Talk Quotes

Don't write anything you can phone. Don't phone anything you can talk. Don't talk anything you can whisper. Don't whisper anything you can smile. Don't smile anything you can nod. Don't nod anything you can wink.

Of course, I'm not allowed to talk about the script, but I can say it is a really good story.

I have no desire to ever talk to Sean Penn.

I think it's because most of us talk one way and live another. There are a few people who truly, truly walk the talk.

Some of us may just, in one-on-one conversations with our family, with our friends, over the back fence with our neighbors, talk about the reality of our lives and realize that we're not alone, that we have a right to be physically safe and emotionally safe in our own homes.

If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?

I don't talk about who I'm dating because when you break up, you wind up reliving it in the media.

Shooting clay targets is a very cleansing experience. It's very relaxing. It takes a lot of concentration. It's also very social, since you're usually shooting with friends. You can talk and forget about almost anything else that's on your mind.

Anybody, providing he knows how to be amusing, has the right to talk about himself.

We need to be around our families not because we have so many shared experiences to talk about, but instead because they know precisely which subjects to avoid.

I am competitive and I feel bad when we lose. You can see it in me when we've lost. I'm in a bad way. I don't like to talk to anyone.

I'm not the kind of guy to talk about angels: I'm a very pragmatic kind of guy.

Every quarterback can throw a ball; every running back can run; every receiver is fast; but that mental toughness that you talk about translates into competitiveness.

The less food, the more time to talk, the more to talk about.

We didn't have a TV in the living room and all my friends thought we were kind of weird. When they'd come over, my mom wanted to talk to them about current events.

You can be a great reporter and not be such a great talk show host.

There's been a lot of talk of me being a one-man show but that's simply not the case. We win games when I score 40 points and we've won when I score 10.

To listen well is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well.

In Missouri, where I come from, we don't talk about what we do - we just do it. If we talk about it, it's seen as bragging.

Playing a prisoner of war trapped in Pakistan for three years was a novelty for me. We made sure that we didn't talk about India versus Pakistan but about the emotions of people on both sides and how terrorism affects us all.

People who think they know what they are talking about when they talk about baseball include the announcers and all of the sports press - no matter how much evidence you present them to the contrary they will continue to think that what they think is right.

I mean the only thing that is hopefully good about us is after the arguments we can actually still face each other the next day or the day after and talk about something else and sort of get over it.

When they talk about music getting in your blood, I understand exactly what they're talking about, because that is me.

Comfort rules. You want to be able to sit in a good chair comfortably for a few hours and be able to talk and enjoy a glass of wine. There's nothing worse than sitting in an uncomfortable chair.

Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. We can't talk about science, because our knowledge of it is limited and unofficial, and usually our fiction is dreadful.

I don't think there has been enough communication between the players and the tournaments. In one sense it's just as much the players' fault. Players talk between each other and in the locker room about things that can be improved and then when the time comes to talk and really do something about it they stop.

If there's anything unsettling to the stomach, it's watching actors on television talk about their personal lives.

The important thing to remember is that bugs don't actually talk.

I like to drive with my knees. Otherwise, how can I put on my lipstick and talk on the phone?

When I talk of hearing a poet's voice speaking, I always think of it as in the presence of the man.