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The clock talked loud I threw it away, it scared me what...

The clock talked loud I threw it away, it scared me what it talked.

Quote by Tillie Olsen about time

Suddenly I was the man who got the part that every actor in the English language was trying to get. I was really scared. I had talked the talk, and now I had to walk the walk. For three days, I couldn't answer the phone.

Quote by F. Murray Abraham about language, day, actors, man

My relatives used to laugh when I talked of being a writer.

My relatives used to laugh when I talked of being a writer.

Quote by Taylor Caldwell about writers, being

I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.

Quote by Charles Dickens about honesty, idea, bad luck, bad, man, day, face

I have drifted away from thinking about these philanthropic things. And it was only as the wealth got large enough and Melinda and I had talked about the view that that wealth wasn't something that would be good to just pass to the children.

Quote by Bill Gates about wealth, thinking, children, things, good, good luck

I don't like to be talked into anything. I don't want to...

I don't like to be talked into anything. I don't want to be cajoled.

Quote by Dennis Farina

Afterwards I went to Messiaen, in 1953, or something like that. I went just after Boulez and Stockhausen. Messiaen was inspiring when discussing other people's music, and he was unbearable when he talked about his own!

Quote by Luc Ferrari about music, people

When John Kennedy was running for president he came to my neighborhood. It was the hottest day in a century, it was like 9,000 degrees. People came from all over Manhattan to my neighborhood to see this guy who talked about my country, and my part...

Quote by Whoopi Goldberg about country, things, day, people

It's a complete lie, why do people buy these papers? It's not the truth I'm here to say. You know, don't judge a person, do not pass judgement, unless you have talked to them one on one. I don't care what the story is, do not judge them because it...

Quote by Michael Jackson about judges, lie, commerce, people, truth

And I talked to my doctor, and I must admit, you know, I'm sometimes quite renowned for my outbursts and I was just very frustrated, maybe a little frightened.

Quote by Elton John

I talked with Brian Stokes Mitchell, who agreed with me...

I talked with Brian Stokes Mitchell, who agreed with me that if you have a gift there is always stuff to do.

Quote by Estelle Parsons about gifts

What we talked about will have to remain a secret between...

What we talked about will have to remain a secret between him and me. I spoke to him as a brother whom I have pardoned and who has my complete trust.

Quote by Papa John Paul II about secret

By 1980, when I came out of prison, The Sun did a campaign to stop putting vice girls in prison. We've talked about it ever since and nothing has been done about it.

Quote by Cynthia Payne about vice, sun, nothing

A woman's greatest glory is to be little talked about by...

A woman's greatest glory is to be little talked about by men, whether for good or ill.

Quote by Pericles about woman, glory, man, good, good luck

Architecture of the nightClear architecture of the night, discerned with difficulty in the landscape... What hour- shaking being silent in the tower of darkness -death and life together devour them? Nothing untouched and healed. And useless bells...

Quote by Aura Christi about poetry, architecture, night, guilt, difficulties, solitude, dark, silence, heads, past

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