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Talking Quotes (page 55)

The correct way to punctuate a sentence that states: "Of course it is none of my business, but -- " is to place a period after the word "but." Don't use excessive force in supplying such a moron with a period. Cutting his throat is only a momentary pleasure and is bound to get you talked about. Robert A. Heinlein
You cannot evade the issue of God, whether you are talking about pigs or the binomial theory...Things can be irrelevant to the proposition that Christianity is false, but nothing can be irrelevant to the proposition that Christianity is true. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Ford!" he said, "there's an infinite number of monkeys outside who want to talk to us about this script for Hamlet they've worked out. Douglas Adams
As a citizen, of course. As a parent, of course. But as an artist, that's where the paradox is - your responsibility is to be irresponsible. As soon as you talk about political or social responsibility, you've amputated the best limbs you've got as an artist. David Cronenberg
Isak Dinesen quote: "much which is unworthy in human life might be advoided if..."
much which is unworthy in human life might be advoided if people would only accustom themselves to talking in verse Isak Dinesen
It is quite impossible these days to assume anything about people's educational level from the way they talk or dress or from their taste in music. Safest to treat everyone you meet as a distinguished intellectual. Ian Mcewan
L. Frank Baum quote: "Some people without brains do an awful lot of talking, don't..."
Some people without brains do an awful lot of talking, don't you think? L. Frank Baum
Ernest Hemingway quote: "Would you please please please please please please please..."
Would you please please please please please please please stop talking? Ernest Hemingway
Virginia Woolf quote: "For the young people could not talk. And why should they?..."
For the young people could not talk. And why should they? Shout, embrace, swing, be up at dawn... Virginia Woolf
Certainly solitude is dangerous for active minds. We require around us men who can think and talk. When we are alone for a long time, we people space with phantoms. Guy de Maupassant
Cronshaw stopped for a moment to drink. He had pondered for twenty years the problem whether he loved liquor because it made him talk or whether he loved conversation because it made him thirsty. W. Somerset Maugham
John Steinbeck quote: "He drank too much when he could get it, ate too much when it..."
He drank too much when he could get it, ate too much when it was there, talked too much all the time. John Steinbeck
You must be life for me to the very end," so he writes. "That is the only way in which to sustain my idea of you. Because you have gotten, as you see, tied up with something so vital to me, I do not think I shall ever shake you off. Nor do I wish to. I want you to live more vitally every day, as I am dead. That is why, when I speak of you to others, I am just a bit ashamed. It's hard to talk of one's self so intimately Henry Miller
The wind is us-- it gathers and remembers all our voices, then sends them talking and telling through the leaves and the fields. Truman Capote
If a man we don't know phones us up one day and talks a little, makes no suggestions, says nothing special, but nevertheless pays us the kind of attention we rarely receive, we're quite capable of going to bed with him that night, feeling relatively in love. That's what we women are like, and there's nothing wrong with that - it's the nature of the female to open herself to love easily. Paulo Coelho

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