Mark Goulston Quotes

The aging process seems to strike first at the mechanism which warns that we have been talking too much and the listener is growing restless. The signal isn't perfect at any age - drink, for instance, throws it right out of kilter - but it is almost non-existent in old people.

My best quality is that I talk to everyone. My worst quality is that I talk to everyone.

After about 20 years of marriage, I'm finally starting to scratch the surface of what women want. And I think the answer lies somewhere between conversation and chocolate.

Listen more than you talk.

The person who talks a lot or talks over people misses out because they weren't listening.

People love to talk, so let them have fun talking.

As a kid, I was told to talk as much as possible.

Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.

Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.

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

I love somebody that can hold a great conversation.

Sometimes it is a great joy just to listen to someone we love talking.

I am oftentimes the ear for some people that I know and love. Which I like being. I don't know if I'd like being a marriage counselor, though, because that's too deep for me.

If I were to name my favorite pastime, I'd have to say talking about myself. I love it and I think most other people do too. We need, people like us, more listeners and less talkers.

My mother says I was vaccinated with a phonograph needle. I love to talk. I just love to talk.

People say that if you talk too much about sex, you take away the mystery. I say, if you're somebody who likes to talk, talk all you want - it's not listening. You will never take away the mystery.

A good talker, even more than a good orator, implies a good audience. Modern society is too vast and too restless to give a conversationalist a fair chance.

If you are sitting on the couch with the TV off, and you are looking into each other's eyes and talking, that is quality time - so is taking a walk or going out to eat, so long as you are communicating with each other.

Judi Dench told me to shut up once. I was probably going on and on about something, in the way that I do sometimes, so she was being a good friend.

You don't want to be one of these guys talking all the time, trying to say things all the time, because people start drowning you out.

They were always like two people talking to each other in different languages. But she loved him so much, when he withdrew as he had now done, it was like the warm sun going down and leaving her in chilly twilight dews.

The hawthorn bush, with seats beneath the shade, For talking age and whispering lovers made.

The reason why lovers are never bored together is that they are always talking of themselves.

You have a problem with allowing someone to finish speaking.

There is nothing so annoying as to have two people talking when you're busy interrupting.