Palaver Quotes

#1. The men that is now is only all palaver and what they can get out of you.

James Joyce

#2. Here's the plan: I'll go in and palaver while you surround them."
"Surround them," he said. "By myself.

Lindsay Buroker

#3. For those who are not hungry, it is easy to palaver about the degradation of charity ...

Charlotte Bronte

#4. We ought to palaver, you and me." Gwendy

Stephen King

#5. Many novice writers, students in particular, think that writing is little more than copying down their self-talk, the palaver of the voices they hear in their heads. Of course, self-talk is thinking, and writing begins with thinking.

Richard Rhodes

#6. Steady labor with the hands, which engrosses the attention also, is unquestionably the best method of removing palaver and sentimentality out of one's style, both of speaking and writing.

Henry David Thoreau

#7. Roland nodded. "And the shooting will happen so fast and be over so quick that you'll wonder what all the planning and palaver was for, when in the end it always comes down to the same five minutes' worth of blood, pain, and stupidity." He paused, then said: "I always feel sick afterward. Like

Stephen King

#8. And the shooting will happen so fast and be over so quick that you'll wonder what all the planning and palaver was for, when in the end it always comes down to the same five minutes' worth of blood, pain, and stupidity.

Stephen King

#9. It would seem as if the very language of our parlors would lose all its nerve and degenerate into palaver wholly, our lives pass at such remoteness from its symbols, and its metaphors and tropes are necessarily so far fetched.

Henry David Thoreau

#10. Abraham Lincoln freed the black man. In many ways, Dr. King freed the white man. How did he accomplish this tremendous feat? Where others - white and black - preached hatred, he taught the principles of love and nonviolence.

Ronald Reagan

#11. I can assume that the younger generations will no longer know what vinyl was. Maybe some kids will take their CD back to the shop, telling the shop owner they have a faulty disc and if they could please get a new one.

Mike Rutherford

#12. Governors should be defined not just by what they do and say, but who they surround themselves with.

Scott Walker

#13. If we were watching a show for two hours I would go if it meant being with her.

Marisa Calin

#14. The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.

Honore De Balzac

#15. It's not about facts, it's about feelings. It's about remembering feelings and happiness. A definition of art is that it makes concrete our most subtle emotions. I think the highest form of art is music. It's the most abstract of all art expression.

Agnes Martin

#16. The difference between great actors and the rest of us isn't simply that they know how to make more out of less, but that, like lions at the watering hole, they will always take more than their share from the pool of available resources - extra air from the room, added knowledge from our faces.

John Burnham Schwartz

#17. If we didn't get the record, we didn't exist.

Barry Mann

#18. When you say: The simple truth is this, and then you pause, and then you finish the sentence, people stop, and they think specifically about what you're saying. And it's, in essence, trying to boil it down to something that's very understandable and meaningful.

Frank Luntz

#19. Being a woman, an actor in Hollywood, I know that there are certain parts I won't often get a chance to do.

Erin Way

#20. We are not strangers to ourselves, we only try to be.

Dean Koontz

#21. I found a discarded textbook on calculus in a wastebasket and read it from cover to cover.

John Pople