Talk Quotes

He would, when engaged in an animated conversation with a friend, talk quickly and well for a few minutes, and then suddenly and without any very apparent cause would begin to stutter so much, that it was often difficult to understand him.

Isa Bowman

Many talk like philosophers yet live like fools

Unknown

I can't talk religion to a man with bodily hunger in his eyes.

George Bernard Shaw

If cats could talk, they wouldn't.

Nan Porter

No more talk of gloomy Angel, though. Only happy thoughts. Sunshine, picnic, that spell we did last night. With the oil?

Amber Nicole Benson

Never to talk to ones self is a form of hypocrisy

Lord Byron

When I talk to someone with schizophrenia, I understand them hearing voices. It puts them at ease to know they're not the only one.

Barbara Lindsay

If you talk to God, you are praying. If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.

Thomas S. Szasz

There are two sorts of hypocrites: one that are deceived with their outward morality and external religion; many of whom are professed Arminians, in the doctrine of justification: and the other, are those that are deceived with false discoveries and elevations; who often cry down works, and men's own righteousness, and talk much of free grace; but at the same time make a righteousness of their discoveries and of their humiliation, and exalt themselves to heaven with them

Jonathan Edwards

Surely no one will consider us lacking in reverence if we say that every one of the "principles of modern salesmanship" on which business men so much pride themselves, are brilliantly exemplified in Jesus' talk and work.

Bruce Fairchild Barton

Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.

Sir Matthew Hale

Listening well is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well.

John Marshall

When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.

Ernest Hemingway

Know how to listen and you will profit even from those who talk badly.

Plutarch

When you make as many speeches and you talk as much as I do and you get away from the text, it's always a possibility to get a few words tangled here and there.

Dan Quayle