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Quotes About Talk

Create, artist! Do not talk!
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I have talked to stunt drivers all my life, 32 years of talking to stunt drivers. There's a craziness to them.
~ Bryan Cranston
Dialogue is easy. It's what you've been doing almost every day, most of your life.
~ Josip Novakovich
Being family gave you obligations. Jesus and Paul's language about church as family was radical talk and not merely cultural convention.
~ E. Randolph Richards
How fortunate that it was an 'unconventional' party, where formalities are ruled out! On this basis Aziz found the English ladies easy to talk to, he treated them like men. Beauty would have troubled him, but Mrs Moore was so old and Miss Quested so plain that he was spared this anxiety.
~ E.M. Forster
Most of life is so dull that there is nothing to be said about it, and the books and talk that would describe it as interesting are obliged to exaggerate, in the hope of justifying their own existence.
~ E.M. Forster
She was glad of a moment without talk. For this, after all, was the time she loved Waikiki best. So brief, this tropic dusk, so quick the coming of the soft alluring night. The carpet of the waters, apple-green by day, crimson and gold at sunset, was a deep purple now. On
~ Earl Derr Biggers
Many people would be more truthful were it not for their uncontrollable desire to talk.
~ Edgar Watson Howe
Philosophy, is the talk on a cereal box. Religion, is a smile on a dog.
~ Edie Brickell
I do not invent characters. There they are. That's who they are. That's their nature. They talk and they behave the way they want to behave. I don't have a character behaving one way, then a point comes in the play where the person has to either stay or leave. If I had it plotted that the person leaves, then the person leaves. If that's what the person wants to do. I let the person do what the person wants or has to do at the time of the event.
~ Edward Albee
How can he get wisdom… whose talk is of bullocks?
~ Anonymous
You say you want a revolutionWell you knowwe all want to change the world…But when you talk about destructionDon't you know that you can count me outDon't you know it's gonna be alright.
~ Anonymous
The discourse of fools is irksome.
~ Anonymous
Talk is cheap because supply exceeds demand.
~ Anonymous
In all labor there is profit: but the talk of the lips tendeth only to penury.
~ Anonymous
After all is said and done, a lot more will have been said than done.
~ Anonymous
James Hilton, who had himself endured an almost equally amazing mass enthusiasm, referred in a radio talk to Mr. Winton's admirable "Threenody." This sent thousands scurrying to the Oxford English Dictionary, and set other thousands writing indignantly to their pet radio editors. Fifty-three per cent of these managed an indirect reference to England's war debt.
~ Anthony Boucher
Whenever he can, Werner records what the partisans say on magnetic tape. Everybody, he is learning, likes to hear themselves talk. Hubris, like the oldest stories. They raise the antenna too high, broadcast for too many minutes, assume the world offers safety and rationality when of course it does not.
~ Anthony Doerr
In the theatre, people talk. Talk, talk until the cows come home about journeys of discovery and about what Hazlitt thought of a line of Shakespeare. I can't stand it.
~ Anthony Hopkins
Anybody, providing he knows how to be amusing, has the right to talk about himself.
~ Charles Baudelaire
I'm amazed people talk about my helmet - saying it makes me feel psychologically better. I would love to play without it, but I'm not allowed to by the doctor. As long as I'm told by the doctor I'm running too much risk to play without it, I'll play with it. There's no other way for me.
~ Petr Cech
If you're blessed enough to serve in public office, then you shouldn't just talk a good game about your values; you should cast your vote according to them.
~ John Thune
Seeing how those companies operate, it didn't amount to a massive vote of confidence in their artists. There was talk of me going to Columbia after that, but nothing happened. I got disillusioned, and I pulled back.
~ Madeleine Peyroux
I describe my projects using colors because it's the best way to describe 'em. I would say that 'Moon Shoes' was way more colorful than a lot of my other music, just because I was pulling from so many different places. Imagine learning how to talk for the first time, and you're just saying everything.
~ Ravyn Lenae