Quotes about talking
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“You know you haven't stopped talking since I came here? You must have been vaccinated with a phonograph needle.”

Groucho Marx (1890–1977) American comedian

“Thus men will lie on their backs, talking about the fall of man, and never make an effort to get up.”

Henry David Thoreau book Life Without Principle

Source: Life Without Principle

Men, Lie, Effort

“They think they're better than everyone else."
"No," said Jace. "I think I'm better than everyone else. An opinion that has been backed up with ample evidence."
Kyle looked at Simon. "Does he always talk like this?"
"Yes.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels

Source: City of Fallen Angels

Thinking

“Coach," Annabeth said, "it was an accident. We were talking, and we fell asleep."
"Besides," Percy said, "you're starting to sound like Terminus."
Hedge narrowed his eyes. "Is that an insult, Jackson? 'Cause I'll-I'll Terminus you, buddy!”

Rick Riordan The Mark of Athena

Source: The Mark of Athena

“no more pep talks about believing in toads," Liza said.
"Don't they turn into princeses when you kiss them?" Bonnie said.
"Thats frogs," Liza Said. "Entirely different species.”

Jennifer Crusie book Bet Me

Source: Bet Me

Kiss

“The odd thing about this form of communication is you're more likely to talk about nothing than something. But I just want to say that all this nothing has meant more to me than so many… somethings. So, thanks.”

Nora Ephron (1941–2012) Film director, author screenwriter

Communication

“Today’s young people want to know everything about everyone. They think talking about a problem will solve it. I come from a quieter generation. We understand the value of forgetting, the lure of reinvention.”

Kristin Hannah book The Nightingale

Source: The Nightingale

People, Understanding, Problem, Thinking

“Mundies die awfully easily, don't they?"
"Isabelle, you know it's bad luck to talk about death in a sickroom.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

Death, Bad luck

“Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.”

Bill Watterson (1958) American comic artist

Yukon Ho!

“Writing is seduction. Good talk is part of seduction. If not so, why do so many couples who start the evening at dinner wind up in bed?”

Stephen King (1947) American author

Source: On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

Parting

“Charles looked at her thoughtfully. "People talk to you," he said. "That could be useful.”

Patricia Briggs book Hunting Ground

Source: Hunting Ground

People

“Yes, reason has been a part of organized religion, ever since two nudists took dietary advice from a talking snake.”

Jon Stewart (1962) American political satirist, writer, television host, actor, media critic and stand-up comedian

Religion, Parting

“But if we are talking in terms of making progress in life, we must understand that "good enough" is very different from "best.”

Paulo Coelho book Eleven Minutes

Source: Eleven Minutes

Life, Understanding

“You can't go back, Ever. You can't change the past. It just is." I squint, having no idea what she's talking about. But just as I start to ask, she shakes her head and says, "This is our destiny. Not yours.”

Alyson Nöel book Blue Moon

Source: Blue Moon

Idea, Change, Past

“It's like I'm thirteen again and he's my crush. All I'm aware of in this entire roomful of people is him. Where he is, what he's doing, who he's talking to.”

Sophie Kinsella book Remember Me?

Source: Remember Me?

People

“People who talk about their dreams are actually trying to tell you things about themselves they’d never admit in normal conversation.”

Chuck Klosterman (1972) Author, Columnist

People, Dreams

“Nick shook his head and found to his surprise that he did have tears left after all. He wasn't surprised by a talking cat. The world was crumbling around him and anything could happen.”

Garth Nix book Abhorsen

Source: Abhorsen

World, Cats, Tear

“Ach, Tchekov! Why are you dead? Why can’t I talk to you in a big darkish room at late evening—where the light is green from the waving trees outside? I’d like to write a series of Heavens: that would be one.”

Katherine Mansfield (1888–1923) New Zealand author

Source: Journal of Katherine Mansfield

Tree, Light, Dead

“stop talking about the things that are bothering you so much.”

