Conversation Quotes:

Food is a subject of conversation more spiritually refreshing even than the weather, for the number of possible remarks about the weather is limited, whereas of food you can talk on and on and on.

- A. A. Milne

topic: Weather, Numbers, Conversation

Britney Spears can't hold a conversation. (mind controlled) The ultimate meltdown was Britney Spears. But she (Spears) can't hold a conversation. No. They have someone who feeds her what she is supposed to say. Like she can't hold a conversation.

- Adrienne Bailon

topic: Mind, Meltdowns, Conversation

In conversation, points arise! If a human being converses much, it is impossible for him to avoid the truth! (Hercule Poirot)

- Agatha Christie

topic: Impossible, Arise, Conversation, Hercule Poirot, Converses

There is nothing so dangerous for anyone who has something to hide as conversation!... A human being, Hastings, cannot resist theopportunity to reveal himself and express his personality which conversation gives him. Every time he will give himself away.

- Agatha Christie

topic: Giving, Personality, Conversation

I love the conversation between film and music.

- Agnes Obel

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Film, Conversation, Film And Music

Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times because they had nobody to talk about.

- Agnes Repplier

source: "American Austen: The Forgotten Writing of Agnes Repplier".

topic: Adam, Conversation, Difficult, Adam And Eve

It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought.

- Agnes Repplier

topic: Elation, Currents, Conversation

As a writer one is allowed to have conversations with oneself. What is considered sane in writers is made for the rest of the human race.

- Alan Ayckbourn

topic: Race, Made, Conversation

Wit in conversation is only a readiness of thought and a facility of expression, or a quick conception and an easy delivery.

- Alexander Pope

topic: Expression, Easy, Conversation, Conception, Facility

Not a sentence or a word is independent of the circumstances under which it is uttered.

- Alfred North Whitehead

topic: Independent, Conversation, Circumstances

What's interesting is, for myself, when I become really attracted to somebody, I find them in my dreams... conversations, nothing more.

- Alice Englert

source: "Alice Englert Talks Witch Bar Mitzvahs and Civil War Re-Enactments on the Set of 'Beautiful Creatures'". Interview with Scott Wampler, collider.com. November 8, 2012.

topic: Dream, Interesting, Conversation

Never had any mathematical conversations with anybody, because there was nobody else in my field.

- Alonzo Church

topic: Fields, Conversation, Mathematical

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

- Ambrose Bierce

topic: Competition, Conversation, Catching

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

- Ambrose Bierce

topic: Ideas, Substitutes, Conversation

Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine.

- Amos Bronson Alcott

topic: Debate, Feminine, Conversation

Debate is angular, conversation circular and radiant of the underlying unity.

- Amos Bronson Alcott

topic: Unity, Debate, Conversation

Egotists cannot converse, they talk to themselves only.

- Amos Bronson Alcott

source: Amos Bronson Alcott (1872). “Concord Days”, p.76

topic: Conversation

Good discourse sinks differences and seeks agreements.

- Amos Bronson Alcott

source: Amos Bronson Alcott (1872). “Concord Days”, p.74

topic: Agreement, Differences, Conversation

If I can enjoy a joke at the expense of another; if I can in any way slight another in conversation, or even in thought, then I know nothing of Calvary love.

- Amy Carmichael

topic: Way, Calvary, Conversation

I feel very open with people, and I'm good at disarming them and having conversations.

- Amy Schumer

topic: People, Conversation, Disarming

Personally, I'd rather have pins stuck in my eyes than endure a conversation with John Kerry, but I'd love to hang with Bush.

- Andrew Sullivan

topic: Eye, Politics, Conversation

[Winston Churchill] never spares himself in conversation. He gives himself so generously that hardly anyone else is permitted to give anything in his presence.

- Aneurin Bevan

topic: Giving, Political, Conversation

Blessed are they who hold lively conversations with the helplessly mute, for they shall be called dentists.

- Ann Landers

topic: Blessed, Dentist, Conversation, Dentistry, Dental

I possess the faculty of enjoying the company of those I - of my friends as well in silence as in conversation.

