Anybody, providing he knows how to be amusing, has the right to talk about himself.
Charles Baudelaire

I won't talk about what it was like in prison, except to say I'm glad I'm out and that I plan never to go back and to pay my taxes every day.
Richard Pryor

A lot of knowledge in any kind of an organization is what we call task knowledge. These are things that people who have been there a long time understand are important, but they may not know how to talk about them. It's often called the culture of the organization.
Howard Gardner

But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.
George Eliot

If I can go from burglar for the government to talk show host, you can go from entertainer to congressman.
G. Gordon Liddy

I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension.
Norman Mailer

Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.
Robert Louis Stevenson

All politicians should have 3 hats - one to throw into the ring, one to talk through, and one to pull rabbits out of if elected.
Carl Sandburg

The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.
Carl Sandburg

I don't like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is amusing to coquette with an echo for a little while, but one soon tires of it.
Thomas Carlyle

If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.
Thomas Carlyle

Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
Thomas Carlyle

Talk not of wasted affection - affection never was wasted.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

If you talk to God, you are praying. If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
Thomas Szasz

When we talk to God, we're praying. When God talks to us, we're schizophrenic.
Jane Wagner

If the dead talk to you, you are a spiritualist; if God talks to you, you are a schizophrenic.
Thomas Szasz

There are cultural issues everywhere - in Bangladesh, Latin America, Africa, wherever you go. But somehow when we talk about cultural differences, we magnify those differences.
Muhammad Yunus

You know, I think whatever a comic talks about onstage is all they talk about offstage.
Sarah Silverman

I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions.
Dorothy Day

Other famous men, those of much talk and few deeds, soon evaporate. Action is the dignity of greatness.
Jose Marti