Top 93 Quotes About Talking Too Much
#1. One thing talk can't accomplish is communication. This is because everybody's talking too much to pay attention to what anyone is saying
P. J. O'Rourke
#2. Every time I flicked channels, there I was, talking. I was talking too much and writing too little. So Naomi and I went to Hawaii. The phone was cut off and we lost touch. This gave me the chance to have a good think about my life.
Joe Eszterhas
#3. I believe in music and gin and joy and talking too much and human kindness.
Caitlin Moran
#5. As soon as I feel people are talking too much about my character, it's time to leave.
Chris Noth
#6. You've got to avoid overcoaching. You've got to avoid talking too much. You've got to avoid showing players that you're the boss every time. You don't have to do that. They know you're in charge.
Red Auerbach
#7. I don't like talking too much about my personal life, but it all goes into my work.
Ottessa Moshfegh
#8. Am I talking too much? He paused, staring into my eyes, genuine worry coloring his face.
I shook my head. No, I thought, I'd listen to you talk about nearly anything. You make phone calls sound like an adventure.
Kiera Cass
#9. I desperately want to help, but the truth is, I don't know. I used to hate myself; eventually, I didn't anymore. I used to be shy; eventually, I made my living by talking too much.
Lindy West
#10. Talking too much is a far greater social fault than talking too little.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#11. It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.
Yogi Berra
#12. The only benefit a woman can have in talking too much is defeating a man who troubles her too much.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#13. Now the thing is not to get into unnecessary quarrels by talking too much and not to indicate any weakness by talking too much; let our actions speak for themselves.
Henry L. Stimson
#14. When we are in the company of sensible men, we ought to be doubly cautious of talking too much, lest we lose two good things, their good opinion and our own improvement; for what we have to say we know, but what they have to say we know not.
Charles Caleb Colton
#15. I was very chatty and talkative and always getting sent out of class for talking too much and not paying attention, passing notes.
Lucy Punch
#16. We have deemed all these words necessary in order to explain that we have been traveling more slowly than was predicted, concision is not a definitive virtue, on occasion one loses out by talking too much, it is true, but how much has also been gained by saying more than was strictly necessary.
Jose Saramago
#17. To tell you the truth, I don't like talking too much once I leave this booth. I'm talked out.
Lynn Samuels
#18. There is such a thing as tempting the gods. Talking too much, too soon and with too much self-satisfaction has always seemed to me a sure way to court disaster. The forces of retribution are always listening. They never sleep.
Meg Greenfield
#19. It is bad to carry even a good thing too far. Even concerning things such as Buddhism, Buddhist sermons, and moral lessons, talking too much will bring harm.
Tsunetomo Yamamoto
#20. I wondered how many things people missed when they were busy talking too much. "Are
Brittainy C. Cherry
#21. Some actors like encouragement. Some actors prefer to have pressure. And sometimes, for some actors, its better to give your comment by silence, because they are so skillful, so gifted, that they understand without talking too much.
Wong Kar-Wai
#22. I was talking too much, and I knew I was talking too much, but I couldn't stop. It was like my brain had been cut open, and every thought inside was spilling out on the floor.
Dan Wells
#23. Once there was, once there wasn't, God's creature were as plentiful as grains and talking too much was a sin.
Elif Shafak
#24. When cubism began to take a social form, Metzinger was especially talked about. He explained cubism, while Picasso never explained anything. It took a few years to see that not talking was better than talking too much.
Marcel Duchamp
#25. The aging process seems to strike first at the mechanism which warns that we have been talking too much and the listener is growing restless. The signal isn't perfect at any age - drink, for instance, throws it right out of kilter - but it is almost non-existent in old people.
Barbara Walters
#26. People who talk too much are tiresome, especially those who are not informative, thought-provoking, or funny.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#27. It's dangerous talking about yourself too much because you find yourself talking in sound bites.
Emily Mortimer
#28. To Gran, "strong medicine" could be good or bad, just like the laxatives she was forever
talking about. Good for makin' the mail move smooth, but too much and you shit yer
brains out.
-strange angels
Lili St. Crow
#29. I started to perform when I was 12 ... I don't talk too much. I let the music do the talking.
Patty Loveless
#30. On the protocol, I don't know what to do... ain't good with talking to new girls... I even don't have a girl friend and the most shitty thing I am little afraid of nothing getting too much into it... knowing somebody and he starting to ignore you...
Deyth Banger
#31. Lately
I've been dreaming about you
About us
Sharing our secrets
Talking, even if we argued
Kept talking, till we slept
Maybe I woke up
On the wrong side of bed
Maybe I thought about you
Just a little too much
Irum Zahra
#32. If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send 150 lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, & talk by the hour? That 150 lawyers should do business together ought not to be expected.
