Superficial Talk Quotes

Conversation, which is friendship's mode of expression, is a superficial digression which gives us nothing worth acquiring. We may talk for a lifetime without doing more than indefinitely repeat the vacuity of a minute.

Here comes the orator with his flood of words and his drop or reason.

I don't want just attitude and loud opinion.

Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

Together we must rise to ever higher and higher platitudes.

I had become a perfect fake human, saying the stupid and pointless things that humans say to each other all day long.

Demetrius was wont to say that there was no difference between the words and speech of the unskilled and ignorant and the sounds and rumblings caused by the stomach being full of superfluous wind. This he said, not without reason, for, as he held, it did not in the least matter from what part of them the voice emanated, whether from the lower parts or the mouth, since the one and the other were of equal worth and importance.

It's all about bucks, kid. The rest is conversation.

It is but a poor eloquence which only shows that the orator can talk.

TV likes you to talk about the superficial.

You just touch on things. You don't go round the room describing the furniture.

I prefer the society of one faithful person to an association of rapid talkers, who more than anything else seek admiration from one another.

I like to talk on TV about those things that aren't worth writing about.

A lot of people talk, but they don't say anything. And people listen, and they don't absorb anything of substance.

Only three things them ladies talk about: they kids, they clothes, and they friends. I hear the word Kennedy, I know they ain’t discussing no politic. They talking about what Miss Jackie done wore on the tee-vee.

The people who know nothing about music are the ones always talking about it.

Great knowledge is universal. Small knowledge is limited. Great words are inspiring; small words are chatter.

People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail.

You don't want to become one of those Hollywood idiots who is just blathering about anything.

What honour that, But tedious waste of time, to sit and hear So many hollow compliments and lies.

I'm not that interested in fashion... When someone says that lime-green is the new black for this season, you just want to tell them to get a life.

The odd thing about this form of communication is you're more likely to talk about nothing than something. But I just want to say that all this nothing has meant more to me than so many... somethings. So, thanks.

I think the discussions have been superficial and emotional. What we need are conversations that have real depth to them. Talking about what's going to happen in the first 60 or 90 days of a presidency just doesn't get it done for me.

I've done interviews with actors who I've worked with who I really like, and I'm like, "Wow, look at you. You're just going on . . . You don't even know what you're saying!"

I do not like talking casually to people - it does not interest me - and most of them are unwilling to talk at all seriously.