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Talk Quotes

"I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department."

Nancy Reagan, American First Lady

"Talk is over-rated as a means of settling disputes."

Tom Cruise, American Actor

"It is possible to stand around with a cocktail in one's hand and talk with everyone, which means with no one."

Jerzy Kosinski, Polish Novelist

"One must steer, not talk."

Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Roman Statesman

"When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half."

Gracie Allen, American Comedian

"I think it was when I realised I could talk anybody into doing just about anything I wanted them to."

Jeremy London, American Actor

"Obviously we will talk about doing everything we can to make our sport as safe as possible."

Troy Vincent, American Athlete

"We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

"Our bodies are hanging along for the ride, but my brain is talking to your brain. And if we want to understand who we are and how we feel and perceive, we really understand what brains are."

Jeff Hawkins, American Inventor

Talk, Talking, Want

"I'd rather you didn't talk, but it's up to you."

Graham Kennedy, Australian Entertainer

"You know, I think whatever a comic talks about onstage is all they talk about offstage."

Sarah Silverman, American Comedian

"Tennis lets you talk while you're playing."

Jane Kaczmarek, American Actress

"The trouble with me is that I like to talk too much."

William Howard Taft, American President

"The only way I would go back to hosting would be if it were something entirely new. It would prevent me from wanting to host a standard-fare kind of talk show."

Garry Shandling, American Comedian

"I created the characters from what I read in the script. I decided how I should talk, accent, no accent, my own voice, or a created voice. Then, I visualize what I should look like."

Ruth Buzzi, American Actress

"They talk about conscription as a democratic institution. Yes; so is a cemetary."

Meyer London, American Politician

"Endless motorbike talk can and does bore me."

Barry Sheene, British Celebrity

"Talk radio doesn't need to be political."

Jim Sullivan, English Musician

"When you feel like you've had a good show, you go backstage and you talk to yourself about it, and if you have a bad show you talk to yourself about it."

Tracy Chapman, American Musician

"I don't sit well. I like to move around as I talk."

Garry Marshall, American Actor

"If you can't protect yourself with talk, you won't be alive to protect yourself with guns."

Arthur Boyd, Australian Artist

"I'm always happy when I'm left alone, but if somebody comes and is nice, then we talk."

Maximilian Schell, Swiss Actor

"I'm guarded; I don't talk much."

David Byrne, Scottish Musician

"But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who talk too much."

John Dryden, English Poet

"The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself."

Gavin Rossdale, British Musician

"Be interesting, be enthusiastic... and don't talk too much."

Norman Vincent Peale, American Clergyman

"Recently I've been participating in radio and television talk programs doing broadcasts and conferences, and shooting my mouth off and really going to town."

Peter Maxwell Davies, English Composer

Talk, Television

"Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it."

Dan Quayle, American Vice President

"Isn't it strange that we talk least about the things we think about most?"

Charles Lindbergh, American Aviator

"I go to my favourite tournament, I talk about my favourite sport and it's just a great month of parading."

Boris Becker, German Athlete

"If you want to talk to me, you'll have to put out that cigarette."

Jimmy Piersall, American Athlete

"We are talking about predictable recurring flooding."

Robert A. Brady, American Politician

"Don't appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood."

Moliere, French Playwright

"They talk most who have the least to say."

Matthew Prior, English Poet

"One of the things that I've come to understand is that as I talk a lot about Picard, what I find is that I'm talking about myself."

Patrick Stewart, English Actor

"I am told that I talk in shorthand and then smudge it."

J. R. R. Tolkien, English Novelist

"Michael and I talk at least every two weeks. He understands why I've done the things I have."

LaToya Jackson, American Musician

"I mean normally you have your agent call the other agent and all the agents talk and then finally you get a phone call and you hear some misrepresentation of what someone else had to say."

Radha Mitchell, Australian Actress

"In the theater, characters have to cut the umbilical cord from the writer and talk in their own voices."

Irwin Shaw, American Novelist

Talk, Theater, Writer

"Why don't you talk, and go straight, and let all be well?"

Black Kettle, American Leader

"Come, let us have some tea and continue to talk about happy things."

Chaim Potok, American Author

"We're developing things, but I don't know what we'll go with for the show, so I don't like to talk about it."

Marc Jacobs, American Designer

"The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it's usually lousy."

Dwight D. Eisenhower, American President

"Never explain what you do. It speaks for itself. You only muddle it by talking about it."

Shel Silverstein, American Poet

"If a lion could talk, we could not understand him."

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian Philosopher

"I am happy at Leeds and I want to stay. There has been talk that Leeds might sell some players, but all the players believe we can win some silverware next season and it is important that we are all kept together."

Robbie Keane, Irish Athlete

"It's hard to talk about yourself."

Sugar Ray Leonard, American Athlete

"Don't talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave."

Wilson Mizner, American Dramatist

"I write a good amount. I've been gathering up a backlog of stuff and maybe I'll do something with it someday, but I don't want to talk about it just yet because that would jinx it."

Macaulay Culkin, American Actor

"I always try to think before I talk."

Margaret Chase Smith, American Politician

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