Thomas Jefferson
#34. We ask for way too much stuff - way too much stuff. You got a job making $100 a year and bought a house for $3 million. Talking about, 'I don't know what happened with the payment.'
Sinbad
#35. Holy Christ . . . are we talking zombies here?" Church smiled faintly. "We're calling him a 'walker.' Short for 'Dead Man Walking.' The head of my science team has too much of a pop culture sensibility.
Jonathan Maberry
#36. He always kept me just on the edge of crazy. Feeling like I wanted him too much, which just made me want him more." "That sounds excruciating.
Rainbow Rowell
#37. The thing about talking about human rights is that when one bears in mind the sharp end of it, one does not want to worry too much about semantics.
Tom Stoppard
#38. When women do succeed, the press, even the industry press, spend far too much time talking about how we dress, what shoes we're wearing, who we're meant to be seeing. That's pretty sad for women, especially when it's written by women who really should know better.
Zaha Hadid
#39. 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
#40. Too much talking," I say. "Not enough running.
Patrick Ness
#41. Too much talking these days. Talk talk talk. This country would get along much better if people learned how to suffer in silence.
Neil Gaiman
#42. I can't tell you too much about it because I'm not even meant to tell you that I'm in it. In fact, I might never work again now that I've been talking to you. I'm not in it for very long, let's put it that way.
Jason Isaacs
#43. As usual when I drank too much I started talking about things I should'nt ... That night Kate told me I had no brains and she was officially done with me. OK, fair enough. I already knew that I was an idiot, stepping for the third time in the same shit with the same left foot.
Joanna Mazurkiewicz
#44. Less talk - more work! There is too much talking going on. Because of excessive talking, spiritual energy is being wasted.
Sathya Sai Baba
#45. I would say things like 'I am the greatest! I'm pretty! If you talk jive, you'll drop in five! I float like a butterfly, sting like a bee! I'm pretty!' When white people heard me talking like this, some said, 'That black man talks too much. He's bragging.'
Muhammad Ali
#46. Look, I am not worried about Washington cutting too much spending too fast. I mean, the kinds of spending cuts we're talking about just right now are $100 billion out of a $3.7 trillion budget.
Paul Ryan
#47. I'd violated the primary rule of junior and senior high
don't get people talking about you too much. This was wearing the brightest shirt on the playground. This was Mom giving you a kiss in the lobby.
Darin Strauss
#48. When you're talking about a trade you're saying, 'Is it good for this team or that team, did they give up too much?' That kind of debate is great for the game.
Roger Goodell
#49. A good thing about talking to someone who is standing behind you is that you can pretend you don't know they're crying, and not trouble yourself too much with working out why. You can simply concentrate on helping them feel better.
Nathan Filer
#50. We're smitten with technology. And we're afraid, like young lovers, that too much talking might spoil the romance. But it's time to talk.
Sherry Turkle
#51. I'm talking about those novels where the characters aren't really interesting and you don't care about them or anything they care about. It's those books I won't read anymore. There's too much else to read
books about people and things that matter, books about life and death.
Will Schwalbe
#52. Don't consider sarcasm the 'be-all' and 'end-all' of verbal intercourse. Far too many people place way too much importance on the sarcasm instead of the talking, in and of itself, as a precious shared experience between people.
Adam Rifkin
#53. Bind up thy words that they run not riot, and grow wanton, and gather up sins for themselves in too much talking. Let them be rather confined, and held back within their own banks. An overflowing river quickly gathers mud.
Saint Ambrose
#54. Talking to celebrities is too much effort. They all think the same.
Simon Cowell
#55. I know I probably offend some people. I have been talking a little too much so I'm trying not to talk as much.
David Arquette
#56. I'd rather not get into what I'm talking about lyrically. I think it's impossible not to demystify a song when saying what it's about. Music and art can be damaged severely by too much information; I say that as somebody that has participated in that.
Trent Reznor
#57. Excuse me?" Jess asked in disbelief. "This is Frozen Zarek I'm talking to, right? Not some weird pod person?"
He shook his head at Jess's joking. "It's me, dickless."
"Hey, now, that's way too personal. I don't need to know that much about you.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#58. It sounded to him like the noise of too many mouths that talk and too few minds that think.
Lisa Unger
#59. 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
#60. I did a lot of talking - not as much background talking as a lot of people because I've never been someone who is too afraid of saying what I feel. I just don't see any reason to.
Edward Allen Bernero
#61. There was an exceeding good concert, but too much talking to hear it well. Indeed I am quite astonished to find how little music is attended to in silence; for, though every body seems to admire, hardly any body listens.
Fanny Burney
#62. People come up to us and ask how we knew so much about their own family ... I'm talking about people from faraway places, too. I get people from Turkey and Chile coming up to me and saying I wrote about their family.
