Conversation Quotes: top 100 famous quotes about Conversation

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When you get married you're starting a conversation that never ends, — Rob Bell

And once again, only the Small Things were said. The Big Things lurked unsaid inside. — Arundhati Roy

Mrs. Penniman always, even in conversation, italicised her personal pronouns. — Henry James

American scripts are usually non-stop conversation. People talking over each other. I like that. — Shirley Henderson

Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation. — Mark Twain

I didn't intend to go in that direction but strange things happen when the lights go out. — Donna Lynn Hope

It's amazing how many people think a conversation is little more than reading their resume aloud. — Marshall Thornton

I so wanted out of this conversation, but it was like a car accident: Once you started spinning, you could only wait and see what you hit. — Laurell K. Hamilton

Sorrow spoken lends a little courage to the speaker. — Walter Wangerin Jr.

A conversation began to take shape between us. A conversation that happened in unspoken words, in false words, in knowing glances. — Nadia Hashimi

Talk helps shape one's thoughts. — David McCullough

thinking that this conversation was going — Jackie Collins

The conversation is happening about your brand whether
you're a part of it or not. — Seth Godin

There are two conversations going on at the same time: the story and a conversation about how the story is being told. — David Byrne

He'll never be Jordan. This clearly takes him out of the conversation. He can win as much as he wants to. — Charles Barkley

Allow me to fulfill my duties without having to suffer through trivial attempts at conversation and we will get along well enough. — Elizabeth Carlton

Companies are looking to be quicker with content, provide faster approval and be able to capitalize on the conversation and content of the moment. — Jeff Barrett

Hey, tell me, when did this conversation go completely whoosh? — Justin Richards

Prayer is a friendly conversation with the One we know loves us. — Teresa Of Avila

Do I belong in the conversation about the best artists in the world? My answer is yes, I do. — Billy Corgan

Our friendship is made up of these brief frenzied exchanges, but the quality of our conversation, for all its feverish outpouring, is genuine. — Carol Shields

Your social rules suck, if i wanted to start a conversation on the relevance of solar vs wind energy I will! — Tina J. Richardson

The Art of Conversation could not die in Australia; it never lived. Television did not kill it; there was nothing there to kill. — George Mikes

The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know. — Andre Maurois

Conversation, n.: A vocal competition in which the one who is catching his breath is called the listener. — Ambrose Bierce

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

More of your conversation would infect my brain. — William Shakespeare

That conversation ... was as dirty as a sewer! It is not enough for you to take no part in it. You must show your repugnance for it strongly! — Josemaria Escriva

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

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

I think good conversation is really the best form of sex. — Paul Russell

Most of the time, communication gets confused with conversation. In fact, the two are distinctly different. — A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Whoever takes just plain ginger ale soon gets drowned out of the conversation. — Kin Hubbard

Good conversational debate is an end in itself, and talking for the love of conversation is what makes us human. — Bryce Courtenay

Renew every day your conversation with God: Do this even in preference to eating. Think more often of God than you breathe. — Epictetus

I used to always read with a pen in my hand, as if the author and I were in a conversation. — Tara Bray Smith

Prayer is inward communication with yourself; action is outward conversation with God. — Steve Maraboli

That is the happiest conversation where there is no competition, no vanity, but a calm, quiet interchange of sentiments ... — Samuel Johnson

If you should attempt to maintain that film is an art in conversation with a cultured, intelligent American, he'll just plain stop talking to you. — Ilya Ilf

At that moment I would have welcomed spider-rats nibbling on my toes about as much as the idea of chatting with a missionary priest. — Dan Simmons

Conversation over coffee tended to be candid and invited confidences. — Joanne Fluke

I don't want clever conversation, I never want to work that hard, I just want someone I can talk to, I want you just the way you are. — Billy Joel

A man may forgive many wrongs, but he cannot easily forgive anyone who makes it plain that his conversation is tedious. — Stevie Smith

Say the first word. Set the tone for the conversation. Be poised, prepared, and ready to say the first word in any debate or meeting. — Gloria Feldt

I do not wish to hide my origins, nor do I seek to make it a subject of conversation. I am what I am. — Ryan Giggs

Prayer is not about informing or persuading God but about connecting with Him in relationship. He is looking for conversation and dialogue with — Mike Bickle

That silence is one of the great arts of conversation is allowed by Cicero himself, who says, there is not only an art, but even an eloquence in it — Hannah More

Our companions please us less from the charms we find in their conversation than from those they find in ours. — Sir Fulke Greville

It's amazing how a conversation between two moms ends up sounding like a battle between people with Tourette's. — Heather Balog

Not a sentence or a word is independent of the circumstances under which it is uttered. — Alfred North Whitehead

