I’m tired of talking. I want you to extract my thoughts through my nostrils.

Betsy did not answer. She was a talker, her family always said, but sometimes when she most wanted to talk she couldn’t say a word.

In most gardens”, the Tiger-lily said, “they make the beds too soft-so that the flowers are always asleep.

You know, rap is sort of like a form of talking, right? So it’s like you can hear, you know, the slaves doing it. You can hear, like, you know, Africans and Jamaicans doing it...

I needed her to stop. Needed not to hear the pain in her voice–to see the way she was twisting the pocketbook strap. If she kept talking, she might break down and tell me everything.

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

I’ve been sort of traveling around the country for ten years talking about independent features.

If you go to a party populated by the NPR crowd and you start talking about JonBenet Ramsey, people will look at you as if you had forgotten your pants.

Constantly talking isn’t necessarily communicating.

Talking about one’s feelings defeats the purpose of having those feelings. Once you try to put the human experience into words, it becomes little more than a spectator sport. Everything must have a cause, and...

My voice is raspy like raspberries. Can you taste what I’m saying?

Knocking on a door is so violent. Talk on the door. Try to get it to open up through communication, not violence.

Well, it’s really no use our talking in the way we have been doing if the words we use mean something different to each of us…and nothing.

Make a concise statement clearly and you should only need to say it once.

I have thought about the next steps, and you know, they still don’t know that I can dance. They don’t know it, and it’s frustrating me because I feel that it’s an edge that I...

Nothing listens as well as a blank page.

There are not enough people out talking about the President positively.

I don’t like talking about myself, if I’m honest.

We talk, even if no one listens, because we never know when someone will.

There are many people talking about access to space and, ‘How can we make that cheaper? How can we turn that into a Southwest Airlines versus the big airlines?’

Trying to move the volume of products we’re talking about from place to place to get it ultimately into the customer’s hands, to price these items, to market these items, I think the retail business...

Noise is the art of talking without walking

I avoid talking about the way I work. But in avoiding it I seem only to have encouraged people to focus their fantasies about me in an ever more fantastical way.

When people talk about you behind your back, they’re not just behind you, they’re beneath you.

When we’re on Twitter, we’re not only live tweeting episodes and talking about behind-the-scenes stuff, we actively try to respond to everybody.

We can go on talking about racism and who treated whom badly, but what are you going to do about it? Are you going to wallow in that or are you going to create your...

Americans no longer talk to each other, they entertain each other. They do not exchange ideas, they exchange images. They do not argue with propositions; they argue with good looks, celebrities and comercials.

She hardly ever began conversations with strangers just to talk. It was not a matter of shyness. For her, a conversation had a straightforward function. How do I get to the pharmacy? or How much...

Onstage, I find absolutely nothing but exhilaration in not 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...

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...

I’ve been talking to myself a lot lately. I don’t know what that’s about, but my mother was the same way. She hated to make small talk with other people, but get her into a...

Pterodactyl has a silent P. I talk entire conversations using only silent letters. They’re also invisible. My I love yous are camouflaged amidst my absence.

I prefer to let my voice do all the talking for me.

Whenever a critic mentions the salary of an actor, I’m thinking, He’s not talking about the movie.

Talking with other parents really gave me some lessons that I try to hold on to now, as a parent of two boys.

Once you start talking to people, you find out there’s a lot more wrestling fans than you think there are.

Criticize me if you can, but that won’t stop me from saying what i like, my mouth is mine, and not yours.

I don’t like talking about any projects till they solidify and take off.

The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I’m talking about myself very directly.

Talking about abstract things is important. Having big, wild conversations about concepts like art, music, time travel, and dreams makes it much easier when you’ll eventually need to talk about things like anger, sadness, pain,...

When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time thinking what they want to hear and one third thinking about what I want to say.

Talking is fantastically overrated. Too many people do too much of it. It stuns the hell out of me how so many people like to talk. Sharkey, for example. If talking is so good for...

Ansell.

I saw this beautiful girl the other day. She had an ass behind her that seemed to go on for days. In fact, I’m still going on about her.

Back in the day, if someone said that hip hop and rap was a fad, that was a joke to me because they just didn’t know what they were talking about. In reality, there were...

I always say that the real success of Wine Library wasn’t due to the videos I posted, but to the hours I spent talking to people online afterward, making connections and building relationships.

I hated talking, and I hated listening to everyone else stumble on their words and try to phrase things in the vaguest possible way so they wouldn’t sound dumb.

I have a theory that sometimes people think they need to talk as much as possible, almost as if talking more equates to knowing more.

There’s no sense in being precise when you don’t even know what you’re talking about.