- Anne Bronte

topic: Silence, Conversation, Faculty

When you start putting pen to paper, you see a side of your personal truth that doesn't otherwise reveal itself in conversation or thought.

- Anthony Kiedis

topic: Paper, Sides, Conversation, Personal Truth, Scar Tissue

Fine. Since the tea is not forthcoming, let's have a philosophical conversation.

- Anton Chekhov

topic: Philosophical, Tea, Conversation, Forthcoming

It is almost axiomatic that the best conversationalist is really the best listener.

- Arlene Francis

source: Arlene Francis (1960). “That Certain Something; the Magic of Charm”

topic: Conversation

In Washington, DC, politics dominate even the most casual conversations.

- Armstrong Williams

topic: Washington Dc, Politics, Conversation

You know, photo conversations are replacing verbal conversations. I don't know if that's a bad thing. A photo is worth a thousand words.

- Ashton Kutcher

topic: Conversation, Thousand

A conversation isn't a competition.

- Barbara Walters

topic: Competition, Conversation

politics ... is the hottest, most dangerous subject in the land. It's not only a conversation-wrecker, it's a friendship-wrecker, a family-wrecker, a job-wrecker, a future-wrecker.

- Barbara Walters

topic: Jobs, Land, Conversation

There is an underlying timelessness in the basic conversation that is mathematics.

- Barry Mazur

topic: Mathematics, Conversation, Timelessness

I like roundtables because you can talk more directly to people. And you also can get kind of a vibe on what a journalist's take is on something, and have a conversation with them more.

- Ben Affleck

topic: People, Kind, Conversation

I detest war; it ruins conversation

- Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

topic: War, Ruins, Conversation, Detest

There's no time for conversation dear, moan is all I want to hear.

- Big Daddy Kane

topic: Want, Conversation, Dear

My conversations with God always seem leave him speechless.

- Big K.R.I.T.

source: FaceBook post by Big K.R.I.T. from May 05, 2013

topic: Conversations With God, Speechless, Conversation

Saying that cultural objects have value is like saying that telephones have conversations.

- Brian Eno

source: "A Year with Swollen Appendices". Book by Brian Eno, 1996.

topic: Telephones, Conversation, Values

I'm attracted to guys who are really confident and make conversation.

- Britney Spears

topic: Talking, Guy, Conversation

Chamber music - a conversation between friends.

- Catherine Drinker Bowen

topic: Friendship, Chamber Music, Conversation

Twitter is not a technology. It's a conversation and it's happening with or without you.

- Charlene Li

topic: Technology, Marketing, Conversation

Lettuce is like conversation; it must be fresh and crisp, so sparkling that you scarcely notice the bitter in it.

- Charles Dudley Warner

source: Charles Dudley Warner “The Complete Works of Charles Dudley Warner”, Library of Alexandria

topic: Food, Bitter, Conversation, Lettuce, Sparkling

She always carried a book, though, in case she needed to read a few pages to avoid unwanted conversation.

- Charles Frazier

topic: Book, Pages, Conversation

I found it very difficult to explain to someone why you did a film. It's not like having a conversation.

- Charlotte Gainsbourg

topic: Film, Found, Conversation

Books are always obviously having conversations with other books, and some times they're amiable and sometimes not.

- China Mieville

topic: Book, Sometimes, Conversation

Among the Igbo the art of conversation is regarded very highly, and proverbs are the palm-oil with which words are eaten.

- Chinua Achebe

topic: Art, Oil, Conversation, Palm Oil, Art Of Conversation

I do lots of crowd work in my set, because I enjoy writing material through riffing and conversation.

- Chris Hardwick

topic: Writing, Crowds, Conversation

The exchange by e-mail is more intimate than conversation - you allow yourself to say things you otherwise wouldn't.

- Christian Lacroix

topic: Mail, Intimate, Conversation

So many of our conversations (about affirmative action) have been dishonest

- Clarence Thomas

topic: Action, Conversation, Affirmative Action

The lower your decolletage, the less the need for conversation.

