Robin McKinley Quotes

I am a chatty person, but colossally discreet.

Sorry to interrupt myself, but it's the only way I stop talking.

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

The inarticulate speak longest.

We [journalists] have a tendency to go on talking even when we have nothing to say.

I've no use for talking, would just as soon store paper clips in my mouth.

When I say something about anything, there's really not much left to be said. Which is why I don't tell you everything I think about everything.

None love to speak so much, when the mood of speaking comes, as they who are naturally taciturn.

We communicate like the burrows of foxes, in silence and darkness, under ground. We are undermined by faith and love.

Too many people seem to believe that silence was a void that needed to be filled, even if nothing important was said.

Silence too can be indiscreet.

You remind me of Hubert Humphrey. You talk too much

A giraffe has a black tongue twenty-seven inches long and no vocal cords. A giraffe has nothing to say. He just goes on giraffing.

Speak on, but be not over-tedious.

It was fun to talk too much [as Jebediah Woodley], to keep running your mouth whether the other characters want to hear it or not. That's part of what made this guy fun.

A special skill, like speaking several languages, or keeping your mouth shut in one.

Tarly, when I was a lad half your age, my lady mother told me that if I stood about with my mouth open, a weasel was like to mistake it for his lair and run down my throat. If you have something to say, say it. Otherwise, beware of weasels.

Silence is often the best thing to say.

Silence is regarded as a sort of sin now, and it has to be filled with a lot of gossip and soundbites.

Don't sit as if you have nothing to say. You should be bursting with things to say. You just choose at this particular place and time, not to say them.

A prating barber asked Archelaus how he would be trimmed. He answered, "In silence."

Why must one talk? Often one shouldn't talk, but live in silence. The more one talks, the less the words mean. (Nana Kleinfrankenheim, Vivre Sa Vie)

I don't need to kill goats to say things. I CAN talk.

I think we learn some of the greatest lessons in life from animals, whether it's love, suffering, or the value of silence.

Writers talk too much.