Quotes About Talking To Strangers

#1. Urban people, of course, are terribly scared nowadays. They may yearn for society, but it is risky to go around talking to strangers, for a lot of reasons, one being that people are so accustomed not to have many human contacts that they are afraid they may find out they really prefer life that way.

Russell Baker

#2. I'm not afraid of chaos and I'm happy talking to strangers. I really love not knowing where I'm going.

Fiona Shaw

#3. I'm not good at talking to strangers, whether they're sick children or they're - I'm just not good. I'm shy with it.

Sean Penn

#4. Never talking to strangers. Saying nasty things about the neighbors.

Paulo Coelho

#5. I always feel uncomfortable at parties, and I'm often nervous when talking to strangers. I don't think this makes me feel special. Maybe everybody feels this way.

Jonathan Coulton

#6. We can bring positive energy into our daily lives by smiling more, talking to strangers in line, replacing handshakes with hugs, and calling our friends just to tell them we love them.

Brandon Jenner

#7. On Talking to Strangers "Listen up, if someone is being nice to you, and you don't know them, run away. No one is nice to you just to be nice to you, and if they are, well, they can go take their pleasant ass somewhere else." On

Justin Halpern

#8. I really hate being recognised. I'm quite a shy person, and I'm not very good at talking to strangers. So when people come up to me in the street, I just find it quite awkward. I don't really know what to say to them.

Hannah Murray

#9. As you grow older, you'll find that you enjoy talking to strangers far more than to your friends.

Joy Williams

#10. Talking to strangers sounded like talking to no one, which Henry had some firsthand experience in- in real life. It was lonely. Almost as lonely as Lake View Cemetery, where he'd buried Ethel.

Jamie Ford

#11. Every step she took seemed to show her a new danger. Talking to strangers could kill her. Failing to remember table etiquette could kill her. Ignorance could kill her. And now it seemed that stepping outside the tasters' chambers for a stroll could kill her.

Frances Hardinge

#12. He was talking to strangers, hoping they would absolve him. They are the only ones who ever can.

Elizabeth McCracken

#13. When I was talking to strangers over the Internet in the 1990s, there would be a much more intense connection because they're disembodied, so it's just your brain and your soul interacting with this other person, and it just frees you up in this incredibly empowering way.

Glenn Greenwald

#14. I'm happy to just sit in a cafe and watch people. It's my favorite thing to do, for sure.

Zoe Kravitz

#15. People who are strangers to liquor are incapable of talking about literature.

Mo Yan

#16. II worshipped dead men for their strength, forgetting I was strong.

Vita Sackville-West

#17. Even the structure of the atom has been found by the mind. Therefore the mind is subtler than the atom. That which is behind the mind, namely the individual soul, is subtler than the mind.

Ramana Maharshi

#18. I often don't endorse what I tweet, rather I want to throw things about to spark conversation or controversy. What I think about something is not particularly important when talking to thousands of unknown strangers.

Kenneth Goldsmith

#19. I'm very, very private; I don't enjoy talking about myself to strangers. Particularly strangers with tapes going.

Julie Kavner

#20. They're just talking. They're flirting kind of like they're strangers, but at the same time they also seem to know each other really well. I don't get it."
"So they're taking it slow. What's wrong with that?" Bill asked. "Kids today, they just want things to go fast
boom boom BOOM.

Lauren Kate

#21. Youth is not an excuse for insanity.

Chris Colfer

#22. Rock'n'roll saved my soul.

Thurston Moore

#23. Strangers talking over piles of books do not remain strangers for long.

Matthew Pearl

#24. When you live your life acting upon your deepest intuitions, no decision you ever make in life will be feared or a risk.

Keshia Chante

#25. I want to speak, to sing to total strangers. It's my way of talking to the world.

Adrian Mitchell

#26. Odds are you know some narcissists. Odds are they're smart, confident and articulate. They make you laugh, they make you think; the first time you met, they probably charmed the pants off of you - perhaps even literally. The odds are also that that spell didn't last.

Jeffrey Kluger

#27. I cannot tell you what it means when children recognize. This is about the third generation for me. And when kids that small recognize me, it really pleases me, very gratifying.

Dick Van Dyke

#28. I feel television is in a fantastically rich vein of what it's presenting both by opportunity to actors and to audiences.

David Oyelowo

#29. This is the real world, and only a believer walking in fellowship with His Creator and Redeemer can understand it. Everyone else is the world is experiencing a 'break with reality'.

Jim Berg

#30. 'Humans of New York' is basically somebody walking up to absolute strangers on the street every day and, within minutes, talking with them about very personal things. Some things they haven't even told their best friends or family members.

Brandon Stanton

#31. If your not brave enough to talk to a stranger how do you think they will become anything more then a stranger.

Eden Griffith

#32. I don't like talking to people I KNOW, but strangers, I have no problem with.

Larry David

#33. The whole idea of comedy, there is nothing normal about going up on stage to make strangers laugh. But I'm also not an exhibitionist like other comics. I'm not up there talking about masturbating.

Jim Gaffigan

#34. Seven days without love makes one weak.

Drake

#35. You can't go on stage and live - it's false all the way. I can't stand the premise of going out in jeans and a guitar and looking as real as you can in front of 18,000 people. I mean, it's not normal!

David Bowie

#36. As a child, I heard many warnings from teachers about the perils of talking with strangers. Yet now, fairly late in my life, I can think of not many things better than to talk with strangers. The idea of being a stranger is also very appealing.

Michael Leunig

#37. Being an actor gives you a chance to play all kinds of roles, very moving and dramatic on one project, silly and girlish on another. That's the most interesting thing out this business, you get to keep reinventing yourself.

Sarah Michelle Gellar

#38. A wealth you cannot imagine flows through you. Do not consider what strangers say. Be secluded in your secret heart-house, that bowl of silence. Talking, no matter how humble-seeming, is really a kind of bragging. Let silence be the art you practice. #54, I SEE THE FACE

Rumi

#39. I don't approach fashion; fashion approaches me!

Daphne Guinness

#40. Because I hate the ocean, theme parks and airplanes, talking with strangers, waiting in line. I'm through with these pills that make me sit still, are you feeling fine? Yes, I feel just fine.

Aurelien Budynek

#41. He could not make conversations with strangers, and yet conversations with strangers were perhaps the first thing required of him in his new life.

Alice McDermott

#42. In the Catholic Worker we must try to have the voluntary poverty of St. Francis, the charity of St. Vincent de Paul, the intellectual approach of St. Dominic, the easy conversations about things that matter of St. Philip Neri, the manual labor of St. Benedict.

Peter Maurin