Famous quotes containing the word talking:
“Suppose they had saved up all my punishments? she went on, talking more to herself than to the kitten. What would they do at the end of a year? I should be sent to prison, I suppose, when the day came. Orlet me seesuppose each punishment was to be going without a dinner: then, when the miserable day came, I should have to go without fifty dinners at once! Well, I shouldnt mind that much! Id far rather go without them than eat them!”
—Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (18321898)
“What Im saying is that a lot of behavior that you are talking about is a direct response of people not having a future, or feeling that they dont have a future.”
—William Julius Wilson (b. 1935)
“In talking with scholars, I observe that they lost on ruder companions those years of boyhood which alone could give imaginative literature a religious and infinite quality in their esteem.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)