As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The reason that lovers never weary each other is because they are always talking about themselves.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Singing is the love of my life, but I was ready to give it all up because I couldn't handle people talking about how fat I was.
Stevie Nicks

All we are is a lot of talking nitrogen.
Arthur Miller

A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.
Arthur Miller

There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room. It is even stranger than a man talking to himself or a woman standing dreaming at her stove. It is as if another planet is communicating with you.
Jean Baudrillard

I hate the whole reluctant sex-symbol thing. It's such bull. You see these dudes greased up, in their underwear, talking about how they don't want to be a sex symbol.
Ben Affleck

Listening is more important than talking. Just hit your mark and believe what you say. Just listen to people and react to what they are saying.
Jimmy Fallon

I've seen the people who talk about their love lives in print invariably have doomed relationships with the person they're talking about.
John Cusack

I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies.
Le Corbusier

An actor's a guy who, if you ain't talking about him, ain't listening.
Marlon Brando

Everybody's just been spilling their guts all over records and talking about how hard it is to be an entertainer and how much we get hated on and what we have to go through. But I ain't really got it that bad. I'm just happy to be here.
Puff Daddy

I wouldn't abandon nobody. I would be lying if I said I was just talking to everybody.
Puff Daddy

What is it about actors? God knows I get bored with actors talking about themselves.
Alan Rickman

You know, it is a terrible thing to appear on television, because people think that you actually know what you're talking about.
David Attenborough

If you want to know how your girl will treat you after marriage, just listen to her talking to her little brother.
Sam Levenson

There's a lot of things that go on when you're on tour that cannot be controlled. I'm not even talking about myself, but of course there's sexual activity and drugs, fighting and language; it is certainly not a place to raise a family.
Peter Steele

I'm going to insult a whole industry here, but it seems like TV is for people who can't do film. I'm not talking about actresses; I'm talking about lighting people. Lighting on TV is just so... it's sinful, it really is.
Kevyn Aucoin

Haiti itself was also photographed, some of the streets, some of the mountains, rivers, streams, etc. were photographed before talking with me about how I felt about Haiti. Then the camera went to our voodoo temple and saw a serious ceremony, a real ceremony.
Katherine Dunham

Spend a lot of time talking to customers face to face. You'd be amazed how many companies don't listen to their customers.
Ross Perot