Have you heard anything useful come out of an actor's mouth lately?
But what do I have? The things I'm told and the things I tell, that's all. And as far as I know, that never yet made anyone fly.
Chatter about art is almost always useless.
Phocion compared the speeches of Leosthenes to cypress-trees. "They are tall," said he, "and comely, but bear no fruit."
In Washington, a man gets up to speak and doesn't say a thing, and the other men disagree with him for three hours.
You might as well talk to my baby daughter. You'll get more sense out of her
We are pouring our words into a sieve, and lose our labor. [Lat., In pertusum ingerimus dicta dolium, operam ludimus.]
Mere brave speech without action is letting off useless steam.
I don't want to talk about nonsense because it doesn't help me.
That which makes much noise and does nothing useful.
More words ain't good for anything in the world only to bring on more argument.
Not communicating saves energy; it keeps people from worrying about things they cannot do anything about; and it eliminates an enormous amount of useless talk.
