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Talking about music is like dancing about architecture. -- Steve Martin
Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing. -- Walt Disney
I never learn anything talking. I only learn things when I ask questions. -- Lou Holtz
I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies. -- Le Corbusier
There are many people who feel that it is useless and futile to continue talking about peace and non-violence against a government whose only reply is savage attacks on an unarmed and defenceless people. -- Nelson Mandela
Know what you are talking about. -- John Paul II
When deeds speak, words are nothing. -- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
To communicate through silence is a link between the thoughts of man. -- Marcel Marceau
Prayer means talking over with Jesus everything that happens from morning until night. -- Basilea Schlink
Talking about our problems is our greatest additction. Break the habit. Talk about your joys. -- Rita Schiano
A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation. -- Mark Twain
When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes. -- Victor Hugo
Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience. -- Bill Watterson
Though we have two eyes, we are supplied with but one tongue. Draw your own moral. -- Alphonse Karr
It is a difficult task to talk to the purpose, and to put life and perspicuity into our discourse. -- Jeremy Collier
Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other. -- Bill Gates
There are prating coxcombs in the world who would rather talk than listen, although Shakespeare himself were the orator, and human nature the theme! -- Charles Caleb Colton
I always tell kids, you have two eyes and one mouth. Keep two open and one closed. You never learn anything if you're the one talking. -- Gordie Howe
Sometimes when I'm talking, my words can't keep up with my thoughts. I wonder why we think faster than we speak. Probably so we can think twice. -- Bill Watterson
There's no conversation more boring than talking about what it's really like to live in Newport and how the show compares to the real thing. I just don't care. -- Adam Brody
I like to get people talking. I am a provocateur, and I do like getting on Twitter and riling people up. You know what, after a while some sane dialogue and sane conclusions come of that kind of thing. -- Roseanne Barr
If any man think it a small matter, or of mean concernment, to bridle his tongue, he is much mistaken; for it is a point to be silent when occasion requires, and better than to speak, though never so well. -- Plutarch
The common fluency of speech in many men, and most women, is owing to a scarcity of matter and a scarcity of words; for whosoever is a master of language, and hath a mind full of ideas, will be apt, in speaking, to hesitate upon the choice of both. -- Jonathan Swift
Talking payes no toll. -- George Herbert
Talking's just a nervous habit. -- Martha Grimes
Talking of love is making it. -- William Gurney Benham
Talking to God was damned good business. -- Victor Villasenor
Talking about money is garish. It's tacky. -- Paula Deen
Talking like touching. Writing like punching somebody. -- Susan Sontag
Talking about pumpkins doesn't make them grow. -- Alexander McCall Smith
Talking to women about birth can be polarizing. -- Emily Oster
Talking is good. Conversations have to be forever. -- Michelle Obama
Talking jaw is better than going to war. -- Lord Randolph Churchill
Talking about my fears to others feeds it. -- Sylvia Plath
I'm a fan of Talking Heads going way back. -- Fred Armisen
Talking is what I do, but listening is my job. -- Ryan Seacrest
Talking is always positive. That's why I talk too much. -- Louis C. K.
Talking death seriously is one of the tragedies of youth -- Winston Churchill
Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud. -- Joseph Addison
Talking about relationships is a surefire way to jinx them. -- Maggie Grace
When Talking Heads started, we called ourselves Thinking Man's Dance Music. -- Tina Weymouth
Talking to your hairdresser is almost like talking to your therapist, -- Andie MacDowell
Talking about someone who makes you happy actually makes you happy. -- Elizabeth Scott
Talking about things that are understandable only weighs down the mind. -- Alfred Jarry
Talking to other people while you're cooking, it doesn't come naturally. -- Giada De Laurentiis
Talking of white supremacist violent types, I was in America, recently... -- Bill Bailey
Talking about and analyzing sports isn't the same as playing sports. -- Christopher Michael Cillizza
Talking to people and hearing their stories, you learn a lot. -- Asa Butterfield
Talking about class terrifies me. There is no way of winning. -- Benedict Cumberbatch
Talking, it seemed to me, was the point of adult existence. -- Christopher Hitchens
Talking much about oneself may be a way of hiding oneself. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Talking to you is only thinking to myself - made easier. -- Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie
Talking with the mouth of a beast won't ease your pain. -- Andrew Davidson
Talking about auditions, you never know what anyone else is thinking. -- Linda Lavin
Talking is something you can't do judiciously unless you keep in practice. -- Dashiell Hammett
Talking nice about sun and wind and green jobs is just greenwash. -- James Hansen
Talking about New York is a way of talking about the world. -- Colson Whitehead
Talking to celebrities is too much effort. They all think the same. -- Simon Cowell
[Talking pictures are] like putting lip rouge on the Venus de Milo. -- Mary Pickford
Talking about your home town is like talking about your own mother. -- Maureen Daly
Talking. According to Marc, I could talk the color off a crayon. -- Rachel Vincent
Talking to liberals is much more fun now that we have Lexis-Nexis. -- Ann Coulter
If you've got the truth you can demonstrate it. Talking doesn't prove it. -- Robert A. Heinlein
Talking out loud to fictional characters is just the tip of the iceberg. -- Jodi Picoult
