Talking Quotes

Well, it's really no use our talking in the way we have been doing if the words we use mean somethin...

...I only told you about it because I thought I might get a laugh out of you for once even if it was...

No, I mean really listen. Here's a story, and you don't have to visit manyhouses to find it. One per...

Betsy liked to talk. Her father always said she got it from her mother, and her mother always said s...

It was always this way: The more people talked, the more they obscured. You didn't need to argue for...

Never use five words if you can get away with one, eh? I've known dead men talk more than you do.

Americans no longer talk to each other, they entertain each other. They do not exchange ideas, they ...

I'm always fascinated by the use of the first-person plural talking about sports.

In life, as in art, talking vitiates doing.

Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.

Humans generally get out the gist of what they need to say right at the beginning, then spend foreve...

I was a talking lover, which most women hate.

Like a good Indian, he knew when to talk and when to remain silent. Like a good Indian, he knew ther...

For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened which unleashed ...

Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.

I like George Carlin's jokes. I like his humor. He's one of my heroes, and I like what he did with t...

I'm sorry, I didn't mean--""To speak of it?" asked the K'mir. Diane nodded. "You have to, just to bl...

Far more beguiling than the idea that evil can be destroyed by throwing a piece of expensive jewelry...

We women, me and you. Tell me something real. Don’t just say I’m grown and ought to know. I don’t. I...

Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.

In some situations, if you say nothing, you are called dull; if you talk, you are thought impertinen...

Dinner was made for eating, not for talking.

When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time thinking what they want to hear a...

The word 'listen' contains the same letters as the word 'silent'.

Is it that they think it a duty to be continually talking,' pursued she: 'and so never pause to thin...

Once I started to value and respect my characters, I could really hear them. I just let them start t...

People don't talk like this, theytalklikethis. Syllables, words, sentences run together like a water...

The Gottschalk was a fine weapon."You," I said to it, "are on probation. You'd better impress me."Gr...

There are many people talking about access to space and, 'How can we make that cheaper? How can we t...

Walking and talking are two very great pleasures, but it is a mistake to combine them. Our own noise...

I learned a lot about systems of oppression and how they can be blind to one another by talking to b...

I have always tried to avoid talking to pretty girls, because pretty girls have a vicious effect on ...

But they did not chatter much, for the boy, when he liked a person, would as soon sit silent in his ...

Rickie had a young man's reticence. He generally spoke of “a friend,” “a person I know,” “a place I ...

It's easier to get over a thing" Scobie said, "if you talk about it

I all of a sudden got to feeling like talking to people. Whenever I look at the ocean, I always want...

It's easy to talk big, but the important thing is whether or not you clean up the shit.

Though we've talked and talked and talked, we've all agreed not to say a word.

But what I mean is, lots of time you don't know what interests you most till you start talking about...

How can you read and talk at the same time?” I asked.“Well, I usually can’t, but neither the book no...

I'll let the racket do the talking.

You gotta be careful: don't say a word to nobody about nothing anytime ever.

You aren't learning anything when you're talking.

I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies.

In most gardens", the Tiger-lily said, "they make the beds too soft-so that the flowers are always a...

And what’s the use of talking, if you already know that others don’t feel what you feel?

I got well by talking. Death could not get a word in edgewise, grew discouraged, and traveled on.

It's a strange thing, to be talked about instead of talked to.