A flu pandemic is when it really gets widespread worldwide and that’s what we’re talking about — the type of influenza that would be easily transmitted between our population.

Sometimes we have to let our eyes do the talking.

The trouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven’t thought of yet.

If a candidate for office starts talking about thinning the deer population or investing in barriers to reduce the number of deer on the highways, the other side will probably just ignore him, because they’re...

I considered the concept of “oversharing”, and what undersharing might be, and whether it was ever possible to settle on something in between.

I found love in the arms of another woman. Who needs two legs, a torso, or talking?

The only woman I’d want to go on a blind date with is Helen Keller. Maybe we could meet for coffee and I could listen while she doesn’t all the talking.

It was very hard to get any records, so the only source for us to really hear what was happening was listening to the Voice of America. We would be taping all the broadcast and...

Well, I usually can’t, but neither the book nor the conversation is particularly intellectually challenging.

It was always this way: The more people talked, the more they obscured. You didn’t need to argue for the truth. You could see it.

I’m a walking, talking enigma.

I don’t like the idea of talking down to kids. I think I was talked down to, and you rebel against that.

I’d much rather be playing songs than talking to people.

You don’t talk much, do you, angel-face? I like that in a woman.

The problem with me is, I guess, the way I express myself, you have to be with me 50 years before you can get a sense of what I’m talking about.

I can let the team do the talking for me.

Hugging trees has a calming effect on me. I’m talking about enormous trees that will be there when we are all dead and gone. I’ve hugged trees in every part of this little island.

Our chief defect is that we are more given to talking about things than to doing them.

In one case out of a hundred a point is excessively discussed because it is obscure; in the ninety-nine remaining it is obscure because it is excessively discussed.

The thought of talking about it made Pueblo’s gut ache, but then he thought of everything that Amy had been through – not that she’d told him her version yet. She had balls of steel,...

Everyone knows that Israel has nuclear weapons, but no one is talking about it. The world doesn’t want nuclear weapons – not in Israel, not in the Middle East and not anywhere in the world.

Talking about Apple v. Microsoft without mentioning the Internet and the browser is like talking about WWII without talking about the nuke. Framing the conversation just in terms of open v. closed operating systems, the...

When you’re talking about people like Shonda Rhimes, Vince Gilligan or Beau Willimon, you’re talking to people who are notable and celebrities in their own right. People want to know how their brains work.

I always get a little bit frustrated with Republicans, because we always talk about job creators, and really who we should be talking to is their employees.

Like a good Indian, he knew when to talk and when to remain silent. Like a good Indian, he knew there was never a good time to talk.

I’m only talking to one person here. If that’s you, then you need to shut up and listen. If it’s not, then you need to shut up because no one’s talking to you.

People shouldn’t just talk about you, they should tell your tales.

I’m not going to let people get away with either a dishonest or inaccurate premise to what we’re talking about because I think that does the viewer a disturbance.

I always keep the weather in my pocket, so no matter where I go, I always have something to talk about. Sudden thunderstorms embarrass me.

Writing is a great way of talking with an endless audience for never-ending time.

But saying stuff, even if it’s good, isn’t enough. Dad never did anything, he just talked about it. Even I knew you needed plans.

To most people, if you’re muttering, you might as well be speaking a foreign language. I should know, because in college I took two years of muttering.

Betsy liked to talk. Her father always said she got it from her mother, and her mother always said she got it from her father. But whomever she got it from she was certainly a...

I love to hear myself talk, because I get so much instruction and moral upheaval out of it.

You would do well to guard your tongue, lest it be stricken from you.

The act of seeing any film generally is you knowing more than the characters, even if it’s the classic Hitchcock shot of two people talking and a bomb being under the table. Part of the...

Every Westerner is jubilating that the Berlin Wall has fallen. Something worst than the Berlin Wall is in Palestine; and nobody is talking about it.

The word ‘listen’ contains the same letters as the word ‘silent’.

There comes a moment during a job interview when you’re still talking, but you might as well take off your shoes.

The Soyuz craft weighs tons, and you’re lying on the floor of it on your back. But the Russians do tell you, remember, before you land, stop talking so you don’t bite your tongue off.

If you love me, wait until you meet my clone!

I am becoming morbidly obese as we speak. So what’s the solution? To stop talking.

My store, Wine Library, outsells big national chains. How do you think we do it? It started with hustle. I always say that our success wasn’t due to my hundreds of online videos about wine...

When people don’t like the film, I can take a bullet. I don’t mind you talking about me, but I’m protective of my actors, because they bared their soul for me.

Never get a mime talking. He won’t stop.

Ultimately, I’m a mess. I don’t mean I’m a mess, like, emotionally – I mean, I think probably everybody’s a mess. David’s a mess. But. I’m talking about… I’m messy.

Hollywood is like being nowhere and talking to nobody about nothing.

Congratulations. You should paint those visions of paradise rather than just talking about them.I’ll begin with you.

We have two ears and one mouth and we should use them proportionally.

People love to talk but hate to listen. Listening is not merely not talking, though even that is beyond most of our powers; it means taking a vigorous, human interest in what is being told...