I never went for the talkers.

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

— J. D. Salinger

Great talkers should be cropt, for they've no need of ears.

— Benjamin Franklin

No great talker ever did any great thing yet, in this world.

— Ouida

People never have confidence in a Big Talker. They know his statements must be cut down, but they can never tell how much.

— E. W. Howe

Some men at the approach of a dispute neigh like horses. Unless there be an argument, they think nothing is doing. Some talkers excel…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have a reputation for being a straight-talker.

— Margaret Chan

The Talker needs attention. The Talker needs validation. The Talker would rather talk about an idea than confront the complexities, its obstacles. The Talker…

— Jack Heffron

Tennessee Williams recognized that great theater begins with great talkers, and that great talkers obey two rules: they never sound like anyone else and…

— Edmund White

Most guys are either big talkers or big workers.

— Kyle Korver

The act of thinking and interpreting is so central to Judaism that it makes more sense that we've become people like Woody Allen -…

— Tony Kushner

Lucidity of speech is unquestionably one of the surest tests of mental precision...In my experience a confused talker is never a clear thinker.

— David Lloyd George

Of all the classes of men, I dislike the most those who make their livings by talking - actors, clergymen, politicians, pedagogues, and so…

— H. L. Mencken

Conservative talkers love to throw numbers around: their ratings and their audience size. And to be sure, they have a sizable audience which numbers…

— John Ridley

The mark of a good conversationalist is not that you can talk a lot. The mark is that you can get others to talk…

— Guy Kawasaki

How are we going to make painters by lecturing to them? We are going to make questioners, doubters, and talkers. We are going to…

— William Morris Hunt