Talking quotes

Explore powerful and inspiring quotes about the art of communication and the value of open conversations. Discover the transformative impact of talking, understanding, and connecting with others on this thought-provoking category.

We’re talking about the destruction of our world as we know it.

- Lucas Sinclair

A bore is a vacuum cleaner of society, sucking up everything and giving nothing. Bores are always eager to be seen talking to you.

- Elsa Maxwell

I'm dealing with things as they come along, and I'm talking about it.

- Lucinda Williams

Before that, they thought talking movies might eliminate radio as well. But radio just keeps getting stronger.

- Casey Kasem

Ultimately, I'm a mess. I don't mean I'm a mess, like, emotionally - I mean, I think probably everybody's a mess. David's a mess. But. I'm talking about... I'm messy.

- Michael C. Hall

I can tell if someone is talking to me because I'm on "Friends" or cause they just think I'm neat. You know I don't think I've ever spent more than five or ten minutes with somebody who was ogling me because they recognized me from the show.

- Matthew Perry

I like to write songs about what's happening, what I see around me and what I hear. Everyday life. Someone may be talking to me and I may take it from that.

- Desmond Dekker

If you're talking about Java in particular, Python is about the best fit you can get amongst all the other languages. Yet the funny thing is, from a language point of view, JavaScript has a lot in common with Python, but it is sort of a restricted subset.

- Guido van Rossum

My father was predisposed to drunken rages. I would hide under the bed. My sister and I were talking just the other day about the terror a drunken man in a rage can create in a child.

- Antonio Villaraigosa

Citizen Kane is perhaps the one American talking picture that seems as fresh now as the day it opened. It may seem even fresher.

- Pauline Kael

Both me and Edgar are firm believers in never underestimating or talking down to an audience, and giving an audience something to do, to give them something which is entirely up to them to enter into the film and find these hidden things and whatever.

- Simon Pegg

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 Sandberg

Constantly talking isn't necessarily communicating.

- Charlie Kaufman

Well, if you're talking about the current climate, there's a lack of content in American film because I think people are deeply confused about their emotions, and they don't regret certain aspects of their own foreign policy.

- Neil Jordan

Talking to my wife, we stare at each other, saying, 'How is this happening? Why is this happening? Why now?' It's nothing I ever aspired to.

- Steve Carell

Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.

- Plato

I got well by talking. Death could not get a word in edgewise, grew discouraged, and traveled on.

- Louise Erdrich

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

- Walt Disney

I think Secretary's funny, it is about sex, and there's a lot of sex in it, sex is the key, but you're talking about a lot of other complicated things.

- Maggie Gyllenhaal

Skating takes up 70 percent of my time, school about 25 percent. Having fun and talking to my friends, 5 percent. It's hard. I envy other kids a lot of things, but I get a guilt trip when I'm not training.

- Michelle Kwan

Basically, radio hasn't changed over the years. Despite all the technical improvements, it still boils down to a man or a woman and a microphone, playing music, sharing stories, talking about issues - communicating with an audience.

- Casey Kasum

Yet there are some people - Steve Allen would dissect comedy forever; he's a really funny guy, but he would love talking about comedy. I'm doing it right now and you all seem bored.

- Bob Saget

I can look back at different times in my life when I felt I could not find my way out of whatever it was. I'm not necessarily talking about marriage, but I wanted to pack it in. I wanted to disappear. A lot of that has to do with being in the public eye.

- Amy Grant

I just sit at the drawing board most of the time. I am used to talking to people. I love going to conventions, getting feedback and talking to people. Some artists don't. Some artists sit at their drawing board because their personality actually dictates that.

- David Lloyd

I don't think I can get into my deep inner thoughts about hitting. It's like talking about religion.

- Mike Schmidt

I love getting ready to do a scene, and thinking about it, and talking about it. But the rest of the time, I'm so nervous and obsessed. I'm just tearing my hair out in the trailer. The whole time I'm really tense.

- Casey Affleck

I think that sometimes kids use the show as a jumping off point for talking about things with their parents.

- Luke Perry

Cedric, man, it's like if I'm working with you, like I'm sitting here now talking to you, I want to get along with you. That's how I am. I feel like if I get along with you, the work will be splendid.

- Mike Epps

People who think they know what they are talking about when they talk about baseball include the announcers and all of the sports press - no matter how much evidence you present them to the contrary they will continue to think that what they think is right.

- Michael Lewis

Planning to write is not writing. Outlining, researching, talking to people about what you're doing, none of that is writing. Writing is writing.

- E. L. Doctorow