This is a photo of people talking…on the phone, to each other, to themselves…sometimes it helps…
- “ME TALK PRETTY ONE DAY” – David Sedaris, quote: “Every day we’re told that we live in the greatest country on earth. And it’s always stated as an undeniable fact: Leos are born between July 23 and August 22, fitted queen-size sheets measure sixty by eighty inches, and America is the greatest country on earth. Having grown up with this in our ears, it’s startling to realize that other countries have nationalistic slogans of their own, none of which are ‘We’re number two!”
- “Happy talk, keep talkin’ happy talk,Talk about things you’d like to do./You got to have a dream,If you don’t have a dream
How you gonna have a dream come true?/
If you don’t talk happy, And you never have a dream,
Then you’ll never have a dream come true!” -Bloody Mary in Roger & Hammerstein’s “South Pacific” - “Take out the papers and the trash, or you don’t get no spendin’ cash/ If you don’t scrub that kitchen floor, you ain’t gonna rock and roll no more/Just finish cleaning up your room. Let’s see that dust fly with that broom. Get all that garbage out of sight, or you don’t go out Friday night.” -“Yakety yak. Don’t Talk Back.” -The Coasters, 1958.
- “THATS’ WHAT I’M TALKING ABOUT”… Slang orignally, African American. Used to express enthusiastic support for an object or person that has just been referenced or for an event that has just occurred. Now a ‘Meme’, whatever that is.
- “You may talk o’ gin and beer when you’re quartered safe out ‘ere, An’ you’re sent to penny-fights an’ Aldershot it; But when it comes to slaughter You will do your work on water, An’ you’ll lick the bloomin’ boots of ‘im that’s got it. -Rudyard Kipling, “Gunga Din”, 1890
- “Money doesn’t talk, it swears.” – Bob Dylan “It’s Alright Ma (I’m only Bleeding)”, song 1965
- “The opposite of talking isn’t listening. The opposite of talking is waiting. -Fran Lebowitz, 1946
- “How could you get a conversation started in there? Everybody was talking too much.” -Yogi Berra
- “‘The time has come’ the Walrus said, ‘to talk of many things, of shoes and ships, and sealing wax and cabbages, – and Kings – of why the sea is boiling hot, and whether pigs have wings'”. -Lewis Carroll
- “Have I reached the person to whom I am talking?” – Lily Tomlin, as Ernestine
- “Talk low. Talk slow. And don’t say too much.” – John Wayne
That’s it for the week. Have a good one – and Listen up. …and a “Hello” to Morgan…wherever you are.
