Talking Quotes and Sayings
Quotes about Talking

Please enjoy these Talking Quotes from the wise, the romantic, and the famous of the past and present.

Recovery begins with embracing our pain
and taking the risk to share it with others.
We do this by joining a group
and talking about our pain.
- John Bradshaw

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If the person you are talking to doesn't appear to be listening, be patient.
It may simply be that he has a small piece of fluff in his ear.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)

No matter how calmly you try to referee,
parenting will eventually produce bizarre behavior,
and I'm not talking about the kids.
Their behavior is always normal.
- Bill Cosby

Nothing I say can explain to you Divine Love
Yet all of creation cannot seem to stop talking about it.
- Rumi

It was impossible to get a conversation going,
everybody was talking too much.
- Yogi Berra

In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue.
If we have enough friends, we may go on for years,
intending to leave, talking about leaving -
instead of actually getting up and leaving.
- Erica Jong

I'll let the racket do the talking.
- John McEnroe

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A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're
talking about real money.
- Everett Dirksen

The politicians were talking themselves red,
white and blue in the face.
- Clare Boothe Luce

Citizen Kane is perhaps the one American talking picture
that seems as fresh now as the day it opened.
It may seem even fresher.
- Pauline Kael

Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.
- Plato

I'll never stop dreaming that one day we can be a real family,
together, all of us laughing and talking,
loving and understanding, not looking at the past but only to the future.
- LaToya Jackson

When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry,
you are talking about every person on earth.
- Alex Haley

The only think I like better than talking about Food is eating.
- John Walters

When you read God's Word, you must
constantly be saying to yourself,
"It is talking to me, and about me."
- Soren Kierkegaard

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.
- Jim Fowler

Thirty was so strange for me.
I've really had to come to terms with the fact that
I am now a walking and talking adult.
- C. S. Lewis

Just because I'm talking about something that might
have been a sad or painful situation doesn't mean that
I'm sad or tortured 24 hours a day any more than anybody else is.
- Lucinda Williams

If I were to name my favorite pastime,
I'd have to say talking about myself.
I love it and I think most other people do too.
We need, people like us, more listeners and less talkers.
- Hedy Lamarr

I've done seven shows at the Palladium -
long running shows I'm talking about.
- Norman Wisdom

There's probably a way to use that great content and
to live under the radar now and then in order to reach a new audience.
That's the thinking I'm talking about.
- John Tesh

Planning to write is not writing.
Outlining, researching, talking to people about what you're doing,
none of that is writing.
Writing is writing.
- E. L. Doctorow

You don't see artists sitting around a lot,
talking about ideology.
They find out what they believe, and what they're doing,
by doing it.
- Peter Coyote

I'm not much for talking.
You know what I do.
I put guys in body bags when I'm right.
- Mike Tyson

You happen to be talking to an agnostic.
You know what an agnostic is? A cowardly atheist.
- Studs Terkel

My faith has been the driving thing of my life.
I think it is important that people who are perceived
as liberals not be afraid of talking about moral and community values.
- Marian Wright Edelman

Most people are really cool and I really don't mind
talking to them and answering their questions.
- Jimmy Carl Black

Whenever a critic mentions the salary of an actor,
I'm thinking, He's not talking about the movie.
- Harold Ramis

I pick up the New York Times or Time and it's talking
about the latest rock group,
which I'm sure is exciting to some people,
but it neglects a huge area of music.
- George Crumb

Yes, I loved MASH.
As we are sitting here now talking, it's playing somewhere in the world.
- Wayne Rogers

I had to dance topless for two years to make cash to
pay my bills and save some money.
But it was very enlightening, by the way.
I'm talking about light from the gutter.
- Susan Powter

It is not talking but walking that will bring us to heaven.
- Matthew Henry

It is a common delusion that you make things better by talking about them.
- Rose Macaulay

The General Strike has taught the working class more
in four days than years of talking could have done.
- Arthur Balfour

Talking is the disease of age.
- Ben Jonson

I think when people talk about ambition and talking to him,
it might have seemed that he wasn't ambitious.
- Alan Hansen

