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Talk Quotes

"George is a radio announcer, and when he walks under a bridge... you can't hear him talk."

Steven Wright, American Comedian

"I never have anything to talk about."

April Winchell, American Actress

"I've just come back from Mississippi and over there when you talk about the West Bank they think you mean Arkansas."

Patrick Buchanan, American Political Commentator

"The less you talk, the more you're listened to."

Abigail Van Buren, American Journalist

"I don't think I'm allowed to talk about that. It is definitely not me. The role has been cast."

Mary Todd Lincoln, American First Lady

"What I read is so distorted that I cannot believe that the person they are talking about is myself."

Bob Kane, American Artist

"Do not talk a little on many subjects, but much on a few."

Pythagoras, Greek Mathematician

"Those who talk don't know what is going on and those who know what is going on won't talk."

Larry Speakes, American Public Servant

"Of course, I'm not allowed to talk about the script, but I can say it is a really good story."

Aaron Stanford, American Actor

"It's important to talk about loving yourself and looking at your tragedies and the stuff that makes you grow."

Anne Heche, American Actress

"But on the extremist side I didn't get any rejections at all. Everyone agreed to talk to me."

Jon Ronson, Welsh Journalist

"I'll let the racket do the talking."

John McEnroe, American Athlete

"A good editor understands what you're talking and writing about and doesn't meddle too much."

Irwin Shaw, American Novelist

Talk, Talking, Writing

"I'm not sure we think it's a win to talk about what you're taking out."

Rick Wagoner, American Businessman

"I never talk to tabloids."

Robert Wagner, American Actor

"I don't think I'm easy to talk about. I've got a very irregular head. And I'm not anything that you think I am anyway."

Syd Barrett, English Musician

"I would talk in iambic pentameter if it were easier."

Howard Nemerov, American Poet

"They plan to ride into the White House on the Sweet Talk Express. Well, think again. Bush and Cheney are not compassionate conservatives. They are ruthless reactionaries."

Patricia Ireland, American Activist

"In my position you have to read when you want to write and to talk when you would like to read."

Catherine II, Russian Statesman

"Well, usually when you talk about a mandate, you're talking about an overwhelming win. I don't think by any measurement the 2004 election was an overwhelming win."

Lincoln Chafee, American Politician

"You talk to the real cops and they say ninety percent of it is paperwork."

Joe Mantegna, American Actor

"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

"Barry seems to be more flamboyant merely because he gets more interviews to talk about it."

Maurice Gibb, Australian Musician

"It's almost better most times to not talk in a scene. I think you can actually express a lot more without words."

Neve Campbell, Canadian Actress

"My arse contemplates those who talk behind my back."

Francis Picabia, French Artist

"I like to talk on TV about those things that aren't worth writing about."

Truman Capote, American Novelist

Talk, Worth, Writing

"You can be a great reporter and not be such a great talk show host."

Dan Abrams, American Journalist

"Our chief defect is that we are more given to talking about things than to doing them."

Jawaharlal Nehru, Indian Leader

"I wondered if I would talk about drug use. But I guess, why hide it?"

Elliott Smith, American Musician

"If you talk about preemption you better know things rather than think things."

Byron Dorgan, American Politician

"You can't talk of the dangers of snake poisoning and not mention snakes."

C. Everett Koop, American Public Servant

"A politician should have three hats. One for throwing into the ring, one for talking through, and one for pulling rabbits out of if elected."

Carl Sandburg, American Poet

Talk, Talking, Carl Sandberg

"I don't talk like House, or walk like him. I certainly don't think like him. I don't like to think for more than 15 minutes at a stretch actually; I am a fragile flower."

Hugh Laurie, British Comedian

"I don't talk about my salary."

Howard Stern, American Entertainer

"Tombstones don't talk back."

Leland Chapman, American Celebrity

"The storyboard department doesn't talk to the layout department, which doesn't talk to the writing department. They're all jealous of each other."

John Kricfalusi, Canadian Artist

"I talk too much."

Jamie Lee Curtis, American Actress

"If I can talk, I can sing."

John Raitt, American Actor

"I can't do talk shows, I don't do them, just because I get really nervous and fidgeting and shaky."

Devon Sawa, Canadian Actor

"I found you could raise your voice and talk out loud in the world."

John J. McCloy, American Lawyer

Talk, Voice, World

"I'll talk to myself out loud a lot."

Mira Sorvino, American Actress

"If you write something the White House doesn't like, they take you in and say, 'If you ever write something like you did today, nobody from the White House will ever talk to you again,'"

Ron Suskind, American Journalist

Talk, Today, Will

"You talk about what a director, he was smart. He said, Turn the camera on!"

Peter Falk, American Actor

"Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty."

Thomas Sowell, American Economist

"Two million dollars is only small when you're talking about Washington, D.C."

Geoff Davis, American Politician

Talk, Talking, Washington

"There have been many times when I've been asked to appear and I'd say to myself, what am I going to talk about? Early on, when I did interviews, I'd tell everyone, Don't ask me about dates. I don't even remember what I did yesterday."

Otis Blackwell, American Musician

Talk, Yesterday

"Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

"There are a million things I can think of that I would I want to do. Reporting like you, would be one. A talk show host maybe, also. I want to do a lot."

Justin Guarini, American Musician

"I'd like to get out of here without having to talk to the producer."

Judith Rossner, American Novelist

"I never let my subject get in the way of what I want to talk about."

Mark Victor Hansen, American Businessman

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