1102 – “When you talk, you are only repeating what you already know. But if you listen, you may learn something new.”

-anonymous

875 – “My father had a favorite: saying: ‘Whoever does not talk to his father never knows what his grandfather said.’ He was trying to express the linear quality or wisdom. His morality was not something that he made up on his own; it had been given to him by his own father and his grandfather before that, a mixture of Hutus and Tutsis stretching back hundreds of years to the time out of memory when our people had migrated to this hilly triangle between lakes.”

–Paul Rusesabagina

Today is Father’s Day, if you have the chance visit or speak to your father today.

669 – “I’m watching her talk. Watching her jaw move and collecting her words one by one as they spill from her lips. I don’t deserve them. Her warm memories. I’d like to paint them over the bare plaster walls of my soul, but everything I paint seems to peel.”

–R in Isaac Marion’s Warm Bodies

643 – “Sometimes it’s a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.”

–David Byrne [Attributed]

431 – “If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.”

–George Knightley in Jane Austen’s Emma