Esther Hicks (1948) American writer

Source: The Astonishing Power of Emotions: Let Your Feelings Be Your Guide

“One day I was talking to Cora. She prayed for me because she believed I was blind to sin, wanting me to kneel and pray too, because people to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.”

William Faulkner book As I Lay Dying

Source: As I Lay Dying

People

“I’ve stopped talking because there’s really nothing left to say and there’s this piercing sort of pain where my heart is. Maybe I’m even having a heart attack, but it doesn’t seem worth mentioning.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Source: Mockingjay

Pain, Heart

“There are many ways of getting strong, sometimes talking is the best way.”

Andre Agassi book Open. An Autobiography

Source: Open

Way, Strong

“I can't believe you know someone named Freaky Pete," said Simon.
"I know alot of people," said Luke. "Not that Freaky Pete is strictly people, but I'm hardly one to talk.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Source: City of Ashes

People

“sometimes after I finished a particularly good book, I had the urge to get the library card, find out who else had read the book, and track them down to talk about it”

Jeannette Walls book Half Broke Horses

Source: Half Broke Horses

Books, Reading

“She could understand suddenly why people talked about passion as fire: She felt as if they had caught aflame and were burning like the dry Malibu hills, about to become ashes that would mix together forever.”

Cassandra Clare book Lady Midnight

Source: Lady Midnight

People, Understanding, Passion

“What’s the best part of being in Hermes cabin?
Connor: You are never lonely. I mean seriously, new kids are always coming in. So you always have someone to talk to.
Travis: Or prank.
Connor: Or pickpocket. One big happy family.”

Rick Riordan book The Demigod Files

Source: The Demigod Files

Happiness, Family, Parting

“sudden, spontaneous eye contact is a sign that two people should talk.”

James Redfield book The Celestine Prophecy

Source: The Celestine Prophecy

People

“If dogs talked, one of them would be president by now. Everybody likes dogs.”

Dean Koontz (1945) American author

Dogs

“I just want someone to hear what I have to say. And maybe if I talk long enough, it’ll make sense.”

Ray Bradbury book Fahrenheit 451

Source: Fahrenheit 451

Sense

“That suit has gone to your head."
"It's not the suit, buttercup."
"I don't do pet names."
"Do you do werewolves?"
"Okay, I'm not talking to you anymore.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Clean Sweep

“You shouldn't be afraid of me because I'm a vampire. You ought to be scared because you just trash-talked my girlfriend.--Michael”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

Source: Midnight Alley

“I grew up in a household where we didn't really talk about our feelings, and where the only reason you went to a doctor was because you'd accidentally cut off a limb with a chain saw.”

Jodi Picoult book Sing You Home

Source: Sing You Home

Feeling

“If life was a dream, then dying must be the moment when you woke up. It was so simple it must be true. You died, the dream was over, you woke up. That's what people meant when they talked about going to heaven. It was like waking up.”

Ian McEwan book The Daydreamer

Source: The Daydreamer

Life, People, Dreams

“I write to find out what I'm talking about.”

Edward Albee (1928–2016) American playwright

“I had come to regard him as a loner with no real past and a future so vague there was no sense talking about it.”

Hunter S. Thompson The Rum Diary

Source: 1990s, The Rum Diary (1998)

Sense, Past, Future

“Oh, come with old Khayyám, and leave the Wise
To talk; one thing is certain, that Life flies;
One thing is certain, and the Rest is Lies;
The Flower that once blown for ever dies.”

Edward FitzGerald (1809–1883) English poet and writer

Source: Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

Life, Flowers

“There's no need to talk about it, because the truth of what one says lies in what one does.”

Bernhard Schlink book The Reader

Variant: ... So I stopped talking about it. There's no need to talk, because the truth of what one says lies in what one does.
Source: The Reader

Truth

“Don't measure the size of the mountain; talk to the One who can move it.”