Talking about one's work releases the energy and tension to do and make. -- Henry Moore
Talking up a storm about food is so easy for me, it's second nature. -- Rocco DiSpirito
Talking about the body getting old, there's a sadness to it in a way. -- Chick Corea
Talking doom and gloom all day no longer fit who I was as a person. -- Daryn Kagan
Talking money is crass; so I'm not going to tell you what I made last year. -- Mel Torme
The only think I like better than talking about Food is eating. -- John Walters
If you are the greatest, why would you go around talking about it? -- Joe Rogan
A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking about real money. -- Everett Dirksen
One advantage of talking to yourself is that you know at least somebody's listening. -- Franklin P. Jones
The focus should not be on talking. Talk is cheap. It must be on action. -- Howard Berman
When you stop talking, you've lost your customer. When you turn your back, you've lost her. -- Estee Lauder
Prayer is simply talking to God like a friend and should be the easiest thing we do each day. -- Joyce Meyer
If women want any rights more than they's got, why don't they just take them, and not be talking about it. -- Sojourner Truth
A bore is a vacuum cleaner of society, sucking up everything and giving nothing. Bores are always eager to be seen talking to you. -- Elsa Maxwell
My attitude towards drawing is not necessarily about drawing. It's about making the best kind of image I can make, it's about talking as clearly as I can. -- Jim Dine
Some people can't stand being alone. I love solitude and silence. But when I come out of it, I'm a regular talking machine. It's all or nothing for me. -- Celine Dion
Sonny Liston is nothing. The man can't talk. The man can't fight. The man needs talking lessons. The man needs boxing lessons. And since he's gonna fight me, he needs falling lessons. -- Muhammad Ali
I'll never stop dreaming that one day we can be a real family, together, all of us laughing and talking, loving and understanding, not looking at the past but only to the future. -- LaToya Jackson
Nixon is one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides. -- Harry S Truman
On 'Phoenix,' I talk about thoughts of suicide and my whole life. It's called 'Phoenix' because it's talking about dying - but when a phoenix dies, it's reborn from its own ashes. I related to that. -- ASAP Rocky
People say Malala's voice is being sold to the world. But I see it as Malala's voice reaching the world and resonating globally. You should think about what is behind Malala's voice. What is she saying? I am only talking about education, women's rights, and peace. -- Malala Yousafzai
If I have the power to post 'Happy Birthday' on someone's Facebook page and make them feel really good, it feels really good to make other people feel really good. I love it. I'm a huge Facebook and Twitter person. And I love talking to my fans. It's fun. -- Rebecca Mader
When we talk about the kind of folks whose lives will be made better by raising the minimum wage, we're not talking about a couple teenagers earning extra spending money to supplement their allowance. We're talking about providers and breadwinners. Working Americans with bills to pay and mouths to feed. -- Thomas Perez
I have an interesting perspective on depending on others. I think it gives people a chance to serve. And I'm not so much big on independence, as I am on interdependence. I'm not talking about co-dependency, I'm talking about giving people the opportunity to practicing love with its sleeves rolled up. -- Joni Eareckson Tada
I have my own high standards for what I want in a partner and how I want to be treated. I bring a lot to the table. I'm not talking about material things but what I have to offer as a person - love and loyalty and all the things that make a good relationship. -- Jennifer Lopez
People have come to me for my opinion since 'October Baby.' But, hey, look, I'm an actor who is very fortunate to be in a movie that's making wonderful noise, and hopefully helping parents and children to be a little closer. Leave me alone. I'm not talking about politics. I'm just trying to have a conversation with my own kids. -- John Schneider
I love women, but I feel like you can't trust some of them. Some of them are liars, you know? Like I was in the park and I met this girl, she was cute and she had a dog. And I went up to her, we started talking. She told me her dog's name. Then I said, 'Does he bite?' She said, 'No.' And I said, 'Oh yeah? Then how does he eat?' Liar. -- Demetri Martin
I actually like talking. -- Denis Leary
Negative talking is contagious. -- John C. Maxwell
Constantly talking isn't necessarily communicating. -- Charlie Kaufman
I love talking about baserunning. -- Rickey Henderson
I love talking about Scientology. -- Giovanni Ribisi
Women prefer speaking to talking. -- Raheel Farooq
I'm exhausted from not talking. -- Samuel Goldwyn, Jr.
Know what you're talking about. -- George H. W. Bush
Books are dead men talking. -- George R. R. Martin
I'm a walking, talking enigma. -- Larry David
Poetry is talking on tiptoe. -- George Meredith
I love talking about myself. -- Lara Flynn Boyle
I enjoy talking to fans. -- Douglas Wilson
I don't like talking to celebrities. -- Lady Gaga
Listening is more important than talking. -- Jimmy Fallon
Literature is humanity talking to itself. -- Norman Rush
The horses are talking ... just listen. -- Monty Roberts
I was talking cannibalism, not romance. -- Patricia Briggs
Writing is always harder than talking. -- Gloria Steinem
By myself walking, To myself talking. -- Charles Lamb
Teaching is listening, learning is talking -- Deborah Meier
When people start talking, things happen. -- Cary Fukunaga
Retirement? You're talking about death, right? -- Robert Altman
meditation vs prayer = listening vs talking -- Elizabeth Gilbert
I just hate talking about myself. -- Miuccia Prada
I don't like talking about music. -- Martha Wainwright
Teaching, without learning, is just talking -- K. Patricia Cross
Let the pictures do the talking! -- Ken Oosterbroek

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