Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes

I can't abide small talk.

What happens when two people talk? That is really the basic question here, because, that's the basic context in which all persuasion takes place.

Some persons talk simply because they think sound is more manageable than silence.

I actually like talking.

I have a horror of boring someone or, worse still, of someone boring me. I said to my mother when I was seven, 'But, Mums, if it was only my husband and me in the house together, what would we talk about?' I've never wanted to answer my own question, and doubt I'll bother now.

Talking, it seemed to me, was the point of adult existence.

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

Many words are spoken when there’s nothing to say.

I like talking to people.

Now, I'm a pretty fast and avid reader. But you can't learn the same things in a book or on the Internet that you can in a personal talk with somebody.

Writing is too lonely. I'd rather talk.

I love how humans talk.

If we're all talking about something that doesn't matter, it can be bean talk. If we're talking about something that we're talking about together, it could be bean talk.

I like talking.

There is no one who does not exaggerate. In conversation, men are encumbered with personality, and talk too much.

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

In my opinion, the most fruitful and natural play of the mind is conversation. I find it sweeter than any other action in life; and if I were forced to choose, I think I would rather lose my sight than my hearing and voice. The study of books is a drowsy and feeble exercise which does not warm you up.

Life would be boring without gossip.

We spend our time sending messages to each other, talking and trying to listen at the same time, exchanging information. This seems to be our most urgent biological function; it is what we do with our lives.

We talked for hours. He talked and I listened. It was like wind and sunlight. It blew all the cobwebs away.

Talk is free. You never know what's going to happen after you talk. There's always a perception about a guy until you actually sit down and talk with him.

Conversation is a game of circles.

Most English talk is a quadrille in a sentry-box.

LADY STUTFIELD I adore silent men. MRS ALLONBY Oh, Ernest isn't silent. He talks the whole time. But he has got no conversation. What he talks about I don't know. I haven't listened to him for years.

To talk, simply to talk! It sounds so little, and how much it is! When you have existed to the brink of middle age in bitter loneliness, among people to whom your true opinion on every subject on earth is blasphemy, the need to talk is the greatest of all needs.