Verbal Exchange Quotes

Each person's life is lived as a series of conversations.

Talking, it seemed to me, was the point of adult existence.

I actually like talking.

I'm not rapping, I'm conversing. It's just a conversation between me and you.

People talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations.

Talking payes no toll.

Some guys like to talk. What's the problem with that?

Swallow my words. Taste my thoughts. And if it's too nasty, spit it back at me!.

... all of us talk faster than we listen.

The Art of Conversation could not die in Australia; it never lived. Television did not kill it; there was nothing there to kill.

In the normal flow of a conversation, our attention is divided. We hear parts of what other people are saying, in order to follow and keep the conversation going. At the same time, we're planning what we'll say next, some exciting story of our own.

People only speak to get something. If I say, Let me tell you a few things about myself, already your defenses go up; you go, Look, I wonder what he wants from me, because no one ever speaks except to obtain an objective. That's the only reason anyone ever opens their mouth, onstage or offstage. They may use a language that seems revealing, but if so, it's just coincidence, because what they're trying to do is accomplish an objective.

Up till now I always thought bickering was just something children did and they outgrew it. Of course, there's sometimes a reason to have a 'real' quarrel, but the verbal exchanges that take place here are just plain bickering. I should be used to the fact that these squabbles are daily occurrences, but I'm not and never will be as long as I'm the subject of nearly every discussion. (They refer to these as 'discussions instead of 'quarrels', but Germans don't know the difference!)

One says a lot in vain, refusing; The other mainly hears the "No."

I thought I'd pay you a visit, my dear. Since you're so interesting." My mouth shifted into high gear, leaving my brain behind. "You know, you're the second guy in a few days to call me that. You should be more creative.

Business is a conversation because the defining work of business is conversation.

It's a strange thing, to be talked about instead of talked to.

Nobody has to tell nobody nothing,” I say, taking another step forward. “You never were a poet, were you, Todd?” he says.

Old Madame du Deffand and her friends talked for fifty years without stopping. And of it all, what remains? Perhaps three witty sayings. So that we are at liberty to suppose either that nothing was said, or that nothing witty was said, or that the fraction of three witty sayings lasted eighteen thousand two hundred and fifty nights, which does not leave a liberal allowance of wit for any one of them.

Conversation is not a search after knowledge, but an endeavor at effect.

I always play more than I talk, so the more I talk, the more I'll play.

I think communication is so firsbern.

All the information you need can be given in dialogue.

Venerable are letters, infinitely brave, forlorn, and lost. Life would split asunder without them. 'Come to tea, come to dinner, what's the truth of the story? have you heard the news? life in the capital is wonderful; the Russian dancers....' These are our stays and props. These lace our days together and make of life a perfect globe.

Repose is as necessary in conversation as in a picture.