talking quotes

Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.

-1st Earl
  Speech, Oxford,14  Jun.

   I am of the firm belief that everybody could write books and I never understand why they don't. After all, everybody speaks.Once the grammar has been learnt it is simply talking on paper and in time learning what not to say.

- Dame Beryl Margaret Bainbridge
  In D L Kirkpatrick (ed) Contemporary Novelists.

An actor is a kind of guy who if you ain't talking about him ain't listening.

- Marlon Brando
Quoted in Bob Thomas Brando (1973), ch.8.

Hablando siempre y siempre contando chismes y haciendo chistes y siempre y tambie  n filosofando o estetizando o moralizando, siempre: la cuestio  n era hacer ver como que no trabaja  bamos porque en La Habana, Cuba, esa es la  u nica manera de ser gente bien. Talking all the time and telling jokes or gossiping all the time and always and also philosophizing or aestheticizingor moralizing, but always: thething wasto make it look like we didn't have to work because in Havana,Cuba, this is the only way to be high society. . .

- Guillermo Cabrera Infante
  Tres tristes tigres ( Three Trapped Tigers,1971),'Bachata'.

They told me, Heraclitus, they told me you were dead, They brought bitter news to hear, and bitter tears to shed. I wept as I remembered how often you and I Had tired thesunwithtalking and sent himdownthesky.

-William originally  WilliamJohnson Cory
  Ionica, Poems,'Heraclitus', his translationof an epigram by Callimachus.

The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.

- Fran(ces Ann) Lebowitz
Social Studies,'People'.