Conversation Quotes

Beware of the man who will not engage in idle conversation; he is planning to steal your walking stick or water your stock.

Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds and business. Hence come those frequent absences, so observable in conversation; for whilst the body is confined to present company, the mind is flown to that which it delights in.

Over the last half century the television interview has given us some of TV's most heart-stopping and memorable moments. On the surface it is a simple format - two people sitting across from one another having a conversation. But underneath it is often a power struggle - a battle for the psychological advantage.

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

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

The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you. You're in a conversation and everybody's agreeing with what you're saying - even if you say something totally crazy. You need people who can tell you what you don't want to hear.

Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius.

Two people in a conversation amount to four people talking. The four are what one person says, what he really wanted to say, what his listener heard, and what he thought he heard.

As far as playing jazz, no other art form, other than conversation, can give the satisfaction of spontaneous interaction.

I cannot forget a conversation that I had with an elderly couple from the tribe. They asked me whether I would kill them after I had finished. When I asked them why they asked that, they replied, Because you white men always do!

It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

The critical importance of honest journalism and a free flowing, respectful national conversation needs to be had in our country. But it is being buried as collateral damage in a war whose battles include political correctness and ideological orthodoxy.

I do expect that the President will say something at the beginning of his remarks today, at the conversation.

What frightens us most in a madman is his sane conversation.

The sad thing is that I feel so boring because 'Twilight' is literally how every conversation I have these days begins - whether it's someone I'm meeting for the first time or someone I just haven't seen in a while. The first thing I want to say to them is, 'It's insane! And, as a person, I can't do anything!'

It's finding those nonsensical pieces of conversation that we all do all the time. We do all the time. When we're talking on the telephone, there are arguments with people who agree when they both think that they disagree.

When you look at a family, if you have a family that never interacts with each other, never has strong conversation with each other, never has disagreements, nine times out of ten you have a very cold family and they're not going to be, at the end, they're not going to be close.

I want to be able to have a conversation with people. I don't want to be stupid. I'd like to have a life outside acting.

Although I'm not fluent in sign language by a long way, I could have a fairly decent conversation.

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

The very fact that we are having a national conversation about what we should eat, that we are struggling with the question about what the best diet is, is symptomatic of how far we have strayed from the natural conditions that gave rise to our species, from the simple act of eating real, whole, fresh food.

But there's not enough time in life to go sit at a party, have a drink, and make idle conversation. There's too many important things to do. Just being together with my husband, spending time alone, which I have very little of.

Say this for big league baseball - it is beyond any question the greatest conversation piece ever invented in America.

Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.

It's my responsibility, and entirely my fault, Of course I regret it. It's the kind of locker-room conversation we all use, but as prime minister I shouldn't have used it.

The most influential of all educational factors is the conversation in a child's home.

I cry very easily. It can be a movie, a phone conversation, a sunset - tears are words waiting to be written.

The desert has its holiness of silence, the crowd its holiness of conversation.

Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times because they had nobody to talk about.

To conclude: good journalism is one of the models of good conversation and communication in the wider social context.