Quotes of: Topical Keyword

The longer I'm alive, the more I realize how little I know. Pretending that you know everything about every topic, and being very vocal about it? That's an instant turnoff.

Jennifer Morrison

In the late 1950s a major topic under discussion was whether Canada should acquire nuclear weapons.

John Charles Polanyi

We journalists make it a point to know very little about an extremely wide variety of topics; this is how we stay objective.

Dave Barry

Foreign languages are another favourite topic, and as these men are bilingual they have a fair notion of what it means to speak and think in many different idioms.

John Millington Synge

Steve Martin said that philosophy is good for comedy because it screws up your thinking just enough, and I agree with that. Being forced to see life's metadata is good training for looking for interesting angles on a topic.

Chris Hardwick

I spent my time trying to understand grand jury procedure - a topic about which I never before had the slightest interest.

Donella Meadows

Captain Dudley Smith: Wendell - I'd like full and docile co-operation on every topic.

L.A. Confidential

Esmeralda: So what does it feel like to kill a man with your bare hands? It's a topic I'm very interested in.

Pulp Fiction

Of course, sometimes when you write personally, you are also writing about society, obliquely reflecting topical issues, but not in a way that people would expect you to or in the way that someone trying to make a point would.

Suzanne Vega

I'm a student of the movies. I'm a student of all media. This is what I do, and I like to immerse myself in what's current and what's topical. And I find that I'm drawn to those things.

Ian Ziering

I just like making people laugh, and buried in that I like to bring up topics and start discussions.

Albert Brooks

I'd think of a topic and just rant on it and transfer it to the computer, upload it. It's such a quick thing. You post it on your website and after an hour, 10 people write comments.

Andy Milonakis

I am still of opinion that only two topics can be of the least interest to a serious and studious mood - sex and the dead.

William Butler Yeats

There are gentle souls who would pronounce Lolita meaningless because it does not teach them anything. I am neither a reader nor a writer of didactic fiction, and, despite John Ray's assertion, Lolita has no moral in tow. For me a work of fiction exi...

Lolita

Doctors; all they do is make you worse and take all your money. That's a general statement.

On Christian Hot Topics

Art and money are closely related. Try sitting down with a group of artists and ask them what's on their mind. Very quickly the topic shifts to money. And it can be very hard to get them off that subject.

Dave Winer

He could be as memorable an orator as his father, particularly when he was speaking on that topic that had captured his imagination;

Master of the Senate

I threw an etiquette party and served nothing but beans and sparkling water. The topic of conversation was ‘excuse me’.

Some Inspiration for the Overenthusiastic

I feel like it's always a good sign when you find yourself talking for hours about every topic ever. It's best when you just find the person interesting for no apparent reason.

David Lambert

For a heterosexual man - I know that's a hotly debated topic, but only among those who don't know me - I have grown to really appreciate fashion.

Rodger Berman

My colleague Bill Keegan has written a very short book ('Saving the World?') on an unlikely topic - he is the first economist to try to rehabilitate Gordon Brown.

Simon Hoggart