Top 100 Quotes About Talkers
#1. Butler compared the tongues of these eternal talkers to race-horses, which go the faster the less weight they carry.
Charles Caleb Colton
#2. To the haranguers of the populace among the ancients, succeed among the moderns your writers of political pamphlets and news-papers, and your coffee-house talkers.
Benjamin Franklin
#3. Imagination, which is the Eldorado of the poet and of the novel-writer, often proves the most pernicious gift to the individuals who compose the talkers instead of the writers in society.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington
#4. The blue sky adds Dont call me eternity, call me God if you like, sll of you talkers are in paradise: the leaf is paradise, the tree stump is paradise, the paper bag is paradise, the man is paradise, the sand is paradise, the sea is paradise, the man is paradise, the fog is paradise
Jack Kerouac
#7. It is an easy mistake to think that non-talkers are non-feelers.
Wallace Stegner
#8. He turned to face me. "Not all of us can be talkers like you. Besides, I'm better with my hands."
I dropped my eyes. Damn my overactive imagination.
Belinda Williams
#9. Indeed, to know is something that pleases talkers and boasters, but to do is that which pleases God. Not
John Bunyan
#10. The Press has no band of critics who go the round of the churches and chapels, and are on the watch for a slip or defect in the preacher, to make a 'feature' in their article: the clergy are, practically, the most irresponsible of all talkers.
George Eliot
#11. The world is full of talkers, but it is rare to find anyone who listens. And I assure you that you can pick up more information when you are listening than when you are talking.
E.B. White
#13. I don't like talk and I don't like talkers. Like Ma Barker. That's what she always said, 'Ma Barker doesn't like talk and she doesn't like talkers.' She just sat there with her gun.
David Bowie
#14. The clergy are, practically, the most irresponsible of all talkers.
["Evangelical Teaching: Dr. Cumming," The Westminster Review, 1885.]
George Eliot
#15. Greeks are born talkers," wrote Harriet. The deputies were no exception, with or without their twirling conversation beads. They seldom used notes, at times she wished they had; a few facts and figures would have been a relief from the sweeping statements.
Mary Allsebrook
#16. There are some silent people who are more interesting than the best talkers.
Benjamin Disraeli
#17. I prefer the society of one faithful person to an association of rapid talkers, who more than anything else seek admiration from one another.
Matthew Pearl
#18. The Scrum idea of a separated Scrum Master is good for Scrum, but not appropriate for most projects. Good development requires not just talkers but doers.
Bertrand Meyer
#19. The talkers and writers resent being left on the sidelines by the doers.
Thomas Sowell
#20. The United States Navy, during the war, used Navajos as "code-talkers" who relayed messages from ship to ship, talking in Navajo (a language not studied in Japan).
Michael Lesk
#21. My family were Russian Jews. They got you to read as soon as you could. And then assumed you would read a lot. People didn't really tell stories but they were good talkers. That's important for a writer, to hear speakers.
Grace Paley
#22. Brisk talkers are usually slow thinkers. There is, indeed, no wild beast more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate. If you are civil to the voluble they will abuse your patience; if brusque, your character.
Jonathan Swift
#23. DECISIVENESS SEPARATES GREAT LEADERS FROM DREAMERS AND TALKERS.
Jack Canfield
#24. Conversation is interesting in proportion to the originality of the central ideas which serve as pivots and the fitness of the little facts and observations which are contributed by the talkers.
Philip Gilbert Hamerton
#25. The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers.
Thomas Sowell
#26. Don't tell me they didn't have a choice. Now the whole world stands on the brink, staring down into bloody hell, all those liberals and intellectuals and smooth-talkers ... and all of a sudden, nobody can think of anything to say.
Alan Moore
#27. I have never met a successful person who talked about failing. The glass is always half full. I don't even like being around negative talkers.
Sir Mix-a-Lot
#28. Great talkers are trying to fill the gap between themselves and others, but only widen it.
Mason Cooley
#29. Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have none.
George Bernard Shaw
#30. We need only look to our Navajo Code Talkers during World War II to see the value that Native languages bring not only to their culture, but to the security of all Americans.
