Conversation Quotes

I never knew any painter worthy of the name who paid the smallest attention to what a critic says, even in conversation.

I mean, the trouble with some of the kind of relationship movies I've done, is there's only so many ways you can shoot a conversation. I was really tired of talking heads.

I really don't like going out. I don't like restaurants because I don't like the idea of someone, a waitress, being responsible for my evening. I like seconds, and more, and lots of conversation, and I've always hated the idea that in a restaurant an evening just ends. I find that incredibly depressing.

Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

People say conversation is a lost art; how often I have wished it were.

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

Sometimes I wish that I was the weather, you'd bring me up in conversation forever. And when it rained, I'd be the talk of the day.

She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.

American scripts are usually non-stop conversation. People talking over each other. I like that.

Eating without conversation is only stoking.

What is reading, but silent conversation.

When I spoke, I was listened to; and I was at a loss to know how I had so easily acquired the art of commanding attention, and giving the tone to the conversation.

There's no conversation more boring than talking about what it's really like to live in Newport and how the show compares to the real thing. I just don't care.

One of Brando's problems is that he can't have a conversation with anyone.

During the course of the seven years I played scenes with an oil slick, I played a scene with a grain of rice. Sometimes with indescribable creatures. I remember having a conversation with something which was simply a smell, that's all. It was part of our job.

Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.

Conversation like television set on honeymoon... unnecessary.

I have this horrific thing where I'm really bad with names and faces. I have an appalling memory. Someone will come up to me in the street and go, 'Eddie!', and I'll try and give myself time by going into overdrive, 'Hey, hi! Nice to see you!' and start a whole conversation because I can't distinguish between who I know and who I don't.

It's like that with what sort of ideas people outside of the band have of HIM. They all see it through a different lens as well which is beautiful. Hopefully, it makes it an endless topic of conversation.

When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.

No one will ever shine in conversation, who thinks of saying fine things: to please, one must say many things indifferent, and many very bad.

Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while.

People are hurting out there, perhaps they are ready to start a conversation about whether an AR-15 belongs in the hands of a citizen, whether a citizen should be able 6,000 rounds on the internet.

There's something about being rejected - when I go out without my friends, I'm reminded of how I'm actually quite antisocial. I don't look like a guy who feels like that, but it's very hard for me to start up a conversation. At a party, I'm lost.

Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well.

Yes, I, well, when I write, as often as I can, I try to write as if I'm talking to people. It doesn't always work, and one shouldn't always try it, but I try and write as if I am talking, and trying to engage the reader in conversation.

I painted one dining room red and I must say, the conversation became very heated in that room.

It is all right to hold a conversation but you should let go of it now and then.

Musicians playing together, it's a conversation, and ideally I want our conversation to be really intriguing and interesting and beautiful.