Quotes About Chatter

Humans have a very clear idea about how to behave, and on many occasions actually do. But it's sometimes disheartening that correct action is drowned out by endless chitter-chatter, designed not to find a way forward but to justify petty jealousies and illogically held prejudices.

Rien ne rétrécit plus l'esprit, rien n'engendre plus de riens, de rapports, de paquets, de tracasseries, de mensonges, que d'être éternellement renfermés vis-à-vis les uns des autres dans une chambre, réduits pour tout ouvrage à la nécessité de babiller continuellement.

There's always chatter about a 'Chuck' movie. So nobody's opposed to it. It's just a matter of getting everything lined up.

It is still not enough for language to have clarity and content... it must also have a goal and an imperative. Otherwise from language we descend to chatter, from chatter to babble and from babble to confusion.

The folks who know the truth aren't talking.... The ones who don't have a clue, you can't shut them up!

In Tibetan there are several words for mind, but two that are particularly helpful to know are sem and rikpa. Sem is what we experience as discursive thoughts, a stream of chatter that's always reinforcing an image of ourselves. Rikpa literally means "intelligence" or "brightness.

I like plays where people talk a lot. Conversation is sustained. Argument is sustained.

Mere prattle without practice

Talkers never write. They go on talking." There

The count, who overheard this, laughed as he stood with folded arms under the porte-cochere, a little behind the other travellers. However nonsensical these lads might be, the grave statesman envied their very follies; he liked their bragging and enjoyed the fun of their lively chatter.

In vain Pons tried to put in a word; La Cibot talked as the wind blows. Means of arresting steam-engines have been invented, but it would tax a mechanician's genius to discover any plan for stopping a portress' tongue.

Improbability is no barrier to gossip.

Tongues were wagging. Aspersions were being cast like dandelion spores on hot gossipy winds.

Gossip never has to be true. It only has to be interesting.

The ton will be all atwitter about last night

Betty from down the street was one of those creatures who seemed to be operating under the notion that if she ever stopped talking, even for a second, she'd die.

I'd gladly stop working if someone can prove that stupid chatter will maake my day.

Some women never talk about other women; they are too busy talking about themselves.

Rumor grows as it goes.

The rumor forthwith flies abroad, dispersed throughout the small town.

Rumor flies.

Birdie! You is too much word-speaking!

Enormous novels by co-eds. Rain down on our defenceless heads. Till our teeth chatter.

The meaning doesn't matter if it's only idle chatter of a transcendental kind.