Quotes About Conversation

It's not so much knowing when to speak, when to pause.

I speak to God every day.

Time was when they that feared the Lord spake often to one another; I am afraid that now they more often speak one against another.

Elvis said, Miss Minnie, do you think it would be out of order if I go up and speak to General Stewart? I've always been such a fan of his. So Elvis went up to speak to the Stewarts.

I so want to be able to speak another language. I love the way my friends who are half Italian and half English break from one language into another without even pausing.

Try to be as good a listener as you are a speaker. Don't just put the emphasis on saying things. Listen.

The best meeting I ever went to was a meeting in France where the talk slots were 60 minutes long, but you were told to prepare a five-minute talk. It was absolutely great because the entire talk was a conversation between the speaker and the audience.

The long history of conversations that family members share contributes not only to how listeners interpret words but also to how speakers choose them.

I don't have smart speakers in the house because I have a thing about whether they are recording our conversations.

I came in here and a fella asked me to have a drink. I said I don't drink. Then another fella said hear you and Joe DiMaggio aren't speaking and I said I'll take that drink.

I hadn't really noticed that I had a hearing problem. I just thought most people had given up on speaking clearly.

I was speaking to Ridley Scott the other day and he makes a film every 18 months. He's amazing really.

No man pleases by silence; many I please by speaking briefly.

He actually came up to me and we started speaking. And from that conversation we were able to come to a meeting of the minds and it seemed as if it was clear to me that he wanted to do similar things to what I wanted to do.

When I came back from Bolivia, my Spanish was in some ways as good as my English. I am rusty today. But I am comfortable talking in Spanish. I am not flawless or fluent, but I am comfortable. It takes me a day or two speaking a lot of Spanish to get back into a rhythm.

When I approach guys in certain situations and talk to them about Christ, they know that I'm speaking to them in a way that's real.

I'm fluent in Spanish, so I can do a character that speaks Spanish.

Movie dialogue is movie dialogue. It can sound real, but no one speaks that way.

All my mom's side speaks Spanish. I speak to my grandparents in Spanish. Slowly. And they're patient with me! But I do speak with them in Spanish and carry on conversations with them.

With some writers, the script looks beautiful on the page, but nobody actually speaks like that.

I actually did a lot of interviews with Benjamin Bratt, and I learned a lot about him in all of those 60 something interviews that we did, because it was a junket. He speaks very well, and I learned that from him.

One thing that really bothers me is when a young black person speaks or leads a conversation, and afterward a white person says, 'You're really articulate.'

It's good to have someone who speaks your own language just to get your mind off of basketball.

It is always something special when you can talk with people from your country. It is always nice to hear advice in your own language.