- Connie Brockway

topic: Needs, Conversation

And I always read the English translation and always have conversations with my translator, for example about the names. I always have to approve it.

- Cornelia Funke

topic: Names, Example, Conversation

Conversation is king. Content is just something to talk about.

- Cory Doctorow

source: "Content, Dethroned". www.npr.org. October 10, 2006.

topic: Kings, Conversation

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

- Damian Lewis

topic: Succeed, Conversation, Shows

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

- Damon Lindelof

topic: Littles, Interpretation, Conversation, Ted Talks

If your content isn't driving conversation, you're doing it wrong.

- Daniel Roth

topic: Marketing, Driving, Conversation, Great Marketing

It deserves and warrants conversation because somebody is saying, 'Hey, this offends me,'

- Darrell Green

topic: Hey, Conversation, Deserve

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

- Dave Barry

topic: Moving, Tired, Conversation

You don't have conversations with microprocessors. You tell them what to do, then helplessly watch the disaster when they take you literally!

- David Brin

topic: Watches, Disaster, Conversation, Microprocessor

Be mindful of your self-talk. It's a conversation with the universe.

- David James

topic: Self, Conversation, Self Talk

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

- David Rusenko

topic: Garden, Conversation, Focused

Put down the weight of your aloneness and ease into the conversation.

- David Whyte

topic: Ease, Weight, Conversation, Discrete, Aloofness

A real conversation always contains an invitation. You are inviting another person to reveal herself or himself to you, to tell you who they are or what they want.

- David Whyte

topic: Real, Want, Conversation, Real Conversation

All conversation, in addition to whatever else it does, displays, and asks for recognition of, our competence.

- Deborah Tannen

topic: Doe, Recognition, Conversation

Each person's life is lived as a series of conversations.

- Deborah Tannen

source: Deborah Tannen (2013). “You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation”, p.13, Harper Collins

topic: Communication, Life Is, Conversation

Everybody talks, but there is no conversation.

- Dejan Stojanovic

source: "The Sun Watches the Sun". Book by Dejan Stojanovic (Sequence: "A Stone and a Word," Chapter: "Stories," p. 60), 1999.

topic: 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.

- Devon Monk

source: Devon Monk (2009). “Magic in the Shadows: An Allie Beckstrom Novel”, p.290, Penguin

topic: Toilets, Stones, Conversation, Fours, Plumbing

Conversation: The slowest form of human communication.

- Don Herold

topic: Communication, Form, Conversation

I can't believe what I said about myself. What I said in my own private conversations with myself to an ESPN producer are my business, and I had no business saying them to someone else.

- Don King

topic: Believe, Espn, Conversation

Any conversation including the mention of Roald Dahl, Ray Bradbury, or Emily Dickinson is one worth getting into or at least eavesdropping.

- Don Roff

topic: Rays, Conversation, Bradbury, Eavesdropping

One thing my dad once said to me, "You either want to be right, or you want to be happy. To be happy, there's gotta be a conversation."

- Donald Glover

topic: Dad, Want, Conversation, Want To Be Happy

Why write stories? To join the conversation.

- Dorothy Allison

topic: Writing, Stories, Conversation

conversation is now pretty well a lost art.

- Dorothy Nevill

source: Lady Dorothy Nevill (1907). “The reminiscences of Lady Dorothy Nevill”, Arnold

topic: Art, Lost, Conversation, Lost Art

Conversation means being able to disagree and still continue the discussion

- Dwight Macdonald

topic: Mean, Able, Conversation

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

- E. L. Konigsburg

source: E.L. Konigsburg (2011). “Talk, Talk: A Children's Book Author Speaks to Grown-Ups”, p.41, Simon and Schuster

topic: Long, Conversation, Long Conversations

What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming.

- Edgar Degas

topic: Understanding, Charming, Conversation, Delightful Things, Specialists

During relaxation we drop our guard. Particularly in conversation. Relaxed conversation leads to openness. And in openness we often reveal what should never be revealed.

- Edward Carey

source: Edward Carey (2011). “Observatory Mansions”, p.65, Pan Macmillan

topic: Relaxation, Should, Conversation

I would rather take hellebore than spend a conversation with a good, little man.

