1,251 Quotes About Talking

And if we’re talking about hard-boiled detectives, too, what could be more hardboiled than the worldview of Ligotti or Cioran? They make the grittiest of crime writers seem like dilettantes. Next to The Conspiracy Against the Human Race, Mickey Spillane seems about as hard-boiled as bubble gum.

I love talking to the audience, and I must be the luckiest performer in the world. I always land something or somebody that just takes off.

Nor is drunkenness censured for anything so much as its intemperate and endless talk.

Philosophy finds talkativeness a disease very difficult and hard to cure. For its remedy, conversation, requires hearers: but talkative people hear nobody, for they are ever prating. And the first evil this inability to keep silence produces is an inability to listen.

The talkative listen to no one, for they are ever speaking. And the first evil that attends those who know not to be silent is that they hear nothing.

The vast majority of my time is traveling and talking about the issues. It isn't really calling and asking for money.

Let other people finish their sentences when they’re talking.

I never had a brain until Freak came along and let me borrow his for awhile, and that's the truth, the whole truth. The unvanquished truth, is how Freak would say it, and for a long time it was him who did the talking.

You start talking about God and a lot of people are going to become very defensive.