Talking Back Quotes:

Doesn't it seem ironic that people fear that we might become alienated by communicating with each other through computers, when we are already staring at these boxes in our living rooms for seven or eight hours a day, slack-jawed and saying nothing to anyone on either side and not talking back to it.

- Howard Rheingold

source: Source: scottlondon.com

topic: Eight, Talking, People, Talking Back

I think blogging and the ability to instantaneously respond to news items has changed the way we approach all media. We're seeing people talking back to columnists, and going much further in the sexual realm than most papers, even alternative weeklies, will publish. I'm surprised more papers aren't having people do what you're doing with an online only column, and to be honest, I read almost all the media I do read online, and plenty of other people do, too, so I don't know what's stopping them.

- Rachel Kramer Bussel

topic: Thinking, Media, Talking, People Talking, Talking Back

The fear is that talking back, that engaging at all, is to open the door for god-knows-what.

- Rose McGowan

topic: Doors, Talking, God Knows, Talking Back

I heard the other day of a man who paid a psychologist $50 to cure him of an inferiority complex - and later was fined $25 and costs for talking back to a traffic cop.

- Shelley Berman

topic: Men, Talking, Cost, Inferiority Complex, Talking Back

Never demean yourself by talking back to a critic, never. Write those letters to the editor in your head, but don't put them on paper.

- Truman Capote

source: Truman Capote, M. Thomas Inge (1987). “Truman Capote: Conversations”, p.31, Univ. Press of Mississippi

topic: Writing, Talking, Editors, Letters To The Editor, Talking Back

I'm increasingly on the side of thinkers like David Graeber who are talking back to this notion of totality and emphasizing how there are all kinds of moments in our daily lives that break - or at least could break - from the logic of profit and the modes of domination it entails. Zones of freedom, even if it's never pure.

- Ben Lerner

source: "Despair strikes me as eminently reasonable and boring". Interview with Tao Lin, believermag.com. September 2014.

topic: Talking, Sides, Logic, Talking Back

I didn't really get the chance to talk to girls. I was a straight boy with hormones kicking in, and I wanted to talk to girls, but they weren't interested in talking back to me, so there was a real sense of loneliness.

- Andy Biersack

topic: Girl, Real, Loneliness, Talking Back

Concrete you can mold, you can press it into - after all, you haven't any straight lines in your body. Why should we have straight lines in our architecture? You'd be surprised when you go into a room that has no straight line - how marvelous it is that you can feel the walls talking back to you, as it were.

- Philip Johnson

topic: Wall, Talking, Body, Talking Back

I listen to a lot of rap where men talk a certain way about women and I'm not offended. It's meant to be funny. I'm throwing it right back at them with humor, but some people can't take it. They're not used to women talking back.

- Kesha

topic: Rap, Men, Talking, Talking Back

Dear Lord, make me a better parent. Teach me to understand my children, to listen patiently to what they have to say and to answer all their questions kindly. Keep me from interrupting them, talking back to them, and contradicting them. Make me as courteous to them as I would have them to be to me.

- Gary Myers

topic: Children, Communication, Talking, Interrupting, Contradicting

Talking back and being quite aggressive about stuff and not giving a care in the world about anyone. So it was more, I think, that way and I think that's what happened in that party when I stood in between two people.

- Caroline Dhavernas

topic: Party, Thinking, Talking, Talking Back

The more I like a book, the more reluctant I am to turn the page. Lovers, even book lovers, tend to cling. No one-night stands or "reads" for them.

- Anatole Broyard

topic: Book, Reading, Night, Talking Back, Book Lover

As a novelist, I have a somewhat higher soapbox to stand on than most people do when it comes to talking back to the merchants of fear.

- L. Neil Smith

source: "Merchants of Fear" by L. Neil Smith presented to the Boulder County Libertarian Party, February 20, 1994.

topic: Talking, People, Novelists, Merchants, Soapbox

He gaped at the controls. "Why is my ship talking back to me?

- Marissa Meyer

topic: Talking, Ships, Talking Back