Quotes About Conversation

And the purpose of small talk is not to be controversial, clever or even interesting. It's simply to fill the silent void with a small gesture of common humanity. It's a spoken smile, a verbal handshake.

When you got on the private plane, you had your own private lounge where you could close the door. So there wasn't a lot of friendly conversation; we were in incubators by ourselves. That just bred a void - avoid each other, and avoid the issues.

Vast volumes of mixed media surround us, from music to games and videos. Yet almost all of our online actions still begin and end with writing: text messages, status updates, typed search queries, comments and responses, screens packed with verbal exchanges and, underpinning it all, countless billions of words.

When governors such as John Engler, Mike Huckabee, and Mike Pence were driving the conversation on voluntary high standards driven by local voices, it all made sense.

The book is called 'Most Talkative,' because I was voted most talkative in high school. And I've never stopped talking. My mouth has been my greatest asset and my biggest Achilles' heel.

I think that it's important to make criticisms of the government as a whole and criticisms of the policies, but to do so in a way that you can invite the individuals who maybe were on the opposition before, or who voted for somebody whom you are in disagreement with... that you open the door for a conversation with those people.

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

Politics is a conversation between the contestant and the voter.

I talk to a lot of those voters who say, 'Just give us another choice.'

If you are opposed to immigration or support strictly punitive immigration measures, you cannot even start a conversation about other issues with most Latino voters.

I live like a Hottentot. I cannot exchange one sensible word with anyone.

She poured a little social sewage into his ears.

If you want to shake a hand, if you want a story, I'll be more than happy to sit down with you and talk with you. It's what I love to do.

There is something magical about sharing meals.

With a lot of these social stigmas, they just don't need to be in place. Just by talking about them, we can often shatter them.

My work as a whole is about excavating and shining a light on pieces of history that not only need to be seen and heard, but that can also add to the conversation about what's going on now.

I'm shocked at how much I can talk about myself.

When people talk to me, they want to know about Grandmama, they want to know about UNLV, and how was it playing with Muggsy. You don't have to be a basketball fan to be a Muggsy fan. The shortest guy to ever play in the league, I get that question all the time.

I walk down the street; the garbagemen will shout at me, and we'll talk. That's a pleasure when people feel, 'If he can do it, I can, too.'

Showbiz is just there to give people something to talk about.

When I meet people after stand-up shows, they'll bring their cars.

I don't particularly like children. That sounds awful, but I have nothing to say to them.

I never talk about my money! It is interesting how awkward it is to talk about it, even though I talk about it in the abstract every day.

I abhor 'baby talk.' I speak to kids like I would any other person, and they seem to respond to it.