Stopped Talking Quotes

#1. Already for thirty-five years he had not stopped talking and almost nothing of fundamental value had emerged.

James D. Watson

#2. The man stopped talking and was looking at the sunset.
But what does someone who hates and loves want with a sunset?

Alberto Caeiro

#3. They were all brilliant. They wrote books and painted pictures, and if they ever stopped talking, which I was sure they would never do, they planned to change the world.

Gloria Whelan

#4. I just stopped talking.1+1 could have been 2.' '1+1 is always 2.' The beautiful in you is an awakening; a very personal awakening.

Neha Sharma Jha

#5. I think she was in a book club for a while, but she quit when they stopped talking about the books and started talking about personal things like their feelings.

Kathryn Davis

#6. I hated that I always felt sorry for people who hurt me. Sometimes I wished I were one of those people who held grudges for ten months and stopped talking to people who hurt me.

Marilyn Grey

#7. He just waited until I stopped talking and said, 'Jesus, kid, you're almost a detective. All you need now is a gun, a gut, and three ex-wives. So what's your theory?

John Green

#8. He's an intricate, mesmerizing puzzle; I only succeeded at putting the pieces together because for once in my life I observed. I stopped talking long enough to listen - really listen - not just to what's said, but also to everything that goes unspoken.

Jody Gehrman

#9. I wonder how long it would take for anyone to notice if I just stopped talking.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#10. There was a period when I stopped talking so much, because I was just going through certain things. I just did the gigs and just stayed in, tried to stay away.

Jimi Hendrix

#11. If the restoration did anything it shattered the age-old myth that God has stopped talking to his children.

Russell M. Nelson

#12. My parents broke up when I was six. Before, I was a very active, naughty child, but after my father left me, I stopped talking. I became very good at hiding my emotions. I felt so ashamed of telling others that I didn't have a father, because that was not common in the 1960s.

Tony Leung Chiu-Wai

#13. Over the years, things got so bad between my mother and I, we stopped talking to each other and started communicating by putting Ann Landers articles on the refrigerator.

Judy Gold

#14. The book is called 'Most Talkative,' because I was voted most talkative in high school. And I've never stopped talking. My mouth has been my greatest asset and my biggest Achilles' heel.

Andy Cohen

#15. Fred Olmsted sat at the edge of the stagecoach seat, chattering to his father about their trip. How exciting to see the towns and forests of western New York! Suddenly, Fred stopped talking. That roar in the distance could only be one thing. Niagara Falls!

Julie Dunlap

#16. But after a while they stopped talking about her and discussed instead who was going to win the Grand National. For, as Mr Ferguson was saying at that minute in Luxor, it is not the past that matters but the future.

Agatha Christie

#17. They were heedless of the fact that they'd gain more converts if they just stopped talking.

James Ellroy

#18. In a daze, Remi stepped up to the battered old bar, next to Rhys. "What will it be?" the bartender asked Remi. "I'll have a Jake and Coke-uh, Jack and Cock, uh-" Oh fuck. Remi stopped talking. He could actually feel his face heat with a blush. Someone shoot me.

J.L. Langley

#19. I actually stopped talking. I actually listened. So I knew that I wasn't all the way manic, because when you're all the way manic you never listen to anybody but yourself.

Terri Cheney

#20. Victor Hugo stopped talking and everybody went to bed.

Adele Hugo

#21. As much wrong as I did in life and as many people as I hurt, I can say that God never stopped talking to me. I just stopped listening.

Sam Childers

#22. It snowed right before Jack stopped talking to Hazel, fluffy white flakes big enough to show their crystal architecture, like perfect geometric poems.

Anne Ursu

#23. You listen to me now and stop cutting me off. It's rude." She stopped moving and dropped her hand. "You can't tell me what I can and can't do; where I can go and who I can see."
She stopped talking so he requested, "May I speak?"
"Only if you don't piss me off when you do it,

Kristen Ashley

#24. Are you okay?' 'What do you mean?' 'You stopped talking. Just sat there looking intense.' 'Sorry. I had a stretch of interior monologue. Slightly lyrical. Takes a while to get through.

Michael Marshall Smith

#25. 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

#26. The only exception was my mother, who unabashedly took up for Adnan, fought with anyone who had anything negative to say about him, never stopped talking about him with Aunty Shamim, and prayed for him with the intensity of a thousand burning suns. I

Rabia Chaudry

#27. Every song is personal, but 'Ohio,' on my first EP, was on another level. I really opened up about the lack of relationship I had with my father. We stopped talking about four years ago, and I haven't had a father figure in my life since.

Jacob Whitesides

#28. Too many salesmen, I found, would make a good presentation and convince the client, but they couldn't recognize that critical moment when they should have stopped talking. If

Ray Kroc

#29. Ultimately when I gave up the use of motorized vehicles, I walked everywhere, from town to town, across states and two continents. When I stopped talking, I mean literally I stopped speaking. I took a complete vow of silence.

John Francis

#30. We stopped talking for a long, long time. A long time. Nurses came and went attaching and detaching things. Hundreds of thousands of babies were born while we weren't talking. The continents continued to separate at the same page as fingernails growing.

Miriam Toews

#31. I cannot remember what we talked about except that we never stopped talking.

