Best 825 quotes in «conversation quotes» category

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

He strains his conversation through a cigar.

He tried to listen to the conversations going on at the table and he found that he could no longer concentrate on what anyone was saying and which was worse that he was not interested in any of what he was able to hear.

... 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.

He was right. They could have a whole conversation without exchanging a word. And the conversation they had right now went like this: Colin, shut it. I don’t think I will, M. Then I’ll make you. Really? How?I’m not certain, but it will be slow and painful. And I won’t leave any evidence.

His conversation was marked by its happy abundance.

How can you read and talk at the same time?” I asked. “Well, I usually can’t, but neither the book nor the conversation is particularly intellectually challenging.

How often one talks not to hear what the other person has got to say, but to hear what one has got to say oneself!

How often, when we have been nearest each other bodily, have we really been farthest off! Our tongues were the witty foils with which we fenced each other off.

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

I always knew what I thought the theme was, the core, in one word. In 'The Godfather' it was succession. In 'The Conversation' it was privacy. In 'Apocalypse' it was morality.

I am much beholden to old age, which has increased my eagerness for conversation in proportion as it has lessened my appetites of hunger and thirst.

I am often attracted to people with whom I could not hold a five minute conversation.

I am really driven, but my drive doesn't effect the conversations I have in my head about life, and my worries and fears and insecurities.

I began a conversation with the heads of our esteemed department of political science, and instantly I concluded, 'Hopelessly incompetent!

I can read your body language like a 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.

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

I don't feel old. Okay, maybe I do when I get in a conversation with Earl Thomas, who was born in 1989.

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.

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

I despise this weakness in myself - this endless one-sided conversation that takes the place of action.

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

I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar.

I do not repeat conversations that I can't remember. And it's something that irritates me a great deal, because I think most memoirs are false novels.

I do not wish to hide my origins, nor do I seek to make it a subject of conversation. I am what I am.

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

I don't think I've ever seen a person having a serious conversation on a cellphone. It's like a kiddie thing, a complete time waster.

I do think we think repetitively. It's so hard to get certain thoughts out of your head. If you're angry at a friend, you're going to keep going back to that 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.

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.

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

I feel like in a conversation if things get said and then repeated, it sort of becomes inherently part of the narrative whether you want it to be or not.

I feel like my first conversation with someone, I really get a good feeling about who that person is and mainly about how open they are.

I feel like when there's so much conversation about women's athletics right now, we need to focus on their performance and their skill.

I feel the same truth how often in my trivial conversation with my neighbours, that somewhat higher in each of us overlooks this by-play, and Jove nods to Jove from behind each of us.

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.

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

If I'm feeling that I have an angle or something to say or something where in a way I'm having a conversation with myself, that's immensely pleasurable.

I find more and more that I am a man of the 1920s. I still expect something exciting. Drinks, animated conversation, gaiety: the uninhibited exchange of ideas.

If a man is often the subject of conversation he soon becomes the subject of criticism.

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

If to talk to oneself when alone is folly, it must be doubly unwise to listen to oneself in the presence of others.

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

If we ever meet in real life, we can have a conversation. But you should go and live your real life and I'll go and live mine.

If you are trying to take a difficult decision and you're weighing up the pros and cons, you have frank conversations. Everybody knows this in their walk of life.

If you'd sat there any longer,' Annabeth said, 'you would have spontaneously combusted. I hope the conversation was worth it?

If you spend any time in Los Angeles, there's only one topic of conversation.

If you start a conversation with the assumption that you are right or that you must win, obviously it is difficult to talk.

[If] you want to learn something about somebody, get into a fistfight. You'll learn more in five minutes than you will in five weeks of conversations. It's basic.