Appropriate Responses Quotes

Because there can be consequences for saying the first thing that pops into our heads, it is prudent to exercise tact.

Do you know what you're saying when you say, "Whatever"? It's just a code word for the f-word, followed by "you." And at your age, you never, ever. say that to anyone.' " Blaze leaned back. "So now, when someone says it to me, I just say, 'You too.' (72)

You sometimes have to answer a woman according to her womanliness, just as you have to answer a fool according to his folly.

There are questions so indiscreet, that they deserve neither truth nor falsehood in reply.

Basically, sometimes a reporter will ask a question, and I feel the answers only matter when the questions are relevant.

In my house, you got in trouble if you didn't speak up. My mom would be furious at us if we went to school and behaved nicely if someone treated us badly. If we got in trouble because we had yelled at them or told them that they were wrong, my mother would be like, 'Good job.'

It is all very well, in these changing times, to adapt one's work to take in duties not traditionally within one's realm; but bantering is of another dimension altogether. For one thing, how would one know for sure that at any given moment a response of the bantering sort is truly what is expected? One need hardly dwell on the catastrophic possibility of uttering a bantering remark only to discover it wholly inappropriate.