33 Quotes Tagged: talking

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Look lak we done run our conversation from grass roots tuh pine trees.

We treat each other with exceeding courtesy;
we says, it’s great to see you after all these years.

Our tigers drink milk.
Our hawks tread the ground.
Our sharks have all drowned.
Our wolves yawn beyond the open cage.

Our snakes have shed their lightning,
our apes their flights of fancy,
our peacocks have renounced their plumes.
The bats flew out of our hair long ago.

We fall silent in mid-sentence,
all smiles, past help.
Our humans
don’t know how to talk to one another.

I was a talking lover, which most women hate.

There's nothing worthless about being wordless, it will only save your mouth from talking gibberish.

Most of the successful people I’ve known are the ones who do more listening than talking.

We cannot control the way people interpret our ideas or thoughts, but we can control the words and tones we choose to convey them. Peace is built on understanding, and wars are built on misunderstandings. Never underestimate the power of a single word, and never recklessly throw around words. One wrong word, or misinterpreted word, can change the meaning of an entire sentence and start a war. And one right word, or one kind word, can grant you the heavens and open doors.

Never get a mime talking. He won't stop.

Marcel Marceau, French actor and mime artist (1923–2000

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POLISH your MIND to reflect the shimmering BEAUTY of your WORDS and ACTIONS.

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.

Enough of this. Does every conversation with you have to be the director's cut? Get out of the car.

Jonathan Lethem, American novelist, essayist, short story writer, Roy E. Disney Chair in Creative Writing, Pomona College

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Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.

I really don't care that much about 'Beauties'. What I really like are Talkers.

When there is both name and reality,
We dwell in the realm of things;
When there is neither name nor reality,
We exist in a vacuity of things.
We can speak and can think,
But the more we speak, the further off we are.
What is not yet born cannot be forbidden,
What is already dead cannot be prevented.
Death and birth are not distant,
It's their principle that cannot be seen.

I cannot keep from talking, even at the risk of being instructive.

An introvert talks more than an extrovert because when the mouth is closed, the mind is opened.

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