Icebreakers Quotes

It's easy to get good table talk going if you have a little help in the form of questions, games, newspaper articles, books with fun statistics, things like that.

None of the U. S. Navy’s current surface ships are powerful enough to navigate in the Arctic…. Russia owns 30 icebreakers, some nuclear powered. Canada has 13. Even South Korea and China which lack Arctic coastlines, own new icebreakers, The U. S. Coast Guard has only 3. 1 is inoperative. 1 … is on its last legs, and 1 is a floating research lab.

You meet new people. We just spent two hours with people we didn't know before, just talking about the Badgers.

I'm sure I've said some pretty bad pick-up lines.

It is the best part of the night. The classic interactive lines are 'Where are you from? What do you do for a living?' I almost always get something interesting.

I'm not really a line type of guy. I mean, pick-up lines work for some guys. You gotta really sell that thing hard. I did try one pick-up line, and it failed miserably. I thought it was really funny, but the girl didn't find it very funny.

I have been in meetings where a head of state will say, 'I like your tie,' to a man... or, 'I like your country because the weather's good,' or whatever. So for me, the pins in some ways were openers.

I hated meeting people at bars when I was single because it's all about the looks and the funny line.

I think the biggest part of a good party is the host and then going around making sure nobody's left alone and knows enough about the people in the room to know who to introduce to whom.

Breaking the ice in the pitcher seems to be a feature of the early lives of all great men.

There are things I wouldn't do when hosting, like get people up on stage or get the audience doing a sing-song or something like that.

The next time you face a room full of strangers . . . you might tell yourself that some of them are just friends waiting to be found.

I'm not great at small talk.

I'm not an ace at small talk.

When a lot of players come to a club, it can be difficult to gel because you don't know each other properly.

I give boring people something to discuss over corn.

I like to go to parties where I know everyone. How are you going to have fun with people you don't know?

When you are new, it is difficult to get momentum and get to know your team-mates when you are not regularly in the team.

small talk comes from small bones

Everyone should be able to do one card trick, tell two jokes, and recite three poems, in case they are ever trapped in an elevator.