Conversation Quotes

As a child I wanted to be a grown-up. I wanted to know everything - not that I like to talk about it. I hate intellectual conversation with intellectuals because I only care about my opinion.

As a work of art, it reminds me of a long conversation between two drunks

We need to start by having a conversation about climate change. It would be irresponsible to avoid the issue just because it's uncomfortable to talk about.

Ignorance has its virtues; without it there'd be mighty little conversation.

And surely one of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.

A good conversation always involves a certain amount of complaining. I like to bond over mutual hatreds and petty grievances.

Courage and willingness to just go for it, whether it is a conversation or a spontaneous trip or trying new things that are scary - it is a really attractive quality.

Artists are always good for conversation, so long as you want to talk about their art.

My mom has a good way of engaging me in a conversation about the choices I make, listening, being objective and open-minded, and respecting those choices so long as they don't put me in danger.

One way to prevent conversation from being boring is to say the wrong thing.

Do you know that conversation is one of the greatest pleasures in life? But it wants leisure.

Criticism should be a casual conversation.

Thank God for books as an alternative to conversation.

Let your conversation be without malice or envy, for it is a sign of a tractable and commendable nature; and in all cases of passion admit reason to govern.

All His glory and beauty come from within, and there He delights to dwell, His visits there are frequent, His conversation sweet, His comforts refreshing; and His peace passing all understanding.

I always knew what I thought the theme was, the core, in one word. In 'The Godfather' it was succession. In 'The Conversation' it was privacy. In 'Apocalypse' it was morality.

Years ago, I tried to top everybody, but I don't anymore. I realized it was killing conversation. When you're always trying for a topper you aren't really listening. It ruins communication

When you're at dinner with somebody and they are on their phone. I think there's that lost art of conversation and so I just always try to keep my phone far away from me when I'm with people.

I just realized that we're facing here is an empathy gap. And this was just another way to generate conversation about something that nobody wanted to look at.

I feel like this is a feminist issue and is going to be a part of a feminist conversation, and I wanted images of women of color in that conversation - feminism historically has left us out.

Though reading and conversation may furnish us with many ideas of men and things, yet it is our own meditation must form our judgment.

When there is breakdown in a relationship, you must have the hard conversation. It may not be pretty and it may not feel good. But if you are willing to listen and tell the truth, it will open up.

The photograph is to a great degree evidence of the conversation I had with the person. It's a part of my visual diary.

Instead of yielding to idle conversation it might profit one to cultivate silence and contemplation.

Avoid making yourself the subject of conversation.

I painted one dining room red and I must say, the conversation became very heated in that room.

Real-life discussions involve a great many bores and boors who have never learned that the art of conversation demands listening as well as talking.

That character in conversation which commonly passes for agreeable is made up of civility and falsehood.

Thought is barred in this City of Dreadful Joy and conversation is unknown.

While a truncheon may be used in lieu of conversation, words will always retain their power.

There's no conversation more boring than talking about what it's really like to live in Newport and how the show compares to the real thing. I just don't care.

I'm not rapping, I'm conversing. It's just a conversation between me and you.

I enjoy many silent moments with my cat, a conversation always resumed exactly where left off.

Most good essays are conversations with yourself - not just your decided thoughts but your dilemmas.

An hour of play is worth a lifetime of conversation.

If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation.

The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it.

Whenever I read the psalms, I feel like I am eavesdropping on a saint having a personal conversation with God.

[If] you want to learn something about somebody, get into a fistfight. You'll learn more in five minutes than you will in five weeks of conversations. It's basic.

Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.

Plato worried that philosophical writing would take the place of living conversations for which, in philosophy, there is no substitute.

If you are ever at a loss to support a flagging conversation, introduce the subject of eating.

Writing, when properly managed, (as you may be sure I think mine is) is but a different name for conversation.

Only one person in 1000 is a bore, and HE is interesting because he is one person in 1000.

Nicole will come up in conversations where it's in a part of the conversation. Or we may be somewhere and I would tell some story about their mother and I. You know, we always honor her birthday.

An artist carries on throughout his life a mysterious, uninterrupted conversation with his public.

In fact, the more each person can remove his or her ego from the discussion and focus on the subject matter, the more fruitful the conversation will be for all involved.

Silence is one great art of conversation.

By creating conversation, we let our customers spread our message by word of mouth.

The prisoners for better security against conversation shall have a canvas bag put over the head of each and tied around the neck, with a holes for proper breathing and eating, but not seeing.