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People never have confidence in a Big Talker. They know his statements must be cut down, but they can never tell how much. -- E. W. Howe
The Talker needs attention. The Talker needs validation. The Talker would rather talk about an idea than confront the complexities, its obstacles. The Talker wants the glory but none of the hard work. -- Jack Heffron
I'm not a talker. I'm a formulator. -- Josef Albers
I'm a talker. I love a good debate. -- Katherine Heigl
I'm more of a listener than a talker. -- Norman Reedus
I'm a writer more than I am a talker. -- Wendell Berry
I pledge to you I'm not a talker. I'm a doer. -- Michele Bachmann
I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker. -- Gwendolyn Brooks
I'm not a good small talker. I'm not into small talk, frankly. -- Mohamed ElBaradei
I am a straight talker. I am not politically correct or diplomatic. -- Anurag Kashyap
I come from Detroit where it's rough and I'm not a smooth talker. -- Eminem
There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen. -- Christopher Morley
Nothing is more despicable than a professional talker who uses his words as a quack uses his remedies. -- Francois Fenelon
If a guy doesn't work hard and doesn't play well, he can't lead anything. All he is, is a talker. -- John Madden
A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talker with a sore throat. -- Katharine Whitehorn
Coming from an Asian culture, I was always taught to respect my elders, to be a better listener than a talker. -- Lisa Ling
A chief called Lawyer, because he was a great talker, took the lead in the council, and sold nearly all the Nez Perce country. -- Chief Joseph
There is a growing sense among Americans outside the Beltway that while President Obama may be a good talker, he is a lousy manager. -- Kathleen Troia McFarland
Westerners know the difference between a talker and the real deal. If Rick Perry wasn't right to be governor of Texas, why should he be president? -- Dick Cheney
I am a better listener than talker - but that's partly because I believe rows are often caused by saying things you haven't thought through properly. -- Greg Wise
If you're looking for a slick politician or a guy with great teleprompter skills, we already have that. He's destroying our economy. I'm a doer, not a talker. -- Rick Perry
I was eccentric, even as a kid. I was an early reader, an early talker. I was very curious in a way that maybe the other kids weren't. I was a little more outgoing. -- Michael J. Fox
When I'm not on stage, I'm kind of shy. If you see me and I don't say much, don't think I'm not taking in what you have to say. I'm just not a big talker. -- Justin Timberlake
If I have several bad guys and I only want to end up with one of them, then I have to decide which one I want in the end. And normally it's the one who is the most interesting talker. -- Elmore Leonard
I like to take a long time over breakfast, and I can't bear to talk. If a guest is a breakfast talker it's very important to invite another so they can talk to each other. Otherwise they spoil the newspaper reading and everything else. -- Julian Fellowes
Some guys can do more talking in the ring, other guys do posing, body building, whatever the hell they do in the ring. But I don't have the big body, and I'm not the big smooth talker, but I can get in the ring and wrestle. -- Owen Hart
Individual psychotherapy - that is, engaging a distressed fellow human in a disciplined conversation and human relationship - requires that the therapist have the proper temperament and philosophy of life for such work. By that I mean that the therapist must be patient, modest, and a perceptive listener, rather than a talker and advice-giver. -- Thomas Szasz
I was conscious of being wordy as a child. I was a terrible talker. I memorised the Latin names of flowers at five; I was shown off as a freak. My father encouraged me to be wordier than I was: he'd been a street orator at the time of Mosley, and his ideal primary concert speech was Henry V's speech before Harfleur. -- Simon Schama
I'm a better talker than writer. -- Jesse Ventura
I'm a thinker not a talker. -- David Bowie
My dad's not a big talker. -- Zara Phillips
We need a doer, not a talker. -- Bobby Jindal
I have a reputation for being a straight-talker. -- Margaret Chan
I've had to work on being a slow talker. -- Nicholas Brendon
Success is the most convincing talker in the world. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
... even the most sublimely accomplished non-stop talker can't consistently please. -- J. D. Salinger
No great talker ever did any great thing yet, in this world. -- Ouida
My mother was a listener. I'm a talker. I'm very comfortable talking. -- Diane Keaton
A good talker, even more than a good orator, implies a good audience. -- Leslie Stephen
There's zero correlation between being the best talker and having the best ideas. -- Susan Cain
I don't consider myself a very good talker or writer but a pretty good filmmaker. -- Alex Gibney
Time will explain it all. He is a talker, and needs no questioning before he speaks. -- Euripides
Miller is not really a writer but a non-stop talker to whom someone has given a typewriter. -- Gerald Brenan
Shun the inquisitive person, for he is also a talker. [Lat., Percunctatorem fugito, nam garrulus idem est.] -- Horace
Human talk is a centrifugal function, ever in flight outwards from what is on the talker's mind. -- Isak Dinesen
Nothing is more despicable than a professional talker who uses his words as a quack uses his remedies -- Francois Fenelon
Tennessee Williams was a gifted talker with a beautiful accent and we had lots of things in common. -- Gloria Swanson
If you know anything about me, I've never been a trash-talker. That's not even part of my DNA. -- Emmitt Smith
I'm a talker. I don't bottle things up. I always call my mum or a close girlfriend and try to talk things out. -- Louise Roe
Conversation succeeds conversation, Until there's nothing left to talk about Except truth, the perennial monologue, And no talker to dispute it but itself. -- Laura Riding
Everyone asks for freedom for himself, The man free love, the businessman free trade, The writer and talker free speech and free press. -- Robert Frost
Lucidity of speech is unquestionably one of the surest tests of mental precision...In my experience a confused talker is never a clear thinker. -- David Lloyd George
Bitter your acts, bitter am I,Kindness your deeds, kindness am I,Pleasant and gentle, so you are,Fine honeyed lips and sweet talker. -- Rumi
And the true listener is much more beloved, magnetic than the talker, and he is more effective and learns more and does more good -- Brenda Ueland
People love talking, and I have never been a huge talker. I carry on an inner monologue, but the words often don't reach my lips. -- Gillian Flynn
That's why my ires always come comedic in a way because - can I just say something? See, I sound like such a smooth talker. -- Garry Marshall
Jesus was a doer, and not only a talker. He led the way by example. He showed us how to live and minister to others. -- Artur Pawlowski
A good listener is very nearly as attractive as a good talker. You cannot have a beautiful mind if you do not know how to listen. -- Edward de Bono
A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker. A man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker. -- Gautama Buddha
[ When I met Barack Obama] He says, I do a pretty good me myself - he said something like that. But he's - he is a close talker. He's a touchy guy. -- Jordan Peele
Peace talk when war is impending is hazardous for the talker, and in war time it is criminal. War talk in peace time, which is infinitely more wicked, runs no risk at all. -- Charles Clayton Morrison
A man who listens because he has nothing to say can hardly be a source of inspiration. The only listening that counts is that of the talker who alternately absorbs and expresses ideas. -- Agnes Repplier
If you light upon an impertinent talker, that sticks to you like a bur, to the disappointment of your important occasions, deal freely with him, break off the discourse, and pursue your business. -- Plutarch

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