Top 100 Quotes About Talk Too Much
#1. Talking is always positive. That's why I talk too much.
Louis C.K.
#2. We talk too much, love too seldom, and hate too often.
George Carlin
#3. People who talk too much are only digging their own grave.
Sylvia L'Namira
#4. Acting is like sex: you either do it and don't talk about it, or you talk about it and don't do it. That's why I'm always suspicious of people who talk too much about either.
Humphrey Bogart
#5. Sometimes I think to talk too much about music almost cheapens it.
Ben Harper
#6. I don't like trainers, because we distract each other. We talk too much, and I get too friendly. I prefer classes instead. I love Physique 57.
Christine Teigen
#7. Sentry: King, may I speak?
Creon: Your very voice distresses me.
Sentry: Are you sure that it is my voice, and not your conscience?
Creon: By God, he wants to analyze me now!
Sentry: It is not what I say, but what has been done, that hurts you.
Creon: You talk too much.
Sophocles
#8. I'm an actor I'm not a politician. I always kick myself when I talk too much about family, or personal things.
Christian Bale
#10. Fortunately, war in Latin America is usually waged only with words. The tongue is our most dangerous weapon. We talk too much!
Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva
#11. Empty vessels make the most noise. It is true. The best adventurers and climbers, and the most successful people I know in life, are all great listeners, and they don't talk too much.
Bear Grylls
#13. The blue light is all over. Actually it is within my body. Makes my joints feel all warm.
Vulture thinks I talk too much.
Sandra Harner
#14. The competition, the naysayers, the owners who talk too much. The people who don't think a 36-year-old can do what I do. I take a lot of pride in my craft, I work really hard at my craft everyday, and I'm a true professional.
Kevin Garnett
#15. I don't want to talk too much about the nitty-gritty of writing. It's rather like a pressure cooker with a certain amount of pressure in it - the more you let out, the less you cook.
Vikram Seth
#18. One of the basic causes for all the trouble in the world today is that people talk too much and think too little. They act impulsively without thinking.
Margaret Chase Smith
#19. I have a dread of sounding pretentious and try not to talk too much about what I do.
James Herbert
#20. Faces always talk too much. One line and all their plans are revealed.
Floriano Martins
#21. They think too little who talk too much.
John Dryden
#22. People vote for the president, not the vice president. I think sometimes people that are in the veepstakes talk too much about this and certainly the media does. I don't think that it's that important.
Rob Portman
#23. I talk too much, but there's a lot unsaid. I've slept in a lot of beds.
Kris Kidd
#24. I don't mind letting people in a little bit, but I have learned from the past not to talk too much about my relationships and to keep things as private as possible.
Leona Lewis
#26. People move too fast and talk too much, and before you know it, they come back to a place they don't want to be - except now they know there's nowhere left to run.
Jodi Picoult
#27. A lot of the stuff that I've done has been more drama and less comedy. I've had some opportunities to do some comedy, and I've often wanted to do that because it fits with me very comfortably because I talk too much, and I'm always saying the wrong thing all the time.
Cush Jumbo
#28. Yes," said Wilson. "There's that. Doesn't do to talk too much about all this. Talk the whole thing away. No pleasure in anything if you mouth it up too much.
Ernest Hemingway,
#29. You talk too much." "You are a real communicator!" "Stop daydreaming." "You are creative!" "Don't be so bossy." "You are confident!" "Stop wiggling. Sit still." "You were born to move!
Yong Pratt
#30. To tell a woman not to talk too much was like telling Jesse James not to carry a gun, or a hen not to cackle.
Malcolm X
#31. Ask others about themselves, at the same time, be on guard not to talk too much about yourself.
Mortimer Adler
#32. Dogs are never in a bad mood over something you said at breakfast. Dogs never sniff at the husks of old conversations, or conduct autopsies on weekends gone wrong. An unexamined life may not be worth living, but the overexamined life is hell. We talk too much.
Abigail Thomas
#34. The old are often forgotten. Life moves on without a care for those who wish to remain in the past. We tend to talk too much because it's rare that we're listened to.
Tami Egonu
#35. One of the album's songs features Mary J. Blige, but I don't want to talk too much about it yet. I think you will hear the music that's been playing in my head when it comes out.
Chaka Khan
#37. People say that if you talk too much about sex, you take away the mystery. I say, if you're somebody who likes to talk, talk all you want - it's not listening. You will never take away the mystery.
