Each person's life is lived as a series of conversations.
I was diagnosed a number of years ago with obsessive-compulsive disorder - which everyone has, to some degree - and I have this really annoying trait where in conversation, I always steer it back to something that happened to me.
To make even fewer friends try talking about politics as much as you talk about yourself.
Unfortunately, I found out when I was trying to like square up with people and face off with people and, like, try to intimidate them and I'm pretty non-threatening.
If we suspect that a man is lying, we should pretend to believe him; for then he becomes bold and assured, lies more vigorously, and is unmasked.
I don't particularly enjoy those types of interviews, because I have a great respect for Senator McCain, and I hate the idea that our conversation became just two people sort of talking over each other, at one point.
I meet with people all day long.
A well-bred youth neither speakes of himselfe, nor being spoken to is silent.
For one thing, my English isn't fantastic, and communicating in the dressing room is not always easy.
The wit of a family is usually best received among strangers.
I have a good relationship with the world. But I don't know what the trick is to maintaining it.
A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.
He knows not when to be silent who knows not when to speak.
You get a real person down there and his talking will take care of itself.
Actors don't generally go asking other actors for advice too much, but I'll take suggestions wherever I can.
We don't communicate in full sentences anyway. We don't need all those words.
I have a tendency to trail off in conversations. I don't look up at people sometimes when I talk or cook, and those are all pretty bad no-no's being in front of the camera.
When a man tells you what people are saying about you, tell him what people are saying about him; that will immediately take his mind off your troubles.
If we were meant to talk more than listen, we would have two mouths and one ear.
It's hard to create new friendships outside sports.
I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.
Without tact you can learn nothing. Tact teaches you when to be silent. Inquirers who are always questioning never learn anything.
Honestly, I don't talk; I just like to fight. I'm not a good talker.
I have always said that everyone is in sales. Maybe you don't hold the title of salesperson, but if the business you are in requires you to deal with people, you, my friend, are in sales.
I did go to school - my kind of school. When I was a kid I went out ... and you meet people. You talk to them. Anybody says something that makes sense, it stays with you, rubs off on you. That kind of school.
