Conversation Quotes

Real speech can only come from complete silence. Incomplete silence is as fussy as deliberate conversation.

Tea beckons us to enjoy quality time with friends and loved ones, and especially to rediscover the art of relaxed conversation.

A recent conversation: Dubya: Look at the clock, time is racing! Cheney: That's the second hand, George.

British conversation is like a game of cricket or a boxing match; personal allusions are forbidden like hitting below the belt, and anyone who loses his temper is disqualified.

The voice will guide you-will tell you what to do. In order to do that, you must be quite sensitive with the instrument and accept this daily conversation with your voice.

I found it very difficult to explain to someone why you did a film. It's not like having a conversation.

Never criticize, condemn or complain in a conversation with a customer or prospect.

Conversation is good - you might not agree with everyone, but at least it gives you a chance to contemplate someone else's ideas.

It is an intimately communicative affair between the painter and his painting, a conversation back and forth, the painting telling the painter even as it receives its shape and form.

I like roundtables because you can talk more directly to people. And you also can get kind of a vibe on what a journalist's take is on something, and have a conversation with them more.

There is an underlying timelessness in the basic conversation that is mathematics.

Jazz vision is a wordless conversation between musical notes and visual expressions.

I tried to use the questions and answers as an armature on which to build a sculpture of genuine conversation

There is a form of literature that is a deed, and a form that is only talk, and the latter passes away like a conversation.

I wish you would read a little poetry sometimes. Your ignorance cramps my conversation.

When you meet someone for the first time instead of asking them what they do, you should ask them what they've always wanted to do. This conversation will be much more interesting.

The Buddha over and over again spoke clearly and definitely on post-mortem states - as in his conversation with Vasetta.

My last bedside conversation in the hospital just a few weeks before Allen Ginsberg died was 'please take care of so and so. And the legacy of the Kerouac school.

Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords-philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather.

[Winston Churchill] never spares himself in conversation. He gives himself so generously that hardly anyone else is permitted to give anything in his presence.

If your content isn't driving conversation, you're doing it wrong.

If you spend any time in Los Angeles, there's only one topic of conversation.

It wasn't only fanatics and drunkards who began conversations with strangers in public.

A delicacy of taste is favorable to love and friendship, by confining our choice to few people, and making us indifferent to the company and conversation of the greater part of men.

The conversation on global warming has been stalled because a shrinking group of denialists fly into a rage when it's mentioned.

Burning logs can carry on quite a conversation! ... Have you ever heard apple wood talking? It's the most loquacious of all. You really can't get a word in edgeways.

I love the conversation between film and music.

When I spoke, I was listened to; and I was at a loss to know how I had so easily acquired the art of commanding attention, and giving the tone to the conversation.

All conversation, in addition to whatever else it does, displays, and asks for recognition of, our competence.

Each person's life is lived as a series of conversations.

Palindromes are the number one conversation stopper, like party killer, I think I've ever seen.

No man comes out of his own memorandum of conversation looking second best.

The one seeks a midwife to deliver his thoughts, the other, someone to assist: thus a good conversation comes into being.

I'm smart and I can be really funny and interesting and I can go toe-to-toe with anybody in a conversation.

You have to wait together - for a week, for a year, for a lifetime, before the final intimate conversation may be attained ... and exhausted. So that ... That in effect was love.

Surely only boring people went in for conversations consisting of questions and answers. The art of true conversation consisted in the play of minds.

Conversations consist for the most part of things one does not say.

We must understand that out of community and dialogue, the answers will arrive in their own time and way.

Conversation is the fine art of mutual consideration and communication about matters of common interest that basically have some human importance.

Sorrow spoken lends a little courage to the speaker.

With the advance of refrigeration, I hope that along with the frozen foods someday we will have frozen conversation. A person will be able to keep a frozen promise indefinitely.

A conversation isn't a competition.

politics ... is the hottest, most dangerous subject in the land. It's not only a conversation-wrecker, it's a friendship-wrecker, a family-wrecker, a job-wrecker, a future-wrecker.

I'm encouraging other people, whether they're professionals or not, to use their creativity to express themselves, to get a conversation going, to get the party started, really.

The youngest child in any family is always a jokemaker, because a joke is the only way he can enter into an adult conversation.

Given the cultural barriers to intersex conversation, the amazing thing is that we would even expect women and men to have anything to say to each other for more than ten minutes at a stretch.

I've always been impulsive. My thinking is usually pretty good, but I always seem to do it after I do my talking — by which time I've generally destroyed all basis for further conversation.

There is never an embarrassing silence that can't be turned into a regrettable conversation.

My favorite kinds of movies are the ones that start a conversation.

Always enter the conversation already taking place in the customer's mind.