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Quotes About Talk

What I have in mind when I use the phrase "personal conversation" is often called a "heart-to-heart talk.
~ Mortimer J. Adler
Fools talk, cowards silence , wise men listen
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
People talk too much, humans aren't descended from monkeys, they're descended from parrots.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
You've had your tantrum. Now come back inside, and we'll talk like civilized people. You don't want to cause a scene in front of the neighbors.
~ Carly Phillips
Turnpikes at night were like girl talk: not interesting.
~ Caroline B. Cooney
What are you two talking about? Gladys asked. We're talkin' about roses, chicken chips, and pork rinds, he said.
~ Carolyn Brown
She needed to talk, she needed to cry, she needed to vent all her frustrations and disappointments.
~ Cecelia Ahern
don't be a spoilsport. Gossip is sexy. Gossip is good. Not everybody does it, but everybody should!
~ Cecily von Ziegesar
Without the future there is no present," my father is saying. "Without the future there can be no hope for redemption, and without hope for redemption there is nothing. A man must plan for the future." Max smiles politely. That is the sort of talk, he once told me, he used to get from his own father. "They talk about redeeming the world for the future," Max said. "I have more modest goals. I wish only to redeem a canvas for today.
~ Chaim Potok
Sure, that was Amendment 29 to the Constitution: Shifters don't have to talk to Sookie Stackhouse.
~ Charlaine Harris
The definition of a musical is that the emotion is so strong that you can't talk anymore, you have to sing. The emotion isn't strong enough when you're just like, 'Let's take a second to sing about lamps!'
~ Rachel Bloom
In Memphis we don't talk. We ball.
~ Mike Conley Jr.
A lot of people are ashamed to talk about mental illness. To me, it's power to give people that.
~ Ahmad Balshe
I have an illness. I have a mental illness. I've accepted that now. Before, I used to beat myself up all the time, but the more you talk about it, the more it takes the power out of it.
~ Paul Merson
I can make a good consultant, I can fine-tune bowlers, give them mental toughness, talk about how to bowl under pressure, how to bowl with the old ball.
~ Wasim Akram
I get asked about my weight endlessly. There is no story. It doesn't merit so much talk.
~ Sophie Dahl
I don't know we have a method. We show up at the office. Is that a method? That's about the extent to which it's been formalized, asystematised. We show up at the office and talk, talk a scene through.
~ Ethan Coen
The arrival of Arsene Wenger in 1996 certainly heralded a change in English football. He was very successful very quickly, and suddenly, all the talk was about his revolutionary new training methods.
~ Harry Redknapp
You need to be able to build a character, you need to have time, you need to have a microphone and be able to talk so people can relate to you.
~ Maryse Mizanin
Bobby Heenan to me, he was the best. Of all the guys that have been managers that can pick up a microphone and talk, he was a natural and so good. His character like mine was so hated, it was like a little weasel.
~ Ted DiBiase Sr.
Realize that silence comes from your heart and not from the absence of talk.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send 150. lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, & talk by the hour? That 150. lawyers should do business together ought not to be expected. But to return again to our subject.
~ Thomas Jefferson
My belief is that 'recluse' is a code word generated by journalists... meaning, doesn't like to talk to reporters...
~ Thomas Pynchon
You came to talk about the play, he said. Let me discourage you. It was written to entertain people. Like horror movies. It isn't literature, it doesn't mean anything. Wharfinger was no Shakespeare. Who was he? she said. Who was Shakespeare? It was a long time ago.
~ Thomas Pynchon