Quotes About Conversation

I once had dinner with Madonna and I wasn't nervous but within about a minute I found myself talking about underwear.

Want to have a short phone call with someone? Call them at 11:55 a.m., right before lunch. They'll talk fast. You may think you are interesting, but you are not more interesting than lunch.

In the fifty years my parents were married, in the thousands of conversations my dad had with me, it had just never come up. And so there I was, weeks after his death, getting another lesson from him about the meaning of sacrifice—and about the power of humility

Let other people finish their sentences when they're talking.

Lucky" is a strange word to use to describe my situation, but a part of me does feel fortunate that I didn't get hit by the proverbial bus. Cancer has given me the time to have these vital conversations with Jai that wouldn't be possible if my fate were a heart attack or a car accident.

I've also collected techniques for keeping unnecessary calls shorter. If I'm sitting while on the phone, I never put my feet up. In fact, it's better to stand when you're on the phone. You're more apt to speed things along. I also like to have something in view on my desk that I want to do, so I have the urge to wrap things up with the caller.

for years the youths of america keep telling me this:-I'm bored! when I ask them why, they have no answer. my concern goes deeper-I ask, how can your life be so empty in a land of plenty? that's when I begin to share my reggae education with them. its good to see them develop a sense of purpose after that discourse.

How many Americans having "surfed" all the channels and, bored by it all, wouldn't like to slip on a jacket and walk down to the corner and have a cold one with the neighbors? Ah, but we've made sure there's nothing on the corner but another private residence . . . indeed, nothing at all within easy walking distance.

I went up to a girl in a bar once and asked her where she was from. I guess she wasn't interested, because she said, "Mars." So I asked, "You need a ride home?"

The comics that are just conversing with you up there and drawing on their own life, yeah, I guess so. I guess some do political humor, some do topical humor, but the ones that I like, the ones that are appealing to me, were guys who were just talking to you about their life.

One close friend of the Flemings remembers a time when three couples were relaxing in the sun at Goldeneye. The men, in jest, each told the story of how they'd had their first woman. After all was said and done, Anne spoke up with, "All right, now I'll tell you how I had my first woman!

Our duty as educators is to protect and promote public conversations about matters of educational justice, equity, and access within a lightning?fast and often misleading environment of powerful, politically motivated, and unsubstantiated opinions.

There isnt much better in this life than finding a way to spend a few hours in conversation with people you respect and love. You have to carve this time out of your life because you arent really living without it.

I was the one who was always calling people.

Just the other day, my assistant was on the line with Calvin Klein. Golly, I usually shop at Sears.

I've always been talking about race in some sort of capacity.

I'd never carried on a conversation with a black until college.

It has become impossible for India to talk about caste with any candour.

That's all my brother and I do, talk basketball, and I'd like to think I bring some of that casual quality with me on the air.

I think it's very cathartic to have someone to talk to.

I talk about my cats all the time.

I don't get the conga line started. I'm not a great choice if the goal of the evening is just a celebration. But if we're going to talk about what's been going on lately, then I can bring something to the table.

My problem is that I love talking to people. I remember working in a call centre in Dalston and I'd end up having these long chats with old women.

I grew up around writers, and there was always a romance to them. They were charming. They would tell their stories of what they were working on, over the table.