Best 825 quotes in «conversation quotes» category

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.

Silence can be defined as conversation with an Englishman

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

Show me the man who isn't interested in discussing himself.

Silence and modesty are very valuable qualities in conversation.

Silence is also conversation.

Society is frivolous, and shreds its day into scraps, its conversation into ceremonies and escapes.

So many of our conversations (about affirmative action) have been dishonest

Someday, someday, but certainly not now, I'd like to learn how to have a conversation.

Talk shows are proof that conversation is dead.

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.

Talking is good. Conversations have to be forever.

Talk often, but never long: in that case, if you do not please, at least you are sure not to tire your hearers.

Talkin bout money we could have a conversation Top five tax bracket in the population

that's it - hundreds of texts and conversations, thousands upon thousands of words spoken and sent, all boiled down into a single line. is that what relationships become?

That conversation... was as dirty as a sewer! It is not enough for you to take no part in it. You must show your repugnance for it strongly!

That silence is one of the great arts of conversation is allowed by Cicero himself, who says, there is not only an art, but even an eloquence in it

That amenity which the French have developed into a great art . . . conversation.

That," he said, "is so not the point of this conversation.

That's probably the most boring conversation you could hear - an actor talk about politics. I won't go there.

That's the nice thing about collaborating with someone: Your work becomes a conversation.

The best joke-tellers are those who have the patience to wait for conversation to come around to the point where the jokes in their repertoire have application.

The action of the soul is oftener in that which is felt and left unsaid than in that which is said in any conversation. It broods over every society, and men unconsciously seek for it in each other.

The art of conversation consists far less in displaying much wit oneself than in helping others to be witty: the man who leaves your company pleased with himself and his own wit is very well pleased with you.

The best presenters have conversations with their audiences.

Theater is all about foyers and conversation and digesting what you've seen.

Theater is perhaps one of the few places left where we are in a dialogue right now. Everything has become so partisan, and the rhetoric has become so heated, that conversation is almost impossible.

The best things cannot be told, the second best are misunderstood. After that comes civilized conversation; after that, mass indoctrination; after that, intercultural exchange.

The conversation about race is inevitable. It's one that people know that we have to have and continue to have.

The Buddha over and over again spoke clearly and definitely on post-mortem states - as in his conversation with Vasetta.

The conversation of kisses. Subtle, engrossing, fearless, transforming.

The conversations you are most resisting are the conversations you most need to be having.

The conversion of Paul was no conversion at all; it was Paul who converted the religion that has raised one man above sin and death.

The character of a man is known from his conversations.

...the circumstances and the atmosphere always have so much to do in directing a conversation, especially a German conversation, which is only a kind of an insurrection, anyway.

The conversation of human beings seldom interested him, but it crossed his mind that the males and females always got along best when neither actually listened fully to what the other one was saying.

The conversation of bullets.

The conversations about a film are an example of success because then you know whatever you've done has resonated.

The conversation ran as fluidly as the tea out of the samovar’s crooked nose.

the conversation whipped gaily around the table like rags in a high wind.

The courageous conversation is the one you don't want to have.

The elites - or managers in companies - no longer control the conversation. This is how insurrections start.

The Devil often places himself upon the tongues of creatures, causing them to chatter nonsensically.

The difficulty with this conversation,' said Arthur after a sort of pondering look had crawled slowly across his face like a mountaineer negotiating a tricky outcrop, 'is that it's very different from most of the ones I've had of late. Which, as I explained, have mostly been with trees.

the delicacy that respects a friend's silence is one of the charms of life.

The exchange by e-mail is more intimate than conversation - you allow yourself to say things you otherwise wouldn't.

The French have made conversation their claim to civilisation.

The first person I came out to was God. And the first conversation I ever had with anybody was in prayer.

The free conversation of a friend is what I would prefer to any environment.

The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression.