Harry Houdini Quotes

People write to me all the time, and I write back.

Good morning. How do you do? How do you like the talking box?

Roz, what think??

You ask me a question. I have a blank mind. You ask me a question, and the question is informed, and you're interested, and now my mind starts popping. That's what conversation is. That's what communicating is.

What did you say, Joe?

But who can speak to God, or rather who can't? The question is, who can get an answer?

A response is not just a re-action, a protest, as it were, against being disturbed; it is, as the word indicates, an answer. It meets the stimulus, and corresponds with it.

We may expect answers to prayer, and should not be easy without them any more than we should be if we had written a letter to a friend upon important business, and had received no reply.

If prayer is you talking to God, then intuition is God talking to you.

He responded a few minutes later. Okay. I wrote back. Okay. He responded: Oh, my God, stop flirting with me!

The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.

I'm not an interviewer. I have conversations.

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?'

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

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

Communication is everyone's panacea for everything.

Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well.

Talking to people is not giving them anything.

I liked being able to speak to somebody and throw it back and forth, and they can't predict what you're going to say next.

I just think it's interesting to start a dialogue.

I'm fine talking about a lot of things.

Lance Palmer, I'm always talking with.

I don't think you really get to know a person until you talk to them.

What you want to do is make people talk, start a conversation.