“I believe they talked of me, for they laughed consumedly.”

“People never like me and I never like people," she thought. "And I never can talk as the Crawford children could. They were always talking and laughing and making noises.”

Frances Hodgson Burnett The Secret Garden

“When people say a knight's job is all glory, I laugh and laugh and laugh. Often I can stop laughing before they edge away and talk about soothing drinks.”

Tamora Pierce Squire

“I like talking when people ask me sensible questions. Ask me senseless questions also, but in a context, and I can have fun, I can make you laugh at my answers.”

Shahrukh Khan (1965) Indian actor, producer and television personality

“Leaves me with no choice but to laugh. I am pretty sure these are not the pre-wedding jitters or butterflies in the stomach my married cousins were talking about!”

Sania Mirza (1986) Indian tennis player

“I sit and talk to God, and he just laughs at my plans.”

Robbie Williams (1974) British singer and entertainer

“In real life, I'm a really smiley person. I smile when I talk and I laugh.”

Billie Eilish (2001) American singer-songwriter

“For now I had begun to believe, despite all the talk of science around me, that there was a magic in spoken words.”

Ralph Ellison book Invisible Man

“My father taught me to work, but not to love it. I never did like to work, and I don't deny it. I'd rather read, tell stories, crack jokes, talk, laugh -- anything but work.”

Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States

“Let me tell you what I just heard. Talk, talk, talk, I. Talk, talk, talk, I. Well, what about me?”

Gena Showalter (1975) American writer