If your man is a sports enthusiast, you may have to resign yourself to his spouting off in a monotone on a prize fight, football game or pennant race.

The PC has improved the world in just about every area you can think of. Amazing developments in communications, collaboration and efficiencies. New kinds of entertainment and social media. Access to information and the ability to give a voice people who would never have been heard.

Here in the West, people often don’t like listening to their leaders, even if they are right.

Silence is argument carried out by other means.

I listen to music all day every day. I can’t not listen to music. It’s kind of scary how much I listen to music, but it’s what I love, and it’s all I care about, so I’m good with it.

A minute of thought is greater than an hour of talk.

The royal road to a man’s heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.

Nixon was a bad loser. He hated losing worse than death, and that is why I enjoyed him. We were both football fans, both addicts; and on some days, nothing else mattered.

If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things.

Foreign policy is like human relations, only people know less about each other.

Talking isn’t doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.

My name can’t be that tough to pronounce!

I think some of my colleagues‘ spicier lines are distracting. They draw attention away from what the justice is trying to say.

I haven’t gone out of my way to seek advice from people I don’t know.

I make friends faster and easier than journalists.

To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.

I think we basically saw that the messaging space is bigger than we’d initially realized, and that the use cases that WhatsApp and Messenger have are more different than we had thought originally.

In oratory the will must predominate.

When the people we love stop paying attention, trust begins to slip away and hurt starts seeping in.

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

I’ve always wanted male friends that I could be real intimate with and talk about important things with and be as affectionate with that person as I would be with a girl.

There are many times when a woman will ask another girl friend how she likes her new hat. She will reply, ‚Fine,‘ but slap her hand to her forehead the minute the girl leaves to yipe, ‚What a horror!‘

Well I have a microphone and you don’t so you will listen to every damn word I have to say!

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

I have to be in tune. All the time. I have to be in tune with my husband, where he is, how he’s feeling. I have to be in tune with where my family is.

Tell them to send everything that can fly.

Never take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.

Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner’s inquest.

I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.

One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.

An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.

When I got somethin‘ to say, I’ll say it.

Tell the audience what you’re going to say, say it; then tell them what you’ve said.

I probably would have retired years ago if I hadn’t found interesting things to do.

Journalism makes you think fast. You have to speak to people in all walks of life. Especially local journalism.

Before I look stupid and not know what a word means or how to pronounce it, I’ll stop the whole production: ‚Hey, real quick, guys. Define this word for me. Somebody.‘

If you want to influence people, you want them to accept your suggestions, you don’t say, ‚You don’t know how to use the English language,‘ or ‚How could you make that argument?‘ It will be welcomed much more if you have a gentle touch than if you are aggressive.

I’m sure most parents read to their children to explain what certain things mean. So books are a good way to convey a message to anybody. Everybody reads.

I don’t know how to work a room. It’s a real skill.

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.

Charm is a way of getting the answer ‚Yes‘ without asking a clear question.

If you want what you’re saying heard, then take your time and say it so that the listener will actually hear it. You might save somebody’s life. Your own, first.

Without tact you can learn nothing.

I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

Being politically correct means saying what’s polite rather than what’s accurate. I like to be accurate.

There, in the chords and melodies, is everything I want to say. The words just jolly it along. It’s always been my way of expressing what, for me, is inexpressible by any other means.

I read poetry to save time.

I like to read books. I like to listen to music.

We can’t just choose to tell some facts and not others because we don’t want to upset people. We have to tell it like it is.

Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward.

You might be the funniest guy in the world, but if you don’t have anything to talk about, people are eventually going to gravitate towards the guy that’s actually saying something.

When I’m nervous, I stutter, and I had to keep stopping and starting.

You hear doom and gloom about the Internet ruining young people’s command of English – that’s nonsense.

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

The essence of lying is in deception, not in words.

If you want to talk about something new, you have to make up a new kind of language.

I think it’s brought the world a lot closer together, and will continue to do that. There are downsides to everything; there are unintended consequences to everything. The most corrosive piece of technology that I’ve ever seen is called television – but then, again, television, at its best, is magnificent.

I think we’re still in a muddle with our language, because once you get words and a spoken language it gets harder to communicate.

One must steer, not talk.

Tell the children the truth.

I always want to create and do things, or draw.