Informal Discussion Quotes

And not to serve for a table-talk.

I think it's a really big deal to be able to meet people outside the context of something like a conference room or someplace where everything feels like it's formal talk.

I like to just talk and whatever comes out, comes out.

Informal conversation is probably the oldest mechanism by which opinions on products and brands are developed, expressed, and spread.

In my brain, it's simple: On the podcast, we're really never serious about anything, ever.

When I was asked to manage some issues in Europe for the government, I didn't go to Parliament and just make a great speech and impress them. Instead, I will go down and discuss with those people about certain issues that we don't agree, and over a glass of wine we talk about it and they say 'okay, let's forget it.'

In private conversation between intimate friends, the wisest men very often talk like the weakest : for indeed the talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.

In the dime stores and bus stations, people talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, draw conclusions on the wall.

After I get comfortable, I kind of forget that we're even doing an interview and I say whatever comes to the mind.

Americans are big boys. You can talk them into almost anything. Just sit with them for half an hour over a bottle of whiskey and be a nice guy.

I don't believe in calling someone and having a big chat, because that puts a lot of added pressure on them. If somebody is doing something or involved in fielding practice, then a little chit-chat at that time helps because it's informal and doesn't add any pressure.

People that plan interviews are really boring. I just say what I want when it comes into my head.

Criticism should be a casual conversation.

Personally, as a print journalist, I always found the most interesting stories to be the ones hacks talked about in the bar after work.

I never do formal interviews. I don't use a tape recorder. I take notes but occasionally.

I've been going to the same barber the last few years, and we have great chats whenever I'm in the chair. He'll ask: 'How you doing? How's the training going?' Just ordinary, obvious things, but then, like you do with your barber, you start talking about personal stuff.

I love having the ability to do podcasts because of the long format, informality, and the opportunity to decide what is said, how the show is laid out, and who the guests are.

It's not that I don't enjoy other people, but what I find with writers is this back and forth. And also, there's no need to talk about work.

So, she tells me, the words dribbling out with the cranberry muffin crumbs, commas dunked in her coffee.