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Your Quotes for 12 April 2006 - Talk

David Letterman was born at Indianapolis, Indiana on this day in 1947. He was floundering in school when he discovered a speech class which revived his interest in school and led to pursuing a degree in broadcasting at Ball State University. He was fired from the BSU campus radio station for fabricating biographies of composers, and lost his job as a weekend TV weather announcer after describing hailstones "the size of canned hams." He went to Hollywood to pursue comedy writing, appearing on or writing for a number of TV shows. He started in "talk shows" as a guest on the Tonight Show, then filled in as substitute host. When his friend Johnny Carson retired, Letterman lost out to Jay Leno to take Carson's place, so he jumped to CBS to compete head-to-head. I'm always up late enough to watch, but instead I sit here in the quiet and pick out quotes on the theme of Talk.

I worry about people who get born nowadays, because they get born into such tiny families, sometimes into no family at all. When you're the only pea in the pod, your parents are likely to get you confused with the Hope Diamond. And that encourages you to talk too much.
     - Russell Baker

No man would listen to you talk if he didn't known it was his turn next.
     - Edgar Watson Howe, 1853 - 1937

Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.
     - François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, 1613 - 1680

We talk on principle, but we act on interest.
     - Walter Savage Landor, 1775 - 1864

The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, and thousands can think for one who can see. To see clearly is poetry, philosophy, and religion all in one.
     - Eudora Welty, 1909 - 2001

I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.
     - William Hazlitt, 1778 - 1830

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