Quotes of: Talk-is-cheap Keyword

One very good way to invite stares of disapproval in Japan is to walk and eat at the same time.

Japanese Beyond Words: How to Walk and Talk Like a Native Speaker

Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs; Make dust our paper and with rainy eyes Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth, Let's choose executors and talk of wills

Richard II

It's all you think about, all you talk about, and all you want us to talk about. What in the world would we call something like that? Oh, yeah! An obsession!

Shiver

The way I saw it, if my students were willing to pretend I was a teacher, the least I could do was return the favor and pretend that they were writers.

Me Talk Pretty One Day

I can't, Muffin. I can't talk to him. Why? He was good enough to sleep with, but not good enough to talk to now that he know's that you're part fish?

The Mermaid's Knight

If you tell people you talk to God, they'll think you're religious, but if you say God talks to you, it's ten to one they'll think you're crazy.

Maybe, Maybe Not

I have a million things to talk to you about. All I want in this world is you. I want to see you and talk. I want the two of us to begin everything from the beginning.

Norwegian Wood

We must have the love that exists among children, for with them love rules without any special purpose.

Salt and Light: Talks and Writings on the Sermon on the Mount

I'm only talking to one person here. If that's you, then you need to shut up and listen. If it's not, then you need to shut up because no one's talking to you.

The Secret Place

Getting to a higher spiritual level is like increasing your credit score. You get a lot more points for sinning and repenting than if you have no credit history at all.

Smooth Talking Stranger

[Short Talk on the Sensation of Airplane Takeoff] Well you know I wonder, it could be love running toward my life with its arms up yelling

Short Talks

The thing about language is that once you start getting analytical about it, you can't stop.

Sold on Language: How Advertisers Talk to You and What This Says about You

I alternate between thinking of the planet as home - dear and familiar stone hearth and garden - and as a hard land of exile in which we are all sojourners.

Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters

You do not have to sit outside in the dark. If, however, you want to look at the stars, you will find that darkness is necessary. But the stars neither require nor demand it.

Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters

Enough about my beauty," Buttercup said. "Everybody always talks about how beautiful I am. I've got a mind, Westley. Talk about that.

The Princess Bride

Too many people talk about the weather, and not enough people talk about agriculture. When somebody says to me, "Beautiful weather we're having,” I always reply, "Irrigation and crop rotation.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

Like a good Indian, he knew when to talk and when to remain silent. Like a good Indian, he knew there was never a good time to talk.

The Toughest Indian in the World

I'm no longer quite sure what the question is, but I do know that the answer is Yes.

The Unanswered Question: Six Talks at Harvard (Charles Eliot Norton Lectures)

To think that realistic fiction is by definition superior to imaginative fiction is to think imitation is superior to invention.

The Wave in the Mind: Talks & Essays on the Writer, the Reader & the Imagination

Not that happiness is dull. Only that it doesn't tell well. And of our consuming diversions as we age is to recite, not only to others but to ourselves, our own story.

We Need to Talk About Kevin

Needing kindness myself, I am kinder now, and we get on amazingly well. [p. 110]

We Need to Talk About Kevin