Best 825 quotes in «conversation quotes» category

There is a certain type of conversation one hears only when one is drunk and it is like a dream, full of humor and threat and significance, deep significance.

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

There is a person whose acquaintance and conversation I do earnestly recommend unto you as thing of the greatest advantage: you will be surprised when I tell you it is yourself.

There is no arena in which vanity displays itself under such a variety of forms as in conversation.

There is never an embarrassing silence that can't be turned into a regrettable conversation.

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

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.

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.

There is nothing worse than silence, strung like heavy beads on too delicate a conversation.

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

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.

There was a nice dilemma. How does one interject into a polite conversation, "By the way, in case you're ever interested, I do have a penise."?

The true language of commerce is the natural conversation between human beings.

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

The time has come for a new kind of conversation, a new kind of Christianity, a new kind of revolution.

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

the wasting of time is the most personal, most private, most intimate form of conversation with oneself, as well as with another.

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

The youngest child in any family is always a jokemaker, because a joke is the only way he can enter into an adult conversation.

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

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.

Three days of uninterrupted company in a vehicle will make you better acquainted with another, than one hour's conversation with him every day for three years.

Those who do not have imaginary conversations do not love.

'Tis happy for him that his Father was born before him.

To believe in God starts with a conclusion about Him, develops into confidence in Him, and then matures into a conversation with Him.

To conclude: good journalism is one of the models of good conversation and communication in the wider social context.

Topics of conversation among the multitude are generally persons, sometimes things, scarcely ever principles.

Tone is often the most important part of a conversation - and listening is so much more important than what you say.

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

To mark all that I say in conversation, merely to beget in others, a good opinion of myself, and examine it.

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

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

Usually, when Nirvana made music, there wasn't a lot of conversation. We wanted everything to be surreal. We didn't want to have some contrived composition.

Very strong personalities must confine themselves in mutual conversation to very gentle subjects.

Very great change starts from very small conversations, held among people who care.

We change people through conversation, not through censorship.

Virtually anything is more stimulating than conversations with strangers at social gatherings.

We never could clearly understand how it is that egotism, so unpopular in conversation, should be so popular in writing.

We don't often have the luxury of time [in Steve Jobs movie ]to have these conversations where you just literally get to sit around for day and days and analyze every line of dialogue.

We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men.

We never say so much as when we do not quite know what we want to say. We need few words when we have something to say, but all the words in all the dictionaries will not suffice when we have nothing to say and want desperately to say it.

We owe to one another all the wit and good humour we can command; and nothing so clears our mental vistas as sympathetic and intelligent conversation.

We've all had those phone conversations. Things are heated, you're in a position where you're gonna say something nasty. Instead, you say, "Oh, I've got that thing in the oven." Lie. Get off the phone. Don't perpetuate a bad situation.

We should not see print and electronic literature as in competition, but rather in conversation. The more voices that join in, the richer the dialogue is likely to be.

We should have a conversation when we hang up.

What an odd, ruminating, noisy, self-interrupting conversation we conduct with ourselves from birth to death.

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

What great delight it is to see the ones we love and then to have speech with them.

What frightens us most in a madman is his sane conversation.

What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor, more unashamed conversation.