Once the grammar has been learned, writing is simply talking on paper and in time learning what not to say.

Have you ever talked to someone, and you're not even really talking to them? Actors are the worst for that.

I have been talking about that for a long time, but it's very, very important to me [to unify the country.]

I'm smart and I can be really funny and interesting and I can go toe-to-toe with anybody in a conversation.

Our tree became the talking tree of the fairy tale; legends and stories nestled like birds in its branches.

My company is called Talking Monkey, Inc. It's because that's what I think all people are: talking monkeys.

I guess really having a good support group around me and talking about what I've gone through is important.

If the others heard me talking out loud they would think that I am crazy. But since I am not, I do not care.

Listening is not merely not talking...it means taking a vigorous human interest in what is being told to us.

When I'm talking to people I like to stop and quote myself. My quotes have a way of spicing up conversation.

You can't better the world by simply talking to it. Philosophy to be effective must be mechanically applied.

Over there, Kevin McHale, I feel like I'm talking to someone I know. It's just a total different atmosphere.

I love Bill Clinton. I think we should make him king. I'm talking the red robe, the turkey leg - everything.

Conversation didn't seem necessary when I put the accordion down and swung some young lady around the floor.

It takes a lot to get people talking in airplanes. But once they start talking, you just can't shut them up.

I listen to archival and historic recordings. I love watching singers. I learned a lot from watching videos.

If you find yourself talking to the police, my advice is to stay calm but look guilty; it's your safest bet.

I really don't like talking about money. All I can say is that the Good Lord must have wanted me to have it.

When I did the sitcom I was too naive. I thought, Well, they know what they're talking about, let's do that.

It ought to make us feel ashamed when we talk like we know what we're talking about when we talk about love.

I don't like show business. I don't like the business. I love acting. I love this. I love talking to people.

I am a very shy person who is just close to himself. So I would refrain from talking about my personal life.

Time is the most valuable thing you have - and I'm not just talking about the minutes for which you're paid.

I think if he [Donald Trump] goes to the super bowl, he thinks the guys in the huddle are talking about him.

To be in the dance bar you have to be young, good looking, able to dance, and comfortable talking to people.

I'm looking forward to talking to Bill Parcells, too, and to seeing how that marriage with Jerry Jones goes.

Fair or not, it always sucks when everyone wanders back from Sundance talking about how bad the movies were.

My mind works so fast. When I think of something I say it. Lots of times I say it even before I think of it.

The neurotic listens to weather reports about Small Craft Warnings, and he thinks: They're talking about me.

Projecting yourself until everything is talking about you is, of course, a self-flattering form of self-pity

Lots of people act well, but few people talk well. This shows that talking is the more difficult of the two.

We belong to talking, not what talking is about... Stop talking - and you are out. Silence equals exclusion.

One of the reasons I've gotten so attached to talking to scientists is that... they know there is a reality.

In spirituality, when we say growth, we are talking about becoming smaller; not just smaller - non-existent.

Talking with other parents really gave me some lessons that I try to hold on to now, as a parent of two boys.

The only infallible rule we know is, that the man who is always talking about being a gentleman never is one.

I believe that animals have been talking to human beings ever since we were all made and put into this world.

We should all know this: that listening, not talking, is the gifted and great role, and the imaginative role.

Talking with Gary Busey is kinda like sex. You want to do it, you just don't want to be alone when you do it.

With "poets dead and gone" as Keats says in "Mermaid Tavern" they are alive and talking to us and us to them.

My accent remained terrible. It was very hard for me to initiate any conversation with someone I didn't know.

I could get a better education interviewing John Steinbeck than talking to an English professor about novels.

Already for thirty-five years he had not stopped talking and almost nothing of fundamental value had emerged.

It's not the subject that's cliché; it's cliché or not. But in fact, this is the way you're talking about it.

Soon I learned that the worse the puns and jokes, the funnier they could be, if you knew how to deliver them.

I have the rare privilege of talking to my dad every night at 10 p.m. and hearing about what he did that day.

But people in a small town tend to do a lot of talking, even when they don’t know what they’re talking about.

The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.

It's funny, when you start talking about primitive scenes, so many people have seen their parents having sex.

We are talking about creating a legal framework to regulate the production, transit and consumption of drugs.

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