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Quotes About Conversation

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
~ Euripides
Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.
~ Carl Sandburg
When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
~ Ernest Hemingway
My favorite thing is to have a big dinner with friends and talk about life.
~ Carla Gugino
I don't sit around with my friends and talk about money, ever. On a record, that's different.
~ Jay-Z
The thing that makes my generation The Greatest is our ability to hang out. We're spectacular at it. If you take somebody from my generation and sit them on a couch and bring them food and plumbing, they'll sit there and talk to you about anything you want until the day you die.
~ Lewis Black
I'm hopeless at small talk and have a problem making eye contact.
~ Gary Numan
I like learning more about people; I like to talk to people.
~ Jurgen Klopp
I'll talk. You'll listen.
~ Bruce Nauman
I'm quite old-fashioned. I like going out to dinner. You have the chance to talk to somebody and get to know them better.
~ Harry Styles
As much as I would love to be a person that goes to parties and has a couple of drinks and has a nice time, that doesn't work for me. I'd just rather sit at home and read, or go out to dinner with someone, or talk to someone I love, or talk to somebody that makes me laugh.
~ Daniel Radcliffe
Just because you can leap off a drum kit doing a scissors kick while hitting a chord, people expect you to be an extrovert socially. But I'm not always comfortable with the idea of small talk at a party.
~ Alex Kapranos
I talk to myself, especially in the car.
~ Chris Pine
Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Talk to people... everything good I've done has come from conversations with people. Science is a very social phenomenon.
~ John C. Mather
Men need to be aware of the health of their bodies, as well - prostate cancer and breast cancer are almost on the same level. It's fascinating to me that the correlation between the two is almost the same - people don't talk about it so much, but they are almost equal in numbers.
~ Olivia Newton-John
I think I have got a lot better as an interviewer. I let people talk now which is something you need to do. At the beginning I thought jokes, jokes, jokes, I am a stand up comedian but I think I have mellowed out now.
~ Alan Carr
If you talk, you only repeat something that you already know. But if you listen, you may learn something that you don't know.
~ Bud Grant
I am not good at small talk. I will hide in a cupboard to avoid chitty-chat.
~ Caitlin Moran
It can be difficult for people to talk about it, because there still is that stigma around mental illness. But I would encourage people to do that, because they'll be surprised once they do 'come out' how many other people have had similar experiences.
~ Matt Haig
I'm not necessarily intimidated by really jocky guys. I can talk football with them, you know what I mean?
~ Joan Jett
Lohan and I talk about just things that happen. It's Lindsay. She's great. I went from not knowing who she was to not being able to get rid of her because she's everywhere. She's on everything.
~ Jonathan Bennett
I play with Sacha Kljestan, and I talk a lot with him about playing in MLS.
~ Romelu Lukaku