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Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty. -- Thomas Sowell
We need only look to our Navajo Code Talkers during World War II to see the value that Native languages bring not only to their culture, but to the security of all Americans. -- Rick Renzi
Talkers are no good doers. -- William Shakespeare
Good talkers are only found in Paris. -- Francois Villon
People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers. -- Thomas Sowell
Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have none. -- George Bernard Shaw
A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet. -- Truman Capote
If I were to name my favorite pastime, I'd have to say talking about myself. I love it and I think most other people do too. We need, people like us, more listeners and less talkers. -- Hedy Lamarr
Two great talkers will not travel far together. -- George Borrow
it is an easy mistake to think that non-talkers are non-feelers. -- Wallace Stegner
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
There's zero correlation between being the best talker and having the best ideas. -- Susan Cain
There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen. -- Christopher Morley
If only our great thinkers could learn to talk, and our great talkers could learn to think. -- Ashleigh Brilliant
Tennessee Williams was a gifted talker with a beautiful accent and we had lots of things in common. -- Gloria Swanson
Nothing is more despicable than a professional talker who uses his words as a quack uses his remedies -- Francois Fenelon
A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talker with a sore throat. -- Katharine Whitehorn
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
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
Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists - talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Most of us who turn to any subject we love remember some morning or evening hour when we got on a high stool to reach down an untried volume, or sat with parted lips listening to a new talker, or for very lack of books began to listen to the voices within, as the first traceable beginning of our love. -- George Eliot
Talkers expand like bread dough. -- Helen Gurley Brown
Talkers have always ruled. They will continue to rule. The smart thing is to join them. -- Bruce Barton
I really don't care that much about 'Beauties'. What I really like are Talkers ... Talkers are doing something. Beauties are being something ... -- Andy Warhol
Tush! Fear not, my lord, we will not stand to prate; Talkers are no good doers: be assured We come to use our hands and not our tongues. -- William Shakespeare
Two great talkers will not travel far together. -- George Borrow
People think we are such great talkers, but there is so much silence in Ireland about certain issues. -- Fionnula Flanagan
I don't like business talkers, you know, people who are constantly like, 'Blah blah blah movies.' I find it incredibly boring. -- Zooey Deschanel
Any time people come together in a meeting, we're not necessarily getting the best ideas; we're just getting the ideas of the best talkers. -- Susan Cain
I have never met a successful person who talked about failing. The glass is always half full. I don't even like being around negative talkers. -- Sir Mix-a-Lot
They're fancy talkers about themselves, writers. If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves. -- Lillian Hellman
The act of thinking and interpreting is so central to Judaism that it makes more sense that we've become people like Woody Allen - thinkers and talkers and drafters of law. -- Tony Kushner
Conservative talkers love to throw numbers around: their ratings and their audience size. And to be sure, they have a sizable audience which numbers in the tens of millions. But having people tune in and being able to dictate their actions are two different things. -- John Ridley
How are we going to make painters by lecturing to them? We are going to make questioners, doubters, and talkers. We are going to make painters by painting ourselves, and by showing the paintings of others. By working frankly from our convictions, we are going to make them work frankly from theirs. -- William Morris Hunt
In the glory days of Orioles, when I was a newbie baseball writer for the Post, the roster of talkers was as good as the everyday lineup. Singy - Ken Singleton - Flanny, and Cakes - the underwear spokesman Jim Palmer - were my go-to guys, occupying stalls along one wall of the shabby chic clubhouse. -- Jane Leavy
Great talkers, little doers. -- Benjamin Franklin
Constant talkers are unheard. -- Mason Cooley
Great talkers are little doers. -- Benjamin Franklin
I never went for the talkers. -- Elizabeth Scott
Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers. -- Jonathan Swift
The talkers are rising above the thinkers. -- Barbara Kingsolver
People who have little to do are excessive talkers. -- Bill Vaughan
Unlike most great talkers, the rooks are good workers, too. -- Flora Thompson
Great talkers should be cropt, for they've no need of ears. -- Benjamin Franklin
[Donald Trump] is a doer in a game usually reserved for talkers. -- Mike Pence
When will talkers refrain from evil speaking: when listeners refrain from evil-hearing. -- Augustus William Hare
Great talkers do not stop for breath, and never look at the clock. -- Mason Cooley
The talkers and writers resent being left on the sidelines by the doers. -- Thomas Sowell
There are some silent people who are more interesting than the best talkers. -- Benjamin Disraeli
The most fluent talkers or most plausible reasoners are not always the justest thinkers. -- William Hazlitt
There's 3 types of people in this world: there's talkers, there's watchers, and there's doers. -- Jeremy Stephens
We Irish will never achieve anything; but we are the greatest talkers since the Greeks -- Oscar Wilde
In politics and in trade, bruisers and pirates are of better promise than talkers and clerks. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Great talkers are trying to fill the gap between themselves and others, but only widen it. -- Mason Cooley
Southerners love a good tale. They are born reciters, great memory retainers, diary keepers, letter exchangers . . . great talkers. -- Eudora Welty
I think we need a 12-step group for non-stop talkers. We're going to call it On and On Anon. -- Paula Poundstone
Butler compared the tongues of these eternal talkers to race-horses, which go the faster the less weight they carry. -- Charles Caleb Colton
Good talkers are people who use interesting language and have a lot of energy in speech and who also listen. -- Grace Paley
I worry that there are people who are put in positions of authority because they're good talkers, but they don't have good ideas. -- Susan Cain
They who are great talkers in company have never been any talkers by themselves, nor used to private discussions of our home regimen. -- Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury
To the haranguers of the populace among the ancients, succeed among the moderns your writers of political pamphlets and news-papers, and your coffee-house talkers. -- Benjamin Franklin
I prefer the society of one faithful person to an association of rapid talkers, who more than anything else seek admiration from one another. -- Matthew Pearl
Slander-mongers and those who listen to slander, if I had my way, would all be strung up, the talkers by the tongue, the listeners by the ears. -- Plautus
I have heard what the talkers were talking, the talk of the beginning and the end, But I do not talk of the beginning or the end. -- Walt Whitman
At the day of Doom men shall be judged according to their fruits. It will not be said then, did you believe? But, were you doers or talkers only? -- John Bunyan
Tennessee Williams recognized that great theater begins with great talkers, and that great talkers obey two rules: they never sound like anyone else and they never say anything directly. -- Edmund White
Imagination, which is the Eldorado of the poet and of the novel-writer, often proves the most pernicious gift to the individuals who compose the talkers instead of the writers in society. -- Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
Conversation is interesting in proportion to the originality of the central ideas which serve as pivots and the fitness of the little facts and observations which are contributed by the talkers. -- Philip Gilbert Hamerton
The mark of a good conversationalist is not that you can talk a lot. The mark is that you can get others to talk a lot. Thus, good schmoozer's are good listeners, not good talkers. -- Guy Kawasaki
I don't like talk and I don't like talkers. Like Ma Barker. That's what she always said, 'Ma Barker doesn't like talk and she doesn't like talkers.' She just sat there with her gun. -- David Bowie
There is such a torture, happily unknown to ancient tyranny, as talking a man to death. Marcus Aurelius advises to assent readily to great talkers--in hopes, I suppose, to put an end to the argument. -- Laurence Sterne

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