Quotes About Conversation

I don't use Facebook or Twitter, and I email once in a blue moon, as I'm a rather slow typist and prefer to pick up the phone and hear a voice.

Times are such that poetry has been slowly drifting away from our songs and the language of conversation is used a lot more as lyrics. I believe such attempts create mundane songs, and they hardly stand the test of time.

Words are a commodity in which there is never any slump.

I love it when someone starts a conversation - romantic, platonic, small talk - as long as it's related to food.

I'm not great at small talk.

That's all small talk is - a quick way to connect on a human level - which is why it is by no means as irrelevant as the people who are bad at it insist. In short, it's worth making the effort.

I'm not an ace at small talk.

I'm not good at meeting people, and I'm not good at small talk.

I meet people, and we can get past small talk pretty quickly if they've read my books. It's a great shortcut.

I hate small talk! I can't do it.

A good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation.

If you choose as a woman to work in cinema, the roles are smaller, not as diverse, and sometimes not as exciting. So when you try to have a conversation to say, 'This part is lacking in this or that,' or, 'I don't understand who this person is,' or, 'Why is she in this story?' people are very afraid of that.

By definition, gay is smart. I see plenty of macho heterosexual idiots, but nine times out of 10 you can have a great conversation if you find a gay guy.

I'm smart and I can be really funny and interesting and I can go toe-to-toe with anybody in a conversation.

I think it's good to meet smart people and talk.

Really smart people don't want to say stupid things, and they really don't want to be a part of a PR-engineered interview. People really do want to be smart, and they want smart questions. So, if you ask smart questions, there's no way you can't do well.

I love hearing people who are smarter than me talk about my comics. It makes me feel smarter.

I couldn't have a better resource than my brother. He's one of the smartest guys you'll have a conversation with. He knows so much about so many different things.

A man can get my attention by smiling at me and then coming over and talking to me. The best way to get a girl's attention is to start a conversation.

Kevin Smith is a very challenging conversationalist and Jay has many great stories.

As a guest who doesn't eat, drink or smoke, you leave much to be desired, but as a writer, you're my girl.

At intervals between the songs, more especially after the trances have begun, the dancers unclasp hands and sit down to smoke or talk for a few minutes.

I don't like a bunch of writers sitting around, puffing smoke, they like this book, he wrote this - tell me a dirty joke, you know. It's just not my style, I've never been that kind of person.

This was in '79. I got pretty restless there, sitting around with a lot of people sitting around smoking cigarettes and talking about films, but nobody really doing anything.