Paula Poundstone Quotes

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

Interviewing people is pretty natural for me.

I talk to women for a living. It's pretty much what I do with my day.

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

I talk too much.

It's no secret that I love to talk, but the real secret is I love to listen, too.

The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.

The reason why we have two ears and only one mouth is that we may listen the more and talk the less.

I like talking to anyone that will listen.

You need to be able to sit down and talk to your children.

My problem is that I love talking to people. I remember working in a call centre in Dalston and I'd end up having these long chats with old women.

Philosophy finds talkativeness a disease very difficult and hard to cure. For its remedy, conversation, requires hearers: but talkative people hear nobody, for they are ever prating. And the first evil this inability to keep silence produces is an inability to listen.

I can't believe I'm about to say this," I said. "So think real careful about where this is coming from. Have you people ever considered *talking* when you've got a problem?

If God had wanted us to talk more than listen, he would have given us two mouths rather than two ears.

I think the reason I became funny was because if I made people laugh, they would let me keep talking.

A perfect date is probably something somewhere where you can kind of communicate and talk to the person. I don't like movies as first date. I don't think that's a good idea because you don't really get to talk to the person. I think taking a walk or just having one on one time with that person is the best.

'Speak when you're spoken to!' The Queen sharply interrupted her. 'But if everybody obeyed that rule,' said Alice, who was always ready for a little argument, 'and if you only spoke when you were spoken to, and the other person always waited for you to begin, you see nobody would ever say anything, so that - ' 'Ridiculous!' cried the Queen. 'Why, don't you see, child - ' here she broke off with a frown, and, after thinking for a minute, suddenly changed the subject of the conversation.

I think the act of talking about something - with a friend, or someone in your family, or someone you care about, and you're discussing something that you both admire - can often sharpen your thoughts about what you've read or seen and help you think more clearly about it.

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?

Listening is as important as talking. If you're a good listener, people often compliment you for being a good conversationalist.

There are prating coxcombs in the world who would rather talk than listen, although Shakespeare himself were the orator, and human nature the theme!

I'm always talking to people. It's not that complicated. I just find somebody and say, "Do you have any ideas." If they do, we just start thinking things around.

I actually love talking about taking pictures, and I think that helps everyone.

All the information you need can be given in dialogue.

I learned real early why God gave us two ears and one mouth, because you're supposed to listen twice as much as you talk.