A Quote by Earl Long

Don't write anything you can phone. Don't phone anything you can talk. Don't talk anything you can whisper. Don't whisper anything you can smile. Don't smile anything you can nod. Don't nod anything you can wink.

Earl Long

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Earl Long
American - Politician
August 26, 1895 - September 5, 1960

It was not a big smile, not particularly bold or polite or ironic or glib, not asking for anything or offering anything, not stringy or careless, not, in short, like any smile I had ever experienced before. But such a smile! You could burn a hole in the world with that smile.

Meg Rosoff

That's why when major badasses greet each other in movies, they don't say anything, they just nod. The nod means, 'I' am a badass, and I recognize that you, too, are a badass,' but they don't say anything because they're Wolverine and Magneto and it would mess up their vibe to explain.

Cassandra Clare

Amy felt her phone vibrate. She held it up. It was from Ian. DON'T ASK THE PRICE OF ANYTHING. DON'T SMILE. DON'T SAY "DO YOU HAVE ANYTHING CHEAPER?" DON'T Amy shoved the phone back in her pocket. "Just pretend to be Ian," she told Dan.

Judy Blundell

Never write when you can talk. Never talk when you can nod. And never put anything in an e-mail.

Eliot Spitzer

I don't do anything malicious or anything in a negative manner. I'm all about positivity and making people smile is positive.

JaVale McGee

I love anything to do with kids, anything to better our youth and put a smile on anybody's face is really what I do it for.

DeAndre Jordan

There was a dream that was Rome. You could only whisper it. Anything more than a whisper and it would vanish, it was so fragile.

Richard Harris

I feel that everyone who wants to say anything, do anything, should be able to say anything or do anything, within the limits of not hurting another person.

Madalyn Murray O'Hair

No, I don't regret anything at this point. That may change on the next phone call, but at the moment I don't regret anything.

William Shatner

By an object, I mean anything that we can think, i.e. anything we can talk about.

Charles Sanders Peirce

You're a very difficult person to manipulate, you know." "Nonsense," he said. "You just have to promise me that I won't have to do a thing, and then I'll do anything you want." "Anything?" "Anything that doesn't require doing anything." "That's nothing, then." "Is it?" "Yes." "Well, that's something.

Brandon Sanderson

I write about different things. Anything that has affected me. Anything that I have liked. Anything that I feel strongly about. Any experience.

Tabu

A poem can use anything to talk about anything.

Jane Hirshfield

On the contrary, it's because somebody knows something about it that we can't talk about physics . It's the things that nobody knows anything about that we can discuss. We can talk about the weather; we can talk about social problems; we can talk about psychology; we can talk about international finance gold transfers we can't talk about, because those are understood so it's the subject that nobody knows anything about that we can all talk about!

Richard P. Feynman

Basically you can do anything in a film. I could have place a spaceship in the middle of a street. You can do anything, and I love to talk about this because is so organic to the process.

Kleber Mendonca Filho

I can’t talk about anything or write about anything if I don’t understand it. So a lot of the stuff that I go through and a lot of the time that I spend is understanding.

Alton Brown

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