Mary Gaitskill
#38. I'm a goof. I talk too much. I tell stories. I tell cheesy Dad jokes. I'm theatrical and I'll mix things up and I'll surprise people. Those are the things that I just do because that's who I am.
William Beckett
#39. Most people talk too much, and what they do say is often just noise or irrelevant gibberish designed to keep themselves entertained
Stuart Wilde
#40. Ain't good to talk too much about infernal affairs if you can avoid it. Tends to make certain things stand up and pay attention.
Laura Oliva
#41. I don't want anyone to have to interview me. I wish I didn't have to talk too much about myself.
Mike Tyson
#42. I've been accused many times of not talking very much, but I guess I don't believe in talking things to death. You can talk too much on most anything and it stops being productive. There is a time for action. Eventually you have to pull the trigger.
Edward Whitacre Jr.
#44. Don't talk too much. Don't pop off. Don't talk after the game until you cool off.
Bear Bryant
#45. For me, the dialogue is the easiest part of writing. It just always seems so obvious what a character will say. Maybe it's because I talk too much!
Julia Quinn
#46. Those who talk too much about race no longer have it in them.
Oswald Spengler
#47. But I've found that to talk too much about movies is the kiss of death. If it happens then it happens, is all.
Brian Lumley
#48. People who are humble don't talk too much; they listen.
Frederick Lenz
#49. Your dad said you stopped playing right after I left." He did? "My dad talks too much." "Why, Tru?" "I dunno." I shrug. "He just does." "No." Jake smiles, coming over to me. "Not why does your dad talk too much. Why did you stop playing after I left?" "When you left, I guess the music left with you.
Samantha Towle
#50. I think people talk too much anyway. Sometimes people are talking to me and in my mind I'm just like shut up, shut up, shut upblah blah blah blah blaaaaah.
Ellen DeGeneres
#51. Lord, may I also talk "too much" about You. May I keep You first in everything I do, think or say today. Enable me by Your Spirit, I pray, in Jesus' name. Amen.
A.W. Tozer
#52. But far more numerous was the herd of such,
Who think too little, and who talk too much.
John Dryden
#53. I talk too much because I have been made so miserable by what you are keeping hushed.
Djuna Barnes
#54. I did a film when I was about 30; it's a coming of age story called 'Gas Food Lodging,' and I'm so proud of that little independent film. I play this young English geologist, and he's such a simple, loving kind of guy. Doesn't talk too much. He's just a quiet guy, and he gets the girl.
Robert Knepper
#55. Do you love me? That laugh of hers. What had it meant? Stupid question. Why ask? You talk too much. Or else: What is love? Or possibly: In your dreams. Then
Margaret Atwood
#57. Wake up who cares about little boys that talk too much
Mr. Big
#58. I have no future,' said Hanno. 'I need no prophecy. You talk too much, woman.
William Nicholson
#59. Most men talk too much. Much of my success has been due to keeping my mouth shut.
J. Ogden Armour
#60. I think people talk too much; that's the truth of the matter. I do. I don't believe in words. People use too many words and usually wrongly. I am sure that in the distant future people will talk much less and in a more essential way. If people talk a lot less, they will be happier. Don't ask me why.
Michelangelo Antonioni
#61. Well, I don't want to talk too much about my children, but a friend of one of my children, something really terrible happened to her. I just felt like I had to speak about growing up again, because I felt that there's no way I can talk about difficulties of life. I had to talk about possibilities.
Lukas Moodysson
#62. I worry about people who get born nowadays, because they get born into such tiny families
sometimes into no family at all. When you're the only pea in the pod, your parents are likely to get you confused with the Hope Diamond. And that encourages you to talk too much.
Russell Baker
#63. Anyone who thinks women talk too much has never sat through a six hour Super Bowl pre-game show.
Nora Barry
#64. New Rule: If you're one of the one-in-three married women who say your pet is a better listener than your husband, you talk too much. And I have some bad news for you: Your dog's not listening, either; he's waiting for food to fall out of your mouth.
Bill Maher
#66. Politicians often talk too much and listen too little, which can be self-defeating, for in many instances the surer route to winning a friend is not to convince them that you are right but that you care what they think.
Jon Meacham
#67. It's difficult because we live in a world that doesn't really respect the creative and intellectual contributions of women.
It's more like Oh, you're so cute. Be quiet. Shhh, don't talk too much.