- Edward Dahlberg

source: Edward Dahlberg (1964). “Alms for oblivion, essays: With a foreword by Sir Herbert Read”

topic: Men, Littles, Conversation

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

- Edward St Aubyn

topic: Together, Use, Conversation

I do not read a book; I hold a conversation with the author.

- Elbert Hubbard

topic: Book, Reading, Conversation

If a person begins by telling you, 'Do not be offended at what I am going to say,' prepare yourself for something that she knows will certainly offend you.

- Eliza Leslie

source: Eliza Leslie (1839). “Miss Leslie's Behaviour Book: A Guide and Manual for Ladies as Regards Their Conversation; Manners; Dress; with Full Instructions and Advice in Letter Writing [!]; Receiving Presents; Incorrect Words”, p.208

topic: Conversation, Persons, Offended

Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversations.

- Elizabeth Drew

topic: Travel, Mind, Conversation, Feet And Travel, Roads And Journeys

Debate is the death of conversation.

- Emil Ludwig

source: "Dictionary of Quotations in Communications". Book by Lilless McPherson Shilling, Linda K. Fuller, 1997.

topic: Argument, Debate, Conversation

I'm definitely a people person. I love socializing and being around people and having a good conversation.

- Emily Deschanel

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: People, Conversation, Good Conversation, Socializing

I like men with quick wit, good conversation and a great sense of humour. I love banter. I want a man to like me for me - I want him to be authentic.

- Emma Watson

topic: Men, Want, Conversation, Good Conversation, Banter

Although there exist many thousand subjects for elegant conversation, there are persons who cannot meet a cripple without talking about feet.

- Ernest Bramah

source: Ernest Bramah (2016). “ERNEST BRAMAH Ultimate Collection: 20+ Novels & Short Stories (Including Max Carrados Mysteries and Kai Lung Fantasy Stories): The Secret of the League, The Coin of Dionysius, The Game Played In the Dark, The Tilling Shaw Mystery, Kai Lung's Golden Hours, The Confession of Kai Lung, The Mirror of Kong Ho and many more”, p.194, e-artnow

topic: Talking, Feet, Conversation, Cripples

All serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy.

- Ernest Dimnet

topic: Philosophy, Serious, Conversation

Coffee is a product favouring sociability, friendship, and conversation and it should always be consumed with someone else.

- Ernesto Illy

topic: Coffee, Should, Conversation, Sociability

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

- Florence Nightingale

topic: Fancy, Conversation, Companion, Procession

Conceit causes more conversation than wit.

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

topic: Conceited, Causes, Conversation

Listening well and answering well is one of the greatest perfections that can be obtained in conversation.

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

topic: Perfection, Listening, Conversation

Oh, this thing of keeping in constant touch with God, of making him the object of my thought and the companion of my conversations, is the most amazing thing I ever ran across.

- Frank Laubach

source: Frank Laubach (2012). “Letters by a Modern Mystic: Excerpts from letters written to his father by Frank C. Laubach”, p.16, SPCK

topic: Most Amazing, Conversation, Companion

I and me are always too deeply in conversation.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

topic: Conversation

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

- Gail Parent

source: Gail Parent (1980). “The best laid plans”, Putnam Publishing Group

topic: Cups, Conversation

I'm a writer because I love reading. I love the conversation between a reader and a writer, and that it all takes place in a book-sort of a neutral ground. A writer puts down the words, and a reader interprets the words, and every reader will read a book differently. I love that.

- Garth Stein

topic: Book, Reading, Conversation

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

- Gerald Asher

topic: Writing, Kind, Conversation

No other practice will make one more attractive in conversation than to be well-read in a variety of subjects.

- Gordon B. Hinckley

topic: Practice, Attractive, Conversation

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

- Gregory Maguire

topic: Flow, Conversation, Said

The time has come - and must come - for multilateral conversations about a secure peace in all of Europe.

- Gustav Heinemann

topic: Europe, Conversation

He strains his conversation through a cigar.

