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Quotes About Chatter

They chatter together like birds on Cypress Hill, but all they say is 'Live, live, live, live, live!' It's all they've learned, it's the only advice they can give.
~ Tennessee Williams
scents gossip of previous winters.
~ Brian Patten
twittering among themselves in some obscure but vehement argument.
~ Steven Erikson
Silence and solitude are more distracting to me than chatter and commotion.
~ Marilu Henner
wake up who cares about little boys that talk too much
~ Mr. Big
I was dreading the dinner because I knew that once I found myself in the dining-room seated (...), it would no longer be possible to remain a silent spectator, I should be obliged to try and think of things to say. It had been drummed into me all my life (...) that silence at meal times is anti-social. -'So long as you chatter, Fanny, it's of no consequence what you say (...)
~ Nancy Mitford
Turnpikes at night were like girl talk: not interesting.
~ Caroline B. Cooney
Silence is of the gods; only monkeys chatter.
~ Buster Keaton
When I was a girl my mother said I chattered like a magpie even in my sleep, as if I knew one day the words would all be stopped, wine corked up in a bottle.
~ butt maggie
A large family party is rather too much like a flight of tomtits; everlasting twitter, but no conversation; gregariousness without companionship.
~ buxton charles
A little self-reflection, however, makes clear that our brains are hardly ever actually thinking about nothing. Even without a specific task, they tend to remain highly active, with thoughts and ideas flitting by in an ongoing noisy chatter. On further self-reflection, Lieberman realized that this background hum of activity tends to focus on a small number of targets: thoughts about "other people, yourself, or both.
~ Cal newport
At noon, in the noisy dining room where Arlette Corail was finishing lunch, some travellers brought news of the armistice. The women burst into tears. It seemed that the situation was rather confused. In certain places the army was still resisting and civilians had joined them. However, everyone agreed that the army had failed and there was nothing more to be done; they had no choice but to give up. The room was filled with chatter. It was stiflingly hot.
~ Irene Nemirovsky
Another good thing about gossip is that it is within everybody's reach, And it is much more interesting than any other form of speech.
~ Ogden Nash
He doth nothing but talk of his horses.
~ William Shakespeare
The worst thing about talk ... is that there's no way to lay it to rest. Every fresh breeze brings a new speculation.
~ Susan Wittig Albert
I have a scholar's love of silence and solitude. To sit and pass hour after hour in idle chatter with a roomful of strangers is to me the worst sort of torment.
~ Susanna Clarke
I don't immerse myself in the Internet chatter because it opens you up to a whole source of danger.
~ Zachary Quinto
Word spread through the camp like a prairie
~ Chet Cunningham
The hare-brained chatter of irresponsible frivolity.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
It amazed her how much people wanted to talk at parties. And about nothing in particular.
~ J.D. Robb
Girls chattering is like birds." He fluttered his fingers at his ears. "You hear only the notes.
~ J.D. Robb
A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick.
~ Sophocles
When the wisdom of the heart replaces the chatter of the mind, The power of Love flows forth.
~ Marianne Williamson
Carol Anne had a bad case of motor-mouth. Amanda wanted to install a muffler.
~ Tamara Thorne