Lauryn Hill
#68. These guys may not talk too much about relationships, but they sure do blush at telling moments, don't they? Maybe that's the key to understanding the opposite sex; I could invent a science, call it blushology.
Jody Gehrman
#70. The job of the president of the United States is to talk to the public, is to explain to them. Now, some presidents talk too much, like Bill Clinton. Some presidents try to talk but don't know how, like George Bush senior.
P. J. O'Rourke
#71. I do get bottled up in interviews. You're thinking about what you're saying, and suddenly you get all tangled. So people think I'm sullen, or that I don't have much to say. But my friends will tell you: a lot of times I talk too much.
Matt Dillon
#72. I think one of the problems when we discuss the Israel-Palestine conflict is people talk too much in terms of, 'What's your preference?,' like politics is a Chinese menu - I'll take one from column A and two from column B. That's not what politics is about.
Norman Finkelstein
#73. Niten's hand moved and the ragged end of the broken katana caught the crocodile in the center of the chest. Eyes wide, mouth gaping in surprise, it staggered back into the fog. "You talk too much," Niten whispered.
Michael Scott
#74. It is such a great fault to talk too much that, in business and conversation, if what is good is also brief, it is doubly good, and one gains by brevity what one often loses by an excess of words.
Madeleine De Souvre, Marquise De ...
#75. The trouble with women is that they talk too much. It would be good if human beings would keep as silent as this cat.
Soseki Natsume
#77. I started to perform when I was 12 ... I don't talk too much. I let the music do the talking.
Patty Loveless
#79. You're as handsome as Apollo, you don't pick your nose, you're not stingy and you don't talk too much. There's nothing at all the matter with you!' announced Pupa in the tone of a doctor who was a hundred per cent sure of her diagnosis.
Dubravka Ugresic
#80. Extraverts, in other words, often stumble over themselves. They can talk too much and listen too little, which dulls their understanding of others' perspectives. They can fail to strike the proper balance between asserting and holding back, which can be read as pushy and drive people away.*
Daniel H. Pink
#81. People who talk too much are tiresome, especially those who are not informative, thought-provoking, or funny.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#82. It is futile to talk too much about the past ... like trying to make birth control retroactive.
Charles Erwin Wilson
#83. I won't say another word
not one. I know I talk too much, but I am really trying to overcome it, and although I say far too much, yet if you only knew how much I want to say and don't, you'd give me some credit for it.
L.M. Montgomery
#84. You talk too much."
"Maybe you talk too little."
"You're going to live forever. Pace yourself."
- Lucas and Zee, What Kills Me
Wynne Channing
#85. In Japanese sushi restaurants, a lot of sushi chefs talk too much.
Masa Takayama
#86. You talk too much, you laugh too loud, and that's the price of love.
Bryan Ferry
#87. You both talk too much," the kid says. "Shut up. Don't make me tell you again."
We shut up, which I find hysterically funny.
Karen Marie Moning
#88. They say that women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.
Clare Boothe Luce
#89. I cut my own hair. I got sick of barbers because they talk too much. And too much of their talk was about my hair coming out.
Robert Frost
#90. People talk too much. Humans aren't descended from monkeys. They come from parrots.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#92. I don't really talk too much about my personal life, but I'm happy.
Bryan Greenberg
#93. Have you ever thought about a Twelve Step program for people who talk too much? You could call it On and On Anon.
Mary Doria Russell
#94. I'm going to be meeting with people today who talk too much - people who are selfish, egotistical, ungrateful. But I won't be surprised or disturbed, for I can't imagine a world without such people.
Marcus Aurelius
#96. I have an urge to communicate. I think I'm a change from what it would be like dating a normal guy who doesn't talk too much.
Drake
#97. You know, there're no rules between Russell and I. We don't want to have to have to talk too much, because it's really precious, really special to play music.
Benny Green
#98. I can't talk fellowship to you who are gathered here. Too much blood has been spilled. I know from my experience it is up to the working people to save themselves. The only way they can save themselves is by a strong working-class movement.
Rose Schneiderman
#99. All my books are made up of other books. They're all deeply structured on other fiction, because I was a student in fiction and I didn't have much actual living to draw on. I suspect a lot of other people's novels are like that, too, though they might be slower to talk about it.
Zadie Smith
#100. I laugh when Floyd Mayweather says that if he went back in time he would beat us all. I'll tell you this: if he was in the same era as Hagler and Hearns and Leonard and me, I don't think he would be such a big name. There is too much talk.
Roberto Duran
