Matt Roper Quotes

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

Do you know that conversation is one of the greatest pleasures in life? But it wants leisure.

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 have a horror of boring someone or, worse still, of someone boring me. I said to my mother when I was seven, 'But, Mums, if it was only my husband and me in the house together, what would we talk about?' I've never wanted to answer my own question, and doubt I'll bother now.

If we're all talking about something that doesn't matter, it can be bean talk. If we're talking about something that we're talking about together, it could be bean talk.

I don't like to just talk about nothing, or less than nothing. If it's something interesting, I'm fine with it, but, 'Hey, Zack, how is your day?' People ask that, and somebody actually tells them what happened in their day? I don't have any real interest in that.

I imagine how cool it would be if all small talk wasn't lies.

small talk comes from small bones

Someone has said that conversation is sex for the soul.

Is there anything more terrible than a "call"? It affords an occasion for the exchange of the most threadbare commonplaces. Calls and the theatre are the two great centers for the propagation of platitudes.

There is, indeed, no wild beast more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate.

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

There's a lot of interviews now where nobody seems to talk about anything. Like it's illegal. But it can be fun if you stay involved. Like most conversations.

Every time someone says, 'You know, we really ought to get together,' if I were really honest, I would ask 'Why?'

There are two things in ordinary conversation which ordinary people dislike - information and wit.

People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say.

If there's a silence in a room I'll try to fill it as soon as humanly possible.

Never ask a bore a question.

There is nothing I hate more than meeting someone who has forgotten the art of conversing.

I don't like business talkers, you know, people who are constantly like, 'Blah blah blah movies.' I find it incredibly boring.

I'm much happier talking with people than I am flirting with them.

I'm not a person who needs to chit-chat between takes by any means.

I never have anything to talk about.

The less food, the more time to talk, the more to talk about.

Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible.