Talk Quotes

I want a leader that sets out a path. I want one that doesn't just talk about cuts, but talks about the shining city on the hill. We're only going to get out of this problem if we grow this economy.

If I was going onstage, of course I would talk about it. How could I not?

If a June night could talk, it would probably boast it invented romance.

Sometimes I look back and think, 'Good. I'd love to go in and bang out a good episode of 'Talk Soup' today.'

It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.

I'm always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians.

Why do people talk of the horrors of old age? It's great. I feel like a fine old car with the parts gradually wearing out, but I'm not complaining,... Those who find growing old terrible are people who haven't done what they wanted with their lives.

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.

I had a friend who worked at a hospice, and he said people in their final moments don't discuss their successes, awards or what books they wrote or what they accomplished. They only talk about their loves and their regrets, and I think that's very telling.

But we're not supposed to talk anything besides football.

Sex is a big question mark. It is something people will talk about forever.

You know, I think whatever a comic talks about onstage is all they talk about offstage.

Do we have to talk in order to agree or agree in order to talk?

My sexuality is something I'm completely comfortable with and open about. There's a lot of prejudice toward us but the more people talk about it, the less of a big deal it will be. And that will be better for everyone.

My own experience is use the tools that are out there. Use the digital world. But never lose sight of the need to reach out and talk to other people who don't share your view. Listen to them and see if you can find a way to compromise.

When you see Major League Baseball putting academies in other countries, obviously that throws up a red flag. You wonder why they ain't going up in our neighborhood. Bottom line, what I see, I talk about... I see it over and over. If anybody can show me I'm wrong, then show me.

There is a time to be quiet and a time to talk.

I went to a couple Academy Awards parties and I was definitely like, 'Whoa, no one will talk to me.'

The homosexual community wants me to be gay. The heterosexual community wants me to be straight. Every writer thinks, I'm the journalist who's going to make him talk. I pray for them. I pray that they get a life and stop living mine!

We're developing things, but I don't know what we'll go with for the show, so I don't like to talk about it.

I don't think it makes any sense to try to get anyone to not talk.

I do love to eavesdrop. It's inspirational, not only for subject matter but for actual dialogue, the way people talk.

I could talk about him all day. He's one of the most wonderful things that ever happened to me.

I do a show. It comes on late at night on TV. And if that means I'm a late-night talk show host, then I guess I am, but in every other regard I resign my commission, I don't care for it.

When we talk about the minimum wage, we have to ask ourselves what it is that we owe both our workers and employers. I think clearly we owe them fairness.

When you talk about rap you have to understand that rap is part of the Hip-Hop culture.

I've bought pretty much every book ever written about the Alamo, and I talk to my friends that I've made over the past 15, 20 years. It's just a constant learning and fascinating thing for me.

Although I wasn't able to get a visa for Vietnam, I was able to talk with swift boat veterans to get a feel for the time and place, and I visited a tropical prison in the Philippines to get a sense of what a Vietnamese prison might have been like.

You travel across the country, you visit departments, you give talks, you talk about the work at your laboratory - what's going on, what the opportunities are there - you talk about your own research.

I want to be able to talk about changing the world through your actions and being a generation that is aware and a force to be reckoned with - and at the same time be dancing.