- Hamilton Wright Mabie

topic: Sarcastic, Cigar, Conversation

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

topic: Art, Silence, Conversation, Art Of Conversation

Men are often (though not always) the pursuers for sex, just like women are often (though not always) the pursuers for conversation.

- Harriet Lerner

topic: Sex, Men, Conversation

Using someone's name during a conversation was like a casual caress, like stroking their hair.

- Harry Mulisch

source: Harry Mulisch, Paul Vincent (1997). “The Discovery of Heaven”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

topic: Hair, Names, Conversation, Caress

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

- Hector Hugh Munro

topic: Conversation

Most of my relationships were people in the business. Having said that, me and Tim don't really talk that much about work. He comes into my bit of the house every so often to vent but we don't really have very high, cultured conversations.

- Helena Bonham Carter

topic: People, House, Conversation

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

- Herman Koch

source: Herman Koch (2012). “The Dinner”, p.42, Atlantic Books Ltd

topic: Weakness, Film, Conversation

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

- Hiromu Arakawa

topic: Rude, Middle, Conversation

A kiss is the natures way to stop a conversation, when the words are superfluous

- Ingrid Bergman

topic: Kissing, Way, Conversation

I am mostly a pretty worried person. In conversations, I am always worried about what to say.

- Ira Glass

topic: Worried, Conversation, Persons

I love any discourse of rivers, and fish and fishing.

- Izaak Walton

source: 'The Compleat Angler' (1653) pt. 1, ch. 18

topic: Fishing, Rivers, Conversation

When scientific conversations cease, then dogma rather than knowledge begins to rule the day.

- Jaak Panksepp

source: Jaak Panksepp, Lucy Biven (2012). “The Archaeology of Mind: Neuroevolutionary Origins of Human Emotions”, p.401, W. W. Norton & Company

topic: Dogma, Conversation

God, just shoot me the day I start making music you can just put on in the car and have a conversation over it.

- Jack Antonoff

topic: Car, Conversation, Over It

There is no such thing as a worthless conversation, provided you know what to listen for. And questions are the breath of life for a conversation.

- James N. Miller

topic: Listening, Conversation, Worthless

I never had a single conversation about politics with Ross Perot in my life; still haven't.

- James Stockdale

topic: Conversation, Stills

We change people through conversation, not through censorship.

- Jay-Z

topic: People, Censorship, Conversation

I get really starstruck and tongue tied when I'm around other writers and the conversation tends not to go well.

- Jennifer Weiner

topic: Tongue, Conversation, Get Real, Tongue Tied

There were no hundreds and hundreds of cases of domestic violence. I would have no knowledge of that or have any idea how I would authenticate that. That was never the intent of the writer's conversation with me.

- Jerry Angelo

topic: Ideas, Domestic Violence, Conversation

I wonder if the conversations you've never had with someone count, if you've been over them a thousand times in your mind.

- Jodi Picoult

topic: Mind, Wonder, Conversation

Informal conversation is probably the oldest mechanism by which opinions on products and brands are developed, expressed, and spread.

- Johann Arndt

topic: Business, Opinion, Conversation

Make Things rather than Persons the subjects of conversations.

- John Adams

topic: Conversation, Persons, Subjects

Repartee is the soul of conversation.

- John Dryden

topic: Soul, Conversation, Repartee

Having a human conversation is not something I've had any training in either as a comedian or as, you know, a human being.

- John Oliver

topic: Comedian, Training, Conversation

Conversation is a catalyst for innovation

- John Seely Brown

topic: Innovation, Catalyst, Conversation

I never initiated nor did the FBI ever initiate any conversation or correspondence with me.

- John Sherman Cooper

topic: Conversation, Fbi, Initiate, Correspondence

The best ideas start as conversations.

- Jonathan Ive

source: "DM25 What Next for Design? with Jonathan Ive". Interview with Deyan Sudjic, designmuseum.org. November 12, 2014.

topic: Ideas, Design, Conversation

It was terrible. All of the things we couldn't share. The room was filled with conversations we weren't having.

