Conversation Quotes
I don't know what to say when I have a crush on somebody. I kind of lose my words. I really try to start a conversation, and I can't. It's horrible.
At work, conversation increases productivity. And yet people go into work, put on their headphones. In one interview, somebody called it - they become pilots in their own cockpits.
In short, we lose the freshness and spontaneity of true conversation. These are areas in which everyone interested in self-improvement will seek to improve.
I believe that the American people ought to be part of the conversation about what's happening in our economy, and what's happening in Washington and what's happening on Wall Street.
One of the first observations to make in conversation is the state, or the character, and the education of the person to whom we speak.
Never had any mathematical conversations with anybody, because there was nobody else in my field.
Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.
Conversation, n.: A vocal competition in which the one who is catching his breath is called the listener.
It is a lovely oddity of human nature that a person is more inclined to interrupt two people in conversation than one person alone with a book.
Amongst such as out of cunning hear all and talk little, be sure to talk less; or if you must talk, say little.
There's no way to be prepared for a conversation with someone you don't know about something that means the world to you.
nobody is such a fool as to moider away his time in the slip-slop conversation of a pack of women.
I mean, the trouble with some of the kind of relationship movies I've done, is there's only so many ways you can shoot a conversation. I was really tired of talking heads.
The best ideas come unexpectedly from a conversation or a common activity like watering the garden. These can get lost or slip away if not acted on when they occur.
The poor girl does not know how to have a conversation. Unfortunately, she does know how to speak.
TV has had a stronger impact on our society than any single invention since the automobile. It has put the dead hand on conversation.
That which chiefly causes the failure of a dinner-party, is the running short--not of meat, nor yet of drink, but of conversation.
After macrobiotics, Zen, and channeling, the "poor Vanishing Indian" is once more the subject of "deep and meaningful conversation" in the high rises.
The perfection of conversation is not to play a regular sonata, but, like the AEolian harp, to await the inspiration of the passing breeze.
The artist who gives up an hour of work for an hour of conversation with a friend knows that he is sacrificing a reality for something that does not exist.
You can say, 'Can I use your bathroom?' and nobody cares. But if you ask, 'Can I use the plop-plop machine?' it always breaks the conversation.
In America journalism is apt to be regarded as an extension of history: in Britain, as an extension of conversation.
A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech.
I find more and more that I am a man of the 1920s. I still expect something exciting. Drinks, animated conversation, gaiety: the uninhibited exchange of ideas.
The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. It proceeds from not knowing what is going on in other people's minds.
I don't know what he means by that, but I nod and smile at him. You'd be surprised at how far that response can get you in a conversation where you are completely confused.
So here we are today with a new conversation. When University of Georgia plays Georgia Tech, it's uniform color versus skin color. We have - we've overcome that level of racial fear.
Everyone has their own ways of expression. I believe we all have a lot to say, but finding ways to say it is more than half the battle.
People seem to see no difference between an intimate conversation and a conversation at the water cooler.
In a conversation, the words can get stuck, I don't know what to say, I get very anxious.
English tradition debars from dinner-table conversation almost all topics that might interest the conversers and insists upon strict adherence to banalities.
A recent conversation: Dubya: Look at the clock, time is racing! Cheney: That's the second hand, George.
I have listened to much dull and heavy conversation in America, but rarely to any that I could strictly call silly (if I except the every where privileged class of very young ladies).
I have been further enlightened by the conversation and correspondence of some illustrious Italians, whom I would gladly name, were I not afraid of exposing them to danger.
But conversation, choose what theme we may, And chiefly when religion leads the way, Should flow, like waters after summer show'rs, Not as if raised by mere mechanic powers.
If you can't really have a conversation with someone candidly about it it's something that you'll always have something to learn from when it comes to taking a literature class.
The language of the internet is English, and an overwhelming proportion of the global computer chatter also originates from America, influencing the content of global conversation.
I feel like my first conversation with someone, I really get a good feeling about who that person is and mainly about how open they are.
They are intent on making every conversation and every form of behaviour in the world known to them.