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Chatter Quotes

Lines on the noise that surrounds us daily.

This page brings together quotes using the word "chatter" in different senses, from dismissive talk about classical education to the comforting infield chatter of a baseball game. For more on how we communicate, see Language quotes.

People who have got to know Western educational methods always claim that the reading of the Classics was a useless waste of time and should be abolished. Such chatter is to be heard from hundreds of people and cannot be...

Quotes by Zhang Zhidong

I don't immerse myself in the Internet chatter because it opens you up to a whole source of danger.

Quotes by Zachary Quinto

The crack of the bat, the sound of baseballs thumping into gloves, the infield chatter are like birdsong to the baseball starved.

Quotes by W. P. Kinsella

Visits to crowded Indian urban centers unleash sensory assaults: colorful dress and lilting chatter provide a backdrop to every manner of commerce, from small shops to peddlers to beggars.

Quotes by Steven Rattner

Africa Quotes

Your work isn't just to learn and say the lines. Your work is to figure out what the chatter in your brain is, that's going on under the lines. It doesn't matter whether you're speaking or not speaking because your...

Quotes by Sarah Wayne Callies

It is still not enough for language to have clarity and content... it must also have a goal and an imperative. Otherwise from language we descend to chatter, from chatter to babble and from babble to confusion.

Quotes by Rene Daumal

One thing is very clear from the chatter I see on Chinese blogs, and also from just what people in China tell me, is that Google is much more popular among China's Internet users than the United States.

Quotes by Rebecca MacKinnon

We live in such an age of chatter and distraction. Everything is a challenge for the ears and eyes.

Quotes by Rebecca Pidgeon

Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same.

Quotes by Phyllis McGinley

Age Quotes

There's a lot of chatter in basketball and, rightfully, you want players to be talking to each other... But sometimes in practice, it gets too verbose... so I tried to take things out of the ordinary and make them special...

Quotes by Phil Jackson

Now, we don't get that many specific threats against sporting events, per se. But we know from listening to the chatter how terrorists want to attack iconic events. So whether it's a major Fourth of July celebration or the Super...

Quotes by Peter T. King

As I see it, tech in Africa 1.0 was the mobile-phone boom, and version 2.0 was about new apps developed in response to local needs. Tech in Africa 3.0 should be about those who are successful in transforming the chatter...

Quotes by Ory Okolloh

Blogs are a great way to monitor and even participate in the chatter about your new site.

Quotes by Mike Davidson

Most people don't realize that the mind constantly chatters. And yet, that chatter winds up being the force that drives us much of the day in terms of what we do, what we react to, and how we feel.

Quotes by Jon Kabat-Zinn

Internet Quotes

Your subconscious mind is trying to help you all the time. That's why I keep a journal - not for chatter but for mostly the images that flow into the mind or little ideas. I keep a running journal, and...

Quotes by Jim Harrison

Salesforce's Chatter is what convinced me that the company understood what is going on in the enterprise; this was the biggest attraction for me. I saw that Salesforce understands social.

Quotes by J.P. Rangaswami

Reading isn't about managing expectations. In certain ways, writing is. You're trying to send signals early in a book about what might be coming later, but I think worrying about the kind of chatter around a book is something I...

Quotes by Garth Risk Hallberg

Something that I think I figured out slowly was if you're playing a show and there's a chatter or there is, you know, a lot of noise - people talking or something - I was never the one whose instinct...

Quotes by Feist

Remember in 1973 the same science chatter said that the coming Ice Age is going to occur, we're going to lose millions of people. And the politicians knew how to solve it, they just didn't have the courage to solve...

Quotes by Don Young

Language Quotes

All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth.

Quotes by Antonin Artaud

Frequently Asked Questions

What does this Chatter quotes page cover?
It covers several meanings of "chatter," including dismissive talk about educational methods, the background noise of a baseball game, and online conversation.
Why do people search for chatter quotes?
People look for these quotes when writing about noise, distraction, or the value of joining versus avoiding public conversation, especially online.
Does this collection mention internet chatter specifically?
Yes - one quote explains a preference for staying out of internet chatter because of the risks it opens up, while another quote recommends blogs as a way to join chatter about your own site. See Internet quotes for more.
Is there a quote connecting chatter to sports?
Yes, one line compares the crack of the bat and infield chatter to birdsong for people who miss baseball, treating that background noise as something comforting rather than distracting.
Does any quote criticize chatter about education?
Yes, one quote pushes back against the claim that studying the classics is a waste of time, calling that dismissive view itself a form of chatter.

Online chatter gets its own mention here too, both as a distraction to avoid and as something worth joining when it's about your own work. Pair this with Internet quotes, or Age quotes for a different angle on modern life.