Steven Moffat Quotes

If a person feels he can't communicate, the least he can do is shut up about it.

Max: "Okay guys, I had a couple thoughts I wanted to go over with you." Iggy: (pretends to snore loudy) Max: (throws another pinecone at him) Iggy: "Quit throwing things at me!" Max: "Glad you could join us.

I like listening to people talk about things that they love. They get to express things they don't normally get to express.

To communicate with each other, we got to get mad at each other sometimes.

I wish people who have trouble communicating would just shut up.

It's like a prehistoric reflex, you know, going out and getting the meat and bringing it back to the cave. You feel you're supposed to make it better, but more than likely she's asking you to tell her how you feel.

I don't like telephones.

Language failed me very often, but then, the substitute for me was silence, but not violence.

I wanted to communicate and connect. I simply didn't seem able to do it.

The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own.

If someone says they're going to ring me at 10 o'clock and it's 10 past and they haven't rung, I'm irritated.

I hate small talk! I can't do it.

My mother was a very quiet woman and people say that she didn't get much of a chance to talk because my grandmother and I talked so much.

Conversation: The slowest form of human communication.

Who killed Chivalry? They need to get their sentencing Meanwhile we arguing and I can't get a sentence in

She holds up a finger. "I'm getting to it. Don't rush a girl in the middle of her exposition.

The best way to make a long story short is to stop listening.

What we love usually manages to get into our conversation. What is down in the well of the heart will come up in the bucket of the speech.

one doesn't interrupt a beautiful girl unless one is going to be funny.

Two of the biggest conversational blunders you can make are saying something when you should stay silent, and staying silent when you should say something.

If people ask me, I always tell them: "Quite well, thank you, I'm very glad to say." If people ask me, I always answer, "Quite well, thank you, how are you today?" I always answer, I always tell them, If they ask me Politely... BUT SOMETIMES I wish That they wouldn't

Tris: "I was reading." Sandry: "You're always reading. The only way people can ever talk to you is to interrupt." Tris: "Then maybe they shouldn't talk to me.

People don't listen, they just wait for their turn to talk.

We get shy about saying things like I love you. Life is so short. It's crazy, that we hesitate to express our true thoughts to each other.

Fuss is half-sister to hurry, and neither of them can do anything without getting in their own way.