Talking Quotes

I'm a Southerner - I never take satisfaction in touching a nerve. I guess if I'm forced to find a good side, I'm glad that people are talking about an issue that hasn't really been discussed all that much. I'm glad that people are talking about it from the black perspective and the white perspective.

Less really is more. It's a tendency of beginning writers to want to prove what they're talking about by going too far with description. I think you've got to keep it short, crisp and clean.

Whenever I've encountered a Christian saying, 'Why don't you stop talking like that so I can hear you?' I think, 'Well you're the one putting the earmuffs on, but I wish you could hear me because I like you.'

I've been in on the beginning, the rise, peak, collapse and end of the talking picture.

I'm not much for sitting around and thinking about the past or talking about the past. What does that accomplish? If I can give young people something to think about, like the future, that's a better use of my time.

The argument we always used to use was that keeping records in the catalog was good for people that were coming new to the music, but I think that was talking over a ten year or fifteen year time span.

Don't have sex man. It leads to kissing and pretty soon you have to start talking to them.

I believe honesty comes across in music because for people that music isn't just something to dance to. For people for whom music is something that they feel, they understand what I'm talking about.

When you're a child you're able to assimilate so easily into any situation. You even start talking like the people you're around. I wasn't conscious that I was so good at that until I started to truly feel like an actor.

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

I think the idea of having the show divided into two parts was that Tom Tom Club opened for Talking Heads in Europe, and it was the best we'd ever had as an opening act.

I've never really been star struck. I was a little bit taken aback when I was doing a chat show recently and I was sat in the make-up chair chatting to a guy say next to me but I couldn't look round and see who it was, it was only when I got up I realised it had been Bryan Adams I'd been talking to!

When you've been raised in care, rap music isn't just about guns and sexism. They're talking about real things you can hang on to, problems of identity that you have sympathy with. It's not just about the music, with rap: when I was in care, it meant a whole lot more than that.

I walk around talking to myself in accents. Usually people look at me like I'm a complete fruit loop.

It was very hard to get any records, so the only source for us to really hear what was happening was listening to the Voice of America. We would be taping all the broadcast and then sharing the tapes and talking about it.

Understand who you are, so that you can be the same, whether you're talking to a homeless person or the president of the United States. You're the same person.

I don't have a lot to share with other men. My heart sinks when I get into a taxi and someone starts talking to me about football.

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

There are not enough people out talking about the President positively.

I don't know now if I'm funny. I just keep talking and hope that I hit something that's funny.

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.

I just get things done instead of talking about getting them done. I don't go out and party. I don't smoke, drink or do drugs and I'm not married, that leaves a lot of time for my work.

When you don't know what you're talking about, it's hard to know when you're finished.

My mother was a listener. I'm a talker. I'm very comfortable talking.

We want to obviously foster a relationship that we're a partner with states; that we all share the same goals of closing the achievement gap, just as the Congress does; and that we're practical and sophisticated enough to understand what they're talking about.

A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about.

I am in discussions with a label. We are talking about doing something.

I don't find the business easy. The moment you start talking about the business, you start sounding like someone in Spinal Tap.

We knew we were talking about spies. I knew he knew I knew. I was digging my own grave.

People have to start talking to know more about other cultures and to understand each other.