William Cowper Quotes

I can't learn lines comfortably unless I have it done out loud with someone else.

When I think of talking, it is of course with a woman. For talking at its best being an inspiration, it wants a corresponding divine quality of receptiveness, and where will you find this but in a woman?

Reading aloud sounds like a good idea, but honestly, it doesn't work very well. Good dialogue in a book doesn't actually bear much resemblance to real-life dialogue. For example, if you've ever seen a word-for-word transcript of people talking, it doesn't read off the page very well. The trick is to make it *seem* like it's being spoken, not to make it speakable.

'O Tiger-lily,' said Alice... 'I wish you could talk!' 'We can talk,' said the Tiger-lily: 'when there's anybody worth talking to."

Already for thirty-five years he had not stopped talking and almost nothing of fundamental value had emerged.

New Yorkers seem to think the best thing two people can do is talk.

When I was little, when I was a kid, I used to sit in front of the TV and just say what the TV says. It's how I got good at imitating people.

I just started mimicking what I heard and singing along to it.

I like to start every sentence with: 'So here's the deal.'

I talk a lot when I'm nervous.

I'm always for constructive conversation, meaningful conversation, not just words, but conversation.

People that don't talk are constipated. I'm sorry, but if you can't communicate, what do you have? You have nothing.

I like talking.

People that want to talk can talk. Even a parrot talks. People are always going to have their thoughts on what they're going to say.

I don't think you really get to know a person until you talk to them.

Repose is as necessary in conversation as in a picture.

All talking is good, negative and positive. Stabbing is bad; talking is good.

It occurs to me that our survival may depend upon our talking to one another.

Spoken language is merely a series of squeaks.

We spend our time sending messages to each other, talking and trying to listen at the same time, exchanging information. This seems to be our most urgent biological function; it is what we do with our lives.

Conversationis like the table of contents of a dull book.... All the greatest subjects of human thought are proudly displayedin it. Listen to it for three minutes, and you ask yourself which is more striking, the emphasis of the speaker or his shocking ignorance.

If it is in speaking their word that people, by naming the world, transform it, dialogue imposes itself as the way by which they achieve significance as human beings.

It's not what enters men's mouth that is evil," said the alchemist. It's what comes out of their mouths that is.

Talk is free. You never know what's going to happen after you talk. There's always a perception about a guy until you actually sit down and talk with him.