Best Talking Quotes

I am talking about societies drained of their essence, cultures trampled underfoot, institutions undermined, lands confiscated, religions smashed, magnificent artistic creations destroyed, extraordinary possibilities wiped out.

Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don’t think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.

I love therapy! There’s nothing like talking to someone who has no emotional tie to your life.

True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

If you think communication is all talking, you haven’t been listening.

A lot of people think this is a goodie two-shoes talking. But we do have a tendency to complain rather than celebrating who we are. I learned at my mother’s knee it’s better to appreciate what’s happening… I think we kind of talk ourselves into the negative sometimes.

We spend our time sending messages to each other, talking and trying to listen at the same time, exchanging information. This seems to be our most urgent biological function; it is what we do with our lives.

I really don’t like talking about money. All I can say is that the Good Lord must have wanted me to have it.

You love fear. The ending of fear is death, and you don’t want that to happen. I am not talking of wiping out the phobias of the body. They are necessary for survival. The death of fear is the only death.

The minute you start talking about what you’re going to do if you lose, you have lost.

Everybody talks and everybody listens, and somehow the truth just always comes up missin.

Now let’s get talking: reefer madness. Like some arrogant government can’t, By any stretch of the imagination, outlaw a plant.

It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.

Contentment is mostly a matter of talking yourself into believing that God will not strike you too hard for leaning in the direction of your hungers.

My mother always accused me of being in love with the sound of my own voice. When we went on road trips, she’d be like, ‘Stop singing. Be quiet, you’re talking just to hear yourself speak.’ It was probably true. I like to ramble on, which is probably why I’m well suited to interviews. You know, there’s no other forum where you’re literally supposed to sit down and just talk for hours about yourself. I love it.

Martin Luther King was talking about racism, war and poverty. I think we have made progress enormous progress in racism and war, but we have made little or no progress in poverty. And it’s because the economy has gotten more and more complex as we have globalized.

Though we have two eyes, we are supplied with but one tongue. Draw your own moral.

You are always talking about yourself and tennis and how you are feeling. I try to avoid it when I don’t have to.

In academia, left-liberalism is so entrenched its advocates’ debating skills have gone rusty. When you’ve been talking to yourself for decades and imposing speech codes on everyone else, your ability to argue coherently – let alone entertainingly – inevitably wanes.

You shouldn’t speak until you know what you’re talking about. That’s why I get uncomfortable with interviews. Reporters ask me what I feel China should do about Tibet. Who cares what I think China should do? I’m a f***ing actor! They hand me a script. I act. I’m here for entertainment, basically, when you whittle everything away. I’m a grown man who puts on makeup.

If I am gonna do all the talking, likely I am amongst dead people.

Talking death seriously is one of the tragedies of youth

When you’re younger, you do have that thing that you were talking about where the mouth goes dry. I mean you have reactions, and you do fall in love.

You cannot talk about race without talking about privilege. And when people start talking about privilege, they get paralyzed by shame.

Hell, Justin and I even talking about recording a blues song sometime.

Paranoia, Sam muttered. You’re going slowly nuts, dude. Or maybe not so slowly, since you’re talking to yourself.

Getting up in front and talking to the people who build my cars is the worst. I get so damn nervous.

Talking is not enough; words don’t clarify anything. I’ll have to hit upon something, but what?

When you let your mind go blank,’ he said, ‘or when you stop talking for a long time, something happens. Time becomes different. It goes away. It doesn’t come back until you start to say something.

There’s a point of poverty at which the spirit isn’t with the body all the time. It finds the body really too unbearable. So it’s almost as if you were talking to the soul itself. And a soul’s not properly responsible.

Listening and talking to my teammates has helped me learn the NBA game. I know that talent can only take you so far.

By giving our students practice in talking with others, we give them frames for thinking on their own.

Lonely people, in talking to each other can make each other lonelier.

I don’t know that I could do a procedural legal drama and spend all my time in a courtroom talking legal jargon that I don’t necessarily understand.

I’m not talking with an American accent. I haven’t gone off and become Sammy Hagar.