Best 825 quotes in «conversation quotes» category

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

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 do not wish to hide my origins, nor do I seek to make it a subject of conversation. I am what I am.

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 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 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.

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

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

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

I feel the same truth how often in my trivial conversation with my neighbours, that somewhat higher in each of us overlooks this by-play, and Jove nods to Jove from behind each of us.

I feel very open with people, and I'm good at disarming them and having conversations.

If I'm feeling that I have an angle or something to say or something where in a way I'm having a conversation with myself, that's immensely pleasurable.

If I can enjoy a joke at the expense of another; if I can in any way slight another in conversation, or even in thought, then I know nothing of Calvary love.

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

I find more and more that I am a man of the 1920s. I still expect something exciting. Drinks, animated conversation, gaiety: the uninhibited exchange of ideas.

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

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 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 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 to talk to oneself when alone is folly, it must be doubly unwise to listen to oneself in the presence of others.

If you'd sat there any longer,' Annabeth said, 'you would have spontaneously combusted. I hope the conversation was worth it?

If you spend any time in Los Angeles, there's only one topic of conversation.

If your content isn't driving conversation, you're doing it wrong.

If you start a conversation with the assumption that you are right or that you must win, obviously it is difficult to talk.

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

[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.

Ignorance has its virtues; without it there'd be mighty little conversation.

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

I hate war, for it spoils conversation.

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

I know what things are good: friendship and work and conversation. These I shall have.

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

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

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 like to hold a monologue with women. But a dialogue with myself is more stimulating.

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 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 any discourse of rivers, and fish and fishing.