Talking Quotes

What passes for real debate in Washington often seems more like an echo chamber, with politicians talking at politicians.

Bill Delahunt

At every level in Washington, people are talking about that and looking for . . . another secure document that would not inhibit or impede trade or legitimate travellers across our country.

David Wilkins

Speaking to a lawyer about pictures is something like talking to a butcher about humanity.

John Constable

The only infallible rule we know is, that the man who is always talking about being a gentleman never is one.

Robert Smith Surtees

I know one husband and wife who, whatever the official reasons given to the court for the break up of their marriage, were really divorced because the husband believed that nobody ought to read while he was talking and the wife that nobody ought to talk while she was reading.

Vera Mary Brittain

It is a common delusion that you make things better by talking about them.

Rose Macaulay

Share whatever it is you're ashamed about. You may think you can hide your shame by not talking about it, but in reality, it's your shame that's hiding you.

Adam Appleson

"If you've got the truth you can demonstrate it. Talking doesn't prove it."

Robert A. Heinlein

It's silly talking about how many years we will have to spend in the jungles of Vietnam when we could pave the whole country and put parking stripes on it and still be home for Christmas.

Ronald Reagan

It is my custom to keep on talking until I get the audience cowed

Mark Twain

We are sick with fascination for the useful tools of names and numbers, of symbols, signs, conceptions and ideas. Meditation is therefore the art of suspending verbal and symbolic thinking for a time, somewhat as a courteous audience will stop talking when a concert is about to begin

Alan Watts

When [actors] are talking, they are servants of the dramatist. It is what they can show the audience when they are not talking that reveals the fine actor.

Cedric Hardwicke

Girls are losing their virginity at 15, 16. I'm not promoting that. But my†songs†are talking... about me becoming a man

Chris Brown†

I will not go down to posterity talking bad grammar.

Benjamin Disraeli

If you know wilderness in the way that you know love, you would be unwilling to let it go. We are talking about the body of the beloved, not real estate.

Terry Tempest Williams
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