#talkin

So, I'm lying on the couch and Laura walks in and I say, 'Free at last,' and she says 'You're free all right, you're free to do the dishes.' So I say, 'You're talking to the former president, baby,' and she said, 'consider this your new domestic policy agenda.' ↗

— George W. Bush

#baby #consider #couch #dishes #domestic

When I doing dinner theater in high school, I was talking to a woman who had been in the business for a while and I said I want to act, that's all I want to do with my life and she said if you're serious then you need to hone every discipline you can. ↗

— Blair Underwood

#been #business #dinner #discipline #doing

Whether you were talking about Pillsbury, Burger King, Godfather's, the National Restaurant Association, in each one of those situations, I had a daunting problem that I had to solve. And I used the same business principles to approach the problem and, more importantly, solve the problem in every one of the situations. ↗

— Herman Cain

#approach #association #burger #burger king #business

Oh, good. You're starting to talk about yourself in the third person. That's not a sign of impending megalomania or anything. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#simon-lewis #talking

First sign of madness, talking to your own head. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#madness #talking

If you weren't driving, I'd kiss you senseless," I tell him. He swerves to the side of the road and stops the car abruptly. "Not driving any more. ↗

— Melina Marchetta

#talking

Do I dazzle you? ↗

— Stephenie Meyer

#edward-cullen #flirtation #sweet-talk #talking

Shay sometimes talked in a mysterious way, like she was quoting the lyrics of some band no one else listened to. ↗

— Scott Westerfeld

#fma #full-metal-alchemist #lyrics #on-quotes #quote

And then a scholar said, "Speak of talking." And he answered, saying: "And when you can no longer dwell in the solitude of your heart you live in your lips, and sound is a diversion and a pastime. ↗

— Kahlil Gibran

#diversity

... all this talking, this rather liquid confessing, was something I didn't think I could ever bring myself to do. It seemed foolhardy to me, like an uncooked egg deciding to to come out of its shell: there would be a risk of spreading out too far, turning into a formless puddle. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#introverts #talking #introvert