Quotes
Quotes about Talk
Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc jockey is not allowed to talk.
People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery.
Why, to hear Betsy Bobbet talk about wimmin's throwin' their modesty away, you would think if they ever went to the political pole, they would have to take their dignity and modesty and throw 'em against the pole, and go without any all the rest of their lives.
As I sat at the Cafe I said to myself, They may talk as they please about what they call pelf, They may sneer as they like about eating and drinking, But help it I cannot, I cannot help thinking How pleasant it is to have money, heigh-ho! How pleasant it is to have money!
Money talks â but credit has an echo.
We like so much to hear people talk of us and of our motives, that we are charmed even when they abuse us.
Talk low, talk slow, and don't say too much.
Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read.
To talk to someone who does not listen is enough to tense the devil. - Talking to Myself.
I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite.
raspberry drupelets cluster around a cavern of emptiness (paraphrased from her talk on C Span's Book TV).
Most of the arguments to which I am party fall somewhat short of being impressive, knowing to the fact that neither I nor my opponent knows what we are talking about.
Where village statesmen talk'd with looks profound. And news much older than their ale went round.
I wept as I remembered how often you and I had tired the sun with talking and sent him down the sky.
One must talk about everything according to its nature, how it comes to be and how it grows. Men have talked about the world without paying attention to the world of their own minds, as if they were asleep or absent-minded.
An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.
An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.
Pansies in soft April rains Fill their stalks with honeyed sap Drawn from Earth's prolific lap.
I talk and talk and talk, and I haven't taught people in 50 years what my father taught by example in one week. Jesse Jackson -Mario Cuomo.
It's linkage I'm talking about, and harmonies and structures, And all the various things that lock our wrists to the past.
If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.
It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.
For everything seemed resting on his nod, As they could read in all eyes. Now to them, Who were accustomed, as a sort of god, To see the sultan, rich in many a gem, Like an imperial peacock stalk abroad (That royal bird, whose tail's a diadem,) With all the pomp of power, it was a doubt How power could condescend to do without.
Why, 'a stalks up and down like a peacock--a stride and a stand; ruminates like an hostess that hath no arithmetic but her brain to set down her reckoning; bites his lip with a politic regard, as who should say, 'There were wit in this head an 'twould out'; and so there is, but it lies as coldly in him as fire in a flint, which will not show without knocking.
We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.
