Billy Carter Quotes

A good talker, even more than a good orator, implies a good audience. Modern society is too vast and too restless to give a conversationalist a fair chance.

I love talking to the public, I love hearing what people have got to say.

Talk is a pure art. Its only limits are the patience of listeners who, when they get tired, can always pay for their coffee or change it with a friendly waiter and walk out.

No man pleases by silence; many I please by speaking briefly.

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

Interviewing people is pretty natural for me.

An American cannot converse, but he can discuss, and his talk falls into a dissertation. He speaks to you as if he was addressing a meeting; and if he should chance to become warm in the discussion, he will say 'Gentlemen' to the person with whom he is conversing.

I think that, in comparison, New Yorkers and Northerners are so guarded.

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

I do do a lot of talking, because it saves me listening.

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.

Talking is the disease of age.

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.

I love conversation and the sharing of different thoughts and philosophies. That kind of stuff always makes me happy. I don't mind interviews, either - I like doing them.

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?'

Listening to people keeps them entertained.

There's always something to talk about.

Many nations use language simply to convey information, but it's different in Ireland. With most conversational exchanges you get an 'added extra' like the free little biscuit you sometimes get with a cappuccino in a fancy coffee place.

The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.

Good talkers are only found in Paris.

I actually like talking.

You're in a much better position to talk with people when they approach you than when you approach them.

I am conversational - I just like to engage and talk about things.

I saw this DJ playing music and saying things to the kids. They would answer him back, and I say, 'That's a great idea.'