Quotes & Sayings About Mindless Chatter

The world would be a better place if ... — Manju Kapur

The institutions, conventions, customs and laws that make up the complex structure of a society are the work of a hundred centuries and a billion minds; and one mind must not expect to comprehend them in one lifetime, much less in twenty years. — Will Durant

What made traditional economies so radically different and so very fundamentally dangerous to Western economies were the traditional principles of prosperity of Creation versus scarcity of resources, of sharing and distribution versus accumulation and greed, of kinship usage rights versus individual exclusive ownership rights, and of sustainability versus growth. — Rebecca Adamson

I am a bohemian person. I don't speak German, and I live in a foreign country where all the signs are in German. I did that deliberately. I'm like a ghost. Look at how much media and advertising you're subjected to, this mindless chatter of advertising. I just block it out so effortlessly because it's all a foreign language to me. It's really a good thing for my head, living in Berlin. — Anton Newcombe

Americans are making coffee a bigger part of their lives, expanding attitudes and behaviors that are driving new levels of consumption. — Robert Nelson

Memories carry thoughts through the passage of time. — Truth Devour

People who felt compelled to fill silence with mindless chatter and who couldn't be alone with their own thoughts baffled me. — Body Of Work

All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets,unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing. — D.H. Lawrence

An actor should be ready to play any role within reason. For example, I think the most ridiculous thing for me to do would be to try and play Shakespeare. — Glenn Ford

...salads are just weight-loss fads. — J.A. Redmerski

Everyone should pursue whatever is original in oneself. That's the way for a long life in music. — Bjorn Ulvaeus

Entering the casino one is beset at every side by invitation - invitations such that it would take a man of stone, heartless, mindless, and curiously devoid of avarice, to decline them. Listen: a machine gun rattle of silver coins as they tumble and spurt down into a slot machine tray and overflow onto monogrammed carpets is replaced by the siren clangor of the slots, the jangling, blippeting chorus swallowed by the huge room, muted to a comforting background chatter by the time one reaches the card tables, the distant sounds only loud enough to keep the adrenaline flowing through the gamblers' veins. — Neil Gaiman

When tempers flare, people are always far more interested in expressing their hurt than in seeking solutions. — Jessica Dotta

You can't have a discussion about Israel and the region without including Iran and their nuclear ambitions. — Peter MacKay

People like you and me are quite lonely really but we still have each other, we have the secret satisfaction of being different, of rebelling, of desiring the unusual. — Hermann Hesse

Teach your children to listen carefully and to speak thoughtfully. The best way to teach this is to listen carefully and speak thoughtfully to your children, from the time they are babies. Take their questions and ideas seriously ... learning to speak and listen as if our words matter is fundamental to education. Dialogue is not the same as mindless chatter. Above all, listen, listen, and listen to your kids. — Grace Llewellyn

Not everything needs to be recycled. — William McDonough

Shadow is the diminution alike of light and of darkness, and stands between darkness and light. — Leonardo Da Vinci

If you don't have a sense of humor, you'll hurt yourself arguing with me. — Ted Nugent