- Jonathan Safran Foer

topic: Rooms, Share, Conversation

What was it that drew you back? My marvellous personality, I suppose? Or my sparkling conversation?

- Jonathan Stroud

source: Jonathan Stroud (2005). “Bartimaeus Trilogy, Book Three: Ptolemy's Gate”, Disney-Hyperion

topic: Personality, Conversation, Marvellous

Argument is the worst sort of conversation.

- Jonathan Swift

topic: Opinion, Argument, Conversation

And surely one of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid…

- Jonathan Swift

topic: Wish, Conversation, Unsaid

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

- Joseph Brodsky

topic: Conversation, Explaining, Dislike

The best joke-tellers are those who have the patience to wait for conversation to come around to the point where the jokes in their repertoire have application.

- Joseph Epstein

source: Joseph Epstein (1979). “Familiar territory: observations on American life”, Oxford University Press

topic: Waiting, Conversation, Application

My favorite kinds of movies are the ones that start a conversation.

- Joseph Gordon-Levitt

topic: Kind, My Favorite, Conversation

Those who do not have imaginary conversations do not love.

- Josephine Hart

source: Josephine Hart (1999). “The Stillest Day”, Overlook Books

topic: Conversation, Imaginary

There's a difference between using the word to insult somebody and using it to start a journalistic conversation.

- Juan Williams

topic: Differences, Insult, Conversation

The one prediction that never comes true is, 'You'll thank me for telling you this.

- Judith Martin

topic: Predictions, Conversation, Busybodies

We only really learn in conversation after sex.

- Judith Merril

topic: Sex, Conversation

The term 'laity' is one of the worst in the vocabulary of religion and ought to be banished from the Christian conversation.

- Karl Barth

topic: Christian, Vocabulary, Conversation

People are actually having conversations about "Is this sexist?"

- Kathleen Hanna

topic: People, Sexist, Conversation

Where do most go to complain about a company/brand? TWITTER. Conversations are happening whether you are there or not.

- Kim Garst

topic: Complaining, Social Media, Conversation

She felt so human that he could barely carry on a conversation.

- L.A. Weatherly

source: L.A. Weatherly (2010). “Angel: The Angel Trilogy”, p.84, Usborne Publishing Ltd

topic: Conversation, Humans

nobody is such a fool as to moider away his time in the slip-slop conversation of a pack of women.

- Lady Hester Stanhope

source: Lady Hester Lucy Stanhope (1845). “Memoirs of the Lady Hester Stanhope: As Related by Herself in Conversations with Her Physician; Comprising Her Opinions and Anecdotes of Some of the Most Remarkable Persons of Her Time”, p.377

topic: Fool, Conversation, Packs

Bore : A fellow who can change the subject back to his topic of conversation faster than you can change it back to yours.

- Laurence J. Peter

topic: Topics, Conversation, Faster

Conversation didn't seem necessary when I put the accordion down and swung some young lady around the floor.

- Lawrence Welk

source: Lawrence Welk, Bernice McGeehan (1973). “Wunnerful, Wunnerful: The Autobiography of Lawrence Welk”

topic: Talking, Down And, Conversation, Accordions

My accent remained terrible. It was very hard for me to initiate any conversation with someone I didn't know.

- Lawrence Welk

topic: Talking, Accents, Conversation, Initiate

Never start a conversation with a yawn

- Lee Clow

topic: Conversation

No discussion between two persons can be of any use, until each knows clearly what it is that the other asserts.

- Lewis Carroll

source: Lewis Carroll, Morton Norton Cohen, Roger Lancelyn Green (1979). “The letters of Lewis Carroll”, Oxford University Press, USA

topic: Two, Use, Conversation

Why is there even a conversation about feminism?

- Lily Allen

topic: Feminism, Conversation

Good satire hopefully provides thought-provoking conversation.

- Lizz Winstead

source: "Lizz Winstead, Freely Speaking". Interview with Lianne Stokes, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 9, 2012.

topic: Thought Provoking, Satire, Conversation

All social change begins with a conversation.

- Margaret J. Wheatley

topic: Social, Conversation, Social Change

For the human species to evolve, the conversation must deepen.

