“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.” KnowsYearsHas BeensPlayAbleSchoolLawStuffTalkingLawyerFasterBeltsLaw SchoolCourtroom Author:Jerry O'Connell
“Psychic development is not a fanatical, freaky study, predicting the future, talking to UFOs, and being able to find out curious facts that are basically irrelevant to one's time in life.” FactsAbleTalkingStudySeeingDevelopmentCuriousIrrelevantPsychicsUfoPredictingFreakyPredicting The Future Author:Frederick Lenz
“Certainly I'll never be able to put myself in the situation that people growing up in the less developed countries are in. I've gotten a bit of a sense of it by being out there and meeting people and talking with them.” PeopleCountryAbleBitsTalkingSituationGrowing UpGrowingMeetingsDeveloped Country Author:Bill Gates
“Okay, this is Fran Lebowitz. She gave an interview once for the Paris Review about trying to write fiction and saying that fiction writers start talking about how characters are talking to them, and it's crazy, she's never had that. And I also thought, I'm never gonna be able to do this, because I didn't feel that for a really long time.” FeelsWritingTryingLongCharacterAbleFictionTalkingCrazyLong TimeOkayParisInterviewsReviewsFiction WritersReally Long Author:Sloane Crosley
“When you get old, you can't talk to people because people snap at you.... That's why you become deaf, so you won't be able to hear people talking to you that way.” PeopleWayAbleTalkingDeafSnapsOld YouPeople Talking Book:The Collected Plays of Edward Albee Source: The Collected Plays of Edward Albee
“Whereas, according to the declaration of that true man of the world Talleyrand, the use of language is to conceal the thoughts; this is to declare in the present instance, when I say I am not able to bear much talking, it means really, and without any mistake, or equivocation, or oblique meaning, or implication, or subterfuge, or omission, that I am not able; being at present rather weak in the head, and able to work no more.” MenWorldMeanUseAbleLanguageMistakeTalkingBearsWeakInstanceDeclarationImplicationsOmissionTrue ManUse Of LanguageSubterfuge Author:Michael Faraday
“One of my favorite things on the show was just getting to do my own monologue and talking about someone who killed themselves, or making a joke about some horrible tragedy - I love being able to fight for and get on TV. I just think it's so different.” ThinkingDifferentShowsAbleFightingMy OwnLove IsTalkingTvsJokesTragedyMy FavoriteHorribleFavorites ThingsMonologuesTalking About Someone Author:Anthony Jeselnik
“I wanted to be able to write in the voice that I talk to my friends and assume that everybody would know what I was talking about.” KnowsWritingAbleWantedVoiceTalkingMy FriendsAssuming Author:Ernest Cline
“It's just part of whatever motivates guys and whatever they say. Ultimately it comes down to how well you play. What I've learned over the years, a lot of guys talk. What you need to do is go out there and play, back it up. They've been able to back it up, so that's why it works for them. Hopefully we can go out there and do our talking on the field.” NeedsYearsWellsPlayAbleGuyTalkingFieldsHopefullyI've Learned Author:Tom Brady
“I'm a very outgoing person so I like girls who are not afraid to be themselves. I'm not a shy person and when I hang out with a girl, I want to be able to talk to her. At the same time I like a girl I can have a conversation with - as opposed to me sitting there talking away because she won't open her mouth. I like conversations and I'm a really big sucker for personality.” WantPersonsI CanBigsAbleGirlTalkingPersonalityConversationMouthsSittingShyHanging OutNot AfraidSuckerOutgoingShy Person Author:Corbin Bleu
“Generally biobanking is really designed more for urban areas, with the offsets being offered in non-urban areas. It may be able to help in some circumstances, but it depends a lot on what we're talking about here. But biobanking does allow for offsets in relation to a specific species, as well as specific ecological communities as well as land. It's quite a flexible tool.” WellsMayDoeHelpingAbleCommunityTalkingLandDependsCircumstancesAreasToolsRelationSpeciesUrbanFlexibleEcologicalUrban Areas Author:Frank Sartor
“And so, when I was a young writer I always worked hard on imagery, and I knew that the roots of imagery were the senses - and that if my readers could feel, taste and see what I was talking about, I would be able to tell them a story.” IfsFeelsHardStoriesWould BeAbleYoungTalkingReaderTasteRootsSensesImageryYoung Writers Author:Adriana Trigiani
