Conor McPherson Quotes

I'm more of a listener than a talker.

I'm not a natural storyteller at all. If anything, I'm a natural interviewer, a natural listener, but I'm not a natural storyteller.

Good dialogue is very important.

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

The best thing I could say is you do have to be a really good listener. If I go to a family reunion, and there's 400 people there, everybody comes up and tells me their stories, right? And I think that when you're a good listener, and you can imagine how someone's talking, dialogue is your key friend, is it not?

I like talking to anyone that will listen.

I don't like to do a lot of talking.

I can't tell stories to save my life. I like to have fun, and I go out and have a lot of fun. But I'm not really an entertainer that way. I'm much more shy.

The trouble with telling a good story is that it invariably reminds the other fellow of a dull one.

I'm the most gregarious of men and love good company, but never less alone when alone.

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

I am naturally taciturn, and became a silent and attentive listener.

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.

I'm not a good small talker. I'm not into small talk, frankly.

A good quartet is like a good conversation among friends interacting to each other's ideas.

People love to talk, so let them have fun talking.

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

A good conversationalist is not one who remembers what was said, but says what someone wants to remember.

I think if you can get people to laugh, you can get people to listen.

It's no secret that I love to talk, but the real secret is I love to listen, too.

I was talking to Coach Wooden after I had signed at UCLA and over the summer, and we used to talk all the time. The thing is, talking to Bill Walton, once you throw in your two cents, he throws in the other 98 cents. He will not stop talking, I'll tell you what.

You see young people, or kids, and they're fascinated by the way people talk. And that's great. But eventually you get to the point where you think, 'You know what? I don't care how you talk, I'm just listening to what you're saying.'

There is no such thing as a worthless conversation, provided you know what to listen for. And questions are the breath of life for a conversation.

Good social media is authentic. What makes social media work is actually having something to say.

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