Quotes about talking
Israelmore Ayivor - Daily Drive 365
You can’t be living always in the promise of the clouds it must rain now. Leave the talking and live by walking… It will yield an indelible impact!
William S. Hart - My Life East & West
The bigness of the West makes men quiet they seldom talk unless they have something to say.
Debasish Mridha M.D. -
Enjoy the vacation without going enjoy the conversation without talking.
Shannon L. Alder -
Peace can only be achieved by a contrite spirit, open communication and tolerance.
T.F. Hodge - From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"
I'll date you, love...not you and your iPad. I can't feel plastic palm play; I'm live like Memorex.
Aleksandra Ninkovic - Better to be able to love than to be loveable
It's far more important why is being said, than what.
Dark Jar Tin Zoo - Love Quotes for the Ages. Specifically Ages 19-91.
We had an unspoken love for one another. Probably because she’d never talk to me or return my phone calls or texts.
Austin Kleon - Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered
Don’t talk to people you don’t want to talk to, and don’t talk about stuff you don’t want to talk about.
Turcois Ominek -
I like people who can keep the conversation going no matter how random the topic gets.
Mary Mihalic - The 40 Best Business Tips No One's Ever Told You
Make a concise statement clearly and you should only need to say it once.
Charlie Kaufman -
Constantly talking isn't necessarily communicating.
Lydia Davis - The Collected Stories
I can talk for a long time only when it's about something boring.
Donny Miller - Beautiful People with Beautiful Feelings
We don't communicate anymore. We just talk.
E.M. Forster - The Longest Journey
Rickie had a young man's reticence. He generally spoke of “a friend,” “a person I know,” “a place I was at.” When the book of life is opening, our readings are secret, and we are unwilling to give chapter and verse. Mr. Pembroke, who was half way through the volume, and had skipped or forgotten the earlier pages, could not understand Rickie's hesitation, nor why with such awkwardness he should pronounce the harmless dissyllable “Ansell.
Rebekah Crane - The Odds of Loving Grover Cleveland
Isn't it weird that everything that's coming out of my mouth is going directly into the past?
Etgar Keret - The Seven Good Years
Experience has taught me that there are some situations in which it's better to keep quiet. That is, I tried to keep quiet. Life gives me good advice, but sometimes I refuse to take it.
Rachel Kushner - The Flamethrowers
I’d been listening to men talk since I arrived in New York City. That’s what men like to do. Talk. Profess like experts. When one finally came along who didn’t say much, I listened.
William Strunk Jr. - The Elements of Style
Another segment of society that has constructed a language of its own is business. People in business say that toner cartridges are in short supply, that they have updated the next shipment of these cartridges, and that they will finalize their recommendations at the next meeting of the board. They are speaking a language familiar and dear to them. Its portentous nouns and verbs invest ordinary events with high adventure; executives walk among toner cartridges, caparisoned like knights. We shoul
L.M. Montgomery - Anne of Green Gables
I don’t want to talk as much,’ she said, denting her chin thoughtfully with her forefinger. ‘It’s nicer to think dear, pretty thoughts and keep them in one’s heart, like treasures.
Steven Magee -
We have yet to establish a permanent Mars colony for this reason: Trying to colonize Mars with humans is a known suicide mission that no one is talking about.
Peter Gärdenfors -
All communication is a sign of failure. If everybody is pleased with the situation, then there is no need for communication.
Eugene Mirman - The Will to Whatevs: A Guide to Modern Life
If things are really overwhelming and you need to talk, you can give me a call at 347-273-2044.
Louise Bourgeois -
And what’s the use of talking, if you already know that others don’t feel what you feel?
Zach Merrick -
I don’t talk much because talking without thought is not talking at all,
Brenda Ueland -
When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand. Ideas actually begin to grow within us and come to life.
Brandon Sanderson - Firefight
The Gottschalk was a fine weapon."You," I said to it, "are on probation. You'd better impress me."Great. Now I was talking to guns.
