Julien Baker Quotes

In my opinion, the most fruitful and natural play of the mind is conversation. I find it sweeter than any other action in life; and if I were forced to choose, I think I would rather lose my sight than my hearing and voice. The study of books is a drowsy and feeble exercise which does not warm you up.

Social does not just equal Facebook. Social is how people interact anywhere.

Talking is the disease of age.

I just talk just to talk. I like to see what other people think. There's some things somebody tweets me every day where I'm like, 'Wow, I never thought of this issue that way.' It starts great conversation with people who I would never get a chance to actually communicate with.

Writing, when properly managed, (as you may be sure I think mine is) is but a different name for conversation.

Each person's life is lived as a series of conversations.

I'm the biggest fan of face-to-face communication.

Someday, someday, but certainly not now, I'd like to learn how to have a conversation.

We spend our time sending messages to each other, talking and trying to listen at the same time, exchanging information. This seems to be our most urgent biological function; it is what we do with our lives.

What happens when two people talk? That is really the basic question here, because, that's the basic context in which all persuasion takes place.

There are prating coxcombs in the world who would rather talk than listen, although Shakespeare himself were the orator, and human nature the theme!

More contact means more sharing of information, gossiping, exchanging, engaging - in short, more word of mouth.

I really don't care that much about "Beauties." What I really like are Talkers. To me, good talkers are beautiful because good talk is what I love. The word itself shows why I like Talkers better than Beauties, why I tape more than I film. It's not "talkies." Talkers are doing something.

Speaking is half his that speaks, and half his that hears.

I just think people overvalue argument because they like to hear themselves talk.

Speech is a rolling press that always amplifies one's emotions.

Most of the time, communication gets confused with conversation. In fact, the two are distinctly different.

To talk to each other is but a more animated and an audible thinking.

Conversation is a beautiful thing. When I was a younger guy, just wandering around talking to people was what kept me connected to the world.

If it were not for quotations, conversations between gentlemen would consist of an endless series of 'what-ho!'s.

As to the mouth, it delights at times in laughter; it is disposed to impart all that the brain conceives; though I daresay it would be silent on much the heart experiences. Mobile and flexible, it was never intended to be compressed in the eternal silence of solitude: it is a mouth which should speak much and smile often, and have human affection for its interlocutor.

I am worried that the next generation will not be able to have a real conversation.

Gossip is certainly one of the things that language is useful for, because it's always handy to know who needs a favor, who can offer a favor, who's available, who's under the protection of a jealous spouse. And being the first to get a piece of gossip is like engaging in insider trading: You can capitalize on an opportunity before anyone else can.

Talk shows are proof that conversation is dead.

I gotta use words to talk to you.