Talkers Quotes - Page 6

• Conversation succeeds conversation, Until there's nothing left to talk about Except truth, the perennial monologue, And no talker to dispute it but itself.

  Laura Riding

  Women, Succeed, Disputes

  Laura (Riding) Jackson, Laura Riding (1938). “Collected Poems”

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• I think spending a lot of time with my mom, who's a talker and a storyteller, and my dad, who has kind of a soft-spoken, understated sense of humor, I think that's how I became what I am, which is sort of an understated storyteller.

  Mike Birbiglia

  Mom, Dad, Thinking

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• The most fluent talkers or most plausible reasoners are not always the justest thinkers.

  William Hazlitt

  Thinker, Fluent, Plausible

  William Hazlitt (1839). “Sketches and Essays by W. H. Now first collected [and edited] by his son”, p.95

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• I really don't care that much about "Beauties." What I really like are Talkers. To me, good talkers are beautiful because good talk is what I love. The word itself shows why I like Talkers better than Beauties, why I tape more than I film. It's not "talkies." Talkers are doing something.

  Andy Warhol

  Care, Don't Care

  "The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again".

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• I think we need a 12-step group for non-stop talkers. We're going to call it On and On Anon.

  Paula Poundstone

  Thinking, Groups, Needs

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• Any time people come together in a meeting, we're not necessarily getting the best ideas; we're just getting the ideas of the best talkers.

  Susan Cain

  Ideas, People, Together

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• I don't like business talkers, you know, people who are constantly like, 'Blah blah blah movies.' I find it incredibly boring.

  Zooey Deschanel

  People, Boring, Blah

  "Zooey Deschanel: 'I don't have control over what's on screen, and that's terrifying'". Interview With Elizabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. April 24, 2010.

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• I'm not a talker. I'm a formulator.

  Josef Albers

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• My mother was a listener. I'm a talker. I'm very comfortable talking.

  Diane Keaton

  Mother, Talking, Listeners

  "Diane Keaton’s Ode To Motherhood" by Debra Ollivier, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 30, 2011.

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• My dad's not a big talker.

  Zara Phillips

  Dad, Bigs, My Dad

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• Great talkers are trying to fill the gap between themselves and others, but only widen it.

  Mason Cooley

  Trying, Gaps, Conversation

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• There's 3 types of people in this world: there's talkers, there's watchers, and there's doers.

  Jeremy Stephens

  Mma, People, World

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• Great talkers should be cropt, for they've no need of ears.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Needs, Ears, Should

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.57, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• The talker has found a hearer but not a listener; and though he may talk his very best for his own sake, you will find that his mental movements are erratic: they have no fixed centre and no definite object. His talk is like the water of a canal whose banks have given way, which rolls aimlessly hither and thither, without fulfilling any useful function, though it is the same water which was so helpful and serviceable, when it was confined within clearly marked limits by the restraining force of its earthy boundaries.

  Charles Dickens

  Water, Listening, May

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• I used to always crack jokes in class. I was a good liar and a good talker. I was just good. I was my father's son. I was slick. When it comes to knowing what to say, to charm, I always had it.

  Drake

  Father, Liars, Son

  "On the Cover: Drake". Interview with Claire Hoffman, www.gq.com. April 13, 2012.

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• People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little. It is plain that an ignorant person thinks everything he does know important, and he tells it to everybody. But a well-educated man is not so ready to display his learning; he would have too much to say, and he sees that there is much more to be said, so he holds his peace.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Knowledge, Men, Thinking

  Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “Emile”, p.577, eKitap Projesi

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• There are some great writers who are great talkers, but there are more great writers who are not great talkers. People seem to think there is some connection between talking and writing, but I love to talk and if there were some connection between the two of them I would be the most prolific writer in the history of the world.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Writing, Thinking, Talking

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• Human talk is a centrifugal function, ever in flight outwards from what is on the talker's mind.

  Isak Dinesen

  Mind, Flight, Function

  Isak Dinesen (2011). “Winter's Tales”, p.132, Vintage

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• Unlike most great talkers, the rooks are good workers, too.

  Flora Thompson

  Good Work, Workers

  Flora Thompson (1979). “A Country Calendar, and Other Writings”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• I don't like talk and I don't like talkers. Like Ma Barker. That's what she always said, 'Ma Barker doesn't like talk and she doesn't like talkers.' She just sat there with her gun.

  David Bowie

  Gun, Said, Sat

  David Bowie (2016). “David Bowie: The Last Interview”, p.30, Melville House

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• A lot of Republican candidate will tell you they'll protect innocent human life and they'll hunt down ISIS and get rid of Common Core, but we're actually doing things in our state. We need a doer, not a talker.

  Bobby Jindal

  Isis, Needs, Doers

  "Is the Confederate flag controversy a Democratic problem?". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. June 24, 2015.

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• At the day of Doom men shall be judged according to their fruits. It will not be said then, did you believe? But, were you doers or talkers only?

  John Bunyan

  Believe, Men, Doers

  John Bunyan (2017). “Pilgrim's Progress (Illustrated Edition)”, p.82, Whitaker House

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• Shun the inquisitive person, for he is also a talker.
  [Lat., Percunctatorem fugito, nam garrulus idem est.]

  Horace

  Curiosity, Inquisitive, Persons

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• the Press has no band of critics who go the round of the churches and chapels, and are on the watch for a slip or defect in the preacher, to make a 'feature' in their article: the clergy are, practically, the most irresponsible of all talkers.

  George Eliot

  Church, Watches, Band

  George Eliot (2016). “The Essays of George Eliot: Top Novelist Focus”, p.42, 谷月社

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• Brisk talkers are usually slow thinkers. There is, indeed, no wild beast more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate. If you are civil to the voluble they will abuse your patience; if brusque, your character.

  Jonathan Swift

  Character, Men, Talking

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