Talkers Quotes - Page 3

• People think we are such great talkers, but there is so much silence in Ireland about certain issues.

  Fionnula Flanagan

  Thinking, Issues, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• How dare the smooth talkers, the clever official blabbers, open their mouths and boast of progress. . . . Here they hold jubilant peace conferences in which they talk against war. . . . But the same righteous Governments, who are so nobly, industriously active to establish the eternal peace, are preparing, by their own confession, complete annihilation for six million people, and there is nobody, except the doomed themselves, to raise his voice in protest although this is a worse crime than any war . . .

  Max Nordau

  Clever, War, Government

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• The talkers and writers resent being left on the sidelines by the doers.

  Thomas Sowell

  Doers, Sidelines, Resent

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• 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

  Writing, Two, Say Anything

  Edmund White, David Bergman (1995). “The Burning Library: Essays”, Vintage

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• There are so many kinds of different feelings - not good feelings - going on in the room, and he comes in with so much compassion. He's a straight talker and pulls them into what feels like a really positive action-struggle kind of feeling. Without seeing that, you might have all kinds of judgments or feelings about what might go on in a place like that. But it felt akin to a spiritual healing more than I could have possibly anticipated.

  John H Richardson

  Spiritual, Struggle, Healing

  Source: classic.esquire.com

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• I had always been a great talker and teller of tales. 'You should put a lock on that tongue of yours. It's long enough and sharp enough to slit your own throat,' our guardian warned me, the night before I left home to go to the royal court at Versailles ... I just laughed. 'Don't you know a woman's tongue is her sword? You wouldn't want me to let my only weapon rust, would you?

  Kate Forsyth

  Home, Night, Long

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• 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

  Real, Guy, Important

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• 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

  People, Important, Stories

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• Individual psychotherapy - that is, engaging a distressed fellow human in a disciplined conversation and human relationship - requires that the therapist have the proper temperament and philosophy of life for such work. By that I mean that the therapist must be patient, modest, and a perceptive listener, rather than a talker and advice-giver.

  Thomas Szasz

  Philosophy, Mean, Advice

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• That's why my ires always come comedic in a way because - can I just say something? See, I sound like such a smooth talker.

  Garry Marshall

  Way, Sound, Smooth

  "Fresh Air Remembers Garry Marshall, Creator Of 'Happy Days' And 'Laverne & Shirley'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. July 20, 2016.

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• Good talkers are people who use interesting language and have a lot of energy in speech and who also listen.

  Grace Paley

  People, Interesting, Energy

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• Jeb Bush says he`s not a good - why would he admit that? I watched him. I`m not an entertainer. He goes, I`m not a good talker. I don`t speak well. I don`t debate well. I don`t do anything well. But you should vote for me. That`s Jeb Bush.

  Donald Trump

  Vote, Debate, Speak

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• I'm a thinker not a talker.

  David Bowie

  Thinker

  Song: Conversation Piece

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• There is a tradition of television which isn't dross and stands up. Betjeman's programmes, which were made for 2/6d with one man and a cine camera, were amazing to watch because he was such a great talker.

  Jonathan Meades

  Men, Television, Cameras

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Adrian smiled and clasped my hands, taking a few steps toward me. "And as for who you are, you’re the same beautiful, brave, and ridiculously smart caffeinated fighter you’ve been since the day I met you.” Finally, he put “beautiful” at the top of his list of adjectives. Not that I should have cared. “Sweet talker,” I scoffed. “You didn’t know anything about me the first time we met.” “I knew you were beautiful,” he said. “I just hoped for the rest.

  Richelle Mead

  Beautiful, Sweet, Smart

  Richelle Mead (2013). “The Indigo Spell: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.183, Penguin

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• 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

  Beach, Real, Needs

  Sarah Dessen (2013). “The Moon and More”, p.230, Penguin

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• 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

  Coffee, House, Political

  Benjamin Franklin (1950). “Letters to the Press, 1758-1775”

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• Every Republican has a one-liner on ObamaCare. I've got detailed plans on energy independence, on school choice, on health care, on foreign policy. They all hire somebody to write their plans. They can borrow mine. I've actually got ideas. Enough with the slick talkers. Let's elect somebody that's done something.

  Bobby Jindal

  School, Writing, Ideas

  "Bobby Jindal opens up about his 2016 presidential run on 'Hannity'". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. July 3, 2015.

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• [ When I met Barack Obama] He says, I do a pretty good me myself - he said something like that. But he's - he is a close talker. He's a touchy guy.

  Jordan Peele

  Guy, Mets, Said

  Source: www.npr.org

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• 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, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

  Home, Talking, Used

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• A good talker, even more than a good orator, implies a good audience.

  Leslie Stephen

  Talking, Audience, Orators

  Leslie Stephen (2011). “Samuel Johnson”, p.60, Cambridge University Press

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• 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

  Doubters, Painting, Conviction

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• 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

  Ideas, Interesting, Littles

  Philip Gilbert Hamerton (1873). “The Intellectual Life: With a portrait of Leonardo da Vinci, etched by Leopold Flameng”, p.262

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• I'm a better talker than writer.

  Jesse Ventura

  "Former governor Jesse Ventura talks about new books ‘Marijuana Manifesto’ and ‘Shit Politicians Say,’ plus much more". Interview with Michelle Tompkins, thecelebritycafe.com. September 1, 2016.

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• If you know anything about me, I've never been a trash-talker. That's not even part of my DNA.

  Emmitt Smith

  Dna, Trash, Knows

  "Q&A: Emmitt Smith on Dancing with the Stars". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.esquire.com. October 8, 2012.

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