Max Lucado (1955) American clergyman and writer

Mountain

“The question is… How did a girl like Annabelle manage to talk a man like you into joining our silly little family party?”

Annabelle smiled sweetly. “I promised he could tie me up afterward and spank me.”

Susan Elizabeth Phillips (1948) American writer

Source: Match Me If You Can

Family, Smile, Girl, Question

“I’m merely talking about learning to be less bothered by the actions of people.”

Richard Carlson (1961–2006) Author, psychotherapist and motivational speaker

Source: Don't Sweat the Small Stuff ... and it's all small stuff: Simple Ways to Keep the Little Things from Taking Over Your Life

People, Learning

“He reminded me of someone who put your fingers in the door and smiled and talked to you while he smashed them.”

Janet Fitch book White Oleander

Source: White Oleander

Smile

“That’s it?” Jason asked. “You spent an hour talking about how lucky you were to be dying?”
No, not dying, Son. Living.”

Ted Dekker (1962) American writer

Source: Blessed Child

“Rachel, my itchy witch," Al said as he tugged the lace at his cuffs. "We've talked about this. You simply must stop collecting nasty little men. How many do you really need, love?”

Kim Harrison (1966) Pseudonym

Source: Black Magic Sanction

Love, Men

“Science Fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. We can't talk about science because our knowledge of it is limited and unofficial, and usually our fiction is dreadful.”

Philip K. Dick (1928–1982) American author

"How To Build A Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later" (1978)

Knowledge, Science

“Don't talk to me. I'm tired and grumpy and I'll probably make fun of you.”

Ann Brashares The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

Source: The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

“I'm so great even I get tongue-tied talking to myself.”

Douglas Adams book The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

Source: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

“I don't know if you have noticed this, but it is quite possible for two human beings to have a conversation in which one or both parties involved has absolutely no idea what they're talking about.”

Jeff Lindsay (1952) American playwright and crime novelist Jeffry P. Freundlich

Source: Dexter By Design

Idea

“You've been avoiding me," he said, talking to the sandwich.

I laughed. He looked over at me. "Sorry. I just realized that you talk to a lot of inanimate objects.”

Rachel Hawthorne (1950) American author

Source: Snowed In

“They say talk is cheap. Maybe so. But kindness is even better—it's free! Free to give. Free to receive. Makes you wonder why there's not more of it, huh?”

Jerry Spinelli (1941) American children's writer

Source: Today I Will: A Year of Quotes, Notes, and Promises to Myself

“Using words to talk of words is like using a pencil to draw a picture of itself, on itself. Impossible. Confusing. Frustrating… but there are other ways to understanding.”

Patrick Rothfuss book The Name of the Wind

Source: The Name of the Wind

Way, Understanding, Drawing

“We Deveauxs preferred to talk you to death, rather than face you in physical combat.”

Maureen Johnson (1973) writer from the USA

Source: The Name of the Star

Death

“For what's the use of talking with a man who has a disease and thinks about the stars?”

Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956) German poet, playwright, theatre director

Disease, Star, Thinking

“There was something about our silence that made me comfortable. He wasn't talking to me, but I didn't feel ignored. I felt we were part of the same moment, and it didn't need to be defined.”

David Levithan (1972) American author and editor

Source: Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List

Feeling, Silence, Parting

“When a man is born… there are nets flung at it to hold it back from flight. You talk to me of nationality, language, religion. I shall try to fly by those nets.”

James Joyce book A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Source: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Religion, Flying

“A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.”

Francis Bacon book Essays

Of Friendship
Essays (1625)

Love

“I want to talk to everybody I can as deeply as I can. I want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at night.”

Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) American poet, novelist and short story writer

Travel, Sleep, Night

“If you talk to God, you are praying; If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia. If the dead talk to you, you are a spiritualist; If you talk to the dead, you are a schizophrenic.”

Thomas Szasz (1920–2012) Hungarian psychiatrist

"Schizophrenia", p. 101.
The Second Sin (1973)

God, Dead

“Let's take a drive into the middle of nowhere with a packet of Marlboro lights and talk about our lives.”

