Talk To Strangers Quotes

#1. Don't talk to strangers. Sure, unless you want to meet anyone ever.

Demetri Martin

#2. As children, many of us were taught never to talk to strangers. As parents and grandparents, our message must change with technology to include strangers on the Internet.

Judy Biggert

#3. Talk to strangers politely ... Every friend you have now was once a stranger, although not every stranger becomes a friend.

Israelmore Ayivor

#4. Talk to strangers politely. You don't how many of them will become your close companions.

Israelmore Ayivor

#5. When I was ten, my pa told me never to talk to strangers. We haven't spoken since.

Steven Wright

#6. Never talk to strangers. If someone ever tries to take you, fight with everything you have. Scream as loud as you can. (He'd never told her what to do if the man was too strong and there was no one to hear her screaming.)

Lisa Unger

#7. It's an amazingly consistent thing with Irish people. We will talk to strangers at parties for hours. It's what we were bred to do I think. And the Jewish people were bred to write the stuff that we say.

Greg Fitzsimmons

#8. If you don't talk to strangers, your life is so limited. If you're careful about what you eat, you'll never try anything adventurous.

Rita Gelman

#9. My dad taught me never to talk to strangers," she said lightly.
"We're all strangers in the beginning."
"Then what are we in the end?"
"We'll have to see when we get there.

Lisa Mangum

#10. Don't talk to strangers? Well, I figure he will always be a stranger unless I speak to him. Where is the logic in such a rule?

Penelope Fletcher

#11. I was walking down the street, and I found a man's hand in my pocket. I asked, "What do you want?" "A match" "Why didn't you ask me?" "I don't talk to strangers."

Henny Youngman

#12. I don't worry about being a woman alone out there. My advice to people is to smile a lot, talk to strangers, accept all invitations and eat everything you're offered.

Rita Gelman

#13. So here are reasons why I talk to strangers: because I never know what might happen, because the world is full of surprises; because the very thing I am most worried about might turn into the thing I need most.

Camille Dungy

#14. I was very strict on that point. No devouring classmates." Jeremy rolled his eyes. "Other parents warn their kids not to talk to strangers. I had to warn mine not to eat them.

Kelley Armstrong

#15. One of the great things about LinkedIn is it isn't the same kind of networking that happens at conventions, where you're wearing a name tag, trying to meet strangers, and awkwardly attempting to make small talk. LinkedIn is networking without the pressure.

Melanie Pinola

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

Eden Griffith

#17. Hen I tried to talk to him I realized that, though ties of blood made us kin, though I could see a shadow of my face in his face, though there was an echo of my voice in his voice, we were forever strangers, speaking a different language, living on vastly distant planes of reality

Richard Wright

#18. When men learnt to talk in the beginning of the civilised word they used language not as a means of communication alone but as a means of excluding others
using it as a way of setting themselves apart and shutting out strangers.

Charlotte Lamb

#19. Though I was starved for contact, I didn't stop to talk to any of these strangers. I had forgotten how to convincingly speak the polite things strangers say to each other.

Aspen Matis

#20. And contrary to popular kindergarten doctrine, talk to as many strangers as possible.

Tim Sullivan

#21. Sports (and the often barely withheld violence around them) have become one of the few modern ways to connect with strangers. They give an amazing number of geeks things to talk about. In the old days we settled for, Hello, how are you?

Perry Brass

#22. I think the suggestion that all my songs are personal is insulting because that assumes that I have a bunch of issues that I feel the need to unload on strangers. That is not the case. It also assumes that I just talk about myself the whole time which, again, is not true.

Elliott Smith

#23. When was the last time we talked? Before we moved? Even now, when we had time to talk, he walked off to make phone calls. I thought I should be disappointed or sad but I wasn't. I was empty. Strangers in a strange family.

C.L.Stone

#24. That's the thing about flying: You could talk to someone for hours and never even know his name, share your deepest secrets and then never see them again.

Jennifer E. Smith

#25. 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.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#26. I live on in the sweetness of old days
with strangers who build new dwellings
on blue hills up to the edge of the sky,
I talk softly with the captured trees
and comfort them sometimes.
How slowly time consumes the core of things,
and soundlessly treads fate's heavy heel.

Edith Sodergran

#27. There's nothing to talk about to strangers anymore, if you know what I mean. Everything I want to say, I say to her.

Charles Baxter

#28. A majority of my YouTube friends I've made because I made a trip down to California and literally tweeted them saying, 'Hey! Come over - let's shoot something!' And then two strangers will just meet up, talk, and shoot something.

Lilly Singh

#29. Here's a guy [Richard Nixon] who had no gift for small talk, never liked to be around strangers, was physically awkward, and he goes into the one business that calls for ease with strangers and a gift for small talk.

Harry Shearer

#30. You were listening to some strangers when you could have benn listening to me talk about myself? Chelsea, how could you?

Leila Sales

#31. 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

#32. What did he want? What did he mean he was in the right place?

Yawatta Hosby

#33. Even now I can't stand being recognized in the street. I just hate it when strangers come up and try to talk to me. I'm pathologically shy.

Jimmy Nail

#34. Mackenzie flinched. Struggling to breathe, she stood up and walked over to the table.

Yawatta Hosby

#35. I was so shy. I used to cross the street so I wouldn't even have to talk to my relatives, much less strangers. That's not shy, that's wise. But I found that that when you had a journalist's notebook in your hand it wasn't really you, you see.

Geraldine Brooks

#36. It is unpredictable for you to know which of the strangers you are about to meet that becomes your friend. Be polite to every stranger!

Israelmore Ayivor

#37. The Four Levels of Comedy: Make your friends laugh, Make strangers laugh, Get paid to make strangers laugh, and Make people talk like you because it's so much fun.

Jerry Seinfeld

#38. Mackenzie glanced through the glass doors. It was dark outside, except for the dim light from the front entrance. A night breeze swooshed leaves throughout the parking lot.

Yawatta Hosby

#39. It's good for art to make us think, to give us a shared experience that creates a dialogue, makes us talk to each other, including strangers.

Janet Echelman