Bill Maher Quotes

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

People around me never say anything. They just seem to want to hear what I have to say. That's why I do all the talking.

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

I like my hands. They do most of the talking.

I'll talk. You'll listen.

Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.

I'm a writer more than I am a talker.

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

I probably should be a little more cautious with how I speak, and I think my delivery needs to be a little softer.

I like working with people. I like talking to people.

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.

I like to do all the talking myself. It saves time, and prevents arguments.

After my recent brush with voicelessness, I thought I'd share with you a few thoughts about speech. Don't take it lightly my friends. If music is the pathway to the heart as Voltaire suggested, then speech is the pathway to other people. Live in silence and you live alone.

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.

There are always suicides among people who are unable to say what they mean.

Shut up,' he explained.

All which isn't singing is mere talking... and all talking's to oneself alone but the very song of (as mountains feel and lovers) singing is silence.

I mean I certainly like when I'm like talking to people I'm like what did you think, what did you think, what did you think? You know that's always in the back of my head.

... not talking about things she doesn't understand to people who do or about things she does to people who don't.

I have a way of dealing with situations where I come off awkward, or people think I’m purposely trying to make things uncomfortable. But normally I’m talking really slowly or there’s a lot of silence because there’s just nothing going on. I’m just totally freaking out, but from the outside perspective it looks like I’m in control.

People don't like silence, so they'll keep talking to fill the void.

Remember that the people you are talking to are a hundred times more interested in themselves and their wants and problems than they are in you and your problems.

If you listen, you learn; if you talk, you don't.

For some people, being free means being free to keep their feet on someone else's chest.

When we speak of power, we mean man's control over the minds and actions of other men. By political power we refer to the mutual relations of control among the holders of public authority and between the latter and the people at large.