Explore Quotes on Talking

It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.

I think any branding for me is band-related. It's really weird to get used to the exposure, because I am a naturally introverted person, and I'm not exactly social. Occasionally I can get comfortable enough to talk, but I spend a lot of my days not talking, especially when I'm at home and not on tour.

Let's stop talking about new taxes and start talking about creating new taxpayers, which basically means jobs.

When you don't know what you're talking about, it's hard to know when you're finished.

It’s one of my theories that when people give you advice, they’re really just talking to themselves in the past.

Language is never fully trustworthy, but when it comes to eating animals, words are as often used to misdirect and camouflage as they are to communicate. Some words, like veal, help us forget what we are actually talking about. Some, like free-range, can mislead those whose consciences seek clarification. Some, like happy, mean the opposite of what they would seem. And some, like natural, mean next to nothing.

There is no use in talking as if forgiveness were easy. For we find that the work of forgiveness has to be done over and over again.

Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you're talking about.

Writing is a fine thing, because it combines the two pleasures of talking to yourself and talking to a crowd.

Words and pictures can work together to communicate more powerfully than either alone.

I never initiated nor did the FBI ever initiate any conversation or correspondence with me.

Like most of my poems, 'Lie' has several sources: I read a very troubling book called The Sixth Extinction. I took note of the way people, including me, enjoy talking knowledgeably about how the world will end. I drove to Tucson and saw the desert flowering on either side of the road. And I glanced at my spam to see what people wanted to sell me these days.

If Christians around the world were to suddenly renounce their personal agendas, their life goals and their aspirations, and begin responding in radical obedience to everything God showed them. the world would be turned upside down. How do we know? Because that's what first century Christians did, and the world is still talking about it.

But when we reduce sex to a function, we also invoke the idea of dysfunction. We are no longer talking about the art of sex; rather, we are talking about the mechanics of sex. Science has replaced religion as the authority; and science is a more formidable arbiter. Medicine knows how to scare even those who scoff at religion. Compared with a diagnosis, what's a mere sin? We used to moralize; today we normalize, and performance anxiety is the secular version of our old religious guilt.

And he who is forever talking about enemies / Is himself the enemy!

There is no Dubai and Abu Dhabi; we are one. Whoever doesn't understand this should do their homework before they start talking. We will be there for each other when we need it.

Although there exist many thousand subjects for elegant conversation, there are persons who cannot meet a cripple without talking about feet.

Talking to God should be part of every aspect of life, in times of peace as well as in every battle.

There are men who talk of women and others who talk to them. I don’t talk of them, I prefer talking to them

Reading aloud and talking about what we're reading sharpens children's brains. It helps develop their ability to concentrate at length, to solve problems logically, and to express themselves more easily and clearly.