If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour? - Thomas Jefferson Too much negotiating and not enough work on the court - that's what happened to me during the lockout. Too much talking and not enough training. I couldn't put in my usual offseason work routine. I think that all caught up to me, with my Achilles problems. - Patrick Ewing Too much talking these days. Talk talk talk. This country would get along much better if people learned how to suffer in silence. - Neil Gaiman

Kate's Speciality: Killing things, with much bloodshed. Talking trash, infuriating authority. Driving Beast Lord crazy. - Ilona Andrews I don't think you should go around talking trash about people because I think that's how you get your hat handed to you. - Ll Cool J Everybody's talking trash these days, so why not keep quiet? - Dennis Rodman

It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much. - Yogi Berra Every time I flicked channels, there I was, talking. I was talking too much and writing too little. So Naomi and I went to Hawaii. The phone was cut off and we lost touch. This gave me the chance to have a good think about my life. - Joe Eszterhas There is such a thing as tempting the gods. Talking too much, too soon and with too much self-satisfaction has always seemed to me a sure way to court disaster. The forces of retribution are always listening. They never sleep. - Meg Greenfield He doesn't believe in talking too much about art, especially while you're looking at it. The pressure to appreciate is the great enemy of actual enjoyment. Most people don't know what they like because they feel obligated to like so many different things. They feel they're supposed to be overwhelmed, so instead of looking, they spend their time thinking up something to say, something intellige...

Talking to strangers sounded like talking to no one, which Henry had some firsthand experience in- in real life. It was lonely. Almost as lonely as Lake View Cemetery, where he'd buried Ethel. - Jamie Ford I'm not afraid of chaos and I'm happy talking to strangers. I really love not knowing where I'm going. - Fiona Shaw

Talking to oneself, I have often thought, is the best way to be sure of intelligent and witty conversation. - Grant Morrison Maybe being married is talking to oneself with one's other self listening. - Ruth Rendell Writing poetry is talking to oneself; yet it is a mode of talking to oneself in which the self disappears; and the product's something that, though it may not be for everybody, is about everybody. - Richard Wilbur

I've always believed that a lot of the trouble in the world would disappear if we were talking to each other instead of about each other. - Ronald Reagan We now have a political process, we've had a period of parties that have been fighting each other quite literally with bombs and bullets, talking to each other, and having sat together in the assembly and sharing government with each other. - Peter Hain Lonely people, in talking to each other, can make each other lonelier. - Lillian Hellman I saw two statues talking to each other. I didn't hear what they were saying, perhaps because they were whispering. - Jarod Kintz On average, Australians watch more than three hours of television a day, compared with 12 minutes a day spent by the average couple talking to each other. - Hugh Mackay But why would it matter? We aren't... or...uh...weren't..." Which is it, Jess? "Aren't" or "weren't"? Present or past tense? Now or then? "W...

She wants to be friends. But what does that mean? Were we ever really friends? Friends don't stay up talking on the phone Every Single Night about Stupid Lit le Things and Most Important Things until it's light outside. Friends don't tell each other their most secret secrets. Friends don't hook up. Friends don't ache for each other. They just don't. - Ted Michael My free time at home is usually spent emailing, listening to music, reading and talking on the phone. I wish I was on the phone less, but I have been fortunate to stay in touch with so many incredible friends. - Steve Nash

There are people who tell you to shut up because you're just a celebrity, but pundits, talking heads, they're every bit the celebrity and a lot of them aren't any more qualified than the average man on the street. - Kevin Bacon On TV, talking heads wrung their hands over a lack of traditional feminine values and wondered if girls' sports were to blame. Then they cut to a commercial featuring a sexy college coed vacuuming her dorm room in her underwear. - Libba Bray Over and over again, financial experts and wonkish talking heads endeavor to explain these mysterious, 'toxic' financial instruments to us lay folk. Over and over, they ignobly fail, because we all know that no one understands credit default obligations and derivatives, except perhaps Mr. Buffett and the computers who created them. - Richard Dooling I don't know how much influence we really had, because we never put our pictures on the albums or anything and we never really promoted the Talkin...

The more I like a book, the more slowly I read. this spontaneous talking back to a book is one of the things that makes reading so valuable. - Anatole Broyard Talking back and being quite aggressive about stuff and not giving a care in the world about anyone. So it was more, I think, that way and I think that's what happened in that party when I stood in between two people. - Caroline Dhavernas Issie?" After a second her voice comes out small and tired. "I'm not here." "Oh." I back up so I can stare at the bathroom door. No feet. "Then I should probably freak out because the toilet is talking back to me, huh? A little too many pain meds for Zara today. - Carrie Jones You can't get away from dire health, but you may as well get some use out of it. It is not a question of making sense of suffering, because nothing does make sense of it. It is a question of not... sinking into it. It is talking back to whatever hurts, whether that is physical ...

