1,251 Quotes About Talking

There is a difference between 'talking' and 'having a conversation'. When you talk you pass time but when you have a conversation, you create memories.

-not only did he deplore the waste of words, he detested the moral lassitude with which they were wasted. To him, in whose throat the bone of displacement was forever stuck, it was wrong to talk about nothing when there was a perpetual shortage of words for all the horrible things that happened in the world. It was better to be silent than to say what didn't matter.

We enjoy talking about music, politics, and subjugation. —Kinky Friedman to Night Rider on KOKE-FM

It was always this way: The more people talked, the more they obscured. You didn't need to argue for the truth. You could see it.

I had a dream about you last night, for the millionth time! We did what we always do in my dreams. We talked, but we never made out. How come I still dream about you if we never freaking make out?

When we want to talk, we can instead listen, and let our attentiveness to another's need to speak, be our silent statement.

There are men everywhere who talk and talk, saying nothing. I am afraid I am becoming one of that kind.

I'm afraid if I say what I am thinking, it will be too much too soon.

But between the busy heads and over-reaching arms he could see Charley and Sylvia, sitting close together, talking and listening more than eating. She was in a new strange state of happiness not to be reasoned about, or accounted for, but in a state of more exquisite feeling than she had ever experienced before;