Michael Grant - Plague
Why are we sneaking out in the night?” Jack repeated.“I already explained,” Sam snapped. “If you don’t listen—”Taylor jumped in to say, “Because otherwise Astrid would find some way to stop him.” She mimicked Astrid’s voice, injecting it with steel and a tense, condescending tone. “Sam. I am the smartest, hottest girl in the world. So do what I tell you. Good boy. Down, boy. Down!”Sam remained silent, walking steadily just a few feet ahead.Taylor continued, “Oh, Sam, if only you could be as smar
Toni Morrison - Jazz
We women, me and you. Tell me something real. Don’t just say I’m grown and ought to know. I don’t. I’m fifty and I don’t know nothing. What about it? Do I stay with him? I want to, I think. I want… well, I didn’t always… now I want. I want some fat in this life.”“Wake up. Fat or lean, you got just one. This is it.”“You don’t know either, do you?”“I know enough to know how to behave.”“Is that it? Is that all it is?”“Is that all what is?”“Oh shoot! Where the grown people? Is it us?”“Oh, Mama.” Ali
Tom Burns -
Talking about abstract things is important. Having big, wild conversations about concepts like art, music, time travel, and dreams makes it much easier when you’ll eventually need to talk about things like anger, sadness, pain, and love.
Graham Greene -
It's easier to get over a thing" Scobie said, "if you talk about it
Deyth Banger -
Nowadays, you need a good excuse to go and to start talking to someone, as they say it... "You Found a stranger, now you are in real danger.
Deyth Banger -
Do you get the irony?Who is now talking about, who ain't serious?Oh, we gonna do that and that and that and that?… Yeah, yeah You just wanna trick me one more time….
Debasish Mridha -
Writing is a great way of talking with an endless audience for never-ending time.
Jean-Philippe Toussaint - Television
Once again, it seemed, I was discovering the truth of the rule, a rule I'd never explicitly formulated to myself, but whose veracity I'd quite often sensed in a vague sort of way, which was that the chances of seeing an idea through to completion are inversely proportional to the time you've spent talking about it beforehand.
Walter Van Tilburg Clark - The Ox-Bow Incident
I failed, he said, I got talking my ideas. It's my greatest failing.
Diana Vreeland - D.V.
A funny person is funny only for so long, but a wit can sit down and go on being spellbinding forever. One is not meant to laugh. One stays quiet and marvels. Spontaneously witty talk is without question the most fascinating entertainment there is.
Anthony T. Hincks -
Before you open your mouth to say something, take a step back and imagine what you're going to say was said to you.It makes you think twice, doesn't it?
J.D. Salinger - The Catcher in the Rye
But what I mean is, lots of time you don't know what interests you most till you start talking about something that doesn't interest you most.
Pawan Mehra -
I try my best to create a good quote while sitting alone. But I can never create it. Only on talking to you I get lots of lines
Ida Løkås - Det fine som flyter forbi
I don’t care too much about talking, but I don’t like being alone.
Hugh Prather - the Earth Touches Me
No matter what we talk about, we are talking about ourselves
Crystal Woods - Dreaming is for lovers
I had a dream about you last night, for the millionth time! We did what we always do in my dreams. We talked, but we never made out. How come I still dream about you if we never freaking make out?
Ruth Frances Long - The Treachery of Beautiful Things
She was talking to a tree. Just talking to a tree. Totally normal. People probably did it every day here. They're only trees. She fought an insane urge to laugh.
Plato -
Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.
Steven Wright -
I like George Carlin's jokes. I like his humor. He's one of my heroes, and I like what he did with talking about everyday things.
Kevin J. Anderson -
I'm talking to you and it's basically a direct communication, whereas if I'm writing a letter to you and you read the letter, there are like 12 extra deconstruction and reconstruction steps in the communication.
Donald L. Hicks - Look into the stillness
When people talk about you behind your back, they're not just behind you, they're beneath you.
