All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.
Bob Dylan

In the dime stores and bus stations, people talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, draw conclusions on the wall.
Bob Dylan

If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.
Oscar Wilde

Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
Oscar Wilde

If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.
Oscar Wilde

When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
Ernest Hemingway

When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.
John Adams

People want a cop-out, listen I'm a realist and I talk about motivation, talk about all the things it takes to be greater or are important to win and people want to use excuses all the time.
Mike Ditka

It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.
Dale Carnegie

The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.
Dale Carnegie

Talk low, talk slow and don't say too much.
John Wayne

If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.
Jane Austen

The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it's usually lousy.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Many interviewers when they come to talk to me, think they're being progressive by not mentioning in their stories any longer that I'm black. I tell them, 'Don't stop now. If I shot somebody you'd mention it.'
Colin Powell

Don't talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner

We talk about heaven being so far away. It is within speaking distance to those who belong there. Heaven is a prepared place for a prepared people.
Dwight L. Moody

Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.
Plutarch

There's been a lot of talk of me being a one-man show but that's simply not the case. We win games when I score 40 points and we've won when I score 10.
Kobe Bryant

When you talk about a great actor, you're not talking about Tom Cruise.
Lauren Bacall