People Talking Quotes

• Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.

  Clement Attlee

  Freedom, Mean, Democracies Have

  Speech at Oxford, 14 June 1957, in The Times 15 June 1957

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• Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.

  Bernard Baruch

  Inspirational, Success, Talking

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• Whenever I hear people talking about liberal ideas, I am always astounded that men should love to fool themselves with empty sounds. An idea should never be liberal; it must be vigorous, positive, and without loose ends so that it may fulfill its divine mission and be productive.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Love, Men, Talking

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• I don't like people talking bad about me, I get hurt so precisely I don't end up saying that for others.

  Katrina Kaif

  Hurt, Talking, People

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• It’s quite easy to accidentally overhear people talking downstairs if you hold an upturned glass to the floorboards and accidentally put your ear to it.

  Terry Pratchett

  Talking, Glasses, People

  Terry Pratchett (2010). “A Hat Full of Sky: (Discworld Novel 32)”, p.16, Random House

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• You cannot “catch” anything unless you think you can, and thinking you can is inviting it to you with your thought. You are also inviting illness if you are listening to people talking about their illness. As you listen, you are giving all your thought and focus to illness, and when you give all of your thought to something, you are asking for it.

  Rhonda Byrne

  Law Of Attraction, Thinking, Talking

  Rhonda Byrne (2011). “The Secret”, p.132, Simon and Schuster

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• I have friends who I get along with who I know get very uncomfortable being alone, unless they're with people, talking all the time. Whether it's on the phone, or in person, they're never by themselves. Whereas I could be alone for months.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Loneliness, Being Alone, Phones

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• I'd violated the primary rule of junior and senior high-- don't get people talking about you too much. This was wearing the brightest shirt on the playground. This was Mom giving you a kiss in the lobby.

  Darin Strauss

  Senior, Mom, Kissing

  Darin Strauss (2011). “Half a Life: A Memoir”, p.32, Random House

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• They were always like two people talking to each other in different languages. But she loved him so much, when he withdrew as he had now done, it was like the warm sun going down and leaving her in chilly twilight dews.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Twilight, Talking, Two

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.340, Hamilton Books

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• What are you people talking about?” – Abigail “Nothing important. Just the end of the world as we know it, and for the record, I don’t feel fine. Neither will you when it all comes slamming down on your head.” – Zarek

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Talking, People, Important

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• There has never been a time in which I have been convinced from within myself that I am alive. You see, I have only such a fugitive awareness of things around me that I always feel they were once real and are now fleeting away. I have a constant longing, my dear sir, to catch a glimpse of things as they may have been before they show themselves to me.

  Franz Kafka

  Beautiful, Real, Talking

  "In the penal settlement: tales and short prose works".

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• The look he gave me...My stomach quivered in that exact same way when I watched Before Sunset, yearning for a guy to know me so deeply and truly, we were only really complete when we were together. That I could talk, go on wild tangents, make obtuse references, and he would divine my meaning before I knew what I was trying to say myself. Erik had fallen asleep next to me on the couch, complaining later that the movie was "just people talking." He had no idea that this movie could have been a love letter written for me.

  Justina Chen

  Sunset, Talking, Ideas

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• More and more I find myself at a loss for words and didn't want to hear other people talking either. Their conversations seemed false and empty. I preferred to look at the sea, which said nothing and never made you feel alone.

  Paula McLain

  Loss, Talking, Sea

  Paula McLain (2011). “The Paris Wife: A Novel”, p.307, Ballantine Books

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• The film world is a crazy place to be. You sit around all day waiting for the phone to ring. Are people talking about you or aren't they?

  Kyle MacLachlan

  Crazy, Phones, Talking

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• A wave of blood goes up to my head, my stomach shrinks together, as if something dangerous has just missed hitting me. It's as if I've been caught stealing, or telling a lie; or as if I've heard other people talking about me, saying bad things about me, behind my back. There's the same flush of shame, of guilt and terror, and of cold disgust with myself. But I don't know where these feelings have come from, what I've done.

  Margaret Atwood

  Lying, Blood, Talking

  Margaret Atwood (1989). “Cat's Eye”, Bantam

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• When you constantly hear people talking about going the distance, going the distance, you can't help but wonder about it. I learned a lesson: next time I will fight my fight without that doubt.

  Larry Holmes

  Distance, Fighting, Talking

  "Sport: Larry Holmes: I Still Have It". Interview with Tom Callahan, June 21, 1982.

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• Singing is the love of my life, but I was ready to give it all up because I couldn't handle people talking about how fat I was.

  Stevie Nicks

  Talking, Sight, Love Of My Life

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• I listen to people talking sometimes, that great river that is language, with all its undercurrents of grammar and nuance, and I wonder how we all learn so quickly to speak it, given that we begin when we are barely old enough to stand upright. I have no memory of finding it hard. Indeed, I have no memory of it at all.

  Sarah Dunant

  Memories, Talking, Rivers

  Sarah Dunant (2006). “In the Company of the Courtesan: A Novel”, p.264, Random House

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• You have to be prepared to give creative work 150%. I hear a lot of young people talking about life/work balance, which I think is great when you’re in your 30s. If you’re in your 20s and already talking about that, I don’t think you will achieve your goals. If you really want to build a powerful career, and make an impact, then you have to be prepared to put in blood, sweat, and tears.

  Ellen Lupton

  Powerful, Thinking, Impact

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• There's a certain level of vehemence, it seems to me, that's directed at me [and] directed at the president. You know, people talking about taking their country back. There's a certain racial component to this for some people. I don't think this is the thing that is a main driver, but for some there's a racial animus.

  Eric Holder

  Country, Thinking, Talking

  "Eric Holder: U.S. Still 'Afraid' of Race". ABC News interview, abcnews.go.com. July 13, 2014.

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• I know I'm a grumpy old man, but I'm always more delighted by readers talking about the actual comics than people talking about how eager they are to have their favorite comics be "elevated" into another medium. Adaptations are great, but for me, comics have always been the destination, not a stepping-stone to get somewhere else.

  Brian K. Vaughan

  Men, People, Adaptation

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• It's getting harder and harder to differentiate between schizophrenics and people talking on a cell phone. It still brings me up short to walk by somebody who appears to be talking to themselves.

  Bob Newhart

  Phones, Cells, Talking

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

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Airplane, Talking, People

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• I've often sat down with people talking about a film I've been in, and they haven't realized I was in it.

  Helen McCrory

  Talking, People, Film

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Artists use frauds to make human beings seem more wonderful than they really are. Dancers show us human beings who move much more gracefully than human beings really move. Films and books and plays show us people talking much more entertainingly than people really talk, make paltry human enterprises seem important. Singers and musicians show us human beings making sounds far more lovely than human beings really make. Architects give us temples in which something marvelous is obviously going on. Actually, practically nothing is going on.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Moving, Book, Artist

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