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Talkers Quotes

Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty.

Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty.

Thomas Sowell
Doers, Talkers, Specialty
Thomas Sowell (2013). “Ever Wonder Why?: and Other Controversial Essays”, p.206, Hoover Press

If you know anything about me, I've never been a trash-talker. That's not even part of my DNA.

Emmitt Smith
Dna, Trash, Talkers
"Q&A: Emmitt Smith on Dancing with the Stars". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.esquire.com. October 8, 2012.

I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.

Gwendolyn Brooks
Clumsiness, Talkers
Gwendolyn Brooks, Gloria Jean Wade Gayles (2003). “Conversations with Gwendolyn Brooks”, p.21, Univ. Press of Mississippi

The talkers and writers resent being left on the sidelines by the doers.

Thomas Sowell
Doers, Sidelines, Talkers

I'm more of a listener than a talker.

Norman Reedus
Talkers, Listeners

Good talkers are only found in Paris.

Francois Villon
Paris, Found, Talkers
"Ballade des Femmes de Paris". Poem by Francois Villon , II,

I'm a thinker not a talker.

David Bowie
Thinker, Talkers
Song: Conversation Piece

Nothing is more despicable than a professional talker who uses his words as a quack uses his remedies

Francois Fenelon
Use, Quacks, Talkers

I pledge to you I'm not a talker. I'm a doer.

Michele Bachmann
Doers, Talkers, Pledge

I have a reputation for being a straight-talker.

Margaret Chan
Reputation, Talkers
"Swine flu will be biggest pandemic ever, warns world health chief" by Aida Edemariam, www.theguardian.com. July 15, 2009.

Success is the most convincing talker in the world.

Napoleon Bonaparte
World, Talkers, Convincing
Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик

Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.

Jonathan Swift
Talking, Thinker, Talkers

Constant talkers are unheard.

Mason Cooley
Talkers, Constant, Unheard

Shun the inquisitive person, for he is also a talker. [Lat., Percunctatorem fugito, nam garrulus idem est.]

Horace
Curiosity, Talkers, Inquisitive

Talkers have always ruled. They will continue to rule. The smart thing is to join them.

Bruce Barton
Smart, Communication, Talkers

I really don't care that much about "Beauties." What I really like are Talkers. To me, good talkers are beautiful because good talk is what I love. The word itself shows why I like Talkers better than Beauties, why I tape more than I film. It's not "talkies." Talkers are doing something.

Andy Warhol
Care, Don't Care, Talkers
"The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again".

The most fluent talkers or most plausible reasoners are not always the justest thinkers.

William Hazlitt
Thinker, Talkers, Fluent
William Hazlitt (1839). “Sketches and Essays by W. H. Now first collected [and edited] by his son”, p.95

A good talker, even more than a good orator, implies a good audience.

Leslie Stephen
Talking, Talkers, Audience
Leslie Stephen (2011). “Samuel Johnson”, p.60, Cambridge University Press

My mother was a listener. I'm a talker. I'm very comfortable talking.

Diane Keaton
Mother, Talking, Talkers
"Diane Keaton’s Ode To Motherhood" by Debra Ollivier, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 30, 2011.

Great talkers are little doers.

Benjamin Franklin
Littles, Doers, Talkers

I've had to work on being a slow talker.

Nicholas Brendon
Talkers
"Actor gets the word out on stuttering" by Kat Carney, www.cnn.com. April 4, 2003.

I'm a talker. I love a good debate.

Katherine Heigl
Debate, Talkers

I'm not a talker. I'm a formulator.

Josef Albers
Talkers

I'm a better talker than writer.

Jesse Ventura
Talkers
"Former governor Jesse Ventura talks about new books ‘Marijuana Manifesto’ and ‘Shit Politicians Say,’ plus much more". Interview with Michelle Tompkins, thecelebritycafe.com. September 1, 2016.

... even the most sublimely accomplished non-stop talker can't consistently please.

J. D. Salinger
Accomplished, Talkers, Please

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