Quotes of: Small-talk Keyword

Getting to a higher spiritual level is like increasing your credit score. You get a lot more points for sinning and repenting than if you have no credit history at all.

Smooth Talking Stranger

[Short Talk on the Sensation of Airplane Takeoff] Well you know I wonder, it could be love running toward my life with its arms up yelling

Short Talks

The thing about language is that once you start getting analytical about it, you can't stop.

Sold on Language: How Advertisers Talk to You and What This Says about You

You always know the mark of a coward. A coward hides behind freedom. A brave person stands in front of freedom and defends it for others.

Talk is Cheap: Volume 1

I alternate between thinking of the planet as home - dear and familiar stone hearth and garden - and as a hard land of exile in which we are all sojourners.

Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters

You do not have to sit outside in the dark. If, however, you want to look at the stars, you will find that darkness is necessary. But the stars neither require nor demand it.

Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters

Enough about my beauty," Buttercup said. "Everybody always talks about how beautiful I am. I've got a mind, Westley. Talk about that.

The Princess Bride

Too many people talk about the weather, and not enough people talk about agriculture. When somebody says to me, "Beautiful weather we're having,” I always reply, "Irrigation and crop rotation.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

Like a good Indian, he knew when to talk and when to remain silent. Like a good Indian, he knew there was never a good time to talk.

The Toughest Indian in the World

I'm no longer quite sure what the question is, but I do know that the answer is Yes.

The Unanswered Question: Six Talks at Harvard (Charles Eliot Norton Lectures)

To think that realistic fiction is by definition superior to imaginative fiction is to think imitation is superior to invention.

The Wave in the Mind: Talks & Essays on the Writer, the Reader & the Imagination

Not that happiness is dull. Only that it doesn't tell well. And of our consuming diversions as we age is to recite, not only to others but to ourselves, our own story.

We Need to Talk About Kevin

Needing kindness myself, I am kinder now, and we get on amazingly well. [p. 110]

We Need to Talk About Kevin

But the one thing he could not have imagined is that we were withholding nothing. That there was nothing on the other side of our silly rules; nothing.

We Need to Talk About Kevin

I want you to have the best of everything I can give you. And I'm not talking money here, Tru. I'm talking memories. Our life together.

Wethering the Storm

There is no certain way that exists permanently... Moment after moment we have to find our own way.

Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

Those who are attached only to the result of their effort will not have any chance to appreciate it, because the result will never come.

Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

If you think you will get something from practicing zazen, already you are involved in impure practice.

Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

You should rather be grateful for the weeds, because eventually they will enrich your practice.

Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

But the way of practice is just to be concentrated on your breathing with the right posture and with great, pure effort.

Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

Just continue in your calm, ordinary practice and your character will be built up.

Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice