George Orwell Quotes

Listen more than you talk.

I see people in terms of dialogue and I believe that people are their talk.

The essence of conversation is not which media format we choose to talk to each other with, so we don't differentiate between snaps and chats. It's just someone wanting to talk to you.

I love somebody that can hold a great conversation.

I suppose I don't hear things, but I listen, if you know what I mean. And there is a big difference between hearing and listening. So it's like a conversation, you know. When you speak to someone, it's one on one, and that's exactly how I play.

If you love it enough, anything will talk with you.

A conversation goes sometimes into personal things and that's nicer. You look to each other and you have a different picture, you get into a relationship.

Can we ever really know anyone well? Let's just say we often found ourselves in each other's company and neither of us minded.

I love having that conversation with someone I've never met before who's enjoying something that I wrote and being able to connect and share that.

I'm always for constructive conversation, meaningful conversation, not just words, but conversation.

I do think that the strongest character is somebody that you can connect with to your personal self, or at least find the humanity in both of you and start from there.

You need to talk to people, and you need to hear what it is they have to say.

Language exists only when it is listened to as well as spoken. The hearer is an indispensable partner.

I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.

Write to the mind and heart, and let the ear Glean after what it can.

Writing poetry is talking to oneself; yet it is a mode of talking to oneself in which the self disappears; and the product's something that, though it may not be for everybody, is about everybody.

In your eyes, I see what's on my mind.

Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted.

Until we invent telepathy, books are our best choice for understanding the rest of humanity.

"I believe you," she whispers after a moment. "Please find my mind."

Your partner cannot read your mind, so talk to your partner about how you're feeling and what you need.

I love and care about literature, and great writers are our teachers. You're studying their mind when you read their work.

How do you know who I am?' Denna grinned, almost laughed. 'To know Richard is to know who Kahlan is.

Haec ego non multis (scribo), sed tibi: satis enim magnum alter alteri theatrum sumus. I am writing this not to many, but to you: certainly we are a great enough audience for each other.

I should say I am far more cleverer than any of the people who put me here. As a matter of fact, I could leave any time I wanted. It's only a doll house after all. Anyway, I don't mind. I like dolls. Particularly the live ones.