Best 825 quotes in «conversation quotes» category

A civil guest Will no more talk all, than eat all the feast.

A conversation in English in Finnish and in French can not be held at the same time nor with indifference ever or after a time.

A continuing conversation with other persons, with cultural products, and with oneself, is a large part of what it means to be a human being, in our time and perhaps in all time.

A conversation isn't a competition.

A favorite strategy was the paragraph-terminating: Right? Followed immediately by Wrong. This linear invitation to a mugging was considered a strategy of wit.

A good competition for comedians would be where a comedian has a conversation and is then quizzed on what the other person says.

A good friendship is a conversation that never ends.

A good maxim allows you to have the last word without even starting a conversation.

A good thing to do when one is sitting, eating, and resting is to have a conversation.

A good rule of conversation is never answer a foolish question.

A great dinner must include not only yummy food, but good conversation.

A good quartet is like a good conversation among friends interacting to each other's ideas.

A journalist is basically a chronicler, not an interpreter of events. Where else in society do you have the license to eavesdrop on so many different conversations as you have in journalism? Where else can you delve into the life of our times?

A great way to be left alone on the subway is to appear to be deep in conversation with a small knife.

A kiss is the natures way to stop a conversation, when the words are superfluous

All journalists hope that their work will inspire a broader conversation. I think that's just what journalism is.

All conversation, in addition to whatever else it does, displays, and asks for recognition of, our competence.

All I know about humor is that I don't know anything about it.

All my life I've been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.

All problems exist in the absence of a good conversation.

Always enter the conversation already taking place in the customer's mind.

Although there exist many thousand subjects for elegant conversation, there are persons who cannot meet a cripple without talking about feet.

All social change begins with a conversation.

A man of no conversation should smoke.

Amongst such as out of cunning hear all and talk little, be sure to talk less; or if you must talk, say little.

And I always read the English translation and always have conversations with my translator, for example about the names. I always have to approve it.

A moment of disruption is where the conversation about disruption often begins, even though determining that moment is entirely hindsight.

Another definition of modernity: conversations can be more and more completely reconstructed with clips from other conversations taking place at the same time on the planet.

And surely one of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.

...An honest conversation with anyone is a form of praying.

A novel is a conversation starter, and if the author isn't there for the after-party, both the writer and the reader are missing a lot.

Any conversation I have about innovation starts with the ultimate goal.

And one of our points of continuing conversation with our trading partners is the urgency of their taking steps to remove barriers to their improved growth performance.

An egotist will always speak of himself, either in praise or in censure, but a modest man ever shuns making himself the subject of his conversation.

Any conversations we hear about 'So who are Pearl Jam marketing to?' are despicable.

Anything that begins 'I don't know how to tell you this' is never good news.

Anytime you've got something that can take you into the political realm then you've opened up the conversation a lot.

A picture is worth a thousand words, but conversations with them generally end in dissapointment.

A person who talks with equal vivacity on every subject, excites no interest in any. Repose is as necessary in conversation as in a picture.

Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of conversation, as it is generally in books the worst sort of reading.

A real conversation always contains an invitation. You are inviting another person to reveal herself or himself to you, to tell you who they are or what they want.

Are we, like, having a conversation?" "Did you just, like, ask me for advice and listen with an open mind? If so, then yes, I would call this a conversation

As a salesperson, you will be judged by your ability to keep a stalled conversation moving along briskly.

As a writer one is allowed to have conversations with oneself. What is considered sane in writers is made for the rest of the human race.

Avoid making yourself the subject of conversation.

A song ain't nothing but a conversation fixed up to where you can talk it over and over without getting tired of it.

At the beginning of a marriage ask yourself whether this woman will be interesting to talk to from now until old age. Everything else in marriage is transitory: most of the time is spent in conversation.

A voyage without companionship, that is to say without conversation, is one of the saddest pleasures of life.

As long as everyone's wearing their own pants." "I see I have come in on a fascinating moment in the conversation.

As soon as you bring up money, I notice, conversation gets sociological, then political, then moral.