Quotes About Talk

A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it.

Monkeys can't talk, stupid!

I actually like how doctors talk. I like the sound of science. I like how words you don't understand explain things you can't understand.

Humor is an amazing way to talk people down off a ledge.

If you want the Lord to hide your sins, then don't talk to people about what kind of virtues you have. For as we relate to our virtues, so God relates to our sins.

It may be because Southerners are very much like Frenchmen in that they must talk; and not only must they talk, but they must express their opinions.

Gossip about a person and his shadow will appear.

I am a master of logic and a powerfully convincing debater. In fact, against my better judgment, I can talk myself out of doing anything.

Tenía una fuerte tendencia a disertar y a discursear y a la digresión

Polvo echado, visita acabada, me dio que era una situación de esas: poco que hablar antes, y después nada.

But the wireless, asked Momulla. What has the wireless to do with our remaining here? Oh yes, replied Gust, scratching his head. He was wondering if the Maori were really so ignorant as to believe the preposterous lie he was about to unload upon him. Oh yes! You see every warship is equipped with what they call a wireless apparatus. It lets them talk to other ships hundreds of miles away, and it lets them listen to all that is said on these other ships.

It was before him again in its completeness--the choice in which she was content to rest: in the stupid costliness of the food and the showy dulness of the talk, in the freedom of speech which never arrived at wit and the freedom of act which never made for romance.

Her entrances were always triumphs; but they had no sequel. As soon as people began to talk they ceased to see her.

I never liked this continual talk of resistance and revolution, or the practice of making the extreme medicine of the constitution its daily bread. It renders the habit of society dangerously valetudinary: it is taking periodical doses of mercury sublimate, and swallowing down repeated provocatives of cantharides to our love of liberty.

Our fatigue limited our desire to talk. Besides, each person's story did nothing except bring you closer to your own pain.

Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.

When we're trying to solve difficult national issues its sometimes necessary to talk to adversaries as well as friends. Historians have a word for this: diplomacy.

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.

Costui, [...] un giorno osò rivolgerle il discorso. La sventurata rispose.

How easy it is for men to talk about beauty, and how subtly intimidating when they do.

Hither the heroes and nymphs resort,To taste awhile the pleasures of a courtIn various talk th'instuctive hours they past,Who gave the ball, or paid the visit lastOne speaks the glory of the British Queen,And one describes a charming Indian screenlA third interprets motions, looks and eyesAt every word a reputation dies.

But a man can fall in love only with someone he presumes to be accessible; it is impossible, for example, to fall in love with a statue, or a cloud. His feeling for Dasha was something out of the common, something strange and half-incomprehensible, because there was so little reason for it-merely a few minutes' talk and a chair in a corner of his room.

I can tell you that when I travel the state, when I talk to people, they are really struggling, in a very real way. They're losing their jobs, they're losing their homes, they're dealing with financial challenges.

In Washington, DC, politics dominate even the most casual conversations.