Dominic Cooper Quotes

I am worried that the next generation will not be able to have a real conversation.

There's a lot of interviews now where nobody seems to talk about anything. Like it's illegal. But it can be fun if you stay involved. Like most conversations.

That's all small talk is - a quick way to connect on a human level - which is why it is by no means as irrelevant as the people who are bad at it insist. In short, it's worth making the effort.

I like being around people who are good conversationalists.

Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live.

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

Making small talk about what someone is wearing is just another form of unsolicited feedback.

We do not learn first what to talk about and then what to say about it.

I like to talk to people and, obviously, to photograph them.

There are two things in ordinary conversation which ordinary people dislike - information and wit.

Never ask a bore a question.

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

I would love to have a conversation with you when we're working, and if I'm at a basketball game, I'll probably talk to everyone there. That's different. But on the outside world, if I don't know you and you don't know me, I probably cannot sit there and have a conversation.

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

We have lost the art of conversation. People are shy and don't know how to approach other people, and they are missing opportunities for relationships. And no one's entertaining at home anymore. They're not having people over for dinner.

I love talking to people and finding out their opinion.

People talk to pass the time, share information, and entertain each other.

Charles looked at her thoughtfully. "People talk to you," he said. "That could be useful.

Conversation. What is it? A Mystery! It's the art of never seeming bored, of touching everything with interest, of pleasing with trifles, of being fascinating with nothing at all.

Is there anything more terrible than a "call"? It affords an occasion for the exchange of the most threadbare commonplaces. Calls and the theatre are the two great centers for the propagation of platitudes.

If you are ambitious to talk well, you must be as much as possible in the society of well-bred, cultured people. If you seclude yourself, though you are a college graduate, you will be a poor converser.

I'm hopeless at small talk and have a problem making eye contact.

Eavesdrop and write it down from memory - gives you a stronger sense of how people talk and what their concerns are. I love to eavesdrop!

The person who talks a lot or talks over people misses out because they weren't listening.

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