Talk Quotes

When they talk to me, people say, 'I didn't expect you to be how you are.'

I wanted to talk about my life. There is so much. I was 18 when I made the record, and I had a lot to say.

Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well.

My mother was the dearest, sweetest angel. She didn't talk; she sang. She was a tower of strength.

At the time I perceived most religious men, particularly the pastors with all their talk about love, faith and relationship, as effeminate.

Now, Marlon and I - for some reason, even today - even today, we can't say two words to each other. We really can't talk to each other. You know, I say to him - Marlon can't talk. I mean, he'd talk to you. But he can't talk.

People don't talk to me on airplanes.

Whoever wants me to talk, I'll come over and tell them about the necessity of preserving the Everglades.

People go to restaurants for so many different reasons. To court a girl, to make some deal. Maybe to talk to some lawyer about how to get an alimony settlement better than they got last week.

Why did God give me two ears and one mouth? So that I will hear more and talk less.

You talk about what a director, he was smart. He said, Turn the camera on!

Leadership can't be fabricated. If it is fabricated and rehearsed, you can't fool the guys in the locker room. So when you talk about leadership, it comes with performance. Leadership comes with consistency.

True there has been more talk of peace since 1945 than, I should think, at any other time in history. At least we hear more and read more about it because man's words, for good or ill, can now so easily reach the millions.

Trying to get the talk show, looking back on it, we had to beg a lot of station managers to pick up the show because people thought no one would watch it because I'm openly gay.

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 treat.

One of the problems that we face through the media attention that these artists receive is that there has been an awful lot of talk about opera and classical music being elite and being for an elitist group.

If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.

People aren't going to talk about it except me and that is communication and the visits I have personally had in our meetings with our store managers saying if you do these things you will be terminated, period.

The fact that people will pay you to talk to people and travel to interesting places and write about what intrigues you, I am just amazed by that.

I think it was when I realised I could talk anybody into doing just about anything I wanted them to.

Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.

I'm a reporter; you can't subpoena people to talk to you. If you write to them and try to call them on the phone and they don't answer or so forth, then take them unawares.

We can't make any statements here. We can't talk about the internal politics of Paraguay.

I will talk and act, not on my knees, but with prudence.

We're going to hear a lot of spirited discussion about the President's plan in the next few days and weeks and that's fine as long as everyone comes ready to talk and not just snipe, complain and argue.

I'd love to talk to Joaquin Phoenix because he's a very private guy. Also, he's creating a new kind of sexy leading man. To me, his face is new and might be legendary someday.

I talk too much.

My dad says I could sing before I could talk, if that's possible. I was always humming and things like that.

Today the people from my State of Tennessee would listen to this debate, or even talk about a reference to God on our money or in the Halls of Congress or in our Pledge and say, please, let common sense and logic win the day and prevail versus legal mumbo jumbo.

They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be a moral bond first. All a man can betray is his conscience.