1,251 Quotes About Talking

  • Author Edna O'Brien
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    Ideally I'd like to spend two evenings a week talking to Proust and another conversing with the Holy Ghost.

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  • Author Leo Ornstein
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    Now, what we are not talking about, what you're really coming to, is what compromises one makes so that the listener understands somewhat of what you're doing, what you're trying to express.

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  • Author Mary Oliver
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    Ordinarily, I go to the woods alone, with not a single friend, for they are all smilers and talkers and therefore unsuitable. I don't really want to be witnessed talking to the catbirds or hugging the old black oak tree. I have my way of praying, as you no doubt have yours. Besides, when I am alone I can become invisible.

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  • Author Michelle Obama
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    And that's my message to voters, this isn't about Barack, it's not about person on that ballot -- its about you. And for most of the people we are talking to [blacks], a Democratic ticket is the clear ticket that we should be voting on, regardless of who said what or did this -- that shouldn't even come into the equation.

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  • Author Ouida
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    No great talker ever did any great thing yet, in this world.

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  • Author P. J. O'Rourke
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    If you spend seventy-two hours in a place you've never been, talking to people whose language you don't speak about social, political, and economic complexities you don't understand, and you come back as the world's biggest know-it-all, you're a reporter.

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  • Author Alex Pettyfer
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    I'm so terrible. When it comes to talking to women, I'm the worst. I don't know what to say. I come over very, very geeky.

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