Conversation Quotes

True friendship is sitting together in silence and feeling like it was the best conversation you've ever had.

People learn more from observation that they do from conversation.

The best kind of conversation is that which may be called thinking aloud.

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

The fun of talk is to explore, but much of it and all that is irresponsible should not be written. Once written you have to stand by it. You may have said it to see whether you believed it or not.

Because there are hundreds of different ways to say one thing, I, being a writer, songwriter, and poet, speak childishly and incoherently. In speech there is so much to decide in so little time.

We men are fascinated by the things we don't really understand. It gives us something to think and talk about: like females, they drive us nuts.

I possess the faculty of enjoying the company of those I - of my friends as well in silence as in conversation.

Dallas, is it remotely possible for you to carry on a conversation that's not loaded down with manure?

There is something hugely civilised about allowing long pauses in a conversation. Very few people can stand that kind of silence.

Life seemed even more of a guessing game than usual.

If not for sports, I do not think my father would have ever talked to me.

Clearly she was expected to say something, but panic at having to speak stole the thoughts from her head.

He's never quite got the trick of conversation, tending to hear in dissenting views, however mild, a kind of affront, an invitation to mortal combat.

We don't talk, we hold forth. We don't converse, we expound.

Not a sentence or a word is independent of the circumstances under which it is uttered.

A man who listens because he has nothing to say can hardly be a source of inspiration. The only listening that counts is that of the talker who alternately absorbs and expresses ideas.

Some persons talk simply because they think sound is more manageable than silence.

I grew up in a family where the women were just nuts. They didn't stand around in cardigans making polite conversation while they chopped tomatoes.

Good writing is good conversation, only more so.

A great dinner must include not only yummy food, but good conversation.

C-C-Can you get bones in your buh-buh-brain?' Bill asked. This was turning into the most interesting conversation he'd had in weeks.

It gets you nowhere if the other person's tail is only just in sight for the second half of the conversation.

Any honest conversation about engaging young people must address discrimination against young people.

Markets are conversations.

Food was celebration, conversation, and nourishment. The table is where the big decisions of the family are made and all the arguing takes place.

It is my experience that no one, in the course of conversation, can fail to give themselves away sooner or later. Everyone has an irresistible urge to talk about themselves.

Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food, and few things in the world are more wearying than a sarcastic attitude towards life.

If you control the flow of information, you can control the conversation around important issues. If you can control the conversation, you can change this country.

When it comes to climate, we can all make a big difference. At the most basic level, don't let denial go unchallenged and win the conversation on climate.

There are many who would much prefer that the word 'climate' never be mentioned and that the issue be eliminated from our national conversation.

I remember as a boy when the conversation on civil rights was won in the South. I remember a time when one of my friends made a racist joke and another said, 'Hey man, we don't go for that anymore.'

It would scarcely be acceptable, for example, to ask in the course of an ordinary conversation what our society holds to be the purpose of work.

Most written work is a conversation between the editor and the writer, that the writer essentially fulfills in public, and the editor provides the stage for that to happen as well as the prompts.

I do chat to my mother in Norwegian, particularly when we want a secret conversation. It is useful that way.

I enjoy women's conversation, and I think that helps me to describe them in fiction.

Wit in conversation is only a readiness of thought and a facility of expression, or a quick conception and an easy delivery.

Television has always been a conversation. Movies come along and they're kind of like three-ring circuses, and there's a new one next week.

Conversation is a partnership, not a relation of master and slave, as most people try to make it.

What's interesting is, for myself, when I become really attracted to somebody, I find them in my dreams... conversations, nothing more.

Cribbage, n. A substitute for conversation among those to whom nature has denied ideas.

Conversation: A fair for the display of the minor mental commodities, each exhibitor being too intent upon the arrangement of his own wares to observe those of his neighbor.

Good discourse sinks differences and seeks agreements.

Sympathy wanting, all is wanting; its personal magnetism is the conductor of the sacred spark that lights our atoms, puts us m human communion, and gives us to company, conversation, and ourselves.

Conversation is an abandonment to ideas, a surrender to persons.

I feel very open with people, and I'm good at disarming them and having conversations.

Whenever my mother talks to me, she begins the conversation as if we were already in the middle of an argument.

One is always wrong to open a conversation with the devil, for, however he goes about it, he always insists upon having the last word.

Missing from the national conversation are voices of pro-immigration reformers and civil rights leaders, who can speak on behalf of those who have no voice.

I figure, oftentimes the best way in is through humor, and you can deal with serious situations a lot easier, or at least bring up the conversation.