Conversation Quotes
If a person begins by telling you, 'Do not be offended at what I am going to say,' prepare yourself for something that she knows will certainly offend you.
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.
English tradition debars from dinner-table conversation almost all topics that might interest the conversers and insists upon strict adherence to banalities.
How can we effect change in the world when only half of it is invited or feel welcome to participate in the conversation?
It is notorious that we speak no more than half-truths in our ordinary conversation, and even a soliloquy is likely to be affected by the apprehension that walls have ears.
Although there exist many thousand subjects for elegant conversation, there are persons who cannot meet a cripple without talking about feet.
Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.
In a conversation, the words can get stuck, I don't know what to say, I get very anxious.
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).
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.
One of the most common mistakes people make in any conversation is to think about what they want to say next instead of actually listening to what the other person is saying.
I didn't get into film to win Academy Awards. I wanted to have a conversation with the audience.
Bore : A fellow who can change the subject back to his topic of conversation faster than you can change it back to yours.
Conversation didn't seem necessary when I put the accordion down and swung some young lady around the floor.
My accent remained terrible. It was very hard for me to initiate any conversation with someone I didn't know.
My perfect girl would be pretty mad, but one you can have a conversation with. No one can be too mad for me, the madder the better. I love a crazy chick!
The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression.
A country gentleman should bring his lady to visit London as soon as he can, that they may have agreeable topicks for conversation when they are by themselves.
Ten years ago, it was really difficult for a young actress to walk onto a set and disagree with the director and having that be OK and have a conversation about it and everyone be cool with it.
It's a hard thing to hold a civil conversation after recalling that one party has used a Taser on the other, so both of them finished the walk in silence.
Conversation is a beautiful thing. When I was a younger guy, just wandering around talking to people was what kept me connected to the world.
That is the happiest conversation where there is no competition, no vanity, but a calm, quiet interchange of sentiments...
I am much beholden to old age, which has increased my eagerness for conversation in proportion as it has lessened my appetites of hunger and thirst.
It has been years since I have seen anyone who could even look as if he were in love. No one's face lights up any more except for political conversation.
Every man has some favorite topic of conversation, on which, by a feigned seriousness of attention, he may be drawn to expatiate without end.
We need the word proclaimed so that we hear the gospel clearly, but then it's also very natural to have people talk about the Christian faith in ordinary conversation.
...the circumstances and the atmosphere always have so much to do in directing a conversation, especially a German conversation, which is only a kind of an insurrection, anyway.
A good memory and a tongue tied in the middle is a combination which gives immortality to conversation.
Nowadays there is no conversation at all. Teachers distrust talk as much as business men.
the wasting of time is the most personal, most private, most intimate form of conversation with oneself, as well as with another.
It is commonly agreed that children spend more hours per year watching television than in the classroom, and far less in actual conversation with their parents.
I don't like when there's too much conversation because I'm shy and it makes me uncomfortable.
I consider myself a religious person. God is something very personal with me and I don't flaunt religion in conversation with others.
Two may talk and one may hear, but three cannot take part in a conversation of the most sincere and searching sort.
Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live.
How often a mother initiates a conversation with her child is not predictive of the language outcomes - what matters is, if the infant initiates, whether the mom responds.
I've got to go. That's one of the penalties of being a doctor. I never seem to finish a conversation.
I believe the term "blog" means more than an online journal. I believe a blog is a conversation. People go to blogs to read AND write, not just consume.
I was always wanting to learn and be one of those actresses who can actually hold a conversation as opposed to standing there looking pretty.
People with big personalities are best in the center of the table. They can help carry the conversation from that place.