Paul Reiser
#63. I don't get afraid in talking about subject matter that may spark controversy, and I'm not afraid to not be liked. I think that sometimes people pay too much attention to being liked, and it's paralyzing.
Jada Pinkett Smith
#64. Too much negotiating and not enough work on the court - that's what happened to me during the lockout. Too much talking and not enough training. I couldn't put in my usual offseason work routine. I think that all caught up to me, with my Achilles problems.
Patrick Ewing
#65. At my age, I realize that my most precious possession is time, and I've got too much unfinished work to do to spend even a minute talking about myself.
Benny Carter
#66. I don't care too much about talking, but I don't like being alone.
Ida Lokas
#68. A good editor understands what you're talking and writing about and doesn't meddle too much.
Irwin Shaw
#69. Life is much too short to waste time wallowing in the past especially when the future hands you a second chance.
Chakotay Talking to B'Ellana (When she asks him why he isn't mad her for lying about her and Miral being dead)
Book:Unworthy: pg. 121
Kirsten Beyer
#70. If thy words be too luxuriant, confine them, lest they confine thee; he that thinks he never can speak enough may easily speak too much. A full tongue and an empty brain are seldom parted.
Francis Quarles
#71. Men are like dogs, Stacy was fond of saying. And she usually went on to add that, like dogs, they all took up too much space on the bed, and they always went for the crotch.
Lisa Kleypas
#72. God is constantly talking to us but we can't hear him because we pay too much attention to the noise from the world. Genesis 12:22.
Felix Wantang
#73. What is it?" she asked.
"I'm looking for your wings. You are my guardian angel, aren't you?"
"I'm afraid not," she replied, her cheeks dimplingwith a wry smile. "There's too much of the devil in me for that."
"Just how much devil," I grinned, "are we talking about here?
Gregory David Roberts
#74. Talking is always positive. That's why I talk too much.
Louis C.K.
#75. I'm probably at my least religious I've ever been in a while. When you're moved by music, that's always good. But I haven't been talking to God too much lately.
Stone Gossard
#76. Is it too much?"
"No. It's like you completed the circuit," I say, gripping his other hand. "I feel kind of drunk, though."
"Drunk on power?" he asks.
I giggle. "Shit, Snow. Stop talking. This is embarrassing.
Rainbow Rowell
#77. Well, don't worry about it too much, princess. Let ice-boy cool off for the night and then try to talk to him tomorrow. He wont stay angry with you too long, I bet. Ash isn't one to hold a grudge. '
'What are you talking about? He's held a grudge against you for centuries!'
'Oh, right.
Julie Kagawa
#78. I turned off the talking politicos. Too much jabbering at each other. Not enough care about humans.
Leonard Nimoy
#79. If we're talking fantasy, I would love to host a late night talk show ... More Fallon than Leno. Those guys always seem like they're having way too much fun at their 'jobs.'
Aaron Sanchez
#80. I'm afraid if I say what I am thinking, it will be too much too soon.
Alex Rosa
#81. Talk to me about sadness. I talk about it too much in my own head but I never mind others talking about it either; I occasionally feel like I tremendously need others to talk about it as well.
Anne Sexton
#82. A fool is made more of a fool, when their mouth is more open than their mind.
Anthony Liccione
#83. I hate having to repeat myself, but sometimes there is really nothing else to say
Dmitry Dyatlov
#84. Most people talk when they have nothing to say. I'm not talking because I have too much to say. None of which I'd want you to hear.
Megan McCafferty
#85. I always say too much when I'm talking to you
that's one of the problems ...
Stephenie Meyer
#86. Talking about the "relationship" too much takes away the element of the "unknown" and thus the mystery.
Sherry Argov
#87. 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.
#88. People want to see something authentic. If it's too polished and highly produced, people might not trust it as much. If it's grainy, if it's coming from a webcam, if it's someone standing there and talking their mind or sharing their thoughts, people trust it much more.
Chad Hurley
#89. Most people talk too much, and what they do say is often just noise or irrelevant gibberish designed to keep themselves entertained
Stuart Wilde
#90. Jade helped Az into the BMW. Well, helped, shoved, same thing. The guy still wasn't talking. With the
bullets in him, maybe he was just in too much pain to talk right then.
Cynthia Eden
#91. China's Premier Zhao Ziyang, for all of his billion constituents, seemed in the evening's lovely flow like a favorite uncle, smiling a little too much, wanting to be a bit American, talking about peace and pork chops.
Hugh Sidey
#92. Too much talking and not enough writhing in ecstasy. You will commence writhing now.
Katie MacAlister
#93. Lovers of words have no place where honest work must be done.
Karen Essex
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