Best 825 quotes in «conversation quotes» category

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

If your content isn't driving conversation, you're doing it wrong.

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.

I get energy from one-on-one conversations most often, and I lose energy from group conversations most often.

I get really starstruck and tongue tied when I'm around other writers and the conversation tends not to go well.

Ignorance has its virtues; without it there'd be mighty little conversation.

I got to sit down with people who I admired, and have conversations with some of the greatest thinkers and artists and performers. It's a huge privilege for me to be a journalist.

I hate war, for it spoils conversation.

I had a great conversation with Trent Reznor. Trent said, "I'd have a sixpack, too, if I didn't write my own music!

I guess they say that you can find out if you're an extravert or an introvert by how you recharge yourself and I guess I'm more of an introvert in that way because I like to be by myself to recharge, but I'm definitely a people person. I love socializing and being around people and having good conversations.

I have a contract but it's not a commitment in the ordinary sense. It's our ongoing conversation.

I heard endless conversations between my parents when I was going to sleep about how we would survive, how we would continue. All of them were about trying to make me better.

I have never fallen in love with my own voice, but I've always had an attraction for it.

I like spontaneity and intelligence in a girl. Nothing is more attractive to me than someone who has a good sense of who she is and can hold her own in a conversation.

I just operate on the assumption that all phone conversations are bugged.

I know what things are good: friendship and work and conversation. These I shall have.

I like to hold a monologue with women. But a dialogue with myself is more stimulating.

I like to build places online where readers can have productive conversations about books.

I love any discourse of rivers, and fish and fishing.

I like working with people I know. It saves a lot of awkward conversations and getting-to-know-you kinda moments. You trust the people if you know them.

I love the conversation between film and music.

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.

I love to cook. But I'm a bit rubbish. I tend to start something and then dip into a book or have a conversation and come back and everything's burnt.

I'm very aware that when my friends and I sit around over dinner these days, the conversation invariably turns to how crass the world has become. Tweeting? It's one of the silliest things ever.

I'm bleeding, I'm not just making conversation.

I'm definitely a people person. I love socializing and being around people and having a good conversation.

I'm still not sure I didn't hallucinate the conversation while overdosing on his pheromones.

I'm not rapping, I'm conversing. It's just a conversation between me and you.

I'm telling as an actual source to the press,I'm telling you as a source that, to the best of my knowledge, and based on conversations that the RNC has had with the FBI, I know of no instance that [George Stephanopoulos] describing involving the RNC or the RNC's data.

I must have my share in the conversation.

I'm wearing clothes in my thoughts and dreams though. What am I wearing in yours?" she asked. "Me." Conversation between Mary Rose and Harrison in Julie Garwood's FOR THE ROSES

In a conversation, the words can get stuck, I don't know what to say, I get very anxious.

In an easy matter. Anybody can be eloquent.

In America journalism is apt to be regarded as an extension of history: in Britain, as an extension of conversation.

In conversation, points arise! If a human being converses much, it is impossible for him to avoid the truth! (Hercule Poirot)

In conversation avoid the extremes of forwardness and reserve.

In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.

[Indira Gandhi] answered cautiously at first. Then she opened up like a flower and the conversation flowed along without obstacles, in mutual sympathy.

In foreign policy it's not necessary to have similar views to have a conversation.

I never actually got around to taping conversations with my guests, but there are a lot of things you can learn from a man like Nixon.

I never had a single conversation about politics with Ross Perot in my life; still haven't.

I never initiated nor did the FBI ever initiate any conversation or correspondence with me.

In love, as in life, one misheard word can be tremendously important. If you tell someone you love them, for instance, you must be absolutely certain that they have replied "I love you back" and not "I love your back" before you continue the conversation.

Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.

In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.

In my work, I present questions and concerns. [It's] the opportunity to put a system of antibodies into circulation, without any pretense of making the world a better place, but to start a conversation with the world.

In real conversations, we are always trying to outguess each other.

In short, we lose the freshness and spontaneity of true conversation. These are areas in which everyone interested in self-improvement will seek to improve.