Best People Talk Wisdom
336 People Talk quotes by 294 unique authors
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For it is probable that when people talk aloud, the selves (of which there may be more than two thousand) are conscious of disserverment, and…
— Virginia Woolf
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It doesn't matter to me. We're still cousins in our own way. Blood's just something old people talk about to make you feel bad.
— Rita Mae Brown
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People talk of the pathos and failure of plain women; but it is a more terrible thing that a beautiful woman may succeed in everything…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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When people talk about the good old days, I say to people, 'It's not the days that are old, it's you that's old.' I hate…
— Karl Lagerfeld
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If writers wrote as carelessly as some people talk, then adhasdh asdglaseuyt[bn[ pasdlgkhasdfasdf.
— Daniel Handler
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People talk about human intelligence as the greatest adaptation in the history of the planet. It is an amazing and marvelous thing, but in evolutionary…
— Stephen Jay Gould
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People talk too much. Humans aren't descended from monkeys. They come from parrots.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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People talk about the beauty of the spring, but I can't see it. The trees are brown and bare, slimy with rain. Some are crawling…
— Matthew Tobin Anderson
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People talk about how wonderful the world seems to children, and that's true enough. But children think they will grow into it and understand it,…
— Marilynne Robinson
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Usually, when people talk about the "strength" of black women . . . . they ignore the reality that to be strong in the face…
— Bell Hooks
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These are the three main diseases of this country, sir: typhoid, cholera, and election fever. This last one is the worst; it makes people talk…
— Aravind Adiga
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Then Carol slipped her arm under her neck, and all the length of their bodies touched fitting as if something had prearranged it. Happiness was…
— Patricia Highsmith
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God is the only comfort, He is also the supreme terror: the thing we most need and the thing we most want to hide from.…
— C.S. Lewis
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Pray don't talk to me about the weather, Mr. Worthing. Whenever people talk to me about the weather, I always feel quite certain that they…
— Oscar Wilde
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Charles looked at her thoughtfully. "People talk to you," he said. "That could be useful.
— Patricia Briggs
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It's a quiet place, so people talk quietly," said Naoko. She made a neat pile of fish bones at the edge of her plate and…
— Haruki Murakami
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I don't think he was knowable. I mean, when most people talk about knowing somebody a lot or a little, they're talking about the secrets…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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Most people talk when they have nothing to say. I’m not talking because I have too much to say. None of which I’d want you…
— Megan McCafferty
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People talk about nature as a mother, but to me she's always been Medea, ready and willing to slaughter her children.
— Rachel Caine
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If there is anything more annoying in the world than having people talk about you, it is certainly having no one talk about you.
— Oscar Wilde
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People talk to old people like they're children.'Oh you're very old aren't you?' Yeah I'm old. I'm not stupid.
— Craig Ferguson
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The wisest thing in the world is to cry out before you are hurt. It is no good to cry out after you are hurt;…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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I needed to sit down. I'd heard other people talk about having to sit down when shocked by an event or revelation and I had…
— Maria V. Snyder
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Sleep would be so welcome. A warm blanket of black to erase everything else. Sleep without dreams. I've heard people talk about the sleep of…
— Gayle Forman
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The most intelligent people disguise the fact that they are intelligent. Wise men do not wear name tags. The more people talk about their own…
— Tsugumi Ohba
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