Maggie Stiefvater - The Scorpio Races
It's a strange thing, to be talked about instead of talked to.
Anthony Liccione -
Worse than talking with a mouthful, is gossiping with a mouthful!
August Wilson -
Once I started to value and respect my characters, I could really hear them. I just let them start talking.
Buzz Aldrin -
There are many people talking about access to space and, 'How can we make that cheaper? How can we turn that into a Southwest Airlines versus the big airlines?'
John McEnroe -
I'll let the racket do the talking.
Faith Baldwin -
Sometimes there is a greater lack of communication in facile talking than in silence.
Penn Jillette -
I'm always fascinated by the use of the first-person plural talking about sports.
Galt Niederhoffer - The Romantics
Time passed at an accelerated pace. They could be sitting in traffic or talking on the phone or waiting in line for a movie, and their time felt precious, important, worthwhile.
Kenneth Eade - Russian Holiday
He could see that drinking and conversation were inexorably intertwined and that one did not occur without the other.
Justin Wetch - Bending The Universe
We talk so much yet we have nothing to say.
Marsha Norman - Mother
...I only told you about it because I thought I might get a laugh out of you for once even if it wasn't the truth, Jessie. Things don't have to be true to talk about 'em, you know.
Maud Hart Lovelace - Betsy and Tacy Go Downtown
Betsy liked to talk. Her father always said she got it from her mother, and her mother always said she got it from her father. But whomever she got it from she was certainly a talker.
Dan Chaon - Stay Awake
I've been talking to myself a lot lately. I don't know what that's about, but my mother was the same way. She hated to make small talk with other people, but get her into a conversation with herself and she was quite the raconteur. She would tell herself a joke and clap her hands together as she let out a laugh; she would murmur to the plants as she watered them, and offer encouragement to the food as she cooked it. Sometimes I would walk into a room and surprise her as she was regaling herself
Marty Rubin -
I love talking the way Trappists love silence.
Marty Rubin -
Talking to people is the most educational thing I know.
Margaret Mitchell - Gone with the Wind
Talking to Rhett was comparable only to one thing, the feeling of ease and comfort afforded by a pair of old slippers after dancing in a pair too tight.
J.D. Salinger - Franny and Zooey
Though we've talked and talked and talked, we've all agreed not to say a word.
Todd Stocker -
Talking with three people deeply is better than talking with thirty people superficially.
A. Manette Ansay - Vinegar Hill
If we just had some time to ourselves, we could talk to each other the way we used to. Maybe about nothing in particular at first, but even that would be a start.
Patrick deWitt - The Sisters Brothers
There is nothing typical about my profession.’ Suddenly I did not want to talk about it any longer. ‘I don’t want to talk about it any longer.
Deyth Banger -
The book which I read by Stephen Hand, Freedy VS Jason, was incrediable. I also check out and the book Zodiac, again an incrediable story. The Stand by Stephen King was again on incrediable story, a long book and film, but incrediable!Theory of Everything where it put it me I still can't believe, it was unique story, I had chance to see who is Stephen Hawking really!
Anthony T. Hincks -
Love me!Hate me!I don't care which because either way,you're still talking about me!
Sara Sheridan -
Being able to read well in public and talk about your work in an engaging fashion is part of most writers' job specification.
Stefan D -
- If no one understands anything in the same way, what use is communication? - The best way to recycle empty soup cans is to tie a string to them and talk to yourself - from up to a mile away.
Kody Keplinger - The DUFF: Designated Ugly Fat Friend
And,” I continued, “I’m probably going to be a bitch most of the time. I guarantee I’ll find a reason to yell at you almost every day, and don’t be surprised if a few drinks get dumped on you from time to time. That’s just me, and you’re going to have to deal with it. Because I’m not changing for you or anyone else. And I-”Wesley slid off his bar stool and pressed his lips against mine before the words could get out. My heart pounded as every thought vacated my mind. One of his arms encircled my
Melina Marchetta - Saving Francesca
Sometimes you don't let us talk about how we're feeling. If we feel scared, you say, 'Nothing to worry about, guys,' but that doesn't make it go away. It makes it grow.
