Quotes About Talk

Love's action. It isn't talk and it never has been.

Ezra was smooth as good bourbon, the consummate politician who could talk honey as well as he could act vinegar.

The board members came in singly and in pairs. They were mostly a lot of calories under gray suits, a lot of talk behind bright ties

How do you fan the fires of faith in your message? By exploring all phases of your subject, grasping its deeper meanings, and asking yourself how your talk will help the audience to be better people for having listened to you.

footnote: With all due respect is grown-up talk for I think you're stupid.

She put her hand out and I stare at it. She say, I would like to welcome you to the neighborhood. Her voice sound sharp to me. Clean at the end of each word like when you snap your fingers. After each snap, the sound end, aint nothing coming after it like when we talk. When we talk, its like you humming at the end of every word you say.

He look'd a little disorder'd, when he said this, but I did not apprehend any thing from it at that time, believing as it us'd to be said, that they who do those things never talk of them; or that they who talk of such things never do them.

I think all this talk about age is foolish. Every time I'm one year older, everyone else is too.

Talk radio has made an enormous run around establishment media. But the Interne is making an end run around talk radio. Suddenly we're faced with an information age.

The press keep asking me but I will stop when I stop scoring. The problem is football is very ageist. When you reach 30, they keep talking about your age.

In the age of the internet when everybody's a pundit, we're still gonna need somebody there to go talk to the colonels, to be on the ground in Baghdad and stuff and that's very expensive.

Jimmy laughed. The thing was a computer terminal, he said. It could talk. And not in a synth-voice, but with a beautiful arrangement of gears and miniature organ pipes. It was a baroque thing for anyone to have constructed, a perverse thing, because synth-voice chips cost next to nothing.

That's defeatist talk. I'll cobble something together. A scholar can never let mere wrongness get in the way of the theory.

The difficulty is that it's bad form to talk about them brazenly, but once you're inducted it's also a good idea to learn as many rules for as many hands featuring as many cards in as many suits in as many games as you might ever play, just in case.

Did anybody feel an earthquake? No. Did you?" He shook his head. "You're talking out of your ass, pal!

I'm an actor I'm not a politician. I always kick myself when I talk too much about family, or personal things.

It's a great opportunity for him, though I suspect he's in for a shock about how much people in L.A. would rather talk about films than make them.

A bore is a fellow who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it.

The first duty of wine is to be red. Don't talk to me of your white wines.

I've got a knife and I want to talk to you I've got a prayer and I want to carve it to you I've got no chance, that's why I'm looking to you O Lord, ride with me

Men never understand what honor is, though they're always talking about it

At the men's end of the table the talk grew more and more animated. The colonel told them that the declaration of war had already appeared in Petersburg and that a copy, which he had himself seen, had that day been forwarded by courier to the commander in chief.

Dopo un po', Tamara si addormentò. Era per evitare questo che aveva parlato. Il suo sonno gli sembrava una diserzione. Succedeva sempre quando lui si sentiva più sveglio. Era pronto a fare dichiarazioni immortali.

find more honest ways—both intellectually and emotionally—to talk about such magnificent intangibles as God, infinity, and consciousness.