Quotes of: Talk-is-cheap Keyword

Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it.

Pensées

We must keep our thought secret, and judge everything by it, while talking like the people.

Pensées

Why do people who can talk right waste so many words saying nothing?

Paperboy

Happiness is a very pretty thing to feel, but very dry to talk about.

The Panopticon Writings

He lies to himself. If Eugenides talked in his sleep, he'd lie then, too.

The Queen of Attolia

There's nothing more exciting than ideas.

Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

A great chessplayer is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it.

Table-Talk, Essays on Men and Manners

I make conversation like I make love to myself—I let my hands do all the talking.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

Sometimes thinking is like talking to another person, but that person is also you.

Thief of Time

Wings are a constraint that makes it possible to fly.

The Tree Of Meaning: Thirteen Talks

I was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to

The Two Towers

I just think people overvalue argument because they like to hear themselves talk.

Use of Weapons

Some people talk to animals. Not many listen though. That's the problem.

Winnie-the-Pooh

Knocking on a door is so violent. Talk on the door. Try to get it to open up through communication, not violence.

Xazaqazax

Don’t talk sign language and masturbate at the same time. Not unless you’re translating a Presidential State of the Union address.

Xazaqazax

I love eating shabu-shabu in Japan - a kind of beef hotpot. But if you're talking about authentic, traditional food, then Italian cooking is one of the best in the world.

Andrea Bocelli

I think the best thing that you can do with your kids is to talk to them like they're human beings, not like they're children and they don't know what they're doing.

Constance Zimmer

Two quilters who have just met will be strangers only until their mutual passion for quilting is revealed. Then they can talk for hours like the best of friends.

Jennifer Chiaverini

I don't like the term 'chick flick.' I think it denigrates a movie. It has overtones of talking down to women, like they are second best.

Mike Newell

When I was a young kid, the best stuff on television was always the BBC period dramas - it was what we sat down as a family to watch and what people talked about and looked forward to.

Neil Jackson

The immigration thing has to be brought to a head, and I feel that the best way to do that is endorse the worst, in the sense of he is a racist and he knows what I'm talking about.

Tom Metzger