talent to hoodwink the blind, and with a facility of speech well calculated to deceive the ignorant …
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My timing is so precise, a heckler would have to make an appointment just to get a word in.
Anyone who knows me knows how sharp my mind is. I speak at a thousand miles an hour. I'll hold a discussion or a debate with anyone.
I've always spoken very quickly, and when I get nervous, I talk even faster.
He talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages
The auctioneer is talking for both people, and that's the big revelation about, 'Oh, that's what they're doing.' They're just doing it very fast, so you could kind of miss on that. He's speaking for you, because people in the crowd don't have a voice, so that's what really makes it compelling.
There were seven kids in our family. My mom had seven kids in 10 years. So you had to learn how to talk and think fast if you wanted to be heard.
The trouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven't thought of yet.
Teachers have always said my only strength is talking and that I talk very fast.
You can tell how nervous I am by how fast I am talking!
We went to - I guess it was a legitimate boiler room, and I sat in front of this guy who literally was on the phone with two people at once. They call it double fisting.
I have a tendency to talk extremely fast. ... I think the fastness comes from the fact that I get very excited about things and I just want to spit them out.
Learning how to rap actually improved my English, because it forced me to talk fast, and I used to suck at that.
Most people, when they talk fast, they get flat.
When did I become a fast-talking Jew? As time went on, my bits started to become longer, and that became part of the signature.
I think I am a smart aleck because I grew up close enough to Boston, and most people from Massachusetts talk fast, and I have a little bit of a wiseacre, and I think I'm a little bit like that.
I love con-men characters in film.
New Yorkers, by reputation, are fast-talking, assertive and easily annoyed; I fit right in.
I went to audition for an episode of 'Law and Order,' and they didn't understand why I was talking so fast, and I was like, 'No, you don't understand. I was on a show called the 'Gilmore Girls.' We had to say everything like that.'
My mind goes really quickly and I tend to talk really fast, as you've probably heard, I sometimes lose track of my syntax, as I'm talking that fast. The only thing I try to do, well, it's slow down, but also I do something when I'm reading that's similar to when I'm writing a section, which is to really try to imagine you on the other side, in a certain way, as an intelligent, sympathetic presence who's rooting for me to tell you a good story.
Glibness will get your anywhere.
The hustler from Chicago
We seem to spend a lot of our time in very small spaces spouting a lot of dialogue very quickly.
I wish my horse had the speed of your tongue.
I would drink gallons of coffee a day. Even now, off caffeine, I talk faster than anyone you've ever met. I finally recognized that I'm naturally amped up. But when I quit I was worried that I would never write again. It was like anyone who's kicked a habit. I was in a blanket shivering, trying to kick the horse.
