Informal Talk Quotes

I'm not an interviewer. I have conversations.

The best talk is artless, the talk of people trying to reassure or comfort themselves, women in the sun, grouped around baby carriages, talking about their weeks in the hospital or the way meat has gone up, or men in saloons, talking to combat the loneliness everyone feels.

A perfect conversation would run much less to brilliant sentences than to unfinished ones.

Gossip is conversation about people.

I don't know if it was much of an interview. We just shot the breeze.

And one of the three great things in the world is gossip, you know. First there's religion; and then there's science; and there's-and then there's friendly gossip. Those are the three-the three great things.

We can't avoid that our daily and intimate manner of speaking is sometimes rough.

People meet in bars after work all over the world and talk about the great problems of life and death and the world and politics and they don't take themselves seriously. They can do nothing else except chat about these things in bars after work.

Some of the best conversations I've had are sitting around a camp fire.

I mean, it's fun for us to talk about issues. You know, there's no one issue we spend a lot of time on probably, because he gets to do that all day with somebody else who's a lot more expert at issues than I am.

There's something about a podcast that feels like two people in a closet with the lights off.

Fortunately... 'With Fi and Jane' features BBC veterans Fi Glover and Jane Garvey sitting in the BBC cafe, nattering about whatever interests them.

I actually always try to have a moment in my show where I can just lay down on stage and talk to people for a little while.

When you hear someone talking in a restaurant or overhear someone talking on the street, there are very different patterns of conversation than you would hear in a conventional movie.

I don't want to interview people. I want to have a conversation. I want to talk to Paul McCartney about the bass sound on 'The White Album.'

I think when I first started, I tried to make believe I was in the ballpark, sitting next to somebody and just talking. And if you go to a ballgame, and you sit there, you're not going to talk pitches for three hours.

When you're at the basketball court watching a game, one person may be talking about a fight he had with his wife, another is talking about the last hard-on he got, someone else is talking about the presidential election. The language and the tone and the voice - I'd love to be able to capture that spontaneity.

Another good thing about gossip is that it is within everybody's reach, And it is much more interesting than any other form of speech.

A scholar does not wish to be always pumping his brains; he wants gossips.

People seem to see no difference between an intimate conversation and a conversation at the water cooler.

Dude, this is a stoner conversation and we're not even high