Quotes About Talk

Conversation, which is friendship's mode of expression, is a superficial digression which gives us nothing worth acquiring. We may talk for a lifetime without doing more than indefinitely repeat the vacuity of a minute.

When you heard anyone in the middle of a talk which was being deliberately kept off the Affair announce furtively some piece of political news, generally false but always devoutly to be wished, you could induce from the nature of his predictions where his heart lay.

Cooper took a sip of coffee. It was burned and watery. "You hear there was another bombing? Philadelphia this time. I was listening to the radio on the way in. Talk radio, some redneck. He said a war was coming. Told us to open our eyes.

Oh, and Fionn's down there trying to teach her frog to talk. Away you go, Corr.

Burgundy makes you think of silly things; Bordeaux makes you talk about them, and Champagne makes you do them.

Everyone would talk about their diets and working out and what it made me do was go to craft services where all the food for the cast and crew was and I would eat.

My whole family, all they talk about is food and disease. And they're competitive with illness: I have a cold. I wish I had a cold! I don't even have sinuses anymore.

See, food I can talk about. I'm Italian, I know the food.

I really get pursued by men in their 20s, like, a lot. They probably know there's food in the fridge and that somebody's going to talk to them and ask them how their day was.

Dinner a time when . . . one should eat wisely but not too well and talk well but not too wisely.

Despite much talk in this land about religious freedom, churches and their schools now confront grave difficulties.

Freedom to rock, freedom to talk. Freedom, raise your fist and yell.

Idiot wind, blowing every time you open your mouth.

My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it. I never did like to work, and I don't deny it. I'd rather read, tell stories, crack jokes, talk, laugh - anything but work.

It is vain to talk of the interest of the community, without understanding what is the interest of the individual

The talk was supposed to be about gender and sexuality in music videos. Those who know how I usually flow were tripping at the title [Alicia vs. India], but I had to remind them that had I called the talk "Gender and Sexuality in Music Videos," wouldn't nobody be up in the room.

To listen well is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well. —JOHN MARSHALL, CHIEF JUSTICE OF THE SUPREME COURT, 1801–1835

So this bloke says to me, "Can I come in your house and talk about your carpets?" I thought "That's all I need, a Je-hoover's witness".

My whole family can talk. They are all car salesmen. They are all funny.

There's lots about politics I don't feel comfortable with. To talk about the politics of future ideas is impossible in soundbite form.

As much as we all talk about the future and how so many things are merging, there is a simplicity that is crucial.

In my sculpture, it's not an image I am seeking, it's not an idea. My goal is to re-live a past emotion. My art is an exorcism, and beauty is something I never talk about.

Sex is better than talk...Talk is what you suffer through so you can get to sex.

Oh aye...my Father would thrash me every now and then. He'd talk while he did it too! He'd hit me and shout, 'Have ye had enough?' Had enough? Whit kind of question is that? 'Why, Father, would another kick in the balls be out of the question???'