She had a hit for every syllable: 'Don't. You. Ever. Talk. To. Me. Like. That. Ever. Again.' That was the last time I ever talked back to Mom.

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.

When I talked to my medical friends about the strange silence on this subject in American medical magazines and textbooks I gained the impression that here was a subject tainted with Socialism or with feminine sentimentality for the poor.

I took anatomy classes. I went to medical libraries and talked to doctors and nutritionists. I did the whole thing before using myself as a human guinea pig.

I never thought I'd spend all my life with Gary. I suppose I was quite cynical about marriage. But with Jude I knew right from the beginning: there was an electricity I'd never felt before. It was so easy we talked for hours. It was a relief really.

There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.

There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about and that is not being talked about.

Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.

I talked about the need for American leadership I talked about the importance of the United States to a more peaceful world a world that has been quite turbulent in recent years and needs a strong American anchor.

The minuses of celebrity include having to live with security and the knowledge that you may be stalked.

We did it Disneyland in the knowledge that most of the people I talked to thought it would be a financial disaster - closed and forgotten within the first year.

Well our position and our chairman has talked about this extensively is that we had a lot of intelligence prior to 9/11. We knew that two al Qaeda operatives who ultimately participated in the 9/11 disaster were in the United States. We didn't find them.

To me the Seventies were very inspirational and very influential... With my whole persona as Snoop Dogg as a person as a rapper. I just love the Seventies style the way all the players dressed nice you know kept their hair looking good drove sharp cars and they talked real slick.

I think almost every writer in the world would hope that books would be always talked about with respect and civility and depth and seriousness.

But as far as Twitter I'll be in a restaurant and I'll get home and somebody tweeted and they talked about what I ordered and what I was wearing. In some cases that could be dangerous because you don't want everybody to know where you are every second of every day.

But let me tell you this gender thing is history. You're looking at a guy who sat down with Margaret Thatcher across the table and talked about serious issues.

I don't think that there's been one example in history where somebody has openly talked about their personal life and it's done them any good.

Preachers in pulpits talked about what a great message is in the book. No matter what you do somebody always imputes meaning into your books.

I talked to the players and tried to make them aware of what was good and bad but I didn't try to run their lives.

For example the Prime Minister earlier this year talked about the importance of the Arctic to our future. He's right. A hundred years from now the strength of Canada is going to be coming from our resources in the Arctic.

A ring means a commitment. But more than that it means that you've talked about your shared future and have decided together on a shared vision of it.

President Bush in his inaugural address talked about bringing freedom to countries that don't have it. He didn't specify how.

I've talked to some drummers who seem to have a very hard time staying in shape on the road including some drummers touring with high-profile acts that don't have to live on fast food every night.

There is a lot of hype and fear about this much-talked-about prospect of designer babies.