Conversation Quotes

A good laugh makes any interview, or any conversation, so much better.

What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming.

I've had some pretty stimulating conversations about where we are politically as a result of this movie [Snowden], but then there are a lot of questions just about that sensationalism of it.

Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.

Most of the time, communication gets confused with conversation. In fact, the two are distinctly different.

All the inane, meaningless noises people make that pass for intelligent conversation. They might as well be pigs grunting in the pen. (92)

Too much agreement kills a chat.

The exchange by e-mail is more intimate than conversation - you allow yourself to say things you otherwise wouldn't.

In conversation avoid the extremes of forwardness and reserve.

The aversion to lying is often a hidden ambition to render our words credible and weighty, and to attach a religious aspect to our conversation.

Listening well and answering well is one of the greatest perfections that can be obtained in conversation.

The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying.

The pleasures of relaxed chat, of casual conversation, encourage the ethnographer in everyone

If you start a conversation with the assumption that you are right or that you must win, obviously it is difficult to talk.

It is all right to hold a conversation but you should let go of it now and then.

I am glad that people are trying to have a rational conversation about drugs.

What a strange scene if the surge of conversation could suddenly ebb like the tide, and show us the real state of people's minds.

All good conversation, manners, and action come from a spontaneity which forgets usages and makes the moment great.

Any conversation including the mention of Roald Dahl, Ray Bradbury, or Emily Dickinson is one worth getting into or at least eavesdropping.

A man of no conversation should smoke.

Equal partnerships are not made in heaven-they are made on earth, one choice at a time, one conversation at a time, one threshold crossing at a time.

I'm definitely a people person. I love socializing and being around people and having a good conversation.

The primary use of conversation is to satisfy the impulse to talk.

Your ignorance cramps my conversation

Everything's a business. Love, truth, beauty. Conversation is a business. Spirituality is not a business, so it's going to go against the grain of people who are trying to exploit other people.

There is no arena in which vanity displays itself under such a variety of forms as in conversation.

Why are people saying it's too soon? Like the people on that flight, we need to agree about what to do about terrorism. And I think we need to have that conversation now.

I have never fallen in love with my own voice, but I've always had an attraction for it.

Don't discount the power of your words. The thought that they might cause unnecessary hurt or discomfort should inform every conversation.

It's like breathing in and out to me. It's like having a conversation with someone who isn't there. Because it has to be addressed to somebody - not a particular person, or very rarely.

If we stepped away from so much of the victimhood talk, I think that would make a big change for the better. It does limit art. The conversation wouldn't just be one-sided.

I like spontaneity and intelligence in a girl. Nothing is more attractive to me than someone who has a good sense of who she is and can hold her own in a conversation.

We should not see print and electronic literature as in competition, but rather in conversation. The more voices that join in, the richer the dialogue is likely to be.

You may fail to shine in the opinion of others, both in our conversation and actions, from being superior, as well as inferior to them.

It means that no matter what you write, be it a biography, an autobiography, a detective novel, or a conversation on the street, it all becomes fiction as soon as you write it down.

He learned to communicate with birds and discovered their conversation was fantastically boring. It was all to do with windspeed, wingspans, power-to-weight ratios and a fair bit about berries.

The mark of a good conversationalist is not that you can talk a lot. The mark is that you can get others to talk a lot. Thus, good schmoozer's are good listeners, not good talkers.

English is the product of a Saxon warrior trying to make a date with an Angle bar-maid, and as such is no more legitimate than any of the other products of that conversation.

I think that today's books, in which every quote, every conversation, is taken from a memoir, an autobiography, an interview, or what-have-you, are much more convincing.

Using someone's name during a conversation was like a casual caress, like stroking their hair.

Conversation, n.: A vocal competition in which the one who is catching his breath is called the listener.

I am a diffident man. I find it hard to carry on a conversation.

I feel like R&B is really based off of emotion and truth. R&B is a conversation.

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.

nobody is such a fool as to moider away his time in the slip-slop conversation of a pack of women.

There's no way to be prepared for a conversation with someone you don't know about something that means the world to you.

Amongst such as out of cunning hear all and talk little, be sure to talk less; or if you must talk, say little.