Conversation Quotes

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

I like dressing up for dates and dissecting a dinner conversation with a new guy to determine if he might be The One.

Saying a person's name frequently and with ease will cause them to fall in love with you. This is one of the top techniques to learn on how to start a conversation with your crush.

The newspaper is a lecture. The Web is a conversation.

I must have my share in the conversation.

Here I have opportunity enough for the exercise of my talent, as the chief of my time is spent in conversation.

It's hilarious a lot of times. You have a conversation with someone, and he's like, 'You speak so well!' I'm like, 'What do you mean? Do you understand that's an insult?

There is nothing worse than silence, strung like heavy beads on too delicate a conversation.

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

The conversation topic in my head is not what role I should play; it is whether I am going to play at all.

Out of Dostoevsky: Kafka. Out of Tolstoy: Margaret Mitchell. (in conversation, explaining his dislike for Tolstoy)

The best joke-tellers are those who have the patience to wait for conversation to come around to the point where the jokes in their repertoire have application.

There's a difference between using the word to insult somebody and using it to start a journalistic conversation.

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

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.

Maybe I’m old, but to me, ‘going out’ means going out to dinner. It’s about the conversation: someone recognizing your intellect, the charm of flirting, and really speaking to somebody.

Whistling together. Some kind of performance. I mean, not just a conversation, but a performance.

A performance is a conversation between you and an audience.

Good satire hopefully provides thought-provoking conversation.

Much female conversation is, in fact, about survival - but in code.

There are some people, who I'll charitably call snobs, who are dismissive of any conversation that doesn't begin with the full level of complexity. That's just not how the world works.

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.

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

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

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

The desire to perform impedes conversation.

Something fundamental changes when people begin to ask questions together. The questions create more of a learning conversation than the normal stale debate about problems.

Sometimes I'll start a sentence and I don't know where it's going. I just hope to find it somewhere along the way. Like an improv conversation. An improversation.

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

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

I like being around people who are good conversationalists.

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

The best conversation with Stanley Kubrick is a silent one: you sit in a theatre and watch his films and you learn so much.

Whenever people ask you where you're from and you say New Orleans, it's always going to create a conversation.

America does, in the future, need to have a conversation with and try to move forward with Russia.

Conversation is our account of ourselves...Conversation is the vent of character as well as thoughts...It is the laboratory of the student.

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.

If we're sitting at dinner and there's no conversation going on because everybody's got their head someplace else in their iPhone, that's a family problem that needs to be solved.

If you can listen well, people will say you're a good conversationalist.

In Canada we have enough to do keeping up with two spoken languages ... so we just go right ahead and use English for literature, Scotch for sermons, and American for conversation.

Reading a book should not be a passive exercise, but rather a raucous conversation.

Good listeners are perceived as good conversationalists.

Conversation takes practice; the more we do it, the better we get, and the more easily we do it.

His enemies might have said before that he talked rather too much; but now he has occasional flashes of silence, that make his conversation perfectly delightful.

We never could clearly understand how it is that egotism, so unpopular in conversation, should be so popular in writing.

'Psychotherapy' is a private, confidential conversation that has nothing to do with illness, medicine, or healing.

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

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.

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

A strong friendship doesn't need daily conversation or being together. As long as the relationship lives in the heart, true friends never part.