Rick Renzi
#31. In the glory days of Orioles, when I was a newbie baseball writer for the Post, the roster of talkers was as good as the everyday lineup. Singy - Ken Singleton - Flanny, and Cakes - the underwear spokesman Jim Palmer - were my go-to guys, occupying stalls along one wall of the shabby chic clubhouse.
Jane Leavy
#33. If I were to name my favorite pastime, I'd have to say talking about myself. I love it and I think most other people do too. We need, people like us, more listeners and less talkers.
Hedy Lamarr
#34. I don't like business talkers, you know, people who are constantly like, 'Blah blah blah movies.' I find it incredibly boring.
Zooey Deschanel
#36. Slander-mongers and those who listen to slander, if I had my way, would all be strung up, the talkers by the tongue, the listeners by the ears.
Plautus
#37. What's important is that you stay true to yourself. Because when you enter the real world, the most valuable thing you can bring is all your you-ness. The world doesn't need any more hot chicks or tough guys or smooth talkers - the world needs more you. And don't let anyone tell you otherwise.
Bo Burnham
#38. A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.
Truman Capote
#39. If only our great thinkers could learn to talk, and our great talkers could learn to think.
Ashleigh Brilliant
#40. Action is its own kind of thinking. We had to fight now: these people were a cancer who had crept into our stomachs and infected us all. We had to be surgeons, bold and clever, not thinkers and talkers.
John Marsden
#41. Two great talkers will not travel far together.
George Borrow
#42. Unlike most great talkers, the rooks are good workers, too.
Flora Thompson
#43. The world was overpopulated with talkers and underpopulated by listeners,
Jonathan Franzen
#45. Very important people have told me that they prefer good listeners to good talkers, but the ability to listen seems rarer than almost any other good trait.
Dale Carnegie
#46. Southerners love a good tale. They are born reciters, great memory retainers, diary keepers, letter exchangers ... great talkers.
Eudora Welty
#47. She shuddered. Pee talkers baffled her. How could they do that? Give you no opportunity to not listen?
Mira Jacob
#48. When it comes to scientific matters the ready talkers simply run riot. There are a lot of pseudo-scientists who with a little technical jargon to spatter through their talk are always getting in the limelight. ... The less they know the surer they are about it.
Charles Proteus Steinmetz
#50. I want to live in a world free of air talkers and technological affairs. Is that too much to ask? My
Lindsey Leavitt
#51. Talkers have always ruled. They will continue to rule. The smart thing is to join them.
Bruce Barton
#52. People who have little to do are excessive talkers.
Bill Vaughan
#53. I really don't care that much about 'Beauties'. What I really like are Talkers ... Talkers are doing something. Beauties are being something ...
Andy Warhol
#54. Any time people come together in a meeting, we're not necessarily getting the best ideas; we're just getting the ideas of the best talkers.
Susan Cain
#55. How are we going to make painters by lecturing to them? We are going to make questioners, doubters, and talkers. We are going to make painters by painting ourselves, and by showing the paintings of others. By working frankly from our convictions, we are going to make them work frankly from theirs.
William Morris Hunt
#56. There's 3 types of people in this world: there's talkers, there's watchers, and there's doers.
Jeremy Stephens
#57. Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists - talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#58. People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#59. Great talkers do not stop for breath, and never look at the clock.
Mason Cooley
#60. We Irish are too poetical to be poets; we are a nation of brilliant failures, but we are the greatest talkers since the Greeks.
Oscar Wilde
#61. Tush!
Fear not, my lord, we will not stand to prate;
Talkers are no good doers: be assured
We come to use our hands and not our tongues.
William Shakespeare
#62. Conservative talkers love to throw numbers around: their ratings and their audience size. And to be sure, they have a sizable audience which numbers in the tens of millions. But having people tune in and being able to dictate their actions are two different things.
John Ridley
#63. Donald Trump gets it: he's the genuine article. He's a doer in a game usually reserved for talkers. And when Donald Trump does his talking, he doesn't tiptoe around the thousand new rules of political correctness.
Mike Pence
#64. Tennessee Williams recognized that great theater begins with great talkers, and that great talkers obey two rules: they never sound like anyone else and they never say anything directly.
