Best 825 quotes in «conversation quotes» category

In an easy matter. Anybody can be eloquent.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

I painted one dining room red and I must say, the conversation became very heated in that room.

I only had a telephone conversation with [Donald Trump], whereas [Shinzō ] Abe met with him in person.

In their presence, there's no need for continuous conversation, but you find you're quite content in just having them nearby.

In Washington, DC, politics dominate even the most casual conversations.

I really love having smart and important conversations on TV.

I really [enjoy] working with new people and just sort of the freshness of it. ... I [want] to have those new conversations, musically and otherwise.

I see in my friends that don't have kids, when they come over, and the amount of times our conversation gets interrupted by my children. It's almost jarring.

I scowled defensively. "My conversations don't usually include the subject of erections." "Too bad," he said. "All the best conversations do.

Is there anything else you need from me?" Ranger asked. "Not right now." "There will come a time," Ranger said. "Let me know when." And he disconnected. I opened the freezer and stuck my head in to cool off. If there'd been any more innuendo in that conversation, I could have fried an egg on my forehead.

I so wanted out of this conversation, but it was like a car accident: Once you started spinning, you could only wait and see what you hit.

Is there anything more terrible than a "call"? It affords an occasion for the exchange of the most threadbare commonplaces. Calls and the theatre are the two great centers for the propagation of platitudes.

I strike up conversations all the time and it is very interesting, finding out about things I know nothing about.

Is there a short-eared koobish, then?' Mmmyes ...' said J.Lo. 'But it is technically not really a koobish. Is more alike a kind of singing pumpkin.' We had conversations like these all the time, where I just eventually gave up.

It is an impertinent and unreasonable fault in conversation for one man to take up all the discourse.

I think it's been the topic of conversation for every one... If the U.S. is hit again, how are we going to handle it? Our troops are all over the place.

I think people are really talking about it. Having conversations about how to make change.

It is almost axiomatic that the best conversationalist is really the best listener.

It is as much the conversations between objects as between us and objects that make museums so valuable.

It is by speech that many of our best gains are made. A large part of the good we receive comes to us in conversation.

I think Gmail chats are different than IRL conversations because Gmail chats are saved by Gmail exactly as they occurred. I like texts and emails. Seems like I don't have anything to say that isn't obvious about texts, emails, and Gmail chats.

It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought.

It is not restful, it is not possible to talk wholeheartedly to more than one person at a time. You can't really talk with a person unless you surrender to them, for the moment (all other talk is futile). You can't surrender to more than one person a moment.

It is my experience that no one, in the course of conversation, can fail to give themselves away sooner or later. Everyone has an irresistible urge to talk about themselves.

It requires nothing less than a chivalric feeling to sustain a conversation with a lady.

It's all about bucks, kid. The rest is conversation.

It's a conversation that nobody really likes to have, and it seems that we never can get to a solution with it and something horrific happens. We all stand back and say, "How could we let that happen?" and then it goes away and we move on.

Its a beautiful woman's fate to be the subject of conversation where ever she goes

It's rare to have even half-meaningful conversations in the film industry.

It's always difficult to make conversation with a drunk, and there's no denying it, the sober are at a disadvantage with him.

It's better to play to the host as though in a real conversation and let the audience listen in- which they are.

It's no use imagining that bringing great writers together inevitably precipitates great conversation.

It was terrible. All of the things we couldn't share. The room was filled with conversations we weren't having.

It was a positive sign that the conversation took place, it's a sign of the depth of the friendship between Australia and Indonesia.

It was hard to have a conversation with anyone, there were so many people talking.

It wasn't only fanatics and drunkards who began conversations with strangers in public.