Talk Quotes - page 2

Those who compare the age in which their lot has fallen with a golden age which exists only in imagination, may talk of degeneracy and decay; but no man who is correctly informed as to the past, will be disposed to take a morose or desponding view of the present. (Thomas Babington Macaulay)

Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.

David Byrne

Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.

Bertrand Russell

If there's anything unsettling to the stomach, it's watching actors on television talk about their personal lives.

Marlon Brando

Let's not talk about Communism. Communism was just and idea, just pie in the sky.

Boris Yeltsin

If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.

Jane Austen

I know one husband and wife who, whatever the official reasons given to the court for the break up of their marriage, were really divorced because the husband believed that nobody ought to read while he was talking and the wife that nobody ought to talk while she was reading.

Vera Brittain

If you talk to God, you are praying; If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.

Thomas Szasz

I don't mind how much my Ministers talk, so long as they do what I say.

Margaret Thatcher

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.

Nelson Mandela

[He] may talk like an idiot, and look like an idiot, but don't let that fool you: he really is an idiot. (Groucho Marx)

Next time I see you, remind me not to talk to you.

Groucho Marx

When you talk about a great actor, you're not talking about Tom Cruise. His whole behavior is so shocking. It's inappropriate and vulgar and absolutely unacceptable to use your private life to sell anything commercially, but I think it's kind of a sickness.

Lauren Bacall

If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?

Thomas Jefferson

I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

William Hazlitt

Don't talk to me about rules, dear. Wherever I stay I make the goddam rules.

Maria Callas

I talk to God but the sky is empty.

Sylvia Plath

An American cannot converse, but he can discuss, and his talk falls into a dissertation. He speaks to you as if he was addressing a meeting; and if he should chance to become warm in the discussion, he will say "Gentlemen" to the person with whom he is conversing.

Alexis de Tocqueville

I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions.

Dorothy Day

The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.

Edward Gibbon

Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense. (Robert Frost)

People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there. You can let your conscience alone if you're nice to the second housemaid.

Henry James

I talk about the gods, I am an atheist. But I am an artist too, and therefore a liar. Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.

G. K. Chesterton

We do not talk - we bludgeon one another with facts and theories gleaned from cursory readings of newspapers, magazines and digests.

Henry Miller

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