1,251 Quotes About Talking

Sometimes telling what happened, in whatever way you can, is a means of lightening your burden. It summons others to help you bear the weight of your own story, so that you might finally get out from under it.

Cruel people offer pity when they no longer feel threatened. However, kind people offer compassion and understanding regardless.

A slip of the foot may injure your body, but a slip of the tongue will injure your bond.

If I don't talk about it, it's either very displeasing or very precious to me.

Don’t talk to people you don’t want to talk to, and don’t talk about stuff you don’t want to talk about.

A funny person is funny only for so long, but a wit can sit down and go on being spellbinding forever. One is not meant to laugh. One stays quiet and marvels. Spontaneously witty talk is without question the most fascinating entertainment there is.

Nothing listens as well as a blank page.

Jes' 'cause women folks ain't got no big muscled arm and fistes like jugs, folks claim they's weak vessels, but dass uh lie. Dat piece uh red flannel she got hung 'tween her jaws is equal tuh all the fistes God ever made and man ever seen.

That was the trouble with explaining with words. If you explained with gunpowder, people listened.