Talk Quotes

Sports gives us the grandest opportunity of all to talk about reaching down and helping up or getting on somebody else's shoulders.

~ Jerry Jones

Talk radio has almost ruined the sports fan.

~ Phil Simms

The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.

~ Carl Sandburg

People talk about computer programmers as if computers are our whole lives. That's simply not true.

~ Ellen Ullman

For computer communications, computers talk in little bursts. They're not continuous like speech.

~ Bob Kahn

I wanted to be famous. I wanted people to talk about me.

~ Haile Gebrselassie

David Levi is a teacher as well as a chef, and, like most teachers, he loves to talk.

~ Kate Christensen

Who's a boy gonna talk to if not his mother?

~ Donald E. Westlake

What are you gonna do, talk the alien to death?

~ James Cameron

All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.

~ Bob Dylan

Republican presidents talk about freedom. Democratic presidents talk about equality.

~ Timothy Noah

I use music as a medium to talk to people.

~ Sun Ra

I like when guests come over early and we chop veggies and talk and play music.

~ John Stamos

When you talk to a human in 2035, you'll be talking to someone that's a combination of biological and non-biological intelligence.

~ Ray Kurzweil

Europeans don't like to talk about intelligence, and they often pretend their countries don't spy.

~ David Ignatius

Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.

~ Jean De La Fontaine

The less food, the more time to talk, the more to talk about.

~ Damon Wayans

Religion is something we don't talk about, and it is used by uneducated people as a weapon to divide us as opposed to connect with each other.

~ Zach Anner

Civil disobedience is not accepted by religion and the state does not accept it and there are many verses in the Holy Book that talk of following the ruler.

~ Pope Shenouda Iii

It's very difficult to talk about religion in Iran because religion has gotten so mixed up with politics.

~ Asghar Farhadi

Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

I also use women as a sex object; maybe I'm kinky. However, I like to talk to them as well.

~ Oliver Reed

Relationships are made of talk - and talk is for girls and women.

~ Deborah Tannen

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

The best thing about animals is that they don't talk much.

~ Thornton Wilder

At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.

~ W. Somerset Maugham

It's funny, because in 1970 I met the Beatles quite by a chance at a party. It was the Beethoven bicentenary, and I was then also playing the Beethoven Sonatas. And that's all they wanted to hear about - I wanted to talk about them, and all they wanted to talk about was Beethoven.

~ Daniel Barenboim

Never talk for half a minute without pausing and giving others a chance to join in.

~ Sydney Smith

China is the largest and most ancient of Asiatic countries, but it is not for us boastfully to talk of her right to a position of 'leadership' among those countries.

~ Chiang Kai-Shek

I am not qualified to talk about the diet. Simply because I am not a dietician.

~ Mark Spitz

We don't talk about courage much in our everyday conversations, but I am comfortable with it now.

~ Victoria Pendleton

Courage is action, not talk.

~ Jeff Rich

On sensitive issues, talk isn't cheap - it takes real courage to pry open topics nailed shut.

~ Marvin Olasky

It's a positive thing to talk about terrible things and make people laugh about them.

~ Louis C. K.

Talking is always positive. That's why I talk too much.

~ Louis C. K.

I was totally surprised by the spread of the legalization of same-sex marriage. In just my lifetime we have gone from a taboo to even talk about homosexuality, to the sanction by governments of homosexual marriage. Few such large social considerations have ever before been turned over in such a short time.

~ John Naisbitt

Now where people are - at least the people I talk to - they are focused on issues of trust. Accountability also comes up, to make sure that this doesn't happen again.

~ William P. Leahy

Whenever I talk about the Bahamas and its beauty, I could never stop talking about my God, who has given us all of this beauty.

~ Myles Munroe

I grew up in a family where we weren't allowed to talk about beauty or to put any emphasis on physical appearance.

~ Pam Grier

When we talk to God, we're praying. When God talks to us, we're schizophrenic.

~ Jane Wagner