Quotes with shop-talk

Quotes 321 till 340 of 460.

  • Burt Rutan The photographs of space taken by our astronauts have been published all over the place. But the eye is a much more dynamic mechanism than any camera or pictures. It's a more exciting view in person than looking at the photographs. Of course, I personally am sick and tired of hearing people talk like that: I want to see it myself!
    Burt Rutan
    American aerospace engineer and entrepreneur (1943 - )
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  • George Santayana The primary use of conversation is to satisfy the impulse to talk.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Dale Carnegie The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.
    Dale Carnegie
    American writer and lecturer (1888 - 1955)
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  • Boris Kodjoe The Southern Baptist Church is a specific culture in itself. So, I had to study, talk to people, watch tape and go to performances to see how Gospel artists move compared to secular artists.
    Boris Kodjoe
    Austrian-American actor, producer (1973 - )
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  • Harold Clurman The stage is life, music, beautiful girls, legs, breasts, not talk or intellectualism or dried-up academics.
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  • Arthur Young The tendency of philosophers who know nothing of machinery is to talk of man as a mere mechanism, intending by this to imply that he is without purpose. This shows a lack of understanding of machines as well as of man.
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  • Benjamin Clementine The thing is: I was quite slow when I was younger. I might have been smart - I don't know - but I was slow talking to people. And as you can see, I don't talk very loud.
    Benjamin Clementine
    British artist, poet, vocalist, composer, and musician (1988 - )
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  • Billy Graham The time has come for all evangelists to practice full financial disclosure. The world is watching how we walk and how we talk. We must have the highest standards of morality, ethics and integrity if we are to continue to have influence.
    Billy Graham
    American Evangelist (1918 - 2018)
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  • William Howard Taft The trouble with me is that I like to talk too much.
    William Howard Taft
    American politician, judge and President of the United States (1857 - 1930)
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  • David Herbert Lawrence The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters - not to talk in armies and nations and numbers - but to track it home.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Ang Lee The way I go about a lovemaking scene is that we will talk about it during the rehearsing time.
    Ang Lee
    Taiwanese film director, producer, and screenwriter (1954 - )
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  • Alexander Pope The wonder we often express at our neighbours keeping dull company, would lessen if we reflected that most people seek companions less to be talked to, than to talk.
    Thoughts (1754)
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • William Hazlitt There are many who talk on from ignorance rather than from knowledge, and who find the former an inexhaustible fund of conversation.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Anna Sewell There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to man and beast, it is all a sham.
    Anna Sewell
    English novelist (1820 - 1878)
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich There seems to be no stopping drug frenzy once it takes hold of a nation. What starts with an innocuous HUGS, NOT DRUGS bumper sticker soon leads to wild talk of shooting dealers and making urine tests a condition for employment - anywhere.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Mother Teresa There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.
    Mother Teresa
    Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary (1910 - 1997)
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  • Bonnie Hunt There were seven kids in our family. My mom had seven kids in 10 years. So you had to learn how to talk and think fast if you wanted to be heard.
    Bonnie Hunt
    American actress, comedian, director and producer (1961 - )
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  • Bobby Ghosh There's much talk about how there can't be democracy in a region that has problems of illiteracy and poverty. But I bring a different idea to the table when I say, 'Guys, I come from India. I'm more optimistic coming from where I'm coming.'
    Bobby Ghosh
    Indian-born American journalist and commentator
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  • Cass Elliot There's so much talk about the drug generation and songs about drugs. That's stupid. They aren't songs about drugs; they're about life.
    Cass Elliot
    American singer and actress (1941 - 1974)
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  • Bobby Fischer They are subhuman. They are the scum of the Earth. When you talk about Jews, you're scraping the bottom of the barrel of humanity.
    Radio Interview, October 16 1999 [22]
    Bobby Fischer
    American chess grandmaster (1943 - 2008)
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