Best 825 quotes in «conversation quotes» category

For the human species to evolve, the conversation must deepen.

Given the cultural barriers to intersex conversation, the amazing thing is that we would even expect women and men to have anything to say to each other for more than ten minutes at a stretch.

God, just shoot me the day I start making music you can just put on in the car and have a conversation over it.

Good discourse sinks differences and seeks agreements.

Good conversational debate is an end in itself, and talking for the love of conversation is what makes us human.

Good-bye broadcast, Hello, conversation.

Gossip is when you have a malice of intent or mindless, third-party conversation to someone about someone, something you haven't said to that someone.

Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty.

gossip is just the small change of conversation.

Good writing is good conversation, only more so.

Good satire hopefully provides thought-provoking conversation.

Great. She shook her head. Not only am I having conversations with myself, but now I'm refusing to talk to me. This has got to be the first sign of madness.

Having a human conversation is not something I've had any training in either as a comedian or as, you know, a human being.

Great talkers are trying to fill the gap between themselves and others, but only widen it.

He strains his conversation through a cigar.

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

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.

... 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.

His conversation was marked by its happy abundance.

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!

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 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.

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.

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

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

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'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 can read your body language like a conversation

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

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 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 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 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 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.

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.

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

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

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