Charlie Rose Quotes

I'm a really good eavesdropper. I listen to what people say and remember all the buzzwords.

I don't intentionally eavesdrop. I'm not looking for salacious gossip, I'm just looking for vocabulary items.

A first date should be elegant. In comfortable surroundings. A place with excellent food, where you can talk easily and get to know each other.

I don't really want to be in the business of observing conversations.

If you're like me and nosy, you're always eavesdropping on other people's conversations.

To talk about a relationship trivializes something that's nobody's business.

After about 20 years of marriage, I'm finally starting to scratch the surface of what women want. And I think the answer lies somewhere between conversation and chocolate.

There's not as many people as one would think you can be completely open with.

Look, some people talk about their personal lives a lot; I try not to, unless it's more of a generality.

A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech.

I feel fortunate I have this amazing relationship with so many people in America, because I was in their homes at a very private time of day. They probably might have still had their robe on and their slippers and haven't made the beds.

I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.

I sometimes read on the subway, but I'm a hopeless eavesdropper and get easily distracted by strangers' conversations.

It's important for me who is at the table with me; the moment when everyone speaks to each other and everyone listens. If there's good food, it's much better.

I don't enjoy living in a white box flooded with light. I like shadows, small spaces, old furniture.

Meals make the society, hold the fabric together in lots of ways that were charming and interesting and intoxicating to me. The perfect meal, or the best meals, occur in a context that frequently has very little to do with the food itself.

Any place is good for eavesdropping, if you know how to eavesdrop.

Forget all the bars and schmoozing and everybody checking out everybody else. My ideal date would be to park in a dark place, check out the stars, and have a great conversation. When all else fails, you can just make out.

In a small room one does not say what one would in a large room.

A real conversation always contains an invitation. You are inviting another person to reveal herself or himself to you, to tell you who they are or what they want.

If you are sitting on the couch with the TV off, and you are looking into each other's eyes and talking, that is quality time - so is taking a walk or going out to eat, so long as you are communicating with each other.

I love talking to people, hearing people's stories; I love honest things.

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

According to my parents, I've always liked to tune into the conversations of others. But rather than hope for a snippet of salacious gossip, it has always been the words themselves that I wanted to understand.

In apartments and cottages, on the street and in the train... I listen... More and more, I turn into one large ear, always turning to another person.