- Margaret Mead

topic: Conversation, Evolve, Humans, Human Species

Can you believe the weather?'...'Actually, I CAN believe the weather. What I can't believe is that I'm actually having a conversation about the weather.

- Maria Semple

topic: Believe, Weather, Conversation

Teaching...can be likened to a conversation in which you listen to the speaker carefully before you reply.

- Marie Clay

topic: Inspiring, Teaching, Conversation

When you have a nonverbal conversation with a total stranger, then he cant cover himself with words, he cant create a wall.

- Marina Abramovic

topic: Wall, Stranger, Conversation, Nonverbal

The conversation of bullets.

- Markus Zusak

topic: Bullets, Conversation

Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.

- Marquis de Sade

topic: Running, Certain, Conversation, Quills

There can be no situation in life in which the conversation of my dear sister will not administer some comfort to me.

- Mary Wortley Montagu

topic: Sister, Comfort, Conversation, Inspirational Sister, Inspirational Sisterhood

Like a genial hotelier, Rolex has introduced me to some of the nicest people. I ask about their Rolex and they ask about mine. It's as marvelous a conversation piece as it is a timepiece.

- Maurice Chevalier

topic: People, Pieces, Conversation, Timepieces, Rolex

Education is ... the invitation to disentangle oneself, for a time, from the urgencies of the here and now and to listen to the conversation in which human beings forever seek to understand themselves.

- Michael Joseph Oakeshott

topic: Forever, Conversation, Here And Now

I was always wanting to learn and be one of those actresses who can actually hold a conversation as opposed to standing there looking pretty.

- Michelle Trachtenberg

source: Interview with Nicki Gostin, MSNBC, March 11, 2005.

topic: Actresses, Conversation, Standing, Looking Pretty

This is a time for a national conversation. A conversation about the document that binds us as a nation and a people. That document, of course, is the Constitution.

- Mike DeWine

topic: People, Constitution, Conversation

I feel comfortable tweeting things that I would never feel comfortable saying in a real life conversation, or even in other places on the internet.

- Mira Gonzalez

source: "What Would Twitter Do?". Interview with Sheila Heti, logger.believermag.com. July 2, 2014.

topic: Real, Internet, Conversation

I grew up in a family where the women were just nuts. They didn't stand around in cardigans making polite conversation while they chopped tomatoes.

- Nadia Giosia

topic: Nuts, Tomatoes, Conversation, Polite Conversation, Cardigans

It was terrible when a single conversation with someone determined your whole future relationship.

- Naomi Shihab Nye

topic: Determined, Conversation, Terrible, Future Relationship

I always love being in the company of women. It's all about good conversation and great wine.

- Naomi Watts

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Wine, Love Is, Conversation, Good Conversation

There is not a day that goes by that does not include a conversation with God. There is not a day that goes by that does not contain signs. There are many days that go by on which we do not hear the conversation, do not see the signs. So stay awake.

- Neale Donald Walsch

topic: Doe, Conversations With God, Conversation

That's the nice thing about collaborating with someone: Your work becomes a conversation.

- Noah Baumbach

topic: Nice, Conversation, Nice Things, Collaborating

Maybe you could casually mention to Zoe that I'm not now, nor have I ever been, an axe murderer." "I'll see if I can work it into our next conversation," Flynn promised.

- Nora Roberts

topic: Next, Conversation, Working It

It's like breathing in and out to me. It's like having a conversation with someone who isn't there. Because it has to be addressed to somebody - not a particular person, or very rarely.

- Norman MacCaig

topic: Breathing, Conversation, Persons

Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.

- O. Henry

source: O. Henry (2016). “The Complete Works Of O. Henry”, p.776, ShandonPress

topic: Communication, Conversation, Dough, Raisins

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

- Orson Scott Card

topic: Hands, Credit, Conversation

If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation.

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Music, Conversation, Duty, Bad Music

Its a beautiful woman's fate to be the subject of conversation where ever she goes

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Beautiful, Fate, Conversation

Conversation should touch everything, but should concentrate itself on nothing.

