Quotes with talking

Quotes 81 till 100 of 209.

  • Bernard Sahlins If you're talking down to the audience, no matter how brutish it is, they know it and they hate you for it.
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  • Benjamin Booker In 2012, I started writing songs - not for the world to hear, but for certain people I needed to talk to. My family, we were not big communicators. I had a hard time talking to people in general.
    Benjamin Booker
    American singer, songwriter and guitarist (1989 - )
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  • Erica Jong In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving - instead of actually getting up and leaving.
    Erica Jong
    American author (1942 - )
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  • T. S. Eliot In the room the women come and go talking of Michelangelo.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • Bill Gates Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • Kin Hubbard It ain't a bad plan to keep still occasionally even when you know what you're talking about.
    Kin Hubbard
    American cartoonist, humorist, and journalist (1868 - 1930)
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  • Jacob Bronowski It doesn't matter whether you're talking about bombs or the intelligence quotients of one race as against another if a man is a scientist, like me, he'll always say ''Publish and be damned.''
    Jacob Bronowski
    British Scientist, Author (1908 - 1974)
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  • W. H. Auden It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Cary Fowler It is impossible to talk about slowing climate change without talking about reducing CO2 emissions. Equally, it is impossible to talk about adapting to climate change without considering how we will feed ourselves. And it is out of the question that we can adapt agriculture without conserving crop diversity.
    Cary Fowler
    American agriculturalist and businessman (1949 - )
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  • Bob Geldof It went beyond idealism and that ridiculous term activism, which basically means talking about something but doing nothing.... We made giving exciting.
    Bob Geldof
    Irish singer-songwriter, author, political activist (1951 - )
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  • Barry Levinson It's finding those nonsensical pieces of conversation that we all do all the time. We do all the time. When we're talking on the telephone, there are arguments with people who agree when they both think that they disagree.
    Barry Levinson
    American filmmaker, screenwriter, and actor (1942 - )
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  • Bob Newhart It's getting harder and harder to differentiate between schizophrenics and people talking on a cell phone. It still brings me up short to walk by somebody who appears to be talking to themselves.
    Bob Newhart
    American stand-up comedian and actor (1929 - )
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  • Annie Leibovitz It's hard to watch something go on and be talking at the same time.
    Annie Leibovitz
    American portrait photographer (1949 - )
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  • Zora Neale Hurston It's no use of talking unless people understand what you say.
    Zora Neale Hurston
    American novelist, short story writer, folklorist and anthropologist (1891 - 1960)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner.
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    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Bruce Springsteen Last night me and Kate we laid in bed talking about getting out,
    Packing up our bags, maybe heading south.
    I'm thirty-five, we got a boy of our own now.
    Last night I sat him up behind the wheel and said, Son, take a good look around,
    This is your hometown.
    Born In The U.S.A. (1984) My Hometown
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Barney Frank Let us not say that we will decide on a political basis at the national level that no State is competent to regulate the practice of medicine in that State if they decide to allow a doctor to prescribe marijuana, because that is what we are talking about.
    Barney Frank
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Ann Coulter Liberals are stalwart defenders of civil liberties - provided we're only talking about criminals.
    Ann Coulter
    American far-right media pundit and author (1961 - )
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  • Thomas Carlyle Little other than a red tape Talking-machine, and unhappy Bag of Parliamentary Eloquence.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld Lovers never get tired of each other because they are forever talking about themselves.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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