Top 1200 Talking Too Much Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

As for the American child's classic problem - too much mother, too little father - that would be cured by an equalization of parental responsibility.

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

I like you, but not too much. I don’t want to like anybody too much.

I'll never forget John Heard doing Shakespeare In The Park with Raul Julia and Richard Dreyfuss. It was 30 years ago, I guess. It was Othello, and John Heard played Cassio, and while everyone else was "Acting!" Heard came on talking normal, and everyone in the audience was leaning in to follow him. I wasn't doing that in Bus Stop. I think in that performance, I was putting it out a little too much.

The key to acting has much more to do with listening than with talking.

It's important to take your mind off football; otherwise, you become too obsessed, and you look into things too much.

Principles aren't something you hear much from politicians these days. Have you noticed? Right across the board, leaders, whatever the political coloring, avoid talking about laws; they avoid talking about principles. They talk about 'our values.' But values can change, and all our packets of 'values' seem to be getting smaller.

There's no such thing as too much. If there's too much, then that's a great thing.

You can't come back to TV for two months. It's too short. You can't start anything. It's too much of a tease and there's really nowhere you can go.

With the horse I always consider that if I do too much in too little time and I'm not patient, he's gonna shut down and I won't get anything done.

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

Mothers are doing a better job talking about risk, danger, reproduction, consent, unwanted pregnancy. We're not talking about how to balance the risks and joys and we're really not talking about the joys.

As for the clarity of the 48 frames, I've heard people say that it looks odd, it's too demanding, there's too much information, you don't know where to look.

Most movies are too brightly lit. I think that may come from a lot of directors having watched too much TV.

I wonder if one can view risk like a drug, beneficial to the organism in the proper dose. Too much or too little may be harmful.

I don't like talking about climbing that much. You don't have to discuss; just do it.

One of the problems I have with a lot of movies these days is that everything is too well lit. In the world of digital creations there is a tendency to show too much

That's the danger of having too much success. You lose that magic, that feeling of not being in control, which I feel now, it's too controlled.

I was gushing and I knew it. I surprised myself with my eagerness to please, felt myself saying too much, explaining too much, overinvolved and overexcited in the way you are when you're a kid and you think you've found a soul mate in the new boy down the street and you feel yourself drawn by the force of the courtship and so act as you don't normally do and a lot more openly than you may even want to.

I don't think you can ever do too much. Life would be so boring if you didn't have these, like, holes to fall into and climb out of. I want to do everything. I just want everything. I don't think you can ever have too much.

I remember, the first few years here, I didn't like London much: too big, too crowded, the physical difficulty of getting around.

Silence is a learned practice that requires far more than just not talking. Not talking is not silence; it's just not talking.

The age seems sore from excess of stimulation, just as a day or two after a thorough Debauch and long sustained Drinking-match a man feels all over like a Bruise. Even to admire otherwise than on the whole and where "I admire" is but a synonyme for "I remember, I liked it very much when I was reading it ," is too much an effort, would be too disquieting an emotion!

One key factor in the downward spiral in our educational system is that there is too much stroking and too little real feedback.

I've worked on other shows where the sense is like, "Well, don't change it too much," you know? But on this one [ Too Much Tuna], Nick [Kroll] and John [Mulaney] - beyond being amazing performers - are also writers, and wanted to keep improving upon the show, particularly the play within a play. I think the writing just got funnier and funnier.

I know unless I'm true to myself I couldn't be happy. Too much emphasis is placed today on externals and too little on character.

I am woman, hear me roar, in numbers too big to ignore, and I know too much to go back and pretend.

Instead of talking about accomplishments, we are talking about stupidity and intelligence reporting that is based on facts that's not coming out of the actual heads of these intelligence agencies. And we are sitting here talking about it. And it is a shame, and it needs to end.

In the last quarter of the 20th century, Britons have been understandably obsessed with the problem of having too little power in the world. In the third quarter of the 18th century, by contrast, their forebears were perplexed by the problem of having acquired too much power too quickly over too many people.