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Communication, Conversation, Should, Meaningful Conversations

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

- Ozzy Osbourne

topic: Retirement, Conversation

I don't want to get into extended conversations with people on MySpace, because there are friends I have extended conversations with every day.

- Patton Oswalt

topic: People, Want, Conversation

Food was a constant topic of conversation in our household.

- Paul Lynde

topic: Topics, Comedy, Conversation

Theater is perhaps one of the few places left where we are in a dialogue right now. Everything has become so partisan, and the rhetoric has become so heated, that conversation is almost impossible.

- Paula Vogel

topic: Impossible, Theater, Conversation

Talking to you is only thinking to myself - made easier.

- Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

topic: Thinking, Talking, Conversation

I strike up conversations all the time and it is very interesting, finding out about things I know nothing about.

- Peter Ackroyd

topic: Interesting, Conversation, Strikes

Conversation like television set on honeymoon... unnecessary.

- Peter Sellers

source: "Fictional character: Mr. Wang". "Murder by Death", 1976.

topic: Television, Unnecessary, Conversation, Honeymoon

My juicer is not meant to squeeze lemons; it is meant to start conversations

- Philippe Starck

source: "Emotional about design". www.theguardian.com. March 11, 2004.

topic: Conversation, Lemons

Wherever conversation's flowing, / Why must I feel it falls on me / To keep things going?

- Phyllis McGinley

source: Phyllis McGinley, “Reflections At Dawn”

topic: Fall, Conversation, Feels

I never actually got around to taping conversations with my guests, but there are a lot of things you can learn from a man like Nixon.

- Pierre Trudeau

topic: Men, Guests, Conversation

The more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me is the pleasure and charm of conversation.

- Plato

topic: Body, Pleasure, Conversation, Fade Away

Because the truth of God is love, conversion to God is conversion to love.

- Pope Benedict XVI

topic: God Is Love, Conversation, Conversion, Truth Of God

gossip is just the small change of conversation.

- Rae Foley

topic: Gossip, Conversation, Small Changes

A man of no conversation should smoke.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Men, Smoking, Conversation

Silence is also conversation.

- Ramana Maharshi

topic: Silence, Chaos, Conversation

Customer conversion is dependent on the right customer conversation.

- Rasheed Ogunlaru

topic: Educational, Conversation

God knew where he was, but he asked so as to start a conversation with Adam and avoid startling him too much to reply.

- Rashi

source: Commenting on Gen. 3:9; why should an omniscient God ask "Where are you?",

topic: Too Much, Adam, Conversation

I tell my friends about my conversations with my father - conversations with an artist.

- Ray Conniff

topic: Father, Artist, Conversation

There is no God, and conversation is a dying art.

- Raymond Carver

topic: Art, Dying, Conversation

There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all.

- Rebecca West

source: The Harsh Voice "There Is No Conversation" (1935)

topic: Communication, Illusion, Conversation, Monologues, No Communication

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

- Reid Hoffman

topic: Energy, Groups, Conversation

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

- Renata Adler

topic: Strategy, Linear, Conversation

I consider myself a religious person. God is something very personal with me and I don't flaunt religion in conversation with others.

- Richard Chamberlain

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Religious, Religious Love, Conversation, Religious Person

LOL has turned into something you type when you have nothing better to add into a conversation.

- Richard Harris

topic: Add, Conversation, Type

The pleasures of relaxed chat, of casual conversation, encourage the ethnographer in everyone

- Richard Sennett

topic: Pleasure, Conversation, Casual

I'm bleeding, I'm not just making conversation.

- Richard Siken

topic: Bleeding, Conversation

I don't know it's not really a conversation until it's a reality. We'll see. A lot can happen between now and when (Tinsley) comes back. It's a situation that we'll resolve when it comes time to resolve it.

- Rick Carlisle

topic: Reality, Conversation, Resolve

I don't like when there's too much conversation because I'm shy and it makes me uncomfortable.

- Rita Rudner

topic: Shy, Too Much, Conversation

The best presenters have conversations with their audiences.

- Robert Bly

topic: Business, Conversation, Audience, Presenter