“We need to stop playing Privilege or Oppression Olympics because we'll never get anywhere until we find more effective ways of talking through difference. We should be able to say, “This is my truth,” and have that truth stand without a hundred clamoring voices shouting, giving the impression that multiple truths cannot coexist.” WayNeedsGivingShouldAbleVoiceDifferencesTalkingHundredPrivilegeImpressionOppressionMultipleOlympicsShoutingCoexistMy TruthWay Of Talking Author:Roxane Gay
“So to really be able to dive into what does it mean to be broken by an experience, and I developed it just through research and talking and understanding the truth of what it means to lose everything.” MeanDoeAbleUnderstandingLosesTalkingBrokenResearch Author:Will Smith
“President Obama's been reaching out to Iran, reaching out to Cuba, reaching out to Latin America. The only place he can't seem to be able to reach out to: Texas. ... Despite Governor Rick Perry talking about how Texas could secede from the Union if it wanted to, 75 per cent of the people who live there want to stay in the United States. Of course they want to stay. I mean, after spending all that time and effort sneaking across the border to get here, why would they want to leave?” PeopleIfsWantMeanStatesSeemsAbleWantedAmericaCoursesPresidentUnitedEffortTalkingUnited StatesUnionsSpendingDespiteBordersReachingIranLatinTexasPresident ObamaReach OutCentsGovernorsCubaLatin America Author:Jay Leno
“I'm always talking to the writers because I find it so fascinating, how they're able to go to these different levels with the different stories, and have all these layers to peel back.” DifferentStoriesAbleLevelsTalkingFascinatingLayersDifferent Levels Author:Taraji P. Henson
“The internet has taken away a lot of personalization. A lot of people are writing articles and talking about being able to social network and making these connections but I don't think anything will replace the human connection making an actual conversation to somebody face to face.” PeopleThinkingWritingHumansAbleFacesSocialTalkingTakenInternetConversationConnectionsArticlesFace To FaceSocial NetworkHuman ConnectionPersonalization Author:Steve Mahoney
“I've never been able to tell jokes. In the beginning of my career I did impressions and jokes like any other comedian, but I was never very successful because I did it poorly. So I started to talk to the audience and started talking about the atmosphere around me and started to become angry, not in a mean-spirited way, but in a fun way - and my attitude developed from there.” WayMeanAbleFunAttitudeTalkingCareersAudienceSuccessfulJokesAngryImpressionComedianAtmosphereMy AttitudeSpiritedMean Spirited Author:Don Rickles
“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
“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
“Speedwork is terribly overrated! I remember talking to runners after distance races and someone is sure to say they were able to run fast off base work with no speed work at all. The truth is speedwork doesn't work. Lots of miles, and then fast miles gets you there much quicker than speed work.” RunningAbleRememberRaceTalkingTruth IsDistanceSpeedMilesRunnersOverrated Author:Gerry Lindgren
“I am often talking about the ideas collected in Normal Life in contexts that are not academic, or that are full of people who are not primarily engaging as theorists or theory-readers. Being able to make ideas visual, especially critical ideas about movements that can be difficult to hear because of attachments we have to certain national narratives, or because of ways that we see ourselves, is especially useful.” PeopleWayIdeasAbleCertainDifficultTalkingMovementTheoryReaderNormalCriticalNarrativeVisualsAttachmentAcademicEngagingNormal LifeTheorists Author:Dean Spade
“My entire life is dedicated to music, and at my age, that makes a lot of years! But all the work and dedication is only that I'm able to forget myself and let the music do the 'talking.'” YearsAgeAbleLife IsForgetTalkingDedicatedDedication Author:John McLaughlin
“Were talking about an attitude. Delayed gratification is there, planning, be able to give up something now to get something later.” GivingAbleAttitudeTalkingGiving UpPlanningGratificationDelayedDelayed Gratification Author:Joe Hill
“A favorite science fiction writer of mine is William Faulkner! It was an idea that came to me once, years ago, and I've never quite been able to shake it. This is facetious, on one level at least. There are telepaths in As I Lay Dying. But I think the most compelling thing for me is there are moments with him where I just feel these are not humans talking to each other. These are some hyper-intelligent, yet-to-be-born organisms. The way they look at the past without having any loss of knowledge everything that ever happened is still here.” ThinkingWayFeelsYearsHumansLooksStillsIdeasMomentsAblePastBornLossLevelsFictionTalkingHappenedDyingMinesYears AgoIntelligentScience FictionLaysShakesCompellingOrganismsNever QuitFiction WritersHyperFacetious Author:Robert Reed
