Quotes About Conversation

There is all the difference in the world between having something to say and having to say something.

There's all the difference in the world between having something to say, and having to say something.

Son, frankness is a virtue only when you're talkin' about yourself, and then it's a nuisance.

His unofficial headquarters was a table at the Stork Club, where he could be seen in conversation with all types of tipsters and newsmakers. He became friends with J. Edgar Hoover and had his car fitted with a police radio, a siren, and a flashing red light. Sometimes he beat the police to holdup scenes.

News channels have always had interview shows, but we need different kinds of interviews with different kinds of interviewers, interviewers who bring different life experiences to the table.

A person loves to talk about his illnesses although that is the least interesting part of his life.

Stories were primarily verbal to begin with. Before there were cave paintings, stories were told over generations. We tell each other thousands of stories in the course of everyday life.

As I moved to less and less diverse places in my life, I realized that white people dont talk about race amongst themselves!

We have years to converse with someone, to blurt and rant, to explain our desires and anger and regrets - and oh how we squander those moments.

Commit a little bit more to the world outside of your own life. Get people talking.

What was the point of even having a conversation when words couldn't be trusted?

There are times when wisdom cannot be found in the chambers of parliament or the halls of academia but at the unpretentious setting of the kitchen table.

Some people were just getting on with their lives, chatting, being young. It simply wouldn't do.

Human life consists of doing certain things ... to take part in the life of the community; to be able to talk about subjects that interest me and there freedom of speech comes into it.

We're all in the end-of-our-life book club, whether we acknowledge it or not; each book we read may well be the last, each conversation the final one.

My life isn't necessarily more important than anyone else's: I'm just better in talking about it.

Just getting to talk to that person [Woody Allen ] in real life was pretty wild.

I want to be able to have a conversation with people. I don't want to be stupid. I'd like to have a life outside acting.

I let go usually by talking to many people in different areas, in different realms of life that make me look at what I'm dealing with as being small fries stuff, you know?

I spend most of my life just listening to people.

I'd rather have a go at life, so there's something to talk about once we're gone.

The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it.

Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius.

We have in America "The Big Two-Hearted River" tradition: taking your wounds to the wilderness for a cure, a conversation, a rest, whatever. And as is in the Hemingway story, if your wounds aren't too bad, it works. But this isn't Michigan (or Faulkner's Big Woods in Mississippi for that matter). This is Alaska.