I have a simple rule: when I'm on TV, I'm not talking to just my anchor or my colleague on my right. I'm talking to America. I look into the lens, and in my head, I'm talking to somebody in Nebraska. Why Nebraska? Why the Cornhusker State? I have no idea. But it feels like it's a good place to talk to people.

I very much like "Canada, the adults are talking" stance.

In Sweden, we have what is called 'The Finnish Disease.' It consists of not talking much, or at all.

The phrase 'fake news' sounds too playful, too much like a schoolchild faking illness to get out of a test.

Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing... you are talking about the Internet, you are talking about cell phones, you are talking about computers. This doesn't affect two-thirds of the people of the world.

Focus too much on the near-term and you won't get tomorrow's customers, focus too much on the long-term and you won't get today's.

Too many commercials. Too many lies. Too many celebrities. I don't recognize. Too many brand names. Too many magazines. I got so much sensation, I can't feel a thing. Simple. Living. Got to get to simple - living. Simple living. Simple... simply living.

So too Plato was, in my view, a very unreliable Platonist. He was too much of a philosopher to think that anything he had said was the last word.

Oh, no no no, it was too cold always (Still the dead one lay moaning) I was much too far out all my life And not waving but drowning.

Future shock is the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time.

Everything was too sharp and clear, so that I could never tell where to start- the way a map that shows too much can sometimes be useless.

I wrote 'Hereafter' quickly and without mapping it out too much or being too schematic. As an exercise, I think that was incredibly important.

Everybody is so busy talking about 'Twittering' and talking about the new technologies and talking about this and that, but they don't talk about creativity.

I do believe that power needs to be returned to the states. I think that we've got way too much power in Washington. This is where I'm focused: way too much power in Washington.

Have compassion for all beings, rich and poor alike; each has their suffering. Some suffer too much, others too little.

A slice of hot, buttered toast is the perfect meal. It's not too much and not too little, and it gives you just the right buzz.

One of the big mistakes Republicans made with the Contract with America is that they tried to do too much too fast, and people revolted against it.

You know, I think everybody I've seen has come from some other therapy, and almost invariably it's very much the same thing: the therapist is too disinterested, a little too aloof, a little too inactive. They're not really interested in the person, he doesn't relate to the person. All these things I've written so much about. That's why I've made such a practice really, over and over to hammer home the point of self-revelation and being more of yourself and showing yourself. Every book I write I want to get that in there.

But Peter had seen too much, knew too well that men-kind didn't need an excuse to be cruel and murder one another.

Perhaps we have been misguided into taking too much responsibility from our children, leaving them too little room for discovery

I wonder if ever again Americans can have that experience of returning to a home place so intimately known, profoundly felt, deeply loved, and absolutely submitted to? It is not quite true that you can't go home again. I have done it, coming back here. But it gets less likely. We have had too many divorces, we have consumed too much transportation, we have lived too shallowly in too many places.

Bamboos can go from shining health to shabbiness in weeks. The problem is too much wind, too little water and tired compost.

One of the problems I have with a lot of movies these days is that everything is too well lit. In the world of digital creations there is a tendency to show too much.

In dialogue scenes, my favorite moments are when people aren't talking because you can cut to the heart of the matter much more quickly, often with a look. People hide things in words. When you don't have words to hide things in, it becomes much more direct and much more immediate of a connection.

Nothing brings more pain than too much pleasure; nothing more bondage than too much liberty.

And at some point, the struggle becomes too much-too tiring-and you consider letting go. Allowing tragedy... or whatever... to happen.

A little too much anger, too often or at the wrong time, can destroy more than you would ever imagine.

Too much screaming in Congress. Too much screaming everywhere.

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

I've been talking basketball pretty much my whole life.

I've never read a review from anybody that said, "I don't want to watch this anymore because it's just too funny. I laughed too much."