“My mother, she was able to swim through planets and turn them into whatever she wanted - they didn't have to be what we know them to be. So she actually had Jupiter in her hair, when she was talking to me.” KnowsAbleWantedMotherTurnsTalkingPlanetsHairSwimJupiter Author:Patrick Monahan
“It was fantastic to be able to have my kids on set. Dash, my eldest son, who’s not quite five, was into knights and his godmother had given him a plastic Marks & Spencer knights’ outfit and [first assistant director] Tommy Gormley said that he could stand to protect me during the scene where Clive [Owen] is talking about the immensity of sitting on the throne. I’m actually looking through an archway at my son standing in his knights’ costume protecting me!” FirstsSaidKidsAbleGivenTalkingFiveSonSceneDirectorsProtectSittingStandingMarkFantasticMy SonPlasticThronesCostumesKnightsAssistantsImmensityEldestGodmotherEldest SonArchways Author:Cate Blanchett
“Working on camera is a different ballgame in the sense that it's far more intimate work, but the basics and the foundations of being able to create something that isn't necessarily your own instincts - is a character that you have inside your head - whether you're talking about television or film or theater, that still has to be the grounding work.” StillsDifferentCharacterAbleFilmTalkingTelevisionTheaterCamerasFoundationInstinctIntimateBasicsGroundingBallgame Author:Rose Leslie
“To be in the dance bar you have to be young, good looking, able to dance, and comfortable talking to people.” PeopleAbleYoungTalkingComfortableBarsLooking GoodBe Young Author:Sonia Faleiro
“Music is monophonic in the Eastern world, especially if we're talking about Indian music, Persian music. What we have in classical and Western world is harmony. So I think it's a great idea to be able to bring the best of two together and create something new.” IfsThinkingWorldTwoIdeasAbleTogetherTalkingMusic IsHarmonyWesternIndianSomething NewEasternGreat IdeaWestern WorldPersianIndian Music Author:Hafez Nazeri
“I think our particular sound has come by just not adhering to any specific sound. For us, it's about the song, and being able to fit in to what is appropriate. When we sit down, we're not talking about what type of band we're gonna be within a specific genre - there's a uniqueness to all of us individually that throws putting anything in a box out the window.” ThinkingAbleSongSoundTalkingParticularTypeFitBandWindowBoxesGenreAppropriateUniquenessNot Talking Author:Nate Ruess
“The great thing about what we do at DTS, all the studios, but especially DTS, because we're talking about our film, is we swing for the fences. So that being said, we're out to tell the very best story we can with the highest quality that we're able to do.” SaidStoriesAbleFilmQualityTalkingHighestStudiosGreat ThingsSwingsFence Author:Klay Hall
“You can make a film with a phone and a computer if you want, if you have the time. So it's a world that is saturated with films and all kind of stuff, so it's such a blessing to be able to make a film and people care, and even if they say that it's a bad idea, at least they care and they're talking about it.” PeopleIfsWorldWantKindIdeasCareAbleFilmStuffTalkingBlessingComputerPhonesAll KindsBad IdeasSaturated Author:Fede Alvarez
“Whenever black women have a point, they're characterized as angry black women, and therefore the thing they're talking about is no longer of importance because they have to deal with them being overly emotional or something. I recognize that people who respond negatively to what I have to say aren't at a place yet where they are able to learn ... And it's exactly what I'm trying to fight.” PeopleTryingAbleFightingBlackDealsTalkingEmotionalImportanceAngryBlack Women Author:Amandla Stenberg
“What's good about talking about being victimized is that it is the beginning of being able to stop it.” AbleTalking Author:Teri Hatcher
“We were still able to see the phone records of a potential terrorist cause, we held them, now you have to hope the phone company still has them, you have to argue with their chief counsel by the time you get access to it, and try to find out who they've been talking to before it's too late.” TryingStillsAbleCausesCompanyTalkingRecordsLatePhonesAccessArguingTerroristChiefsToo LateBefore It's Too Late Author:Barack Obama
“'Just Do It' is exactly what you need to hear when you're in a moment of doubt. When you're struggling, especially with sport... just do it. Stop talking about it, stop complaining about the cellulite, or that you're not able to run fast enough for the bus... just do it.” NeedsEnoughMomentsRunningAbleSportsTalkingStruggleDoubtComplainingBusInspirational SportsJust Do ItStop ComplainingCellulite Author:Jessie J