Mark Twain Quotes

I love talking to people and finding out their opinion.

The most fruitful and natural exercise for our minds is, in my opinion, conversation.

Human talk is a centrifugal function, ever in flight outwards from what is on the talker's mind.

You can tell if someone is about social intercourse or just about browbeating somebody with their opinion. It's no fun arguing with a closed-minded person.

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

The great gift of conversation lies less in displaying it ourselves than in drawing it out of others. He who leaves your company pleased with himself and his own cleverness is perfectly well pleased with you.

It's good to talk to people and get ideas.

The reason that I have Global Grind is to communicate ideas to people who might otherwise not be listening.

Having a human conversation is not something I've had any training in either as a comedian or as, you know, a human being.

Kevin Smith is a very challenging conversationalist and Jay has many great stories.

I've always got something to say.

For most women, the language of conversation is primarily a language of rapport: a way of establishing connections and negotiating relationships.

I like talking one-on-one to everyone. I find it really sort of cathartic and interesting to hear people's opinions.

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

I genuinely enjoy talking one-to-one. I have no shyness about that.

Whether a plane to Singapore, a subway in Manhattan, or the streets of Cincinnati, I search for meaningful conversation wherever I may travel. Without it, I believe we lose the ability to not only understand others, but more importantly, ourselves.

Each person's life is lived as a series of conversations.

I'm just chatty. But I do express my opinion.

I don't like to be the only person talking in a room.

In the normal flow of a conversation, our attention is divided. We hear parts of what other people are saying, in order to follow and keep the conversation going. At the same time, we're planning what we'll say next, some exciting story of our own.

Writing is too lonely. I'd rather talk.

I like writing with people. I think the times that I've closed myself off to not writing with people, I haven't gotten the best product because I haven't had anyone to go back and forth with and really discuss what's going on in my life, what's going on in their life. It's so important to have that connection.

I like to talk. I admit it.

I love talking to people, and I'll listen to what they have to say, and if they have ideas or something like that, I'll put you to work.

In life, people talk at right angles. One asks a question, and the other replies in part, then uses that part to move the conversation to something else. Everyone has an agenda, has something they're trying to say - or not say.