Conversation Quotes

The conversation ran as fluidly as the tea out of the samovar’s crooked nose.

Everyone who deals with teens seems to agree that the most important and toughest job is staying in connection and conversation ... not delivering a lecture but saying what we think.

How did that go?’ he asked. ‘Your first lengthy conversation with a girl your own age?’ ‘Fabulous,’ said Artemis, voice dripping with sarcasm. ‘We’re planning a June wedding.

Different people, in good faith, can look at the same fact and interpret it differently. But thats where an interesting conversation begins.

I like to think that every movie emerges from the conversations.

Canada kills any conversation quick, I learned long ago. It's a little trick of mine.

[On Thomas Babington Macaulay:] He was a most disagreeable companion to my fancy ... His conversation was a procession of one.

modern science was largely conceived of as an answer to the servant problem and ... it is generally practiced by those who lack a flair for conversation.

It applies even more to politicians because they are living, breathing embodiments of the language that they use. And it's why how you start the conversation, and how you end it, matters so much.

It's better to play to the host as though in a real conversation and let the audience listen in- which they are.

Wisdom, in the world of enlightenment, is not gained through conversation. Wisdom and enlightenment is something that you gain by making the mind still.

Knowledge comes from personal experience of truth and awareness, not from conversation.

Sometimes in conversation the sound of our own voice distracts us and misleads us into making assertions that in no way express our true opinions.

Conversation with a friend will only bear good fruit of knowledge when both think only of the matter under consideration and forget that they are friends.

Whether in conversation we generally agree or disagree with others is largely a matter of habit: the one tendency makes as much sense as the other.

... you simply can't imagine what men will say!

In that way the long-awaited visit, for which both had prepared questions and had even anticipated answers, was once more the usual everyday conversation.

He is clearly bookish. I did not follow a single word of their conversation at dinner last night, not one jot of it. He must be bookish.

Personally, I'd be really glad to have a national conversation about whether to outlaw most forms of birth control. For once, the kids and their grandparents would find themselves on the same side.

When friends ask for a second cup they are open to conversation.

Even an idle phone conversation when driving takes a 40 percent bite out of your focus and, surprisingly, can have the same effect as being drunk.

You talked to me, but you didn’t. I could see you having these two-sided conversations. The things you wanted to say to me. And the words that actually came out.

If you would stick to the concrete, and put your discoveries in the form of entertaining anecdotes about your adventures with women, your conversation would be easier to follow.

Oh, well, if you want original conversations, you'd better go and talk to yourself.

The conversion of Paul was no conversion at all; it was Paul who converted the religion that has raised one man above sin and death.

Conversation makes one what he is.

Writing is a conversation, to me. The best kind. You can't get interrupted.

A conversation in English in Finnish and in French can not be held at the same time nor with indifference ever or after a time.

Stay out of the gutter in your conversation. Foul talk defiles the man who speaks it.

Galinda didn't often stop to consider whether she believed in what she said or not; the whole point of conversations was flow.

It's time to change the conversation about nature to focus on what we all have in common: our shared humanity.

A beautifully constructed borshch, such as you are going to experience presently, ought not only to banish conversation but almost to annihilate thought.

Prayer is a conversation with God, but prayer is no substitute for work.

In the summer we lay up a stock of experiences for the winter, as the squirrel of nuts?something for conversation in winter evenings.

The necessity of labor and conversation with many men and things to the scholar is rarely well remembered.

All roads lead to Rome, and there were times when it might have struck us that almost every branch of study or subject of conversation skirted forbidden ground.

Most English talk is a quadrille in a sentry-box.

A text conversation is a short exchange of often grossly truncated language that corresponds to a thought made all the more shallow by the process.

When the conversation turns too quickly to films,I see it as a sign of weakness.

[Samuel] Johnson's conversation was by much too strong for a person accustomed to obsequiousness and flattery; it was mustard in a young child's mouth!

Everything is inspiring! It could be fine art or a conversation I have with somebody!

He died in the middle of our conversation. How rude.

A continuing conversation with other persons, with cultural products, and with oneself, is a large part of what it means to be a human being, in our time and perhaps in all time.

Anyt hing that is found to stimulate hope should be seized upon and make to serve. This applies to a book, a film, a broadcast, or a conversation with someone who can impart it.

I had a great conversation with Trent Reznor. Trent said, "I'd have a sixpack, too, if I didn't write my own music!"

A single conversation can change things.

I began a conversation with the heads of our esteemed department of political science, and instantly I concluded, 'Hopelessly incompetent!

When you tell a story in the kitchen to a friend, it's full of mistakes and repetitions. It's good to avoid that in literature, but still, a story should feel like a conversation. It's not a lecture.

I'm not afraid of silence. You know, I'm not afraid to sit in a room and have the conversation drop into silence. I think that's a very southern thing.

For people to be able to sit down together and have a conversation, that's the power of love.