569 Quotes About Talk

We call talking about other people’s personal lives ‘gossip’ only if we aren’t or weren’t part of the conversation.

Take time to laugh, to talk, to hug, and to cry. These are the human relief valves.

If you can talk, you can sing. If you can walk, you can dance.

We spend so much time bantering about the words when the real open conversations might very well be our actions. I worry about our rhetoric.

I don't speak very well, I work very well.

Some people talk too much without saying a lot.

People who know how to keep their mouths shut are rare.

Language offers us a surprising, savage terrain full of pockets and peaks. Shakespeare invented words like crazy. Mark Twain wrote in dialect. Muhammad Ali rapped in rhythmic sentences. Junot Diaz mixes Spanish into his sentences like rum into fruit juice. Nicki Minaj spices her lyrics with slang.

That was when I learned that words are no good; that words dont ever fit even what they are trying to say at.