We had literary references, so we knew what we were talking about.
We could quote things, talk about books we'd read;
you can say something,
you don't have to explain it.
- Kevin Ayers

Talking about auditions, you never know what anyone else is thinking.
- Linda Lavin

The Pentagon today will not allow any of these people
who work for the Pentagon,
to talk to the media.
They have gagged them from talking to members of Congress.
- Curt Weldon

It's hard to watch something go on and be talking at the same time.
- Annie Leibovitz

Talking money is crass; so I'm not going to tell you what I made last year.
- Mel Torme

Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent
of an out of body experience.
- Bill Watterson

Never explain what you do.
It speaks for itself.
You only muddle it by talking about it.
- Shel Silverstein

I do finish reading a script and say,
Why are they making it and what are they talking about?
I like to try and be responsible in my choices in that way.
- Jennifer Connelly

I'm talking as a professional impresario.
I'm not judging anybody at all.
- Norman Granz

Talking up a storm about food is so easy for me,
it's second nature.
- Rocco DiSpirito

I really don't like talking about money.
All I can say is that the Good Lord must have wanted me to have it.
- Larry Bird

Stop talking.
Start walking.
- L. M. Heroux

The reason I dislike talking about the creative process
is that I do have a creative process that is a winner and it's a sure thing.
- Garth Hudson

Ultimately, I'm a mess.
I don't mean I'm a mess, like, emotionally -
I mean,
I think probably everybody's a mess.
David's a mess.
But.
I'm talking about...
I'm messy.
- Michael C. Hall

An actor's a guy who, if you ain't talking about him,
ain't listening.
- Marlon Brando

No, we're not looking at how to control criminals...
we're talking about banning the AK-47 and semi-automatic guns.
- Howard Metzenbaum

So when we start talking about the state and all those
that are so important and engaged and supportive around Florida,
we've gotten overwhelming support, and it's so exciting.
- Katherine Harris

Constantly talking isn't necessarily communicating.
- Charlie Kaufman

I love talking about myself.
- Lara Flynn Boyle

When I speak of natural drummers I'm talking about
guys that are playing with the talent God gave 'em.
- Gene Krupa

I learn all these things about the record talking about it after it's finished.
- Tracy Chapman

I can't say I'm happy to be talking about John Ritter and his passing.
In my 21 years of Entertainment Tonight,
this really was one of the most shocking and sad things to have happened.
- Mary Hart

But my sense in talking to people when I travel is
that the film business is not that dissimilar from
a lot of other businesses.
- Steven Soderbergh

I'm not trying to overcome my father or fill his shoes
or reach any kind of level that he did.
We're talking about a Mozart of rock music.
- Sean Lennon

Because, they're only thinking about one team when that game's over.
Before the game, they're talking about two football teams.
When the game's over, there's only one winner.
- Don Shula

Because I was extremely uncomfortable talking about
sex with him at all and particularly in such a graphic way,
I told him that I did not want to talk about these subjects.
- Anita Hill

Education should be one of our top funding priorities;
talking about it does not help the teachers and students
who desperately need promises fulfilled.
- Solomon Ortiz

The next major explosion is going to be when genetics
and computers come together.
I'm talking about an organic computer -
about biological substances that can function like a semiconductor.
- Alvin Toffler

Talking and eloquence are not the same:
to speak and to speak well are two things.
A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
- Heinrich Heine

Talking about a materialistic thing,
I get about 13 times more royalties from Europe than I do from America.
- Elliott Carter

We're talking to New Line.
They've got a couple projects they're interested in
me doing and I'm having meetings at MGM.
There's a lot of available projects.
- David R. Ellis

The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy;
nowadays it means rank subversion.
- Germaine Greer

Talking with other parents really gave me some lessons
that I try to hold on to now,
as a parent of two boys.
- Joe Lando

I mean, I don't mind promoting a movie,
or talking to the press if it's going to be used in some way.
- Brian De Palma

There is a probably natural and learned reticence with
myself talking about my early life.
- Pamela Stephenson

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