A Quote by Malachy McCourt

If you look up the word "gab" in the dictionary, it's insignificant of importance, of no substance. That's what gab is.

Malachy McCourt

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Malachy McCourt
Irish - Actor
Born: September 20, 1931

I've never used chat-up lines; I don't have the gift of the gab.

Ricky Whittle

I can gab with pretty much anyone.

Kyle Chandler

Some directors have the gift of the gab, but I don't.

Marianne Elliott

I have the gift of the gab, can talk and perform, but so can others. I can only attribute it to the fact that somebody up there likes me: it's remote-controlled by God.

Fawad Khan

I'm always a bit suspicious of writers who have the gift of the gab.

Zadie Smith

God and my dad gave me the gift of gab. I know how to finagle.

Chance The Rapper

My family is filled with wonderful storytellers. I lack their gift of gab, so it's a relief to be able to write.

Eden Robinson

Beautiful quality that women have, which is we like to get together and gab. It's time to elevate that aspect of being a woman.

Elizabeth Lesser

Advertising. I'd definitely like to try that. In fact, it was a genuine second choice career-wise. I'd be good at selling stuff - I've got the gift of the gab.

Tony Blackburn

When Little Richard used to stand up and play it was just fabulous, and Liberace had the candlesticks and the rings and the gift of the gab. The piano's is the most ungainly rock' n' roll instrument of all time but those two people transcended it, as did Jerry Lee Lewis.

Elton John

I am bored with gabbers and their gab; my soul abhors them. . . . Is there any place where there is no traffic in empty talk? Is there on this earth one who does not worship himself talking?

Khalil Gibran

Conor has taken the UFC to a whole new level. It's his whole demeanor that appeals to me. He's a fighter, he's a Viking, and on top of that, he's got the gift of gab.

Stephen Thompson

At 11, 12 I thought I was clumsy, ugly, a mess, an unappealing person, but I did have the gift of the gab. I had the school record at Haberdashers for consecutive detentions for simply speaking out of turn.

Simon Schama

At 11, 12, I thought I was clumsy, ugly, a mess, an unappealing person, but I did have the gift of the gab. I had the school record at Haberdashers for consecutive detentions for simply speaking out of turn.

Simon Schama

I bought a dictionary. First thing I did was, I looked up the word "dictionary", and it said "you're an asshole".