Quotes with talking

  • When you read God's Word, you must constantly be saying to yourself, ''It is talking to me, and about me.''
  • You cannot talk about race without talking about privilege. And when people start talking about privilege, they get paralyzed by shame.
  • Lots of people act well, but few people talk well. This shows that talking is the more difficult of the two.
  • The General Strike has taught the working class more in four days than years of talking could have done.
  • My life isn't necessarily more important than anyone else's: I'm just better in talking about it.
  • So what we're talking about here is human rights. The right to live like a human. The right to live, period. And what we're facing in Africa is an unprecedented threat to human dignity and equality.
  • Session musicians kind of respected me because what I was talking about made sense. That all came from an education. Believe me, education does you more good. Maybe that's the reason I've been around so long.
  • One of the most surreal moments in this election was after the third debate, when I heard a talking head say, Al Gore won on substance, on the issues. But you have to give the victory to Bush because he seems presidential.
  • We are always talking about being together, and yet whatever we invent destroys the family, and makes us wild, touchless beasts feeding on technicolor prairies and rivers.
  • People were talking while I was playing, so I got up and left the stage. I've gotten to the point where I'm not really very patient with patrons rapping during the show. And the people were all nice and quiet when I cam back.
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  • Oscar Wilde Lots of people act well, but few people talk well. This shows that talking is the more difficult of the two.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Joseph Addison An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Bill Watterson Calvin: Sometimes when I'm talking, my words can't keep up with my thoughts. I wonder why we think faster than we speak. Hobbes: Probably so we can think twice.
    Bill Watterson
    American cartoonist (1958 - )
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  • Stephen Hawking Mankind's greatest achievements have come about by talking, and its greatest failures by not talking.
    British Telecom advertentie (1993)
    Stephen Hawking
    English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director (1942 - 2018)
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  • Bill Watterson Sometimes when I'm talking, my words can't keep up with my thoughts. I wonder why we think faster than we speak. Probably so we can think twice.
    Bill Watterson
    American cartoonist (1958 - )
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  • Alma Guillermoprieto Talking in one language and talking in another, I think inevitably, produce two different personalities, as far as I've seen in other people. I assume it does the same for me.
    Alma Guillermoprieto
    Mexican journalist
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  • Ben Johnson Talking is the disease of age.
    Ben Johnson
    English playwright and poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • Bill Watterson Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.
    Bill Watterson
    American cartoonist (1958 - )
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  • Charles Caleb Colton Were we as eloquent as angels we still would please people much more by listening rather than talking.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Betty Ford When I say we've had an ideal marriage, I'm not just talking about physical attraction, which I can imagine can wear pretty thin if it's all a couple has built on. We've had that and a whole lot more.
    Betty Ford
    American First Lady (1918 - 2011)
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  • Lyndon B. Johnson You aren't learning anything when you're talking.
    Lyndon B. Johnson
    American president (1908 - 1973)
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  • Miguel de Cervantes 'Tis ill talking of halters in the house of a man that was hanged.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • Everett M. Dirksen A billion here, a billion there, and soon you're talking about real money.
    Everett M. Dirksen
     
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  • Anne Enright A drinker does not exist. Whatever they say, it is just the drink talking.
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    Anne Enright
    Irish writer (1962 - )
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  • Cass Sunstein A few weeks ago, I was at the gym, talking to a friend about politics. Overhearing the conversation, a young man - maybe 25 years old - interrupted to say, 'Obama? He hasn't done a single thing!'
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Arthur Miller A good newspaper is a nation talking to itself.
    Arthur Miller
    American Dramatist (1915 - 2005)
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  • Arthur Miller A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.
    Arthur Miller
    American Dramatist (1915 - 2005)
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  • Arthur Miller A playwright is the litmus paper of the arts. He's got to be, because if he isn't working on the same wave length as the audience, no one would know what in hell he was talking about. He is a kind of psychic journalist, even when he's great.
    Arthur Miller
    American Dramatist (1915 - 2005)
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  • Malcolm de Chazal A women knows how to keep quiet when she is in the right, whereas a man, when he is in the right, will keep on talking.
    Malcolm de Chazal
    French writer (1902 - 1981)
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  • Carole Bouquet Acting is our job, not talking about it. In France, they know me like I belong to their family. I go somewhere and I feel like I'm sometimes the aunt, the grandmother, the mother, the sister. They all know me. But it's not supposed to be that way.
    Carole Bouquet
    French actress and fashion (1957 - )
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