Talk Quotes

Musing on the phrase 'waste of time.' So much more complex than it appears. Many 'wastes of time' small talk, daydreaming are imperatives.

People talk to me a lot about, "Why don't you ever rebel?" And I feel like I do rebel. To me, rebelling is - is that rush you get when you sing a song about someone and you know they're in the crowd.

I have to make good things so good comedians want to talk to me.

I've been known to slum it and shop in the gag-him-and-bag-him aisles, believe it or not.

Girl talk. That thing I've always been so bad at.

I don't think there's any shortage of tough, sometimes vicious rhetoric about President Barack Obama coming from the right. Talk radio shows dominated by conservatives.

I do like talk shows. I'm interested in talking to people.

I never trash talk, I don't like to trash talk. I like to be friends with all the other boxers.

The basic problem is with the business model of journalism. That business model is premised on the idea that talk is cheap and reporting is expensive.

But on the extremist side I didn't get any rejections at all. Everyone agreed to talk to me.

At times, I get very lonely because people are afraid to talk to me or don't wait for me to write a response. I'm shy and tongue-tied at times. I find it difficult to talk to people who I don't know.

If I'm out shopping and someone talks to me, I get startled, as I'm not a natural celebrity.

Why on earth would you want to talk to me? (Channon) My lady, do you not own a mirror? (Sebastian) Yes, but it’s not an enchanted one. (Channon)

I got to talk to Mel Lewis a lot as a teenager. I think that's what really impacted me the most around that time.

I am a big Ellen fan. I have been one for quite a long time now. I used to do the local news talk shows with her in San Francisco, when we were both still kids.

I don't need much more money, and I thought that when I retired that nobody would want to talk to me anymore. Then I did, and people still want to talk to me.

Now we've got the cables. We've got talk radio. We've got the bloggers. I hate the bloggers.

I don't need sound to talk to me.

Right now, politics follows the rules of talk radio - using conflict, tension, fear, and resentment to find new recruits.

American media has just become talk radio, incredibly partisan name-calling and op-eds.

People don't talk to me on airplanes.

The interesting part is that most of the kids I speak to have grown up watching 'Full House,' so they feel like they know me and can talk to me.

I imagine how cool it would be if all small talk wasn't lies.

They say talk is cheap. Maybe so. But kindness is even better—it's free! Free to give. Free to receive. Makes you wonder why there's not more of it, huh?

I hate when dealers talk to me. I love dealers - they're some of our favorite people in the art world. But I hate if they do a sales pitch on me. I can't stand it.

Being blind, I rely on software that talks to me.

The last thing that you need to fret about is my feeling emasculated, Kitten; but talk is cheap, so I'll be sure to show you later." ~Bones

Conservative talk radio hosts have conned the American people into thinking there is such a thing as a pro-life, pro-war, pro-gun, pro-death penalty Christian.

One of the things that makes me happiest and proudest is that the talk radio venue, the whole market has expanded. There are all kinds of people doing it now.

I cringe a lot when I look at my early talk-show experiences.

Some people really trip on success or popularity. My friends would talk to me about that, about tripping on all this stuff, but you know what I tripped on? I started buying property.

Isola doesn't approve of small talk and believes in breaking the ice by stomping on it.

I abhor 'baby talk.' I speak to kids like I would any other person, and they seem to respond to it.

The talking oak To the ancient spoke. But any tree Will talk to me.

I don't waste time in flowery small talk, as people do in India.

I like when a teenager comes and talks to me on the street. I've been through a lot and I have a lot to share.

I really suggest listening to talk radio. I mean, if you just listen to what the talk hosts are saying, they sound like they are lunatics.

He glanced furtively up and down the hallway. "Hodge too. Everyone wants to talk to me. Except you, I bet you don't want to talk to me," said Jace. "No," said Clary. "I want to eat. I'm starving.

I love talk shows and hosting. I would want to do something like that. I'm not sure I would want to be a reality star continuously.

The next time you're mad at me, talk to me,' he said. 'Don't shut me out. I don't like playing games. And by the way, I had a great time, too.

Sometimes there would be someone else out there, someone she didn't know, but when they saw each other each would nod, as if making a secret pact. No question, no small talk..agreed

I am not good at small talk. I will hide in a cupboard to avoid chitty-chat.

I'm not good at meeting people, and I'm not good at small talk.

People used to live lives of quiet desperation - now they go on talk shows!

We had an eyeball-to-eyeball agreement at a restaurant before I came back that, if I came back, he would never talk to me that way again or I was simply saying no.

The rich today are richer, there are more of them, they have round-the-clock propaganda factories in Rupert Murdoch's empire and rightwing talk radio, and corporate media have their back.

In the street, people talk to you about all kinds of things, but by far, the most number of people talk to me about Love, Actually.

The President would usually talk to me about matters relating to the immigration problem.

I think Ronald Reagan is what happened....The age of Reagan brought conservatism into the mainstream....It also brought us the beginning of the new media-talk radio, the internet, cable television.

I don't want reporters to talk to me because I'm a revolutionary and if it got out that I'm basically friendly with Obama it would hurt Obama.