Miguel de Cervantes Quotes

When interviews are good, the conversation can be amazing. Sometimes I've had conversations with journalists that I've never had with anybody else.

One paire of eares drawes dry an hundred tongues.

The apothegm is the most portable form of Truth.... It is thus that the proverb answers where the sermon fails, as a well-charged pistol will do more execution than a whole barrel of gunpowder idly expended in the air.

Eloquent speech is not from lip to ear, but rather from heart to heart.

A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.

Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard.

It's no use imagining that bringing great writers together inevitably precipitates great conversation.

You need cliches. Cliches are what people respond to.

It's no use of talking unless people understand what you say.

It's interesting because you feel on the one hand, we understand people from what the say, and in another sense, you'd think that you'd be able to convey more through dialogue.

People love cliches. If you can give people cliches, that's very good TV, then.

Silence is better than unmeaning words.

Sometimes there is a greater lack of communication in facile talking than in silence.

I'm obsessed with proverbs because, to me, flexing is being able to say the most with the least amount of words.

I wanted to talk face-to-face with as many people as would see me. Some actors were so busy they could only give me an hour on the phone. But my feeling is that if you're actually in the room with them, they get comfortable and you get more.

Uh' is not an answer.

The chance to talk to so many people and understand what they're thinking about and why it matters is really, really so interesting. When you're doing that, you have to truly listen to what people are saying. You can't just pretend to listen.

The reason that clichés become clichés is that they are the hammers and screwdrivers in the toolbox of communication.

It would be a shame to go out with a hot girl you can't have a decent conversation with!

Strong minds talk about ideas; weak minds talk about people.

When it comes to my vocabulary, I felt a responsibility when I was teaching to raise the bar of conversation in my classroom. And with my own students, I refused to let them use the phrase "I like" or "I don't like" when we were engaged in a critique.

When I think of talking, it is of course with a woman. For talking at its best being an inspiration, it wants a corresponding divine quality of receptiveness, and where will you find this but in a woman?

Advice is more agreeable in the mouth than in the ear.

CONVERSATION is the vehicle for change.

There's all the difference in the world between having something to say, and having to say something.