I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.
Robert Frost

Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.
Robert Frost

When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
Ernest Hemingway

It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.
Eleanor Roosevelt

If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.
Oscar Wilde

Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
Oscar Wilde

If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.
Oscar Wilde

People want a cop-out, listen I'm a realist and I talk about motivation, talk about all the things it takes to be greater or are important to win and people want to use excuses all the time.
Mike Ditka

Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.
Dale Carnegie

The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.
Dale Carnegie

Many interviewers when they come to talk to me, think they're being progressive by not mentioning in their stories any longer that I'm black. I tell them, 'Don't stop now. If I shot somebody you'd mention it.'
Colin Powell

When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.
John Adams

The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it's usually lousy.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Talk low, talk slow and don't say too much.
John Wayne

If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.
Jane Austen

In the information age, you don't teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were alive today he'd have a talk show.
Timothy Leary

Don't talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner

When you talk about a great actor, you're not talking about Tom Cruise.
Lauren Bacall

When we talk about understanding, surely it takes place only when the mind listens completely - the mind being your heart, your nerves, your ears- when you give your whole attention to it.
Jiddu Krishnamurti

If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words.
Dolly Parton