Talking To Someone Quotes

• A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.

  Donna Roberts

  Best Friend, Friendship, Relationship

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• Inspiration can hit you in the head at any time in any context. It could happen in a conversation. Talking to someone at a party, you can get an idea. But you've got to remember those inspirations.

  James Cameron

  Party, Inspiration, Talking

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• If you want to write about people, you can make it up. But if you spend time talking to someone and examining what it is you want to write about, you discover a level of detail that you wouldn't have noticed otherwise.

  Dave Eggers

  Writing, Talking, People

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• In my personal life, I will do whatever it takes to make a situation comfortable if I sense - if I'm talking to someone [and] I sense there's a silence, I'll try to fill that gap. It makes me very anxious when things get uncomfortable.

  Nathan Fielder

  Talking, Silence, Trying

  "Nathan For You's star confronts the A.V. Club mom who scorned him". Interview with Bonney Teti, tv.avclub.com. October 15, 2015.

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• The only way I can possibly heat my so-called mind up to working temperature is to imagine I'm talking to someone I admire.

  James Tiptree Jr.

  Talking, Mind, Way

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• I chop a lot of onions because I love cooking, and the times where I've never cried chopping onions is when I'm not thinking about it, when I'm talking to someone or I'm listening to music.

  Emily Blunt

  Thinking, Talking, Cooking

  The MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca. 2012.

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• After all, most writing is done away from the typewriter, away from the desk. I'd say it occurs in the quiet, silent moments, while you're walking or shaving or playing a game, or whatever, or even talking to someone you're not vitally interested in.

  Henry Miller

  Writing, Typewriters, Talking

  Henry Miller, Frank L. Kersnowski (1994). “Conversations with Henry Miller”, Univ Pr of Mississippi

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• If I'm talking to someone and they're feeling a certain way, I will definitely tie into that very quickly. You have to learn to read emotions and feelings when you grow up in a family with four brothers - especially if three of them are a lot bigger than you.

  Henry Cavill

  Brother, Growing Up, Talking

  Interview with Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 31, 2013.

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• I do feel that I'm talking to someone who's in a totally different place from where I was when I started modeling. I was fortunate enough to have the wonderful designers and amazing photographers around me, and editors that I knew, and if I wanted to ask a question, I asked them. So that gap has broadened a bit.

  Naomi Campbell

  Talking, Editors, Different

  Interview Magazine Interview, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 12, 2013.

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• I remember talking to someone early on after I was sober about how I suddenly felt awkward at parties. They said, 'Well, you're supposed to. Everyone feels awkward at parties.' It's an appropriate feeling to feel.

  Craig Ferguson

  Party, Talking, Awkward

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• I couldn't possibly explain why the common person would be against something like that. It's all rooted in sexual hang-ups. The whole institution of marriage itself really has no place in a progressive society. I don't know why anyone would want to get married heterosexually, so why they'd be against homosexual marriage is flummoxing. I only use that word when I'm talking to someone from the British press.

  Doug Stanhope

  Homosexual Marriage, Talking, Would Be

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• I feel like the older I get, the truer it feels that I'm only going have an investment in a poem if it allows or forces me to bring something that's supremely me onto the page. I used to think that the speaker of a poem was talking to someone else, to some ideal reader or listener, but now I think that speakers - poets - are talking to themselves. The poem allows you to pose questions that you have you ask of yourself knowing that they are unanswerable.

  Tracy K. Smith

  Thinking, Knowing, Talking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• There is nothing harder, at moments, than talking to someone who has all the power of silence.

  Elizabeth Kostova

  Talking, Silence, Moments

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• I know Mark,' I reply. 'And I don't like him.' 'But I do. And part of being social means being civil to someone you don't like.' 'That's stupid. It's a huge world. why not just get up and walk away?' 'Because that's rude,' Jess explains. 'I think it's rude to stick a smile on your face and pretend you like talking to someone when in reality you'd rather be sticking bamboo slivers under your fingernails.

  Jodi Picoult

  Stupid, Mean, Reality

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• I remember talking to someone who is vegan. At the time, I would hear a lot of outrageous claims from vegans about the good that being a vegan can do for you, for your health and whatnot. I remember someone once told me vegans don't sweat, so I started my mind going.

  Bryan Lee O'Malley

  Talking, Sweat, Mind

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• If I was talking to someone face-to-face I would always be clear, but with something like Snapchat, you need to keep the flirty banter going;otherwise you'll be staring at an empty red arrow, cringing.

  Holly Carpenter

  Flirty, Arrows, Talking

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• When I run into a person or a kid that comes up and gives me the spiel about, 'Hey, I got your record at this time in my life, and it really helped me,' that stuff totally still rings true. If you're standing there talking to someone, it's really easy to tell if they're being authentic or not. And that's great.

  Conor Oberst

  Running, Kids, Talking

  "Conor Oberst of Bright Eyes". Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. December 11, 2007.

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• The problem is in the type of energy that is directed, either in the act of sex or simply walking down the street or talking to someone.

  Frederick Lenz

  Sex, Women, Talking

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• When you talk to a human in 2035, you'll be talking to someone that's a combination of biological and non-biological intelligence.

  Ray Kurzweil

  Talking, Combination, Humans

  "Don't drunk text your ex: artist offers a cringe-free alternative" by Leigh Alexander, www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2016.

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• This is what my voice sounds like I don't need to be talking to someone else To hear it

  David Levithan

  Talking, Voice, Sound

  David Levithan (2008). “The Realm of Possibility”, p.188, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• When I'm talking to someone I think 'can I use this dialogue in a book,'" said Luis. "If the answer is no I try talking to someone else.

  Tao Lin

  Book, Thinking, Talking

  Tao Lin (2009). “Shoplifting from American Apparel”, Melville House Pub

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• I love therapy! There's nothing like talking to someone who has no emotional tie to your life

  Eva Mendes

  Emotional, Talking, Ties

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• You're talking to someone who has been married to various people for the last 40 years of her life. Dating is not really something familiar. I've never really been a dater.

  Stockard Channing

  Talking, Years, People

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

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• Your talking to someone who really understands rock music.

  Tipper Gore

  Music, Rocks, Talking

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• I think the greatest thing we give each other is encouragement...knowing that I'm talking to someone in this mentoring relationship who's interested in the big idea here is very, very important to me. I think if it were just about helping me get to the next step, it would be a heck of a lot less interesting.

  Anne Sweeney

  Encouragement, Thinking, Talking

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