“Do not talk to your mother and father when you’re crying. Because what happens is, your mom has the ability to make you weep even more, and your dad makes you feel like a fucking idiot.”— Dane Cook, youtube.com
“But good ol'Uncle James, he had a heart. He talked her into it. It was Uncle James who told me about the night I was born. Driving Dorothy to the hospital, his raggedy old car didn't have any brakes. He had to ride around and around in circles until the car slowed down. Hey, that could be the story…”— Etta James, amazon.com
“Come lay with me for hours so we can talk thousands of nothings while it means millions of somethings.”— Unknown, wnq-writers.com
“That night, we talked the way old friends do, with candor and ease. We were still deep in conversation when the sun announced its arrival with an astonishing flourish of orange and pink.”— Lang Leav, amazon.com
“When you speak I like to listen to you because when you speak it feels like hearing a story about the first time somebody saw the ocean, no matter what you're saying.”— Dalton Day, harpoonreview.com
“We didn't talk about anything heavy or light. We were just there together. And that was enough.”— Stephen Chbosky, amazon.com
“The women, I conjecture, were called doves by the Dodonaeans, because they were barbarians, and they seemed to chatter like birds; but after a time, when the woman spoke intelligibly to them, they presently reported that the dove had spoken with a human voice; for as long as she used a barbarous lan…”— Herodotus, amazon.com
“Don’t waste words on people who deserve your silence. Sometimes the most powerful thing you can say is nothing at all.”— Mandy Hale, goodreads.com
“Let’s not talk about how I am. It’s a subject I know too much about to want to think about anymore.”— Ernest Hemingway, amazon.com
“I cannot stand small talk, because I feel like there’s an elephant standing in the room shitting all over everything and nobody is saying anything. I’m just dying to say, ‘Hey, do you ever feel like jumping off a bridge?’ or ‘Do you feel an emptiness inside your chest at night that is going to swall…”— Paul Gilmartin, goodreads.com
“I hear you still talk to me, as if you're sitting in that dusty chair. Makes the hours easier to bear, I know despite the years alone, I'll always listen to you sing your sweet song.”— Dave Matthews Band, youtube.com
“Constantly talking isn't necessarily communicating.”— Charlie Kaufman, Michel Gondry, Pierre Bismuth, Joel Barish, Jim Carrey, imdb.com
“Nothing scarier than a friend texting you he wants to "talk about stuff."”— Mindy Kaling, twitter.com