Conversation Quotes
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Conversation Quotes & Sayings
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And once again, only the Small Things were said. The Big Things lurked unsaid inside.
— Arundhati Roy
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
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
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
Good conversational debate is an end in itself, and talking for the love of conversation is what makes us human.
— Bryce Courtenay
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
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
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
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
Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
— Jonathan Swift
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
Oh shit, another guy who doesn't talk. Is this what makes women lesbians? The desire to have a good conversation?
— Caroline Hanson
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
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
Plato worried that philosophical writing would take the place of living conversations for which, in philosophy, there is no substitute.
— Rebecca Goldstein
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
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