:Eckhart Tolle
“If you don't have the ability or encouragement to use yourself in a physical way, you could become just another talking head. And talking heads run things. That's part of the reason why we're in such a sad state as a planet, because it's all about thinking, and thinking has led to a lot of aggrandizement - taking over [resources] and figuring out how you can steal and leaving people and the planet in an impoverished state.” PeopleIfsThinkingWayStatesReasonUseRunningAbilityTalkingPlanetsResourcesEncouragementLeavingStealingReason WhyTalking Heads Author:Alice Walker
“There's not one reference in that thing that doesn't play. People deal with emotions in music all the time, but comedians are always talking about what they see. But we seldom talk about what we feel.” PeopleFeelsPlayDealsEmotionTalkingComedian Author:Chris Rock
“If you're holding on to an offense, then you haven't forgiven the person who hurt you. Unforgiveness finds excuses to talk about what people have done to us, and we'll tell anyone who will listen. There's a difference between sharing your testimony to help someone and talking about what's been done to you because you are angry about it.” PeopleIfsPersonsDoneHelpingDifferencesHurtTalkingHavensAngryExcuseOffenseForgivenTestimonyHolding On Author:Joyce Meyer
“We're talking really huge global-scale change, and I did not feel that I had the prescription for that kind of action, so I'm going to leave it to the reader.” FeelsKindActionTalkingHugeReaderScalesPrescriptions Author:Elizabeth Kolbert
“I studied the Bible seriously until I was young teenager. It was always part of our home education: talking about the Bible, arguing about the Bible, interpreting it. So I don't connect prayer or scriptures with any particular religion so it's not a contradiction in my life.” HomeYoungPrayerTalkingParticularArguingScriptureTeenagerContradictionInterpreting Author:Patti Smith
“I'm a very private person, so obviously I don't enjoy talking about more personal matters. But at the same time I care very much about my work and I would like people to know that it exists. So I appreciate that there's a meeting point, where I would like people to know about the work that I'm doing, and that requires me to talk about it.” PeopleKnowsPersonsMatterCareEnjoyTalkingAppreciateMeetingsI CarePersonal Matter Author:PJ Harvey
“We're clearly not going to stop global warming at this point. We've already raised the temperature of the planet one degree. We've got another degree in the pipeline from carbon we've already emitted. What we're talking about now is whether we're going to have a difficult, difficult century, or an impossible one.” DifficultTalkingImpossibleCenturyPlanetsDegreesRaisedGlobal WarmingCarbonTemperaturePipeline Author:Bill McKibben
“If one is talking to a finance minister of a poor country, moral arguments tend not to get very far. But if you can argue that their country is going to grow 2 percent faster per year if they can just harness the power of the female half of the population more effectively, that is an argument they consider.” IfsYearsCountryGrowsPoorHalfTalkingMoralPercentFemaleArgumentPopulationArguingFinanceFasterMinistersHarnessPoor Countries Author:Nicholas D. Kristof
“In general, talking about human rights tends to be very persuasive for people who care about human rights.” PeopleHumansCareTalkingRightsHuman RightsWho CaresPersuasive Author:Nicholas D. Kristof