Padma Lakshmi

#32. I've stopped listening. Why haven't you stopped talking?

Steve Callaghan

#33. He looked up at me, stuttered a few times, and then seemed to forget what he was saying altogether. I didn't say anything, or act surprised that he stopped talking. I just stared at him, feeling my heart pounding in my throat.
"Wow." He said.
"What?"
"You just left me speechless.

L.D. Davis

#34. Sadness comes from feeling sorry for yourself and happiness from joy. I stopped talking

Anne Frank

#35. You know you haven't stopped talking since I came here? You must have been vaccinated with a phonograph needle.

Groucho Marx

#36. Occasionally people would come to me. I was sitting with a woman one day and she was telling me her story and I was in a state of listening, a state of bliss as I was listening to the drama of her story, and suddenly she stopped talking and said, "Oh, you are doing healing."

Eckhart Tolle

#37. If I stopped talking after I made my point, I'd never say anything.

Lisa Scottoline

#38. I stopped talking to people long before I'd figured out how to.

Kristin Halbrook

#39. My heart stopped talking because it didn't want to talk anymore for a while.

Ray Bradbury

#40. I was raped when I was very young. I told my brother the name of the person who had done it. Within a few days the man was killed. In my child's mind
seven and a half years old
I thought my voice had killed him. So I stopped talking for five years.

Maya Angelou

#41. Yes I think so, absolutely. It should be stopped, nobody should be talking of hatred and militancy and aggression.

Pervez Musharraf

#42. I think writers just can't come up with any new words for what we're doing, because we're not 'retro-' anything. Like, in 'Gold and a Pager,' we're not talking about what was current - pagers were cool to us, but they never stopped being cool; people just stopped using them.

Chuck Inglish

#43. Parents spend a lot of time talking over kids. My son went through a vocabulary burst as I was writing 'The Bear.' I thought, 'What if I just stopped and listened?'

Claire Cameron

#44. All the same, it strikes me as unfair that I still have to defend myself against her moral judgements. My continuing need for her approbation is pathetic. Twice now I have stopped myself on the street to remonstrate with her, a crazy old coot talking to himself.

Mordecai Richler

#45. The first sign that I'd been unknowingly affected by cooking shows occurred on a Sunday morning when I realized I was talking to myself. I'd been making toast. 'First, we cut our bread,' I whispered. 'Do you know why?' I stopped what I was doing and looked up. 'Let me tell you why.'

Bill Buford

#46. I used to watch 'The Apprentice' all the time and I thought Bill was a fox. That was that, we didn't see each other for years, and then we saw each other and 45 minutes after the cameras stopped rolling, we were still talking.

Giuliana Rancic

#47. From the very beginning, I was involved in talking to people, listening to people. And it hasn't stopped. The idea was that people send me information; I'd ask them about it, listen, try to do something about it - and then ask for more feedback.

Craig Newmark

#48. I said, 'I don't like the way you look.'
Quincy stopped his work. He said, 'Are you talking to me, runt?'
I said, 'Yes, and I will say it again. I don't like the way you look and I don't like the way you are cutting up that turkey. I hope you go to jail. My lawyer will not help you.

Charles Portis

#49. There was never a mention, never a declaration or a decision. But the long hours of talking stopped. No more reading aloud, or music, or films. And after that there was simple physical affection, the two walking arm in arm, or Maharet at her reading with Mekare sitting motionless on a bench nearby.

Anne Rice

#50. I'm a conversationalist. I came out of a town with only 300 people. I didn't have anybody to talk to. I didn't want to talk about farming. So when I came out in the world, I started talking. Never stopped.

Jim "Dandy" Mangrum

#51. Mother Goose chuckled to herself. "Jack is nimble, Jack is quick - but Jack can be such a - " She stopped herself from finishing the thought, perhaps remembering she was talking to thirteen-year-olds. "I think I've had enough bubbly for one night. It's time for bed anyway.

Chris Colfer

#52. I've learned to try to sustain myself by holding on to the integrity of who I am. I'm not talking big diva. I'm quiet. I'm shy. And I became stronger when I stopped trying to be the person they wanted me to be.

Crystal Waters

#53. I've stopped showing actors what to actually do. I rather just talk to them about it. Then I usually play music. That's a great way to convey inner emotion, bring the power of style and acting together. That's really what it is, very good acting without talking.

Nicolas Winding Refn

#54. tightly and a vein throbbed at his temple. The two guards led Rogers down a long hallway. On each side were barred cell doors. The men behind them had been talking, but when Rogers came into view they abruptly stopped. The prisoners

David Baldacci

#55. When I'm in office I always keep Members of Parliament talking. If they stopped they might start thinking.

Winston Churchill

#56. Mind you, Augie knew all about spoilers, but whenever she started talking about the downforce equation, adults stopped the conversation in order to praise her intelligence, which made it all but impossible to speak.

Anonymous

#57. She carried on talking. And as she did so, I realized there could be no cosmic consequence at all if I stopped listening, and with that realization I switched off the phone.

Matt Haig

#58. She could talk. If she was a sphinx she could have talked, if she was a stone she could have talked. I wondered when she'd get tired and leave. Even after I stopped listening it was like being battered with tiny pingpong balls.

Charles Bukowski