No Talking Quotes

The idea of a hypnotic riff as the prime mover of a piece of music has been around for a long time, whether you're talking about the Delta blues or music from Middle Eastern and African cultures.

I could hear you, talking to the daffodils and tulips, whispering to the fairies that lived inside their petals. Each separate flower had a different family inside it.

Were we as eloquent as angels we still would please people much more by listening rather than talking.

There are prating coxcombs in the world who would rather talk than listen, although Shakespeare himself were the orator, and human nature the theme!

You kind of have to be like " What have you been working the last five years for? Why are you complaining?" It's essentially me talking myself out of being a crybaby indie rock butthead.

Everybody's strange everywhere. Most of the trick of being a social animal is pretending you're not. But who do you fool? Nobody worth talking to.

There was no aphrodisiac more powerful than talking, no seduction more effective than curiosity.

Instead of talking at each other about the non-business-related contact, talk to each other about your concerns about marriage. Listen a lot, too.

I'm focused on energy only. And I know what I'm talking about. And I don't want to be distracted on other things.

David [Beckham] should think that talking is silver, but being quiet is golden.

I'm big into stocks. I've invested in a lot of stocks. One day I was talking to my accountant, and he was like, "Yo, what if I could turn a million dollars into $20 million?"

If any movie people are watching this show, please, for me, have some respect. You wanna sell some tickets, act like you know what you're talking about.

I think it was when I ran into Kerouac and Burroughs - when I was 17 - that I realized I was talking through an empty skull... I wasn't thinking my own thoughts or saying my own thoughts.

You talk about what a director, he was smart. He said, Turn the camera on!

Twenty years ago I might have hired a professional listener, but somewhere along the way I had lost faith in the talking cure. A genteel fraud in my view.

I think it's relatively easy to play defense against a team that can only do one thing. Unfortunately, that's not what we're talking about here with Seattle.

Racial relations in this country are plummeting. Racial strife is rising. All the while, Obama is out there talking about unity and bringing us together.

Talking is good. Conversations have to be forever.

Expose yourself to as much as possible. Attend conferences no one else is attending. Read books no one else is reading. Talk to people no one else is talking to.

People don't listen to understand. They listen to reply. The collective monologue is everyone talking and no one listening.

Liberals sit from this lofty perch of pomposity, but they are the champions of ignorance. They don't know what they're talking about.

When a reserved person once begins to talk, nothing can stop him; and he does not want to have to listen, until he has quite finished his unfamiliar exertion.

Jesus! Did I SAY that? Or just think it? Was I talking? Did they hear me? I glanced over at my attorney, but he seemed oblivious.

Sometimes, you like to let the hair do the talking!

I love talking about Kennedy assassination...a great archetypal example of how totalitarian government...sorry, wrong meeting.

When I was about 19, my stepmother said - because this was back in the 80s - that I had Robert Wagners pompadour. I said, What are you talking about? You mean the guy from Hart to Hart?

There's something really emotional about not having any sound. That allows, I think, the audience to participate more actively and kind of imagine what are they talking about there?

Mark Twain had it backwards. Nowadays everybody is doing something about the weather, but nobody is talking about it.

I've never been noticeably reticent about talking on subjects about which I know nothing.

The tongue is the only muscle in the human body that never gets tired [talking].

Yes I think so, absolutely. It should be stopped, nobody should be talking of hatred and militancy and aggression.

Talking much about oneself may be a way of hiding oneself.

Talking can transform minds, which can transform behaviors, which can transform institutions.

A bore finds it easy to start talking, and even easier to get others to stop listening.

I speak to the black experience, but I am always talking about the human condition.

You meet new people. We just spent two hours with people we didn't know before, just talking about the Badgers.

The pleasure of talking is the inextinguishable passion of a woman, coeval with the act of breathing.

I love talking to the audience, and I must be the luckiest performer in the world. I always land something or somebody that just takes off.

I've never been very good talking about myself.

As much wrong as I did in life and as many people as I hurt, I can say that God never stopped talking to me. I just stopped listening.

Why is no one talking about all the potential savings from a complete economic collapse?

It went beyond idealism and that ridiculous term "activism," which basically means talking about something but doing nothing. . . . We made giving exciting.

Whether you are talking about education, career, or service, you are talking about life. And life must really have joy. It's supposed to be fun.

I just believe if you don't believe in God, then where is your moral barometer? That's just me talking. You can believe what you want to believe.

Keep skid chains on your tongue. Say less than you think. Cultivate a pleasant voice. How you say it is often more important than what you say.

The answer to your prayer is not according to your faith while you are talking, but according to your faith while you are working.

I don't want you folks to do a lot of talking. Just shut up and get out of the way.

Thus, biologically speaking the American people are literally only half an immigrant people.

You contain a trillion copies of a large, textual document written in a highly accurate, digital code, each copy as voluminous as a substantial book. I'm talking, of course, of the DNA in your cells.

It's my language, the language I speak. I've spent a lot more time playing music than talking or writing.