Talk Quotes
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Then he will talk--good gods, how he will talk! (Quote by - Nathaniel Lee)
We do not talk - we bludgeon one another with facts and theories gleaned from cursory readings of newspapers, magazines and digests. (Quote by - Henry Miller)
His brain is the best in the world. I wanted to talk to him about the universe, but he just wanted to watch the girls. (Quote by - Peter Stringfellow)
Don't you mean you want to talk about Ronaldo getting sent off, the most important part of the game? (Quote by - Alan Hansen)
No, pray thee, let it serve for table-talk; Then howsome'er thou speak'st, 'mong other things I shall digest it. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
I only date guys in bands cos they always tend to be hot and also we always have a lot of stuff to talk about between us, I would get bored if I dated some beekeeper so what's the point? (Quote by - Fabiola Gatti)
Parliament will train you to talk; and above all things to hear, with patience, unlimited quantities of foolish talk (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)
If my jeans could talk, would I be embarrassed? (Quote by - Brooke Shields)
I'm so lucky. The best thing is that when I wake up I really want to come into work. I can play music I love and talk to Londoners. And I love to talk! (Quote by - Margherita Taylor)
I talk to women, but I don't consummate it every time. (Quote by - Sir George Matthewson)
Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe. (Quote by - Benjamin Disraeli)
Y'all are so cute and y'all talk so proper over here. I love England. (Quote by - Beyonce Knowles)
His talk was like a stream which runs With rapid change from rock to roses; It slipped from politics to puns; It passed from Mahomet to Moses; Beginning with the laws that keep The planets in the radiant courses, And ending with some precept deep For dressing eels or shoeing horses. (Quote by - Winthrop Mackworth Praed)
People talk about the prestige of beating records but prestige never bought me dinner in a restaurant. It's winning games that does that. (Quote by - Steve Coppell)
Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it. (Quote by - Dan Quayle)
He could have mentioned this before. Talk about rubbing salt into the wound. I'm sure he would like me to say I've been robbed, and I would agree. And it's not like he hasn't got enough already. (Quote by - Stephen Merchant)
I talk and talk and talk, and I haven't taught people in fifty years what my father taught me by example in one week. (Quote by - Mario Cuomo)
If I chance to talk a little wild, forgive me; I had it from my father. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
I might talk about killing people, but that doesn't mean I do it. (Quote by - Eminem)
Rodeoing is about the only sport you can't fix. You'd have to talk to the bulls and the horses, and they wouldn't understand you. (Quote by - Bill Linderman)
This [Labour] government will never turn talk into action, it is time for a government that will. (Quote by - Michael Howard)
Talk to him of Jacob's ladder, and he would ask the number of the steps. (Quote by - Douglas Jerrold)
I used the Olympics in my team talk. When I went to bed, Kelly Holmes turned me on - which is sad for me isn't it? (Quote by - Neil Warnock)
People talk a lot about the Jackson's but then when you think about it, there is quite a lot to talk about. (Quote by - Jackie Jackson)
Those who talk don't know what is going on and those who know what is going on won't talk. (Quote by - Larry Speakes)
It's amazing when you get to a certain age, and you talk about sleep in the same way you spoke about getting inebriated... I got eight hours last night. It was fantastic! (Quote by - Johnny Depp)
I can only take Mike Ruddock at his word that he left for family reasons as I haven't had chance to talk to him yet, but I can fully understand those stresses. (Quote by - Scott Johnson)
I talk to my typewriter and that is what I've been working on for 40 years-how to write for talking. (Quote by - Alistair Cooke)
If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart. (Quote by - Nelson Mandela)
No season now for calm, familiar talk. (Quote by - Homer)
Whenever the talk turns to age, I say I am 49 plus VAT. (Quote by - Lionel Blair)
People talk to me more slowly now. (Quote by - Ann Widdecombe)
Most people have to talk so they won't hear. (Quote by - Mary Sarton)
Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected. (Quote by - Charles Lamb)
Do not talk a little on many subjects, but much on a few. (Quote by - Pythagoras)
I miss New York. I still love how people talk to you on the street - just assault you and tell you what they think of your jacket (Quote by - Madonna)
Vicodin, I got addicted to that little pill. The reason I don't talk about it too much in the press is because it isn't funny, and I love to be funny in interviews. If you joke about that period in your life, it doesn't seem right. (Quote by - Matthew Perry)
Talk with a man out at a window!--a proper saying! (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Don't talk to me about a man's being able to talk sense; everyone can talk sense. Can he talk nonsense? (Quote by - William Pitt The Elder)
I prithee take the cork out of thy mouth, that I may drink thy tidings. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
A philosopher might find the general work unsophisticated, and scientists are often bemused by esoteric talk of zombies, supervenience, and possible worlds. (Quote by - David Chalmers)
