Conversation Quotes

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.

Conversation like television set on honeymoon... unnecessary.

The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying.

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.

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.

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.

Polite conversation is rarely either.

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

Tonight was a great opportunity to take on the political status quo that has given us trillion dollar deficits and put millions out of work. Our objective was to inject some common sense into the conversation among Republicans at a time when business-as-usual simply won't work.

My accent remained terrible. It was very hard for me to initiate any conversation with someone I didn't know.

No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation.

I think it's been the topic of conversation for every one... If the U.S. is hit again, how are we going to handle it? Our troops are all over the place.

I'm having this conversation with you now. I'm talking, but I'm thinking, feeling, smelling, and moving. Yet I'm concentrating on what you're saying. So that means there's more things going on in the body than just the present thing that the person's got you doing.

What students lack in school is an intellectual relationship or conversation with the teacher.

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.

Conceit causes more conversation than wit.

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.