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

Stop talking about inclusion and engagement and start including and engaging in every conversation, every meeting. — Susan Scott

It would be a shame to go out with a hot girl you can't have a decent conversation with! — Justin Bieber

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

Most English talk is a quadrille in a sentry-box. — Henry James

There are two things in ordinary conversation which ordinary people dislike - information and wit. — Stephen Leacock

Finished our conversation yet." "We haven't?" Ben asked, lowering to the bench — Melissa Cutler

She had lost the art of conversation, but not, unfortunately, the power of speech. — George Bernard Shaw

One must keep a store of common sense," said Tchitchikov, "and consult one's common sense at every minute, have a friendly conversation with it. — Nikolai Gogol

She felt so human that he could barely carry on a conversation. — L.A. Weatherly

I think you have to ask yourself does voting work on the level that you are trying to effectuate change; that is the conversation you must have. — Lupe Fiasco

Argument is the worst sort of conversation. — Jonathan Swift

You know you're in love when the most interesting conversation you have with the opposite gender is about the one you claim to be in love with. — Andrew King

Maybe we should have this conversation in an alternate universe where Alternate Indy gives a shit what Alternate Lee wants her to wear. — Kristen Ashley

Though we've talked and talked and talked, we've all agreed not to say a word. — J.D. Salinger

At the end of the day, I want to be part of the same conversation as Chris Rock, Eddie Murphy, Dave Chappelle, Bill Cosby and Richard Pryor. — Kevin Hart

Oh shit, another guy who doesn't talk. Is this what makes women lesbians? The desire to have a good conversation? — Caroline Hanson

Their conversation was like root canal without anaesthesia. — Tan Redding

This place of mine never is entered by humans come for conversation, only by the mute moon's light shafts that slip in between the trees. — Saigyo

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

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. — Stephen King

Sometimes I don't even bother coming up with proper words for conversation. It's not necessary; some people are content to just talk to themselves. — NoViolet Bulawayo

When you see the most dramatic shift is when you transition from an abstract idea to a slightly more material conversation,' Jony said. — Leander Kahney

I suppose the difference between baby people and me is that I do not consider smiling while farting 'holding up your end of a conversation. — Lizz Winstead

It's far more important why is being said, than what. — Aleksandra Ninkovic

The poor girl does not know how to have a conversation. Unfortunately, she does know how to speak. — Winston Churchill

When you have a nonverbal conversation with a total stranger, then he can't cover himself with words, he can't create a wall. — Marina Abramovic

Magic of Southern expressions? Similes and metaphorical allusions. They are the yellow highlighter of conversation. — Tim Heaton

Maybe I got a few words wrong, but that's so near how the conversation went, I'm going to call it truth. — Shannon Hale

The most influential of all educational factor is the conversation in a child's home. — William Temple

My friends plunged into a borderless sea of reminiscences and personal news. — Sarah Orne Jewett

The tiny conversation they'd had would reveal no evidence of her frayed edges. — Scot Gardner

At some point in my early forties I realized that my primary goal in just about any verbal exchange is to lighten the mood. — Meghan Daum

There is nothing like desire for obstructing any resemblance between what one says and what one has on one's mind. — Marcel Proust

Get over here. We're having intimate bed conversation and I won't do it with a foot of mattress between us. — Jane Seville

The conversation had been so lacking in quality that it actually made Toddlers and Tiaras look like good entertainment by comparison. — Sorin Suciu

Plato worried that philosophical writing would take the place of living conversations for which, in philosophy, there is no substitute. — Rebecca Goldstein

On our watch, the conversation with a would-be suicide bomber will not begin with the words, 'You have the right to remain silent.' — Mitt Romney

One of Brando's problems is that he can't have a conversation with anyone. — Peter Bart

I've got to go. That's one of the penalties of being a doctor. I never seem to finish a conversation. — Robert M. Fresco

Much of the conversation in the country consisted of lines from television shows, both past and present. — Kurt Vonnegut

Man Ray takes a lot of pressure off me. It's like having a third person in a conversation; one of you doesn't have to talk all the time. — William Wegman

There is no one who does not exaggerate. In conversation, men are encumbered with personality, and talk to much. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Logic and fact keep interfering with the easy flow of conversation. — Mason Cooley

This marked the end of our toothbrush conversation. — Patrick DeWitt

The most difficult thing to understand during conversation is silence. — Henry David Thoreau

They spoke of small things at first, since it was best, when reattaching threads, to begin with the easiest knots. — Chris Cleave

Every conversation, every failure, every opportunity is a chance to get better. Starting today. — Gary W. Goldstein

First, let me finish. Then interrupt. — Brian Spellman