Conversation Quotes

It's just a crime that people don't take the time and make the effort to have a conversation if it's bothering them that much.

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.

They say, You can't give a smile away; it always comes back. The same is true of a kind word or a conversation starter. What goes around, comes around.

The free conversation of a friend is what I would prefer to any environment.

And I always read the English translation and always have conversations with my translator, for example about the names. I always have to approve it.

We're not in agreement on all topics. I had a conversation with Mr. [Donald] Trump that was open and constructive.

Shyness means you are in the hallway of a greater presence. You just don't know how to take the conversation another step. It's a lovely indication.

The key to conversation at work is flexibility and understanding how what you say might be perceived by others.

We all more or less consciously note this. We cannot help observing that all serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy.

No one is qualified to converse in public except those contented to do without such conversation.

It was hard to have a conversation with anyone, there were so many people talking.

Prototyping is the conversation you have with your ideas.

It was a rather extraordinary conversation if you think about it -- both of us speaking in code. But not military code, not Intelligence or Resistance code -- just feminine code.

Our rule is: If it makes the parent laugh, and the kid asks why, that can't be an uncomfortable conversation.

Sometimes I'd like to have a conversation with a friend in a restaurant without feeling I'm being watched. At this rate I will have to go on holiday to Greenland. But maybe the Eskimos would know me.

Pretty much everyone on my iPod, I'd like to be friends with. But I'd say that the main two that I'd love to get into a conversation with, are Werner Herzog and Graham Hancock.

I've never been to the websites. It's a lot healthier for me to keep out of the conversations about me.

What an odd, ruminating, noisy, self-interrupting conversation we conduct with ourselves from birth to death.

It deserves and warrants conversation because somebody is saying, 'Hey, this offends me,'

What great delight it is to see the ones we love and then to have speech with them.

Theater is all about foyers and conversation and digesting what you've seen.

CONVERSATION is the vehicle for change.

Speech is civilization itself.

Everybody talks, but there is no conversation.

Fools are in great demand, especially on social occasions. They embarrass everyone but provide material for conversation. In their positive form, they become diplomats.

If it were not for quotations, conversations between gentlemen would consist of an endless series of 'what-ho!'s.

Asking anyone what she or he is reading is a necessary part of conversation, exchanging news. So I take recommendations from friends - and I always pass along a book I've loved.

A little less conversation, a little more ACTION.

If to talk to oneself when alone is folly, it must be doubly unwise to listen to oneself in the presence of others.

The most important thing is to have the conversation, and let people who do make mistakes feel comfortable enough to continue the conversation.

It was a long time in the making, my divorce. One day became less special than the next, and pretty soon, we ceased all conversation. It is a sad day when you have nothing left to say.

I never, with important air, In conversation overbear. . . . . My tongue within my lips I rein; For who talks much must talk in vain.

% of what you understand in a conversation is read through the body, not the words.

I like plays where people talk a lot. Conversation is sustained. Argument is sustained.

Of course a magazine is usually more interesting than a conversation, because so much more time and preparation has gone into it.

A lot of people especially want to know about going into business. But it's a two-way conversation.

I like the idea of a book being a democratic space which readers enter, carrying their own thoughts, and participate in a conversation, or experience of grace.

To distance ourselves from our experience makes our feelings a liability, while staying in conversation with our experience makes our feelings a resource.

I like being around people who are good conversationalists.

conversation is like a dear little baby that is brought in to be handed round. You must rock it, nurse it, keep it on the move if you want it to keep smiling.

I like to hold a monologue with women. But a dialogue with myself is more stimulating.

People learn more from observation that they do from conversation.

A good maxim allows you to have the last word without even starting a conversation.

Although I'm not fluent in sign language by a long way, I could have a fairly decent conversation.

Change the conversation of the world by dwelling on what's gone right.

Species conversation is beyond a doubt an issue that truly matters to the American public.

When I play live, it's a conversation that we're all having with the song, and the audience... their response and relationship with the songs is as valid as my relationship with the songs.

Reading has always been in the chief joy, a never-ending topic of conversation, and often a lifesaver, in my family.

In conversation, everyone sits in confident judgment on the world.

I am mostly a pretty worried person. In conversations, I am always worried about what to say.