Conversation Quotes

There has to be a reason and objective (to air strikes). What does it do to move the effort down the road for a political conversation?

Texting has become my favorite way to communicate. I feel like many of my relationships are based in this, because in a sense it feels the closest to actual conversation that isn't the phone.

All my friends are rock critics, so we talk about rock criticism a lot. Because of that, in order to be part of the conversation, you have to have an awareness of what the discussion is.

I'm more likely to strike up a conversation with a stranger than to try any antic or pickup lines.

There ought to be a robust, uninhibited conversation in black America with different black ideological perspectives.

That amenity which the French have developed into a great art . . . conversation.

A conversation with you is a different thing than projecting to a couple hundred people. It's bigger and more animated and it's on a bigger scope, but still in the heart, it's honestly me.

He talked and talked because he didn't know what to say.

The best shows succeed because they tap into a national conversation.

I feel like great TED Talks are ones that are a little bit subject to interpretation, that do provoke further conversation - and potentially controversy.

In some ways all of my fiction is like a conversation I'm having with the writers I read when I was first falling in love with books.

A good competition for comedians would be where a comedian has a conversation and is then quizzed on what the other person says.

Diplomacy is not merely talking somebody into something; it's talking to somebody from a position of strength. You put your power on the table to open up the conversation; that's diplomacy.

We need to have an honest conversation about the policies that are generating opportunity and prosperity.

A good thing to do when one is sitting, eating, and resting is to have a conversation.

Can we move this conversation along, I'm getting frightfully tired of 'hoa'.

Usually, when Nirvana made music, there wasn't a lot of conversation. We wanted everything to be surreal. We didn't want to have some contrived composition.

There is a person whose acquaintance and conversation I do earnestly recommend unto you as thing of the greatest advantage: you will be surprised when I tell you it is yourself.

Liberals lost touch with working-class Americans because they never had to have a conversation about values with those voters; they could just rely on the courts to impose their views.

If I'm feeling that I have an angle or something to say or something where in a way I'm having a conversation with myself, that's immensely pleasurable.

The orthodoxy of America is as rigid as that of Soviet Russia. There is one point of view allowed. If you start a conversation from another point of view, the words dry in your mouth.

that's it - hundreds of texts and conversations, thousands upon thousands of words spoken and sent, all boiled down into a single line. is that what relationships become?

I think certain people would be moved to be nostalgic about America's glory days, when the music set the tone for the cultural conversation and popular musicians had this absurd level of authority.

...and once again Dexter is struck by how easy conversation can be when no-one is in their right mind

Facebook has focused on the conversation, but not really on absorbing the Web into its walled garden.

Famous people like to choose friends who won't go around repeating their conversations and details about them.

Business is a conversation because the defining work of business is conversation.

... he trotted down the hallway on all fours and started in on his second favorite pastime, conversations with plumbing. Just what I needed: Stone, the Toilet Whisperer.

It has been wonderful to be the home port for the brave and brilliant forces of ABC News around the world and to feel every single night that you and I were in a conversation about the day together.

A conversation does not have to be scintillating in order to be memorable. I once met a president of the United States, and his second sentence to me was about knees.

I have got to look at the flip side of things, because, in a way, music is always a conversation, you know? It's a conversation between the musician and their tools and their technologies.

I found it quite easy to carry on a casual conversation it was as if my real feelings were down fathoms deep in my mind and what we said was just a feathery surface spray.

Down through the years certain fads of slang had come and gone, and their vestiges could be found in Janie's and Mabel's conversation, like mastodon bones in a swamp.

The irrepressible spirit that made his playing seem like good conversation is the Rubinstein legacy for pianists, if they can pick up their heads from the keyboard long enough to claim it.

conversation is now pretty well a lost art.

It is, I think, a good deal owing to the preponderance of the commercial element in Society that conversation has sunk to its present dull level of conventional chatter.

Religion is by no means a proper subject of conversation in a mixed company.

Knee-Jerk Irony: The tendency to make flippant ironic comments as a reflexive matter of course in everyday conversation.

A picture is worth a thousand words, but conversations with them generally end in dissapointment.

The laughs are honestly bigger, ... They are the kind of unexpected belly laughs you get with your friends during conversation.

Never have a long conversation with anyone who says "between you and I.

I'm really fortunate to be at Stanford. I go home every 10 weeks, but Stanford apart from being just a wonderful university is one of the places that are part of a great conversation.

The conversation around policing is painful but I believe it provides us with an opportunity to learn, to change and to grow.

My stand-up is quite good now, people say. It's just like a big conversation each time. Every gig is a rehearsal.

The phone conversation where I haven't had a smoke, it's like trying to talk without using adverbs.

The worst part of an eminent man's conversation is, nine times out of ten, to be found in that part by which he means to be clever.

The pains and pleasures of the body, howsoever important to ourselves, are an indelicate subject of conversation

It's no use imagining that bringing great writers together inevitably precipitates great conversation.

A dearth of words a woman need not fear; But 'tis a task indeed to learn to hear: In that the skill of conversation lies; That shows and makes you both polite and wise.

Margaret found that the indifferent, careless conversations of one who, however kind, was not too warm and anxious a sympathizer, did her good.