Conversation Quotes

Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords - philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather.

Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

Ideal conversation must be an exchange of thought, and not, as many of those who worry most about their shortcomings believe, an eloquent exhibition of wit or oratory.

My table seats eight, so that's my maximum. Having a small number of guests is the only way to generate good conversation. Besides, your whole house doesn't get wrecked that way.

There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.

The prisoners for better security against conversation shall have a canvas bag put over the head of each and tied around the neck, with a holes for proper breathing and eating, but not seeing.

An artist carries on throughout his life a mysterious, uninterrupted conversation with his public.

My stand-up is quite good now, people say. It's just like a big conversation each time. Every gig is a rehearsal.

Well, my closest friends are still the ones that I went to school with, but it's nice to go to work, at the studios, and have people there that you're willing to talk to and have a good conversation with.

For people to be able to sit down together and have a conversation, that's the power of love.

I think sensitive is the wrong description of me. I'm British, actually, so quite bad at expressing myself in conversation, as any ex-girlfriend will tell you. I'm probably emotionally stunted.

My idea of a good night has always been having a lovely meal and a proper conversation.

Courage and willingness to just go for it, whether it is a conversation or a spontaneous trip or trying new things that are scary - it is a really attractive quality.

We're in a situation where the solutions that we have are not good enough. The way to improve anything is to have a discussion about its flaws. To understand what the one or two or three things are about it that would help fix it. The DMCA makes it dangerous to have that conversation.

I get readings, I sometimes get five a week. You'll feel like a schizophrenic by the end of that week. I don't know who I am any more. You'll be in conversation with a friend and start spitting out dialogue.

Jazz vision is a wordless conversation between musical notes and visual expressions.

I like roundtables because you can talk more directly to people. And you also can get kind of a vibe on what a journalist's take is on something, and have a conversation with them more.

The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.

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.

A pas de deux is a dialogue of love. How can there be conversation if one partner is dumb?

It is commonly agreed that children spend more hours per year watching television than in the classroom, and far less in actual conversation with their parents.

My wife will tell you it's the little things, like driving my boys to school on my days off so she can rest. We're not into PDA, but every time we end a phone conversation, we say 'sarang,' which means love in Korean.

Prayer is simply a two-way conversation between you and God.

This past year has been very turbulent for the Middle East, and my conversation with Prime Minister Netanyahu strengthened my belief that we need to remain vigilant in our support of our critical ally.

A good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation.

There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all.

A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech.

There is no such thing as a worthless conversation, provided you know what to listen for. And questions are the breath of life for a conversation.

I never had a single conversation about politics with Ross Perot in my life; still haven't.

There are two things in ordinary conversation which ordinary people dislike - information and wit.