I have to remind my dad, 'Journalists - no matter how many cigars they smoke with you - are not your friends, so don't talk to them.' (Quote by - Cameron Diaz)
If a lion could talk, we would not hear him. (Quote by - Ludwig Wittgenstein)
The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness. (Quote by - Edward Gibbon)
If you talk about corruption, you can talk about a lot of things in life. (Quote by - Rafael Benitez)
CBS news anchor Dan Rather has interviewed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. When asked what it was like to talk to a crazy man, Saddam said, 'It's not so bad.' (Quote by - Conan O'Brien)
Don't talk to me about rules, dear. Wherever I stay I make the goddam rules. (Quote by - Maria Callas)
How tall are you big boy? Six foot nine inches! Let's go up to my place and talk about the nine inches! (Quote by - Mae West)
If people come to your window and talk to your wife every night, you can't accept it without asking what is happening. (Quote by - Arsene Wenger)
People talk about the All Woman video to this day. (Quote by - Lisa Stansfield)
When you turn the discussion onto talk of religion, you will soon start to reveal a whole range of views ranging from the ardent supporter to the ardent atheist. (Quote by - Arthur Hertzberg)
You can't really call playing snooker a job at the moment. People talk about the world rankings but how can you judge people on only six tournaments a season? It's not like golf which has about 40 events a year. (Quote by - Matthew Stevens)
We talk of our mastery of nature, which sounds very grand; but the fact is we respectfully adapt ourselves, first, to her ways. (Quote by - Clarence Day)
We all sing about the things we're thinking; musicals are about expressing those emotions that you can't talk about. It works a real treatv (Quote by - Anthony Head)
But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who talk too much. (Quote by - John Dryden)
Now, gentlemen, let us do something today which the world may talk of hereafter. (Quote by - Admiral Collingwood)
People who lead a lonely existence always have something on their minds that they are eager to talk about. (Quote by - Anton Checkov)
I knew I wasn't a baseball writer. I was scared to death. I really was afraid to talk to players, and I didn't want to go into the press box because I thought I was faking it. (Quote by - Roger Angell)
If people would talk only when they think, you could hear a pin drop. (Quote by - John W Raper)
When we talk to God we are praying; when God talks to us, we are schizophrenic. (Quote by - Lily Tomlin)
If I had an argument with a player we would sit down for twenty minutes, talk about it and then decide I was right! (Quote by - Brian Clough)
I drive with my knees. Otherwise, how can I put on my lipstick and talk on my phone? (Quote by - Sharon Stone)
The red wine first must rise In their fair cheeks, my lord; then we shall have 'em Talk us to silence. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast, the disk jockey is not allowed to talk. (Quote by - Fran Lebowitz)
Don't talk unless you can improve the silence. (Quote by - Lawrence Coughlin)
Little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love. (Quote by - Francis Bacon)
Rich folks always talk hard times. (Quote by - Lillian Smith)
Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine. (Quote by - Fran Lebowitz)
It would talk; Lord, how it talked! (Quote by - Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher)
It's better to keep quiet and have people think you stupid, than to talk and confirm it. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about. (Quote by - William Hazlitt)
It was a very simple team talk. All I used to say was: 'Whenever possible, give the ball to George. (Quote by - Matt Busby)
Women will not talk about football unless one of them is in love with a football player, and then suddenly you discover that they know everything that is to be known about it. (Quote by - Jeanne Moreau)
People realise that his promise [Tony Blair's] to 'save the NHS' was just talk. (Quote by - Liam Fox)
People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there. You can let your conscience alone if you're nice to the second housemaid. (Quote by - Henry James)
Cells let us walk, talk, think, make love and realise the bath water is cold. (Quote by - Lorraine Lee Cudmore)
He still got himself in there. He came in before the game, watched a bit of Wigan v Arsenal, then the racing, then he listened to our team-talk, then he came out and battered us! (Quote by - Alan Curbishley)
Persuasion tips his tongue whene'er he talks. (Quote by - Colley Cibber)
I'm too short to host a late-night talk show. It's like the bar at an amusement-park ride. You have to be six foot two or over. (Quote by - Jon Stewart)
Some people talk of morality, and some of religion, but give me a little snug property (Quote by - Maria Edgeworth)
Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain. (Quote by - John Selden)
Playing Lisa has made me realise how important it is for someone who's got problems to have mates they can talk to, who understand what's happening to them and still treat them like the same person. (Quote by - Gemma Atkinson)
When I first started acting, and we would all sit down and talk about Shakespeare and how great it was, I thought well, I suppose it is. (Quote by - Judy Davis)
