Thomas A. Edison Quotes

Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords - philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather.

Come and say G'day!

Talking to people is not giving them anything.

You ask me a question. I have a blank mind. You ask me a question, and the question is informed, and you're interested, and now my mind starts popping. That's what conversation is. That's what communicating is.

I love when people stop and talk to me, because the people are always so nice.

Rosabelle - answer - tell - pray, answer - look - tell - answer, answer - tell.

Some people meet me sometimes and they sit down and talk to me for a while and ask me my name and say, 'Oh, you're the guy'.

I don't talk much to offensive linemen in general.

She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.

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.

How time files when you's doin' all the talking.

I love to engage with people who come to see us.

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.

The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.

I'm not an interviewer. I have conversations.

For the most part, if somebody approaches me and says, 'I'd like to interview you,' who am I to say no, when I spend all my days going, 'Hello, you don't know me. I'd like to ask you some questions. Do you have a little time?'

I'm kind of looking for something with a lot less action and more talking and listening.

Always do something that requires you and your date to talk.

I'm always willing to talk to somebody if they have something to say that is interesting.

Hey kid, do you want to come and talk to Charlie?

I would never talk just to be social. Now, to sit down with a bunch of engineers and talk about the latest concrete forming systems, that's really interesting. Talking with animal behaviorists or with someone who likes to sail, that's interesting. Information is interesting to me. But talking for the sake of talking, I find that quite boring.

I guess a lot of people don't like talking.

I strike up conversations all the time and it is very interesting, finding out about things I know nothing about.

Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while.

People say conversation is a lost art; how often I have wished it were.