Quotes About Conversation

We've got to change the culture of riding the T. It is a civic space for community conversations, but everyone's always really quiet on there.

At home we always converse in Oriya.

Some people are just born to cook and talk.

Some of my friends say that I only talk about myself. But it is funny: my house is covered in art but with nothing of my own, and when I'm working, I'm only thinking about what the client wants. So I don't see it that way, but maybe it's true. I mean, they are my friends.

I've done things that should be talked about, and covered serious issues that face our kids, but people aren't interested in that.

It creates community when you talk about private things.

I believe that the ability to talk to people and have them feeling engaged rather than patronised isn't something you can learn. It's a bit like being able to sing or play cricket. You can either do it, or you can't.

I'm an artist, and I like art that gets people talking, good or bad. Criticism is good, too.

Criticism is fine and conversation is fine, but the person who's criticizing should know what they're saying and whom they're criticizing.

I don't know how we existed when there was no SMS. It saves time, as it cuts out all the pleasantries exchanged on the phone.

First of all, I am not an expert on matters on different economic systems, but in my normal social intercourse with my friends we discussed matters like that.

The other night I ate at a real nice family restaurant. Every table had an argument going.

When I look back on my childhood, my fondest memories are those surrounding the dinner table.

People love having a home. People love going to their house and sleeping in their bedroom and having a conversation around the dinner table. You don't particularly think of that conversation as a private conversation; you just think of it as something that happened in your home.

It's important for me who is at the table with me; the moment when everyone speaks to each other and everyone listens. If there's good food, it's much better.

Even now I will go to, like, an industry event, and all the ladies will be over here and all the guys over here, and I will go to the guys' table and sit because I just feel I can have a much better conversation over there. And that's automatic; it's not prejudice.

One of the pleasures of staying with friends is that you get to browse their shelves. I always arrive with a book, but I almost never read it. It would be like sitting at their dinner table and opening a packet of sandwiches.

It is important that breakfast is a time where a family can sit around a table and talk about the day ahead.

When the kids come home, we get back into the same routines: Sitting around the table, flipping grief to each other and laughing about it.

Winston Churchill would be great to have around the table.

This is what a family is all about - one another, sitting around the table at night. And it's very, very important, I think, for the kid to spend time not only around the table eating with their parents, but in the kitchen.

I hope to be 70 and sitting at the table with journalists, talking about my films.

Growing up in Ireland, there never seemed to be the notion that children should be seen and not heard. We all looked forward to mealtimes when we'd sit around the table and talk about our days. Storytelling and long, rambling conversations were considered good things.

I'll tell you one thing... no doubt about it, my favorite kind of comedy is talking head comedy. I mean, if it were up to me, I'd do a whole entire movie that was just around a dinner table.