Girls talk to each other like men talk to each other. But girls have an eye for detail. (Quote by - Amy Winehouse)
She doesn't talk about anyone but herself. (Quote by - Natalie Appleton)
Oft has it been my lot to mark A proud, conceited, talking spark. (Quote by - James Merrick)
If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered. (Quote by - Stanley Kubrick)
The time has come, the Walrus said, "To talk of many things: Of shoes--and ships--and sealing-wax-- Of cabbages--and kings-- And why the sea is boiling hot-- And whether pigs have wings. (Quote by - Lewis Carroll)
I cannot sing, dance or act; what else would I be but a talk show host. (Quote by - David Letterman)
You couldn't have placed that any better - talk about a needle in a haystack. (Quote by - Ian Botham)
I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk. (Quote by - Anthony Robbins)
When we talk about safety and security of the American people, politics falls aside pretty quickly (Quote by - Bill Frist)
I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension. (Quote by - Norman Mailer)
Talk low, talk slow and don't say too much. (Quote by - John Wayne)
Most of my relationships were people in the business. Having said that, me and Tim don't really talk that much about work. He comes into my bit of the house every so often to vent but we don't really have very high, cultured conversations. (Quote by - Helena Bonham Carter)
A civil guest will no more talk all, than eat all the feast (Quote by - George Herbert)
It was easily the happiest day of my football life and yet people still want to ask me about the suit. When they talk about the day, it's not 'didn't you do well?', it's 'what was that you were wearing?! (Quote by - Paul Jewell)
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people (Quote by - Lucille Harper)
Walking your talk is a great way to motivate yourself. No one likes to live a lie. Be honest with yourself, and you will find the motivation to do what you advise others to do. (Quote by - Vince Poscente)
Well! Some people talk of morality, and some of religion, but give me a snug little property (Quote by - Maria Edgeworth)
Curiosity is but vanity. Oftenest one wishes to know but to talk of it. Otherwise one would not go to sea if he were never to say anything about it, and for the sole pleasure of seeing, without hope of ever communicating what he has seen.(Quote by - Blaise Pascal)
For all the talk about how a few of their players had improved, all I can see is the same stuff (Quote by - Shane Warne)
My tongue within my lips I rein: For who talks much must talk in vain. (Quote by - John Gay)
Where nature's end of language is declined, And men talk only to conceal the mind (Quote by - Edward Young)
She is impressed that she can talk to him about so many different things. She is happy but I do not say more. (Quote by - Gabby Irimia)
Stop not, unthinking, every friend you meet To spin your wordy fabric in the street; While you are emptying your colloquial pack, The fiend Lumbago jumps upon his back. (Quote by - Oliver Wendell Holmes)
He who talks much cannot always talk well. (Quote by - Carlo Goldoni)
It is vain to talk of the interest of the community, without understanding what is the interest of the individual. (Quote by - Jeremy Bentham)
In the dime stores and bus stations, people talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, draw conclusions on the wall. (Quote by - Bob Dylan)
Whenever I talk about beating Steve Davis in that final I still feel the excitement of potting that final ball. (Quote by - Dennis Taylor)
Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes. (Quote by - Gilbert Keith Chesterton)
It is hard to look back and talk about a set of disjointed experiences as though they were part of one smooth progression. (Quote by - Steve Guttenberg)
They never taste who always drink; They always talk who never think. (Quote by - Matthew Prior)
Words learn'd by rote a parrot may rehearse, But talking is not always to converse, Not more distinct from harmony divine The constant creaking of a country sign. (Quote by - William Cowper)
I am always fascinated when people talk about 'the forging of a nation'. Most nations are forgeries, perpetrated in the last century or so. (Quote by - Neal Ascherson)
It is a little remarkable, that - though disinclined to talk overmuch of myself and my affairs at the fireside, and to my personal friends - an autobiographical impulse should twice in my life have taken possession of me, in addressing the public. (Quote by - Nathaniel Hawthorne)
Don't talk about what you have done or what you are going to do. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)
Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly. (Quote by - Plutarch)
And Lineker scored the equaliser thirteen minutes before the end - Talk about a last-minute goal! (Quote by - Simon Mayo)
I want to be a poet. I don't want to talk about genies in bottles anymore. (Quote by - Christina Aguilera)
People talk about escapism as though it's something nasty but escapism is wonderful in my opinion. (Quote by - Margaret Forster)
While the right to talk may be the beginning of freedom, the necessity of listening is what makes the right important (Quote by - Walter J Lippmann)
My husband does not like me to give interviews because I say too much. No talk, no trouble. (Quote by - Imelda Marcos)
People are talking about me more than they talk about Eastenders (Quote by - Thierry Henry)
If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible (Quote by - James McNeil Whistler)
