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Talk Quotes

"Dancehall is just like hip-hop in that it doesn't always talk about bling; it talks about conscious issues."

Sean Paul, Jamaican Musician

33

"You talk about Japanese technocracy and you get radios."

Gordon Sinclair, Canadian Journalist

30

"I don't talk in ifs."

Abdurrahman Wahid, Indonesian Statesman

25

"We talked to the referees before the game; there's always new situations to adjust, for the refs and for us as well. Even on the ice, it's good for players to talk and interact with the referee."

Peter Bondra, Ukrainian Athlete

21

"I used to say I never talk about my successor, neither about my predecessor."

Boutros Boutros Ghali, Egyptian Public Servant

16

"Isn't it strange that we talk least about the things we think about most?"

Charles Lindbergh, American Aviator

13

"Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty."

Thomas Sowell, American Economist

8

"Why should I talk to you? I don't know where you're from."

Al Davis, American Businessman

7

"Do not talk a little on many subjects, but much on a few."

Pythagoras, Greek Mathematician

6

"I let my racket do the talking. That's what I am all about, really. I just go out and win tennis matches."

Pete Sampras, American Athlete

Talk, Talking, Tennis

5

"Barry seems to be more flamboyant merely because he gets more interviews to talk about it."

Maurice Gibb, Australian Musician

4

"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 Sandburg, American Poet

Talk, Talking, Carl Sandberg

4

"You talk about what a director, he was smart. He said, Turn the camera on!"

Peter Falk, American Actor

4

"Two million dollars is only small when you're talking about Washington, D.C."

Geoff Davis, American Politician

Talk, Talking, Washington

3

"Over there, Kevin McHale, I feel like I'm talking to someone I know. It's just a total different atmosphere."

Latrell Sprewell, American Athlete

2

"Never fail to know that if you are doing all the talking, you are boring somebody."

Helen Gurley Brown, American Editor

2

"I can let the team do the talking for me."

Bob Paisley, English Athlete

2

"I wish I could talk to Annette, but she doesn't even correspond at this point."

Frankie Avalon, American Actor

2

"I think it was when I realised I could talk anybody into doing just about anything I wanted them to."

Jeremy London, American Actor

2

"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, American President

2

"If a lion could talk, we could not understand him."

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian Philosopher

2

"I write a good amount. I've been gathering up a backlog of stuff and maybe I'll do something with it someday, but I don't want to talk about it just yet because that would jinx it."

Macaulay Culkin, American Actor

2

"You can't talk of the dangers of snake poisoning and not mention snakes."

C. Everett Koop, American Public Servant

2

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

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

2

"The guilty think all talk is of themselves."

Geoffrey Chaucer, English Poet

2

"We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest."

Nathaniel Hawthorne, American Novelist

1

"Oh, I don't talk about Jack and me. Some things are too good to share."

Lara Flynn Boyle, American Actress

1

"Writers write. Dreamers talk about it."

Jerry B. Jenkins, American Novelist

1

"To make the bloody thing talk the way I do when I'm on a verbal roll, in my idioms and rhythms."

Gary Lucas, American Guitarist

1

"I will hear no talk that there are no intermediate-range weapons on the NATO side."

E. P. Thompson, British Historian

Talk, Weapons, Will

1

"You happen to be talking to an agnostic. You know what an agnostic is? A cowardly atheist."

Studs Terkel, American Journalist

1

"I'm too shy for personal appearances, and I've found out that anytime I talk about my writing, I can't do any writing for many weeks afterward."

Anne Tyler, American Novelist

1

"If a guy hits .300 every year, what does he have to look forward to? I always tried to stay around .190, with three or four RBI. And I tried to get them all in September. That way I always had something to talk about during the winter."

Bob Uecker, American Athlete

1

"And this speaks to the larger problem that no one wants to talk about: the restoration of the Roman rite is a precondition for a long-term fix for the problem."

Richard Morris, English Clergyman

1

"I sometimes talk about the making of a poem within the poem."

Howard Nemerov, American Poet

1

"When you have a child, as anyone knows who has them, that's basically all you want to talk about."

Philip Seymour Hoffman, American Actor

1

"I never did pal around with actresses. Their talk usually bored me to tears."

Bette Davis, American Actress

1

"We need to be around our families not because we have so many shared experiences to talk about, but instead because they know precisely which subjects to avoid."

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

1

"Hey kid, do you want to come and talk to Charlie?"

Edgar Bergen, American Actor

1

"I'm very grateful to Jennifer Lopez, because I have something to talk about for the last couple of years."

Steven Cojocaru, Canadian Critic

1

"I'm kind of a chatterbox and I talk really fast."

Jodie Foster, American Actress

1

"Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible."

Sallust, Roman Historian

1

"I drive with my knees. Otherwise, how can I put on my lipstick and talk on my phone?"

Sharon Stone, American Actress

1

"I can talk to anybody but when it comes to somebody that I like, then I turn into like this five-year-old kindergartener in a sandbox."

Jonathan Bennett, British Philosopher

1

"Talk is over-rated as a means of settling disputes."

Tom Cruise, American Actor

1

"One must steer, not talk."

Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Roman Statesman

1

"Endless motorbike talk can and does bore me."

Barry Sheene, British Celebrity

1

"When you feel like you've had a good show, you go backstage and you talk to yourself about it, and if you have a bad show you talk to yourself about it."

Tracy Chapman, American Musician

1

"One of the things that I've come to understand is that as I talk a lot about Picard, what I find is that I'm talking about myself."

Patrick Stewart, English Actor

1

"I always try to think before I talk."

Margaret Chase Smith, American Politician

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