Quotes about Talking

"There is such a thing as tempting the gods. TalkIng too much, too soon and with too much self-satisfaction has always seemed to me a sure way to court disaster.... The forces of retribution are always listening. They never sleep."
-Meg Greenfield

"Conscience is thoroughly well bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it."
-Samuel Butler

"When you don't know what you're talking about, it's hard to know when you're finished."
-Tommy Smothers

"Whenever I hear people talking about 'liberal ideas,' I am always astounded that men should love to fool themselves with empty sounds. An idea should never be liberal; it must be vigorous, positive, and without loose ends so that it may fulfill its divine mission and be productive. The proper place for liberality is in the realm of the emotions."
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"I derive no pleasure from talking with a young woman simply because she has regular features."
-Henry David Thoreau

"Thinking is the talking of the soul with itself."
-Plato

"There is nothing so annoying as to have two people talking when you're busy interrupting."
-Mark Twain

"Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be. Become one yourself!"
-Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

"Half the time men think they are talking business, they are wasting time."
-Edgar Watson Howe

"Nixon is a shifty-eyed goddamn liar....He's one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides."
-Harry S Truman

"I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we're really talking about peace."
-George W. Bush

"They said he was abused, if spanking a kid is abusing then so be it. It was just a situation where talking didn't do any good, spending time didn't do any good."
-Richard Moody

"We were about to go oh-for-April. I remember the night before, Frank Robinson talking to Mark Williamson and I and saying Mark was going to start the game and pitch six and I was going to pitch after him for three and get this nonsense over with. And that's the way it went."
-Dave Schmidt

"Gary's an interesting guy. I like Gary, he's very different, ... All his antics and his talking, you have to admire him for backing it up. He has an uncanny ability to do it when it counts. Don't try to figure him out — he's like Dennis Rodman, without the tattoos."
-Ryk Neethling

"I'm very grateful to have this. It's funny. I was talking to friends who work in offices and they're complaining about all the stuff like candy and chocolate that trickles in during the holidays, and I just went to my doctor to get a fat supplement."
-James Nash

"One of my rigid goals is to keep each book under 300 pages because I think so much nonfiction is literally weighty that people don't get through these books, ... If people don't finish your book, then they don't know what you're talking about."
-Thomas Cahill

"The revenues from the commemorative coins were just incredible and it prompted the Mint to come up with the idea for the statehood quarters. We are talking minting into the billions of coins. While the Mint doesn't make money on all the coins they do make money on the proof sets and the silver dollar proof sets. But more importantly, it introduced people to the Mint's Web site."
-Rusty Goe

"Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true."
-Bertrand Russell

"They will also spend some time talking about the social issues."
-Daniel Park

"We acknowledge that it is going to be difficult for a jury to hear that Charles Boney was there, that Charles Boney sold a firearm, when you're talking about the murder of a young woman and her two children."
-Patrick Renn

"If we're talking about saving lives, we're really talking about preparing local communities."
-Harry Yeh

"If we're talking about chemical or biological agents coming in, or God forbid a nuclear device, the fact is that drug dealers have been smuggling drugs in for years. It shows us how porous the U.S. is to illegal substances coming in, and in large quantities."
-Brian Houghton

"I think any attention to the team is good. If they come to talk about Wayne and our coaching staff, maybe they'll leave talking about our team."
-Mike Johnson

"There's a lot of expectation. And there has also been a tremendous amount of skepticism. When you spend 15 years talking about something and producing report after report, but never actually turn dirt and launch rockets, then people naturally get skeptical."
-Rick Homans

"It's really easy to do if you have been talking about it a long time, ... Neal says 80 percent of writing a book is research and the other 20 percent is writing."
-John Linder

"We're talking about consolidation. How many companies will be involved, I don't know. We're in talks with more than one integrated steel company. Our talks with National are just further down the pike."
-John Armstrong

"That guy, he's done so much for the sport. He's an ambassador. He's always talking positive about the sport. It's kind of sad to think that it's his last season."
-Adriano Moraes