Quotes About Conversation

es mucho más fácil hablar de las cosas tristes que de las alegres.

las otras dos parejas vivían ya ese tiempo en que la charla en grupo liberaba antagonismos, ventila diferencias que la intimidad acalla.

ahora tengo que convencerme de que eso está en la familia, que no sos diferente aunque siempre te esperé como la excepción, ese momento en que todo lo abrumador se detiene para que entre lo liviano, la espuma de la charla y la vuelta de las esquinas;

no sé por qué te cuento esto. –Porque sabés que no me importa, supongo.

You're the only person I've ever met who can stand a bookstore as long as I can. A smarty-pants, the kind you don't find every day.

She wanted to talk about unimportant matters, to speak to someone who wasn't her child or her spouse.

Ah, my dear. Let me introduce Miss Tyler and Doctor umm...' He glanced at the Doctor, but got no help. 'And the Doctor,' he finished.

And on the way, we'll have plenty of time to talk or not talk about whatever's on your mind

Partly, he said, he enjoyed my company; it wasn't often that he had a chance to talk to someone whose mind was so little cluttered with education or accepted opinions— ("You mean I'm stupid." "Good heavens, no. Just ignorant.")

Why, when he'd been a kid . . . The mail coach arrived before Corvolo had a chance to tell Poldarn the complete history of his life, which was probably just as well. Corvolo had an amazing memory and could recall trivial conversations from thirty years ago, apparently word for word. If the coach had been even a quarter of an hour late, Poldarn was sure he'd have murdered the old man.

Shvatam, ali i stolica je dio kina." Homeini ga iznena?eno pogleda, niko nikad s njim nije tako razgovarao. Ali je znao i da je Nosrat fotograf te da dvojicu ljudi uvijek moraš poslušati: ku?nog ljekara i fotografa. Zato je ustao i krenuo ka sredini sobe da sjedne na stolicu.

Mental note: no torturer in a dungeon cell ever devised anything as frustrating, as inescapable, as terrifyingly pointless as a conversation with a drunk.

Why, Oppenheimer knows about everything. He can talk to you about anything you bring up. Well, not exactly. I guess there are a few things he doesn't know about. He doesn't know anything about sports.

The renowned Danish physicist then asked politely, "How is it going?" Robert replied bluntly, "I'm in difficulties." Bohr asked, "Are the difficulties mathematical or physical?" When Robert replied, "I don't know," Bohr said, "That's bad." Bohr

tea was served every afternoon between three and four in the Common Room on the main floor of Fuld Hall. "Tea is where we explain to each other," Oppenheimer once said, "what we don't understand.

Hat dich jemand gesehen?«, fragte sie. »Ich hab jeden erschossen, der mir auf der Straße begegnet ist.« »Gut so.«

In all circumstances serenity of mind should be maintained, and conversation should be conducted as never to mar the harmony of the surroundings. The cut and color of the dress, the poise of the body, and the manner of walking could all be made expressions of artistic personality. These were matters not to be lightly ignored, for until one has made himself beautiful he has no right to approach beauty.

The water cooler conversation in every job I've had is sports, it's what did you do this weekend, it's 'How are your parents doing?'

When I heard you were dead, Heraclitus, tears came, and I remembered how often you and I had talked the sun to bed. Long ago you turned to ashes, my Halicarnassian friend, but your poems, your Nightingales, still live. Hades clutches all things yet can't touch these.

He hung up so gently, I didn't even hear the click.

Striking up conversations with strangers is something like extreme sports for autistic people.

I don't think interviewing people is any different than normal communication.

A lot of times, going into the interview, you have an idea of maybe what you want to talk about. And the people you are interviewing have an idea of what they want to talk about.

I could do interviews all day.