Edmund White
#65. The present is an age of talkers, and not doers; and the reason is, that the world is growing old. We are so far advanced in the Arts and Sciences, that we live in retrospect, and doat on past achievements.
William Hazlitt
#66. This country needs more readers and less talkers. At least that's my opinion.
Dennis Sharpe
#67. Good talkers are people who use interesting language and have a lot of energy in speech and who also listen.
Grace Paley
#68. The mark of a good conversationalist is not that you can talk a lot. The mark is that you can get others to talk a lot. Thus, good schmoozer's are good listeners, not good talkers.
Guy Kawasaki
#69. At the day of Doom men shall be judged according to their fruits. It will not be said then, did you believe? But, were you doers or talkers only?
John Bunyan
#70. Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty.
Thomas Sowell
#71. I have heard what the talkers were talking, the talk of the beginning and the end. But I do not talk of the beginning or the end.
Michael Cunningham
#73. I saw ten thousand talkers whose tongues were all broken
Bob Dylan
#74. In politics and in trade, bruisers and pirates are of better promise than talkers and clerks.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#75. The act of thinking and interpreting is so central to Judaism that it makes more sense that we've become people like Woody Allen - thinkers and talkers and drafters of law.
Tony Kushner
#76. Jewish Warsaw, which was roughly a third of Warsaw proper, was a city of rabbis and swindlers, capitalists and poets; but, most of all, it was a city of talkers. There were so many ideas in the air you could get an education simply by breathing deeply. (p. 206)
Rebecca Goldstein
#77. There are a lot of talkers in the world. There are a lot of people who know what's right and what's powerful, yet still aren't producing the results they desire. It's not enough to talk the talk. You've got to walk the talk
Tony Robbins
#78. They who are great talkers in company have never been any talkers by themselves, nor used to private discussions of our home regimen.
Anthony Ashley Cooper
#79. In the business world there are two types of people. The talkers, and the closers. Which one do you want to be?
Mark Davis
#80. When these incorrigible talkers are compelled to be quiet, is it not evident that they are not silent because they are listening to what is said, but because they are thinking of what they themselves shall say when they can seize the first lucky interval, for which they are so narrowly watching?
Hannah More
#81. I think we need a 12-step group for non-stop talkers. We're going to call it On and On Anon.
Paula Poundstone
#82. No matter was the professional talkers tell you, I never met a black boy who wanted to fail.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
#83. Be wary of smooth talkers. Words are rarely at your disposal if something is wholly, truly, completely true.
Joyce Rachelle
#84. The thing is, you can't always have the best of everything. Because for a life to be real, you need it all: good and bad, beach and concrete, the familiar and the unknown, big talkers and small towns.
Sarah Dessen
#85. The most fluent talkers or most plausible reasoners are not always the justest thinkers.
William Hazlitt
#88. There is such a torture, happily unknown to ancient tyranny, as talking a man to death. Marcus Aurelius advises to assent readily to great talkers
in hopes, I suppose, to put an end to the argument.
Laurence Sterne
#90. These two wouldn't be a problem. They talked to much. The talkers of the world ended up being the loudest screamers.
Ray Banks
#91. When will talkers refrain from evil speaking? When listeners refrain from evil hearing. At present there are many so credulous of evil, they will receive suspicions and impressions against persons whom they don't know, from a person whom they do know
an authority good for nothing.
Augustus William Hare
#92. People think we are such great talkers, but there is so much silence in Ireland about certain issues.
Fionnula Flanagan
#93. Shun the inquisitive person, for he is also a talker.
[Lat., Percunctatorem fugito, nam garrulus idem est.]
Horace
#94. You're very perceptive for a guy who can go a whole day without talking," she said, peering up at him. "That's why I'm perceptive.
Nicholas Sparks
#96. But men are bound to say
Some things that, though untrue,
Will get you down the aisle
Until you say "I do.
Joyce Rachelle
#97. No great talker ever did any great thing yet, in this world.
Ouida
#98. A good talker, even more than a good orator, implies a good audience.
Leslie Stephen
#100. Even the most sublimely accomplished non-stop talker can't consistently please.
J.D. Salinger
