Best 825 quotes in «conversation quotes» category

You don't talk much, do you?" she blurted out. "I didn't think there was a need. You seem to be holding up both our ends of the conversation admirably.

You know you're about as forthcoming as a mime.

You must endeavor to seem interested in the conversations of others; you'll be surprised by what you might learn.

Your narrative may fail to grip if you haven't taken any care to find out how well or badly your audience member is faring (or feeling).

You’re not the only one in this relationship who loves a challenge,” he says. “And just so you know for the future, I like my double-chocolate chip cookies warm and soft in the middle . . . and without magnets glued to them.

You never listen to me anymore. Before, if I was talking to you, you would always listen. But now you have no time to even talk to me. 'Yeah... Has Keaty told you not to eat the Stew?' 'Richard!' I frowned 'What?' 'You are not listening to me!' '… Oh. Well I'm sorry. I've got a lot on my mind.' 'Not me.' 'Huh?' 'I am not on your mind.' 'Uh... of course you are.' 'I am not' she poked me in the ribs. 'I think you do not love me anymore.' I looked at her in astonishment '… Are you serious?' 'Very serious' she said petulantly 'But... I mean... do we have to talk about this right now?' 'Yes. It must be now. Etienne is not here, and maybe soon I will never see you agai...' 'Francoise!' I hissed. 'Keep it down!' 'Maybe I should keep it down but maybe I should not. In the dope field, when I would not be quiet, you pushed me to the ground and held me tightly'. She giggled. 'It was very exciting'.

Your steady rain of words soaked me to the skin

You stuttered like a kaleidoscope, because you knew too many words.

You should really smile more Miss.” “Smiling Is overrated.” my voice as sharp as a knife, my voice deadpanned, as I sulked at the wall.

A continuing conversation with other persons, with cultural products, and with oneself, is a large part of what it means to be a human being, in our time and perhaps in all time.

A civil guest Will no more talk all, than eat all the feast.

A conversation in English in Finnish and in French can not be held at the same time nor with indifference ever or after a time.

A conversation isn't a competition.

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

A good maxim allows you to have the last word without even starting a conversation.

A good rule of conversation is never answer a foolish question.

A good competition for comedians would be where a comedian has a conversation and is then quizzed on what the other person says.

A good friendship is a conversation that never ends.

A good quartet is like a good conversation among friends interacting to each other's ideas.

A great dinner must include not only yummy food, but good conversation.

A good thing to do when one is sitting, eating, and resting is to have a conversation.

A great way to be left alone on the subway is to appear to be deep in conversation with a small knife.

A journalist is basically a chronicler, not an interpreter of events. Where else in society do you have the license to eavesdrop on so many different conversations as you have in journalism? Where else can you delve into the life of our times?

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

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

All I know about humor is that I don't know anything about it.

All problems exist in the absence of a good conversation.

All journalists hope that their work will inspire a broader conversation. I think that's just what journalism is.

All my life I've been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.

All social change begins with a conversation.

Amongst such as out of cunning hear all and talk little, be sure to talk less; or if you must talk, say little.

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

Always enter the conversation already taking place in the customer's mind.

A man of no conversation should smoke.

A moment of disruption is where the conversation about disruption often begins, even though determining that moment is entirely hindsight.

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.

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.

And one of our points of continuing conversation with our trading partners is the urgency of their taking steps to remove barriers to their improved growth performance.

Another definition of modernity: conversations can be more and more completely reconstructed with clips from other conversations taking place at the same time on the planet.

...An honest conversation with anyone is a form of praying.

An egotist will always speak of himself, either in praise or in censure, but a modest man ever shuns making himself the subject of his conversation.

A novel is a conversation starter, and if the author isn't there for the after-party, both the writer and the reader are missing a lot.

Anytime you've got something that can take you into the political realm then you've opened up the conversation a lot.

Any conversation I have about innovation starts with the ultimate goal.

Anything that begins 'I don't know how to tell you this' is never good news.

Any conversations we hear about 'So who are Pearl Jam marketing to?' are despicable.

Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of conversation, as it is generally in books the worst sort of reading.

A picture is worth a thousand words, but conversations with them generally end in dissapointment.

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.

A person who talks with equal vivacity on every subject, excites no interest in any. Repose is as necessary in conversation as in a picture.