Best 825 quotes in «conversation quotes» category

No man comes out of his own memorandum of conversation looking second best.

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

Not dancing well, I never danced at all--and how grievously has my heart ached when others where in the full enjoyment of that conversation which I had no right even to partake.

Nowadays there is no conversation at all. Teachers distrust talk as much as business men.

Now I'm in the business and I do have to have these awkward conversations about how I look, how I talk. But I'm still here.

% of what you understand in a conversation is read through the body, not the words.

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.

One is always wrong to open a conversation with the devil, for, however he goes about it, he always insists upon having the last word.

Oh, well, if you want original conversations, you'd better go and talk to yourself.

Our conversation rate has to go up before our conversion rate can go up.

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.

Our companions please us less from the charms we find in their conversation than from those they find in ours.

One's own vanities and humiliations I find a delicious subject for conversation. Things said of me behind my back I don't enjoy, and don't listen to them.

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

Our friendship is made up of these brief frenzied exchanges, but the quality of our conversation, for all its feverish outpouring, is genuine.

Our gazes met. It seemed an entire conversation took place in that one glance. Each of us saw what we needed to know.

Our rule is: If it makes the parent laugh, and the kid asks why, that can't be an uncomfortable conversation.

Overheard today in restaurant: Can you stop listening to our conversation?

Out of anger comes controversy, out of controversy comes conversation, out of conversation comes action.

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

People learn more from observation that they do from conversation.

People are actually having conversations about "Is this sexist?

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.

Poetry is subconscious conversation, it is as much the work of those who understand it and those who make it.

Polite Conversation Why, everyone one as they like; as the good woman said when she kissed her cow.

Prayer is both conversation and encounter with God.

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.

Prayer is a friendly conversation with the One we know loves us.

Prayer is a conversation with God, but prayer is no substitute for work.

Prayer is - loving conversation with the One who has invited us into His embrace.

Prayer is continuing a conversation that God has started through his Word and his grace, which eventually becomes a full encounter with him.

Pretty much everyone on my iPod, I'd like to be friends with. But I'd say that the main two that I'd love to get into a conversation with, are Werner Herzog and Graham Hancock.

'Psychotherapy' is a private, confidential conversation that has nothing to do with illness, medicine, or healing.

Probably one of the reasons why gushing is so unattractive is that it leaves nothing for the listener to do.

Race always comes up in the conversation of Detroit.

Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen.

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

Science is like literature, a continuing dialog among diverse and conflicting voices, no one ever wholly right or wholly wrong, but a steady conversation forever provisional and personal and living.

Reading is, at its best, not an escape; it is genuine experience. A novel is not a monologue, but a conversation, a collaboration between writer and reader, an invaluable exchange of human conditions.

Reasonable men are the best dictionaries of conversation.

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

Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well.

Real speech can only come from complete silence. Incomplete silence is as fussy as deliberate conversation.

Repose is as necessary in conversation as in a picture.

She was not often invited to join in the conversation of the others, nor did she desire it. Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions.

Sexuality is, of course, a great way of having a conversation between people.

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

Sometimes I'll start a sentence and I don't know where it's going. I just hope to find it somewhere along the way. Like an improv conversation. An improversation.

Sighs and silences and avoided conversations are just as important as the things you do talk about.

Silence and modesty are very valuable qualities in conversation.