Joseph Heller book Catch-22

Source: Catch-22

Light

“Can I ask you a question?" "I'd be disappointed if you didn't." "How many of those suits do you have? Do you like, send them to the laundry, or throw them out and put on a new one when it gets all gamey?" - Bobby talking to Saint Dane, RR”

D.J. MacHale (1955) American television director and producer

Disappointment, Question

“The three cards were the Moon, the Empress, and the Ace of Cups. Ambrose leaned over my shoulder to peer at the cards. "Ooh,' he said. "Very interesting."
Rhonda glanced up at him. "Hush. You don't know what you're talking about.”

Richelle Mead Shadow Kiss

Source: Shadow Kiss

“[Stephanie Plum]Jeez. No True Love"
[Grandma Mazur] There's always been true love, but in my day, you either talked yourself into thinking you had it, or you talked yourself into thinking you didn't need it.”

Janet Evanovich (1943) Novelist

Source: Explosive Eighteen

Love, Thinking, Grandma

“She wanted more, more slang, more figures of speech, the bee's knees, the cats pajamas, horse of a different color, dog-tired, she wanted to talk like she was born here, like she never came from anywhere else”

Jonathan Safran Foer book Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Dogs, Color, Cats, Bee

“Have you ever had one of those moments when you look up and realize that you're one of those people you see on the train talking to themselves?”

Marc Maron (1963) Comedian

People, Training

“Oh, but I like my geese. Like cats, they can't be told what to do, and like dogs, they're loyal, and like people, they talk every chance they get.”

Shannon Hale The Goose Girl

Source: The Goose Girl

People, Dogs, Cats, Chance

“Today,' Elodin said brightly, 'we will talk about things that cannot be talked about. Specifically, we will discuss why some things cannot be discussed.”

Patrick Rothfuss book The Wise Man's Fear

Source: The Wise Man's Fear

“Reading is like thinking, like praying, like talking to a friend, like expressing your ideas, like listening to other people's ideas, like listening to music, like looking at the view, like taking a walk on the beach.”

Roberto Bolaño book 2666

Source: 2666

People, Music, Idea, Thinking

“We're as good at talking ourselves out of fear as into it, aren't we? Maybe better.”

Deb Caletti (1963) American writer

Source: Stay

Fear

“That, dillop brain, is what getting close to the Darke does. It makes you think only of yourself. It takes you away from people you care about. And now you don't have anyone to talk to and it serves you right.”

Angie Sage book Darke

Source: Darke

People, Thinking

“Mary frowned. A vampire doctor. Talk about exploring your alternative therapies.”

Jessica Bird book Lover Eternal

Source: Lover Eternal

“People who know what they’re talking about don’t need PowerPoint.”

Walter Isaacson book Steve Jobs

Source: Steve Jobs

People

“It occurs to me that our survival may depend upon our talking to one another.”

Dan Simmons book Hyperion

Source: Hyperion

Dependency

“Hello darkness, my old friend
I've come to talk with you again”

Paul Simon (1941) American musician, songwriter and producer

The Sound of Silence Full lyrics online http://www.paul-simon.info/HTML/U-SOS.html Song lyrics, Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M. (1964) Context: Hello darkness, my old friend I've come to talk with you again Because a vision softly creeping Left its seeds while I was sleeping And the vision that was planted in my brain Still remains Within the sound of silence.

“You dare speak to me in such an insolent manner?'

'Stop talking like you’re two hundred years old. You’re sixteen, just like me.”

Michelle Rowen (1971) Canadian writer

Source: Reign Fall

“Splendid to arrive alone in a foreign country and feel the assault of difference. Here they are all along, busy with living; they don't talk or look like me. The rhythm of their day is entirely different; I am foreign.”

Frances Mayes book Under the Tuscan Sun

Source: Under the Tuscan Sun

Feeling, Business, Country