Talking Quotes - Page 62

A little bit South you've got Macon, Georgia - home of the Allman Brothers, the Marshall Tucker Band and Capricorn Records. And off to west you've got Delta blues. Sprinkle Southern gospel over the top of that, and you're talking about where I came from. I loved all of that music.

When they talk about music getting in your blood, I understand exactly what they're talking about, because that is me.

We have more media than ever and more technology in our lives. It's supposed to help us communicate, but it has the opposite effect of isolating us.

When you're songwriting, it's like talking about your own life experience. When you're with a band, you have to compromise.

I'm glad I escaped the clutches of those evil gnomes... I'm talking, of course, about Puerto Ricans.

You can tell that the capitalist system is in trouble when people start talking about capitalism.

In the room the women come and go talking of Michelangelo.

When you are talking about moral issues you are talking about same-sex marriage, which has been relegated over to the states. It's no longer a federal issue and yet, we are dealing with it like it's a federal issue but for a large degree it has become a state issue.

And while I was talking, the idea of actually losing Peeta hit me again and I realized how much I don't want him to die. And it's not about the sponsors. And it's not about what will happen when we get home. And it's not just that I don't want to be alone. It's him. I do not want to lose the boy with the bread.

Talking like touching. Writing like punching somebody.

I think sometimes what happens is that all of this feeling out of control manifests itself in trying to control your body; whether it's an eating disorder or talking about getting your nose fixed, as if that's going to be the solution to all the pressure.

I had to dance topless for two years to make cash to pay my bills and save some money. But it was very enlightening, by the way. I'm talking about light from the gutter.

Singing is the love of my life, but I was ready to give it all up because I couldn't handle people talking about how fat I was.

You're surfing with all this glamour, and a lot of people are talking about Gwyneth, JLo, and Cameron.

I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.

The discussion of ideas as opposed to the American narcissistic obsession with what's going on with the self, that's the general thing people are talking about.

I'm a memoir writer. I try to understand the world by taking experiences I have and making them into a story, whether it's a narrative memoir, blogging for The Huffington Post, writing poems, or talking on the screen about what has happened to me and how that relates to the world at large.

I'm not talking so much about sex - after you've seen sex in a picture, what else can happen - but violence is very bad. People think these are things you are allowed to do. I think they should be forbidden.

Vision is the ability to talk about the future with such clarity it is as if we are talking about the past.

I mean I'm talking about playing games, about imagining other people, and it's part of the way that it helps you actually see the world.

I think the best singers in the world, historically, are American. Britain's got its fair share, as well, but some of the greatest singers, ever, whether you're talking about Whitney Houston or Mariah Carey or Aretha Franklin, are from the legacy here.

[People] need to find words that can reconnect them with each other. That is the gift of good liturgy, yeah. We're not talking about fluffy stuff. We're talking about real life for people around the world. Our prayers should be said like the daily breath that gives us life.

If you want customers to hear about you, make something worth talking about.

There's nothing worse than talking about yourself to find out that you're not that interesting.

When you're out there talking about your faith and what you believe in, you'll face some backlash. But mostly, I've received support.