We are talking about someone who has lived. It must be honored in every respect. The fictional can take any kind of channel - according to the actor's marriage to the character. - Kate Mulgrew Talking about someone who makes you happy actually makes you happy. - Elizabeth Scott I think whenever people talk about the 'Anna Sui woman,' they're talking about someone that's probably kind of more downtown, and there's always like this ambiguity: Is she a good girl, or a bad girl? - Anna Sui

Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed. - Walter Lippmann Father Arnold finished the ceremony and asked if anybody had any final words for the dearly departed. "Final words?" Chess asked, "I don't know if I'll ever be able to stop talking about this. - Sherman Alexie Would you please please please please please please please stop talking? - Ernest Hemingway Why can I not stop talking? Livia watched as Cole set the dripping candles on a small table. If I die of embarrassment, they can have my funeral right here. - Debra Anastasia Explain somethin' to me, babe, why is it you always wanna stop talking when I'm winnin' the fuckin' argument? - Kristen Ashley Stop talking now," I whispered because if he didn't I'd start crying. "You asked." "Okay, I did, but you need to stop talking now." "Baby-" I looked down at the cookie sheet. "And don't be nice anymore,...

I have thought about the next steps, and you know, they still don't know that I can dance. They don't know it, and it's frustrating me because I feel that it's an edge that I have, and I'm not talking about I took this hip hop class, I'm talking about this is how people actually know me. - Naima Adedapo Nobody who says as little as he does is as simple as you'd think. It takes a lot to not say a lot, because when you're not talking, you're thinking, and he thinks a lot . My mum and dad talked all the time. Talkers don't think much; their words drown out any possibility of hearing their subconscious asking, Why did you say that? What do you really think? - Cecelia Ahern Sort of like what Joruus C'baoth did for Thrawn." "I'm not talking about ancient history, I'm talking about now." Luke & Jaina - Aaron Allston The cops say that thing:'anything you say will be used against you.' Self-incrimination. I looke...

Okay heres the deal a whole day of NO TALKING IN SCJHOOL.Not in class,not in the halls, not on the plaground nowhere.No talking at all. And its a contest- BOYS AGAINST GIRLS. Whichever side talks less, wins. - Andrew Clements Being lectured by the president on fiscal responsibility is a little bit like Tony Soprano talking to me about law and order in this country. - John F Kerry I established a certain standard of behavior, that, during my playing, there must be no talking. - Ignacy Jan Paderewski

Hey," Shane said from the other side of the bars. "Trade you cigarettes for a chocolate bar." Funny," Eve said. She was almost back to her old unGothed self again, though there were still red splotches on her cheeks and around her eyes. "How come you're always behind bars, troublemaker?" Look who's talking. I didn't try to outrun the cops in a hearse." That hearse had horsepower." Eve got that moony look in her eyes again. "I love that hearse. - Rachel Caine Great," Shane said. "Look i'd rather not be on janitorial duty. I have allergies to cleaners." "And to cleaning," Michael said. "Look who's talking, Didn't the do one of those Animal Planet documentaries about the roaches in your room? - Rachel Caine I suddenly had a vision of my sperm swimming around and talking in Bruce Willis's voice like in Look Who's Talking. Come on! Swim faster! This little shit has no idea we escaped...

It's okay if you finish cooking something easy after your guests arrive - some dishes must be prepared a la minute, as chefs say. Just remember to keep talking. - Ted Allen You keep talking like that, Vane, and I might be forced to keep you." "You keep looking at me like that, and I just might let you. - Sherrilyn Kenyon Actually, I do happen to resemble a hallucination. Kindly note my silhouette in the moonlight." The cat climbed into the shaft of moonlight and wanted to keep talking but was asked to be quiet. "Very well, I shall be silent," he replied, "I shall be a silent hallucination. - Mikhail Bulgakov You know, you own a bar and you don't keep alcohol at home," she said, breathless. "I could have had a shot--it sometimes slows labor." "We'll have some on hand for the next one." "You keep talking like that's gonna happen," she said. "How ridiculous." "I think my record speaks for it...

She's wearin' heels, boy, but she's five foot seven, you got five inches and at least a hundred pounds on her," Max replied and I figured he was being a might bit generous with the weight but I wasn't going to correct him, mostly because he wasn't done talking. "And, lastly, she's a woman. You don't ever strike a woman in anger. - Kristen Ashley Are we done talking?" "Absolutely" "Are we going to sleep?" "Absolutely not. - Kristen Ashley Where everyone else sees a straight line, you see a maze, and when I'm done talking to you, the maze starts to make more sense --Reply by Dove to Aly's silent inquiry - Tamora Pierce First, I'd need your solemn vow that after we're done talking business, you'll answer my questions about why we broke up in law school. You're a riddle I intend to solve. - Stephanie Draven While that mouth clearly deserves an opportunity to worship as many various bits of me an...