It's been non-stop since winning the show.I've done eight shows a week and made an album... there's even talk of a Lee Mead calendar. (Quote by - Lee Mead)
She's democratic enough to talk down to anyone. (Quote by - Austin Mitchell)
I meet fathers who talk about the issues of child care, some of them are going to parenting classes. But I believe we need this fathers' revolution (Quote by - Gordon Brown)
I don't know if I believe in love at first sight, but of course I believe in two people having chemistry right away. A girl should be really easy to talk to. When I lose track of time because we've been talking, I think that's really fun. (Quote by - Zac Efron)
The minute you try to talk business with him he takes the attitude that he is a gentleman and a scholar, and the moment you try to approach him on the level of his moral integrity he starts to talk business. (Quote by - Raymond Chandler)
People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail. (Quote by - Oliver Wendell Holmes Junior)
I talk of cheese, you of chalk (Quote by - Gerard Didier Erasmus)
Gamesmanship, banter, trash talk, sledging... whatever you call it, has been part of cricket for a long time. We will play hard to win and anybody who plays us will be tested both physically and mentally. If they aren't up to it, we'll win easily. (Quote by - Shane Warne)
But still his tongue ran on, the less Of weight it bore, with greater ease. (Quote by - Samuel Butler (1))
A bad liver is to a Frenchman what a nervous breakdown is to an American. Everyone has had one and everyone wants to talk about it. (Quote by - Art Buchwald)
He who confers a favour should at once forget it, if he is not to show a sordid ungenerous spirit. To remind a man of a kindness conferred and to talk of it, is little different from reproach. (Quote by - Demosthenes)
I'm going to give a workshop on keeping a weblog, talk about how to set it up and all that stuff. It should be fun (Quote by - Will Wheaton)
Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market. (Quote by - Robert Frost)
The sign said This door to remain closed at all times Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't that defeat the purpose of a door? - Danny McCrossan - Northern Irish Comedian. (Quote by - Danny McCrossan)
I just sit ther and do what I vowed I would never do - talk back to the television. (Quote by - George Bush)
Before there was any talk of a movie, people would sometimes ask me what actors I would imagine playing these characters. And the only thing I could ever say is: I have such a clear idea of these characters that they'd have to play themselves. (Quote by - Michael Cunningham)
With vollies of eternal babble. (Quote by - Samuel Butler (1)
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If you talk to me you will probably hear about my roots and history and the past. (Quote by - Elian Gonzalez)
I know the world is filled with troubles and many injustices. But reality is as beautiful as it is ugly. I think it is just as important to sing about beautiful mornings as it is to talk about slums. I just couldn't write anything without hope in it. (Quote by - Oscar Hammerstein II)
Many interviewers when they come to talk to me, think they're being progressive by not mentioning in their stories any longer that I'm black. I tell them, 'Don't stop now. If I shot somebody you'd mention it.' (Quote by - Colin Powell)
Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them. (Quote by - Dion Boucicault)
Money doesn't talk, it swears. (Quote by - Bob Dylan)
I talk to God but the sky is empty (Quote by - Sylvia Plath)
The less you talk, the more you're listened to. (Quote by - Abigail Van Buren)
Many people would be more truthful were it not for their uncontrollable desire to talk. (Quote by - Edgar Watson Howe)
You've beaten them once. Now go out and bloody beat them again. (Quote by - Alf Ramsey)
Architects themselves tend to shy away from the word, preferring instead to talk about the manipulation of space. (Quote by - Alain De Botton)
Don't like small talk...LOVE rainy days (Quote by - Melissa Gilbert)
I am very adamant about keeping my private life private. I don't like to talk about my family (Quote by - Luis Miguel)
This is not the age of pamphleteers. It is the age of the engineers. The spark-gap is mightier than the pen. Democracy will not be salvaged by men who talk fluently, debate forcefully and quote aptly. (Quote by - Lancelot Hogben)
You do what you have to do in life, when you form a philosophy that you can't talk yourself out of. (Quote by - Constantine Karamanlis)
People often think you just turn up, talk to the camera for a few minutes and go - but there's more to it than that! (Quote by - Ali O'sullivan)
The guilty think all talk is of themselves. (Quote by - Geoffrey Chaucer)
The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most. (Quote by - Dale Carnegie)
Statesman only talk of fate when they have blundered (Quote by - Benito Mussolini)
I wish I was Sienna Miller. When I talk to her, I hope a bit of her party personality will rub off on me, but it never does. (Quote by - Keira Knightley)
Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk. (Quote by - Doug Larson)
In general those who nothing have to say Contrive to spend the longest time in doing it. (Quote by - James Russell Lowell)
I don't even like to talk about it. I hated being a number and not merely because I was a very small one. (Quote by - George Grosz)