Tony Buon - The Leadership Coach
You need to train yourself to be comfortable with silence, particularly when dealing with cultures that respect silence more than we do in the West.
Aleksandar Hemon - The Book of My Lives
-not only did he deplore the waste of words, he detested the moral lassitude with which they were wasted. To him, in whose throat the bone of displacement was forever stuck, it was wrong to talk about nothing when there was a perpetual shortage of words for all the horrible things that happened in the world. It was better to be silent than to say what didn't matter.
Susan Andersen - Be My Baby
You don't talk much, do you, angel-face? I like that in a woman.
E.M. Forster - The Celestial Omnibus and other Stories
But they did not chatter much, for the boy, when he liked a person, would as soon sit silent in his company as speak.
Sherman Alexie - The Toughest Indian in the World
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.
Nenia Campbell - Bleeds My Desire
You would do well to guard your tongue, lest it be stricken from you.
Ariel Gore - Atlas of the Human Heart
The last introvert in a world of extroverts. Silence: my response to both emptiness and saturation. But silence frightens people. I had to learn how to talk. Out of politeness.
Marty Rubin -
Talking is good. It's good to disturb the silence.
Charles Caleb Colton -
When you have nothing to say, say nothing.
John Sununu -
When we're talking about technology that involves weapons of mass destruction, nuclear, chemical or biological weapons, there has to be an element of preemption.
Paul Manafort -
Donald Trump is talking about the failed leadership of the Obama Administration.
Lyndon B. Johnson -
You aren't learning anything when you're talking.
Steve Martin -
Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.
Le Corbusier -
I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies.
Seth Meyers -
I enjoy talking about politics a great deal.
Louise Erdrich -
I got well by talking. Death could not get a word in edgewise, grew discouraged, and traveled on.
William Makepeace Thackeray -
Dinner was made for eating, not for talking.
Sheryl Swoopes -
You have to be positive, and I'm not just talking about athletics, this also applies to life.
Bryant McGill - Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Go look in the mirror and have a talk with your real boss
Sir Roger L'Estrange -
There are braying men in the world as well as braying asses; for what's loud and senseless talking and swearing, any other than braying?
David Foster Wallace -
I have always tried to avoid talking to pretty girls, because pretty girls have a vicious effect on me in which every part of my brain is shut down except for the part that says unbelievably stupid things and the part that is aware that I am saying unbelievably stupid things.
Sorin Suciu - The Scriptlings
He spoke in a trembling voice that didn’t seem to be entirely in sync with the movement of his lips. That’s because sound travels slower in halitosis.
Lewis Carroll - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass
In most gardens", the Tiger-lily said, "they make the beds too soft-so that the flowers are always asleep.
Tomoko Yamashita - 恋の話がしたい [Koi no Hanashi ga Shitai]
Texting and phone calls, fireworks, blends, café au lait, and music. Yesterday's television. Work and beer. The neighbor's dog, or those strange flowers, the way it smells at Maisen. Those ordinary things I talk about with you. With you... I want to talk about love with you.
Bill Bryson - The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way
People don't talk like this, theytalklikethis. Syllables, words, sentences run together like a watercolor left in the rain. To understand what anyone is saying to us we must separate these noises into words and the words into sentences so that we might in our turn issue a stream of mixed sounds in response. If what we say is suitably apt and amusing, the listener will show his delight by emitting a series of uncontrolled high-pitched noises, accompanied by sharp intakes of breath of the sort nor
William Hazlitt - 1778-1830
In some situations, if you say nothing, you are called dull; if you talk, you are thought impertinent and arrogant. It is hard to know what to do in this case. The question seems to be, whether your vanity or your prudence predominates.