Conversation Quotes

The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression.

WANT shows up in conversation - EXPECTATION shows up in behavior.

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!

My accent remained terrible. It was very hard for me to initiate any conversation with someone I didn't know.

Conversation didn't seem necessary when I put the accordion down and swung some young lady around the floor.

Bore : A fellow who can change the subject back to his topic of conversation faster than you can change it back to yours.

When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.

I didn't get into film to win Academy Awards. I wanted to have a conversation with the audience.

Silence holds the door against the strife of tongue and all the impertinences of idle conversation.

It is by speech that many of our best gains are made. A large part of the good we receive comes to us in conversation.

Ever try to have a conversation with someone on drugs? It just doesn't work.

I can once more carry on a conversation with myself, and don't stare so into complete emptiness. Only in this way is there any possibility of improvement for me.

Writing a check separates a commitment from a conversation.

It's always difficult to make conversation with a drunk, and there's no denying it, the sober are at a disadvantage with him.

A civil guest Will no more talk all, than eat all the feast.

Whenever you read a book or have a conversation, the experience causes physical changes in your brain.

The Art of Conversation could not die in Australia; it never lived. Television did not kill it; there was nothing there to kill.

A good friendship is a conversation that never ends.

Talking to oneself, I have often thought, is the best way to be sure of intelligent and witty conversation.

You're not learning anything unless you're having the difficult conversations.

He strains his conversation through a cigar.

As a salesperson, you will be judged by your ability to keep a stalled conversation moving along briskly.

The brain was not built to walk into a bar, where you know nobody, and start a conversation. That's not the way humanity has courted.

When our life ceases to be inward and private, conversation degenerates into mere gossip.

How often, when we have been nearest each other bodily, have we really been farthest off! Our tongues were the witty foils with which we fenced each other off.

It requires nothing less than a chivalric feeling to sustain a conversation with a lady.

The more you perform, the more adept you get at the nuances of navigating that communal conversation.

I think it's been the topic of conversation for every one... If the U.S. is hit again, how are we going to handle it? Our troops are all over the place.

In real life, I try to be honest but not overshare. There are people that turn every conversation into a therapy session and you want to start charging them.

Gossip is when you have a malice of intent or mindless, third-party conversation to someone about someone, something you haven't said to that someone.

For my own part I think no innocent species of wit or pleasantry should be suppressed: and that a good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation.

Perpetual aiming at wit is a very bad part of conversation. It is done to support a character: it generally fails; it is a sort of insult on the company, and a restraint upon the speaker.

I was raised to be a very strong and independent woman without anybody ever saying the word feminist or having any political conversation.

I see in my friends that don't have kids, when they come over, and the amount of times our conversation gets interrupted by my children. It's almost jarring.

Race always comes up in the conversation of Detroit.

I don't spend too much time attempting to defend myself against people who seem to have zero desire to have a substantive conversation.

There is a certain type of conversation one hears only when one is drunk and it is like a dream, full of humor and threat and significance, deep significance.

We're not living in a society that science actually dominates the conversation. We're living in a situation where some science is allowed and a lot of it's about policy.

Only just the right quantum of wit should be put into a book; in conversation a little excess is allowable.

Method is not less requisite in ordinary conversation than in writing, provided a man would talk to make himself understood.

Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty.

I don't know whether what I do is art. But making things out in the world and having as many conversations as possible.

The rat was merely trying to sleep. Believe me, pup, if I had wanted to kill you we wouldn’t be having this conversation,” said Ripred.

I wanted when we began this to have a conversation, the kind that you're able to have, and the only way I knew how to do it was not to have a pre-interview.

The very fact that a Frenchman was prepared, after two minutes of conversation, to be so friendly towards anyone, especially one who had come from England, made me restless.

In my experience—and I admit I didn't anticipate this—most blacks are delighted to have a 100-percent honest conversation with a white man about race.

An egotist will always speak of himself, either in praise or in censure, but a modest man ever shuns making himself the subject of his conversation.

Companies are looking to be quicker with content, provide faster approval and be able to capitalize on the conversation and content of the moment.

Anecdotes and maxims are rich treasures to the man of the world, for he knows how to introduce the former at fit place in conversation.

Congress's definition of torture in those laws - the infliction of severe mental or physical pain - leaves room for interrogation methods that go beyond polite conversation.