Quotes with shop-talk

Quotes 181 till 200 of 460.

  • Ben Bernanke Let me end my talk by abusing slightly my status as an official representative of the Federal Reserve System. I would like to say to Milton and Anna: Regarding the Great Depression. You're right, we did it. We're very sorry. But thanks to you, we won't do it again.
    Ben Bernanke
    American economist (1953 - )
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  • Boris Yeltsin Let's not talk about Communism. Communism was just an idea, just pie in the sky.
    Boris Yeltsin
    Russian politician (1931 - 2007)
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  • Oscar Wilde Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Oriana Fallaci Listening to someone talk isn't at all like listening to their words played over on a machine. What you hear when you have a face before you is never what you hear when you have before you a winding tape.
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  • John Marshall Listening well is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well.
    John Marshall
     
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  • William Hazlitt Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Brad Bird Look, I think if you talk down to a kid or aim specifically at a kid, most kids aren't gonna like it, really, because most kids can feel when you are being patronizing.
    Brad Bird
    American animator, director and screenwriter (1957 - )
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  • Carter Burwell Los Angeles is an industry town, and it has great facilities and personnel. The disadvantage is that everyone there seems to talk about the same subject matter.
    Carter Burwell
    American composer of film scores (1954 - )
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  • Benjamin Hoff Lots of people talk to animals... Not very many listen, though... That's the problem.
    Benjamin Hoff
    American author (1946 - )
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  • Candice Glover Love is one of my favorite things to talk about. Every song will be about losing it or finding it, seeing a guy and not knowing if you want to tell him how you feel yet. I guess I'm a hopeless romantic.
    Candice Glover
    American R&B singer and actress (1989 - )
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  • Edgar W. Howe Many people would be more truthful were it not for their uncontrollable desire to talk.
    Edgar W. Howe
    American journalist and writer (1853 - 1937)
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  • Adam Clarke Many talk much, and indeed well, of what Christ has done for us: but how little is spoken of what he is to do in us! and yet all that he has done for us is in reference to what he is to do in us.
    Adam Clarke
    British Methodist theologian (1760 - 1832)
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  • Jean Kerr Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.
    Jean Kerr
    American writer, playwright (1922 - 2003)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Dion Boucicault Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.
    Dion Boucicault
    Irish actor and dramatist (1822 - 1890)
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  • Bob Dylan Money doesn't talk, it swears.
    Obscenity, who really cares? Propaganda all is phony.
    Source: Bringing It All Back Home (1965)
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche Most of the time in married life is taken up by talk.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Carlos Santana Most people don't have that willingness to break bad habits. They have a lot of excuses and they talk like victims.
    Carlos Santana
    Mexican and American guitarist (1947 - )
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  • May Sarton Most people have to talk so they won't hear.
    May Sarton
    American poet, novelist, pen name of Eleanore Marie Sarton (1912 - 1995)
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