Talking Quotes - Page 31

The words I use too often are X-rated, something an old man like me shouldn't be talking about anyway.

You're an expatriate. You've lost touch with the soil. You get precious. Fake European standards have ruined you. You drink yourself to death. You become obsessed by sex. You spend all your time talking, not working. You are an expatriate, see? You hang around cafTs.

People feel uncomfortable talking about racial issues out of fear that if they express things they will be characterized in a way that's not fair. I think that there is still a need for a dialogue about things racial that we have not engaged in.

The wideness of the horizon has to be inside us, cannot be anywhere but inside us, otherwise what we speak about is geographic distances.

The identity that we ascribe to things is only a fictitious one, established by the mind, not a peculiar nature belonging to what we’re talking about.

I am not talking to you now through the medium of custom, conventionalities, nor even of mortal flesh: it is my spirit that addresses your spirit; just as if both had passed through the grave, and we stood at God's feet, equal--as we are!

Silence is a learned practice that requires far more than just not talking. Not talking is not silence; it's just not talking.

Awake. Love. Think. Speak. Be walking trees. Be talking beasts. Be divine waters.

Talk to me about the truth of religion and I'll listen gladly. Talk to me about the duty of religion and I'll listen submissively. But don't come talking to me about the consolations of religion or I shall suspect that you don't understand.

Once the grammar has been learned, writing is simply talking on paper and in time learning what not to say.

I'm not going to be like a rapper and mention the people I'm talking about in my songs by name.

I'm not much for sitting around and thinking about the past or talking about the past. What does that accomplish?

A great many people do not have the right to their own opinion because they don't know what they are talking about.

I don't feel too comfortable talking about politics and media as I feel like I don't sound too smart.

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.

When I first heard hip-hop I thought it was rubbish because I didn't understand the concept of people talking over music.

If you do all the talking when you pray, how will you ever hear God's answers?

If we're talking about masculinity and tenderness, I don't look at Clinton.

People believe that there's no room for change, there's no room to grow and if we're talking about this idea of God which is the infinite then there's no way that there's no room to grow because infinity is endless. So there must be more room to understand more and to evolve the way we think about this idea.

People are always talking about the dumbing down of the country.

Of my infancy I can speak little, only I do remember that in the fourth year of my age I had the measles.

Nothing could be slow enough, nothing lasts too long. No pleasure could equal, she thought, straightening the chairs, pushing in one book on the shelf, this having done with the triumphs of youth, lost herself in the process of living, to find it with a shock of delight, as the sun rose, as the day sank. Many a time had she gone, at Barton when they were all talking, to look at the sky; seen it between peoples shoulders at dinner; seen it in London when she could not sleep. She walked to the window.

Talking about covers, whether visually or sonically, if a particular combination of notes struck a chord in your heart in a way that you want to be a part of it by covering that song, then there's nothing wrong with it.

I love Bill Clinton. I think we should make him king. I'm talking the red robe, the turkey leg - everything.

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