Conversation famous quotes
06-14-2025
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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 -
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 -
In conversation, points arise! If a human being converses much, it is impossible for him to avoid the truth! (Hercule Poirot)
-- Agatha Christie -
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 -
I love the conversation between film and music.
-- Agnes Obel -
Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times because they had nobody to talk about.
-- Agnes Repplier -
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 -
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 -
Wit in conversation is only a readiness of thought and a facility of expression, or a quick conception and an easy delivery.
-- Alexander Pope -
Not a sentence or a word is independent of the circumstances under which it is uttered.
-- Alfred North Whitehead -
What's interesting is, for myself, when I become really attracted to somebody, I find them in my dreams... conversations, nothing more.
-- Alice Englert -
Never had any mathematical conversations with anybody, because there was nobody else in my field.
-- Alonzo Church -
Conversation, n.: A vocal competition in which the one who is catching his breath is called the listener.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
Cribbage, n. A substitute for conversation among those to whom nature has denied ideas.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine.
-- Amos Bronson Alcott -
Debate is angular, conversation circular and radiant of the underlying unity.
-- Amos Bronson Alcott -
Egotists cannot converse, they talk to themselves only.
-- Amos Bronson Alcott -
Good discourse sinks differences and seeks agreements.
-- Amos Bronson Alcott -
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 -
I feel very open with people, and I'm good at disarming them and having conversations.
-- Amy Schumer -
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 -
[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 -
Blessed are they who hold lively conversations with the helplessly mute, for they shall be called dentists.
-- Ann Landers -
I possess the faculty of enjoying the company of those I - of my friends as well in silence as in conversation.
-- Anne Bronte -
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 -
Fine. Since the tea is not forthcoming, let's have a philosophical conversation.
-- Anton Chekhov -
It is almost axiomatic that the best conversationalist is really the best listener.
-- Arlene Francis -
In Washington, DC, politics dominate even the most casual conversations.
-- Armstrong Williams -
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 -
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 -
There is an underlying timelessness in the basic conversation that is mathematics.
-- Barry Mazur -
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 -
I detest war; it ruins conversation
-- Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle -
There's no time for conversation dear, moan is all I want to hear.
-- Big Daddy Kane -
My conversations with God always seem leave him speechless.
-- Big K.R.I.T. -
Saying that cultural objects have value is like saying that telephones have conversations.
-- Brian Eno -
I'm attracted to guys who are really confident and make conversation.
-- Britney Spears -
Chamber music - a conversation between friends.
-- Catherine Drinker Bowen -
Twitter is not a technology. It's a conversation and it's happening with or without you.
-- Charlene Li -
Lettuce is like conversation; it must be fresh and crisp, so sparkling that you scarcely notice the bitter in it.
-- Charles Dudley Warner -
She always carried a book, though, in case she needed to read a few pages to avoid unwanted conversation.
-- Charles Frazier -
I found it very difficult to explain to someone why you did a film. It's not like having a conversation.
-- Charlotte Gainsbourg -
Books are always obviously having conversations with other books, and some times they're amiable and sometimes not.
-- China Mieville -
Among the Igbo the art of conversation is regarded very highly, and proverbs are the palm-oil with which words are eaten.
-- Chinua Achebe -
I do lots of crowd work in my set, because I enjoy writing material through riffing and conversation.
-- Chris Hardwick -
The exchange by e-mail is more intimate than conversation - you allow yourself to say things you otherwise wouldn't.
-- Christian Lacroix -
So many of our conversations (about affirmative action) have been dishonest
-- Clarence Thomas -
The lower your decolletage, the less the need for conversation.
-- Connie Brockway -
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 -
Conversation is king. Content is just something to talk about.
-- Cory Doctorow -
The best shows succeed because they tap into a national conversation,
-- Damian Lewis -
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 -
If your content isn't driving conversation, you're doing it wrong.
-- Daniel Roth -
It deserves and warrants conversation because somebody is saying, 'Hey, this offends me,'
-- Darrell Green -
Can we move this conversation along, I'm getting frightfully tired of 'hoa'.
-- Dave Barry -
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 -
Be mindful of your self-talk. It's a conversation with the universe.
-- David James -
Facebook has focused on the conversation, but not really on absorbing the Web into its walled garden.
-- David Rusenko -
Put down the weight of your aloneness and ease into the conversation.
-- David Whyte -
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 -
All conversation, in addition to whatever else it does, displays, and asks for recognition of, our competence.
-- Deborah Tannen -
Each person's life is lived as a series of conversations.
-- Deborah Tannen -
Everybody talks, but there is no conversation.
-- Dejan Stojanovic -
... 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 -
Conversation: The slowest form of human communication.
-- Don Herold -
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 -
Any conversation including the mention of Roald Dahl, Ray Bradbury, or Emily Dickinson is one worth getting into or at least eavesdropping.
-- Don Roff -
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 -
Why write stories? To join the conversation.
-- Dorothy Allison -
conversation is now pretty well a lost art.
-- Dorothy Nevill -
Conversation means being able to disagree and still continue the discussion
-- Dwight Macdonald -
Never have a long conversation with anyone who says "between you and I.
-- E. L. Konigsburg -
What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming.
-- Edgar Degas -
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 -
I would rather take hellebore than spend a conversation with a good, little man.
-- Edward Dahlberg -
It's no use imagining that bringing great writers together inevitably precipitates great conversation.
-- Edward St Aubyn -
I do not read a book; I hold a conversation with the author.
-- Elbert Hubbard -
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 -
Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversations.
-- Elizabeth Drew -
The conversation ran as fluidly as the tea out of the samovar’s crooked nose.
-- Ella Leya -
I'm definitely a people person. I love socializing and being around people and having a good conversation.
-- Emily Deschanel -
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 -
Although there exist many thousand subjects for elegant conversation, there are persons who cannot meet a cripple without talking about feet.
-- Ernest Bramah -
All serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy.
-- Ernest Dimnet -
Coffee is a product favouring sociability, friendship, and conversation and it should always be consumed with someone else.
-- Ernesto Illy -
[On Thomas Babington Macaulay:] He was a most disagreeable companion to my fancy ... His conversation was a procession of one.
-- Florence Nightingale -
Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
Listening well and answering well is one of the greatest perfections that can be obtained in conversation.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
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 -
I and me are always too deeply in conversation.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche -
When friends ask for a second cup they are open to conversation ...
-- Gail Parent -
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 -
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.
-- Gayle Forman -
Writing is a conversation, to me. The best kind. You can't get interrupted.
-- Gerald Asher -
No other practice will make one more attractive in conversation than to be well-read in a variety of subjects.
-- Gordon B. Hinckley -
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 -
The time has come - and must come - for multilateral conversations about a secure peace in all of Europe.
-- Gustav Heinemann -
He strains his conversation through a cigar.
-- Hamilton Wright Mabie
