Quotes About Conversation

If you don't work near a water cooler and hanker for the company of fellow natural history enthusiasts, 'The Blue Planet II Podcast' has Emily Knight and Becky Ripley enthusing infectiously about and delving deeper into the most recent episode.

I like to talk about food, ingredients, and how to adapt recipes. It's a dialogue.

The measure of a conversation is how much mutual recognition there is in it; how much shared there is in it. If you're talking about what's in your own head, or without thought to what people looking and listening will feel, you might as well be in a room talking to yourself.

I love being recognized. I love talking with - can I say 'fans'?

The best way for women to acquire knowledge is from conversation with a father, a brother, or a friend, in the way of family intercourse and easy conversation, and by such a course of reading as they may recommend.

Asking anyone what she or he is reading is a necessary part of conversation, exchanging news. So I take recommendations from friends - and I always pass along a book I've loved.

So many times in the middle of an interview I've had people say, 'Can we go off the record?'

As a guerrilla journalist, I participate in the news by holding individuals who are in the news accountable through personal interactions. That involves confronting people in ambush interviews, secretly recording them, or engaging in a conversation with them when they are caught off guard.

When I was growing up, my mother worked, and in the evenings, the whole family would sit around the dinner table and recount the day.

I love going into a home and talking to a family that knows nothing about recruiting - about the whole process. I love selling who we are and what we are, and that's something I really missed when I was on TV.

I think a letter is more ceremonial than anything. Personally, I think it's just a reason to go talk to the referee.

I really don't know what happened in reference to 'The Butler.' Mr. Daniels and I had a conversation. I had the script, the email that goes along with it in reference to the character, read the script, loved it. Then I never heard from Mr. Daniels again, and the next I saw was that Oprah Winfrey is now playing the part.

'Clue' was a big flop when it came out, but it became a... It's a movie that almost everyone references with me, now, when I run into people.

In general, I believe it's fine to have impassioned conversations about Gwyneth Paltrow, but those of us who do so should admit it's a recreational activity and not a moral referendum.

That's what I'm attracted to: how people face struggle - with humor - and how they handle tough situations in their lives and in conversations.

The way our government handled the Chibok girls case goes beyond an election matter. This is not a one-time issue we discuss over elections. We need to have a deeper conversation about what kind of a nation we want to be.

The PC way of handling culture has been to not talk about it. But we should be talking about it.

When I first started as a cover band, I built everything based on hanging out every night after the shows and talking to as many people as I can and making relationships.

If I had an office job, I'd probably be doing the exact same thing I'm doing on television: hanging out by the water cooler and talking to co-workers about their relationships.

One thing I've always loved doing is hanging out and talking music with other artists.

When Dee Snider and I get together for breakfast, it's just two Long Island guys hanging out.

I have always liked hanging out with people and talking to people.

I think it's kind of a scary time we're getting into - like, when you're hanging out with people, they'd rather be on the phone than talk to you.

I always wanted my stand-up to feel like not just a show, but like you're hanging out with someone for an hour. I like to just talk.