"I don't want to be married just to be married. I can't think of anything lonelier than spending the rest of my life with someone I can't talk to, or worse, someone I can't be silent with. "
— Mary Ann Shaffer (The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society)

""May the hair on your toes never fall out" "
— J.R.R. Tolkien

"Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee and just as hard to sleep after. "
— Anna Morrow Lindbergh

"Talk doesn't cook rice."
— Chinese proverb

"But I believe I rather like superstitious people. They lend color to life. Wouldn't it be a rather drab world if everybody was wise and sensible . . . and good? What would we find to talk about?"
— L.M. Montgomery (Anne of Windy Poplars)

"It's better to say too much, than never to say what you need to say again. "
— John Mayer

"If you were all alone in the universe with no one to talk to, no one with which to share the beauty of the stars, to laugh with, to touch, what would be your purpose in life? It is other life; it is love, which gives your life meaning. This is harmony. We must discover the joy of each other, the joy of challenge, the joy of growth."
— Mitsugi Saotome

"The way to get a man interested and to hold his interest was to talk about himself, and then gradually lead the conversation around yourself—and keep it there."
— Margaret Mitchell

"i pay no mind to those who talk behind my back it simply means that I'm 2 steps ahead"
— Hector A. Piña

"I'm like a bad tempered prom queen at a homecoming dance, And I claim I'm not excited with my life any more. So I blame this town, this job, these friends. The truth is it's myself… By the time I get things figured out, I've change the whole dang plan… Talking shit about a pretty sunset. Blanketing opinions I’ll probably regret soon. Ive changed my mind so much I can’t even trust it. I’ve changed me so much I can’t even trust myself"
— Modest Mouse

"The best attitude to take toward back talk is to reach out and embrace it with love, compassion, and understanding. No need to criticize it for its shortcomings or to waste time in recriminations. Just give a loving nod and a hug to any back talk you get, and move on to the joyful creation of your fulfilled life. "
— Gay Hendricks (Five Wishes: How Answering One Simple Question Can Make Your Dreams Come True)

"أكثر الناس كلاما ً ، أقلهم نفعا ً و إنتاجا"
— عبد الله السعدون (عشت سعيدا من الدراجة إلى الطائرة)

"Lots of people talk to animals.... Not very many listen, though.... That's the problem."
— Benjamin Hoff (The Tao of Pooh)

"I know that you believe that you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant."
— Robert McCloskey

"Welcome the back talk, because it's completely natural and normal. It's actually a sign that the new idea you've planted in your mind is taking root."
— Gay Hendricks (Five Wishes: How Answering One Simple Question Can Make Your Dreams Come True)

"Pray don't talk to me about the weather, Mr. Worthing. Whenever people talk to me about the weather, I always feel quite certain that they mean something else. And that makes me quite nervous."
— Oscar Wilde

"You lost your wife, Douglas. My heartbreaks for you, it really does. But I lose my husband every day, all over again. And I don’t even get to mourn."
— Jonathon Tropper

"Talk like an ambassador (Eph 4:29-30).
1)Consider the person ("only what is helpful for building others up")
2) Consider the problem ("according to their needs")
3) Consider the process ("that it may benefit those who listen")
"
— Time Lane and Paul Tripp

""But I often think we talk way too much in this society, that we consider verbalization a panacea that it very often is not, and that we turn a blind eye to the sort of morbid self-absorption that becomes a predictable by-product of it.""
— Dennis Lehane (Darkness, Take My Hand)

"They never taste who always drink;
They always talk who never think."
— Sandra Pierson Prior

"Que hablen de uno, aunque sea bien"
— Salvador Dalí