I never did pal around with actresses. Their talk usually bored me to tears.
It was not the man's brain that was speaking; it was his larynx.
Passions are liken'd best to floods and streams: The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb; So, when affection yields discourse, it seems The bottom is but shallow whence they come. They that are rich in words, in words discover
I'm constantly around people that talk a lot but say nothing. A sad case.
Half-wits talk much, but say little.
nothing puts me so completely out of patience as the utterance of a wretched commonplace when I am talking from my inmost heart.
I'd rather be in my house crying than be sitting with someone talking about shoes, y'know?
There's nothing more boring than unintelligent actors, because all they have to talk about is themselves and acting. There have to be other things.
You're like a dull knife, just ain't cuttin', just talkin' loud and saying nothing
We have more and more ways to communicate, as Thoreau noted, but less and less to say.
Controversy is what mediocre people start because they can't communicate anything meaningful.
Politicians make good company for a while just as children do - their self-enjoyment is contagious. But they soon exhaust their favourite subjects - themselves.
Cribbage, n. A substitute for conversation among those to whom nature has denied ideas.
