Conversation Quotes

It's not enough simply to record the way people actually talk. The dialogue must be concentrated, shaped, dramatically moving, in a way that real-life conversation seldom is.

Conversation is interesting in proportion to the originality of the central ideas which serve as pivots and the fitness of the little facts and observations which are contributed by the talkers.

The point of philosophy, as I see it, is to change thinking, and thereby to change the conversation.

I'm constantly on the brink of tears in conversation about things that happen to people.

The two best subjects for conversation are talking shop and making love.

I had a long conversation with the imam, the Grand Imam of the Al-Azhar University, and I know how they think... They seek peace, encounter.

Conversation is the image of the mind. As the man is, so is his talk.

I fancy the character of a poet is in every country the same,--fond of enjoying the present, careless of the future; his conversation that of a man of sense, his actions those of a fool.

[Indira Gandhi] answered cautiously at first. Then she opened up like a flower and the conversation flowed along without obstacles, in mutual sympathy.

Firequencher raised his hand. "I've been staying out of family conversations. Do I get credit for that?

Learned conversation is either the affectation of the ignorant or the profession of the mentally unemployed.

And, as for what is called improving conversation, that is merely the foolish method by which the still more foolish philanthropist feebly tries to disarm the just rancour of the criminal classes.

LADY STUTFIELD I adore silent men. MRS ALLONBY Oh, Ernest isn't silent. He talks the whole time. But he has got no conversation. What he talks about I don't know. I haven't listened to him for years.

The only proper intoxication is conversation.

When you get to 60, the word "retirement" comes in on every conversation.

gossip is just the small change of conversation.

The uses of travel are occasional, and short; but the best fruit it finds, when it finds it, is conversation; and this is a main function of life.

In all conversation between two persons, tacit reference is made, as to a third party, to a common nature. That third party or common nature is not social; it is impersonal; is God.

I feel the same truth how often in my trivial conversation with my neighbours, that somewhat higher in each of us overlooks this by-play, and Jove nods to Jove from behind each of us.

Man is the broken giant, and in all his weakness both his body and his mind are invigorated by habits of conversation with nature.

Conversation is an evanescent relation,--no more.

Do not speak of God much. After a very little conversation on the highest nature, thought deserts us and we run into formalism.

Society is frivolous, and shreds its day into scraps, its conversation into ceremonies and escapes.

Conversation in society is found to be on a platform so low as to exclude science, the saint, and the poet.

Our conversation rate has to go up before our conversion rate can go up.

I get energy from one-on-one conversations most often, and I lose energy from group conversations most often.

What I can't do is have an intelligent conversation with [George Stephanopoulos] about a report in "The New York Times" that is unnamed, inconclusive, and based on something that isn't true.

Writing about writing is a bit like talking about a conversation you are having; it tends to obscure desperation about where the next word is coming from.

A favorite strategy was the paragraph-terminating: Right? Followed immediately by Wrong. This linear invitation to a mugging was considered a strategy of wit.

If you actually just treat people as if they're already in the movement, they're already alongside this movement, and just let them enter the conversation midstream, it's actually more effective.

Prayer is - loving conversation with the One who has invited us into His embrace.

And so I urge you: carry on an ongoing conversation with God about the daily stuff of life, a little like Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof. For now, do not worry about "proper" praying, just talk to God.

We must carry things beyond conversation to conclusion.

It is an impertinent and unreasonable fault in conversation for one man to take up all the discourse.

Conversation never sits easier upon us than when we now and then discharge ourselves in a symphony of laughter, which may not improperly be called the chorus of conversation.

I also have a feeling your mother’s going to have a very ugly conversation with me." – Dimitri

Conversation was irrelevant. Only pie mattered.

If you'd sat there any longer,' Annabeth said, 'you would have spontaneously combusted. I hope the conversation was worth it?

So, destroy?" Cal asked. Clearly, the conversation was giving his two brain cells a serious workout.

This is one of the last industries where the subject is off limits. Nobody’s comfortable in engaging in a conversation.

I will always love the Clash, because I loved them so much when I was fourteen, and I love how you can start a conversation with almost literally any dude about the Clash.

Even though you're reading something, it's as though that person who wrote it is speaking to you. It's a form of conversation, really.

It's funny how bed and pillows and covers can change a conversation. Words turn quiet and you mean more and say less. It's like you can build your own little world, Population: 2.

The conversations you are most resisting are the conversations you most need to be having.

Sometimes the fragment of a conversation, the color of the sky, the image in a dream, has everything to do with where the song begins.

Thanksgiving, our eminent moral holiday, doesnt have much for children. At its heart are conversation, food, drink, and fellowship - all perks of adulthood.

Massive shift from presentation to participation...people want to be part of to be part of the conversation

To make a song is a gift, and once it's done it keeps evolving and changing and becomes a tool to interact with other people. It's like a conversation.

Through social media, we can start a global conversation. This creates an army of advocates - the power really is in the hands of the viewers.

My measure of success is to walk into a restaurant and hear a table debating drug policy. Once the public start the conversation, the politicians will join - that is when we can create real change.