Best 825 quotes in «conversation quotes» category

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

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

If the word is not dead when it reaches the hearer, he murders it at once by a contradiction, a stipulation, a condition, a digression, an interruption, and all the thousand tricks of 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 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 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.

Ignorance has its virtues; without it there'd be mighty little 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 really starstruck and tongue tied when I'm around other writers and the conversation tends not to go well.

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

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

I hate war, for it spoils conversation.

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

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

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

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

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 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 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 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 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 love any discourse of rivers, and fish and fishing.

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

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

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

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

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 an easy matter. Anybody can be eloquent.

In conversation avoid the extremes of forwardness and reserve.

[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 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.

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.