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Anybody who's been married to a man for forty odd years...

Anybody who's been married to a man for forty odd years knows he's all talk.

Quote by Michael Parkinson about marriage, man

It's a funny thing, but when people talk about jazz piano nowadays they seem to overlook Earl, and I don't know why, because he had perfect musical taste.

Quote by Michael Parkinson about humor, perfection, things, people

I think maybe the rural influence in my life helped me in...

I think maybe the rural influence in my life helped me in a sense, of knowing how to get close to people and talk to them and get my work done.

Quote by Gordon Parks about influence, common sense, sense, work, life, people

If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad...

If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words.

Quote by Dolly Parton about music, bad luck, bad, country, word, things, contentment

If I were sufficiently romantic I suppose I'd have killed myself long ago just to make people talk about me. I haven't even got the conviction to make a successful drunkard.

Quote by John Dos Passos about haven, people

In April 1998, I had the honour of being invited to give...

In April 1998, I had the honour of being invited to give a talk in Monte Carlo in the presence of the late Crown Prince Albert of Monaco.

Quote by Cynthia Payne about honour, being

Be interesting, be enthusiastic and don't talk too much.

Be interesting, be enthusiastic and don't talk too much.

Quote by Norman Vincent Peale about enthusiasm

True there has been more talk of peace since 1945 than, I should think, at any other time in history. At least we hear more and read more about it because man's words, for good or ill, can now so easily reach the millions.

Quote by Lester B. Pearson about history, peace, word, good, good luck, time, man

Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never...

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

Quote by Dale Carnegie about attention, life

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with kings--nor lose the common touch, If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you; If all men count with you, but none too much, If you can fill the unforgiving minute With...

Quote by Rudyard Kipling about people, contentment, common sense, virtue, man, earth

Should I understand that love is the reverse of out life, that it is death? That we live in this life in which we hope to have the chance to love, so to die? Let me drink from the glass of your voluptuousness down to the depths of my being so...

Quote by Sorin Cerin about love, death, angels, proudness, vanity, drinking, life, contentment, destiny, world

Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about...

Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - but it is terrible when one has to live it.

Quote by Jean Anouilh about life, books, history, things

Of every ten persons who talk about you, nine will say...

Of every ten persons who talk about you, nine will say something bad, and the tenth will say something good in a bad way.

Quote by Antoine de Rivarol about opinion, bad luck, people, bad, good, good luck, contentment

We must not always talk in the market-place of what...

We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.

Quote by Nathaniel Hawthorne about opinion, stores

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

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

Quote by Carl Sandburg about friendship, moon

The less men think, the more they talk.

The less men think, the more they talk.

Quote by Charles Montesquieu about people, man

We should be like the mountains... they talk with the heights... they watch after the depths... they fight with the wind... they melt under the sun... they kiss with the moon... they collect the tears from the clouds... and never complain...

YQuote by Yasar Memedemin about dream, kiss, moon, tears, sun, fight

To speak and to speak well, are two things. A fool may...

To speak and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.

Quote by Benjamin Jonson about talking, things, man

We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives...

We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.

Quote by Phyllis Diller about education, teaching, children

Never speak of yourself to others; make them talk about themselves instead: therein lies the whole art of pleasing. Everyone knows it and everyone forgets it.

Quote by Edmond de Goncourt about contentment, art, magic

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