1,251 Quotes About Talking

There's something nice about the silence of a car ride in the dark, going home. When you were tired of the radio and conversation, and it was okay to just be alone with your thoughts and the road ahead. If you're that comfortable with someone, you don't have to talk.

Almost nothing need be said when you have eyes.

They could steam up windows with their kisses, but as soon as they started usingtheir mouths for other things—like talking—everything got so complicated.

Why did women always believe that talking about a problem would fix it? Some issues were corpses. Hot air made them fester and rot and spread their disease to everything else. Better to bury it and move on.

In one case out of a hundred a point is excessively discussed because it is obscure; in the ninety-nine remaining it is obscure because it is excessively discussed.

You have two eyes, and two ears, but only one mouth. This is so because you are supposed to look and listen more than you talk.

There is nothing to talk about" she said. "I'm just a freak that's all.

People love to talk but hate to listen. Listening is not merely not talking, though even that is beyond most of our powers; it means taking a vigorous, human interest in what is being told us. You can listen like a blank wall or like a splendid auditorium where every sound comes back fuller and richer.

You tell yourself to someone and they steal your soul. That's why I don't talk to anybody.