Quotes on Conversation

I have been further enlightened by the conversation and correspondence of some illustrious Italians, whom I would gladly name, were I not afraid of exposing them to danger.

Author: Edmond About

The difficulty with this conversation is that it's very different from most of the ones I've had of late. Which, as I explained, have mostly been with trees.

Author: Douglas Adams

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

Author: Richard Armour

He actually came up to me and we started speaking. And from that conversation we were able to come to a meeting of the minds and it seemed as if it was clear to me that he wanted to do similar things to what I wanted to do.

Author: Maurice Ashley

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

Author: Peter Bart

The voice will guide you-will tell you what to do. In order to do that, you must be quite sensitive with the instrument and accept this daily conversation with your voice.

Author: Cecilia Bartoli

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

Author: Yogi Berra

I haven't heard from Bobby since May when we had our conversation, but then this thing broke last week, where they arrested him, and we were watching what was going on on the whole deal, and I was actually flabbergasted, at what the then police chief Parks was saying.

Author: Tommy Bond

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

Author: James Boswell

For my own part I think no innocent species of wit or pleasantry should be suppressed: and that a good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation.

Author: James Boswell

The way I write is that I'll actually have a conversation out loud with myself. In a weird way, I just kind of get schizophrenic and play two characters.

Author: Zach Braff

Although there exist many thousand subjects for elegant conversation, there are persons who cannot meet a cripple without talking about feet.

Author: Ernest Bramah

Forget all the bars and schmoozing and everybody checking out everybody else. My ideal date would be to park in a dark place, check out the stars, and have a great conversation. When all else fails, you can just make out.

Author: Brooke Burke

A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.

Author: Truman Capote

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.

Author: Miguel Cervantes

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

Author: Marcus Cicero

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.

Author: Emile Cioran

No one has to learn to spell to talk, right? You see a little kid holding a conversation with an adult. He probably doesn't know the words he's saying, but he knows where to fit them to make what he's thinking logical to what you're saying.

Author: Ornette Coleman

Logic and fact keep interfering with the easy flow of conversation.

Author: Mason Cooley

I never initiated nor did the FBI ever initiate any conversation or correspondence with me.

Author: John Cooper

Eating without conversation is only stoking.

Author: Marcelene Cox

What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming.

Author: Edgar Degas

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

Author: Walter Elliot

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

Author: William Emerson

There are those moments when you shake someone's hand, have a conversation with someone, and suddenly your all bound together because you share your humanity in one simple moment.

Author: Ralph Fiennes

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

Author: Anatole France

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

Author: Charlotte Gainsbourg

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

Author: Ryan Giggs

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

Author: William Glasser

Ten years ago, it was really difficult for a young actress to walk onto a set and disagree with the director and having that be OK and have a conversation about it and everyone be cool with it.

Author: Maggie Gyllenhaal

Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.

Author: O. Henry

Saying what we think gives a wider range of conversation than saying what we know.

Author: Cullen Hightower

I can wear a hat or take it off, but either way it's a conversation piece.

Author: Hedda Hopper

If you are ever at a loss to support a flagging conversation, introduce the subject of eating.

Author: Leigh Hunt

If you ever have to support a flagging conversation, introduce the topic of eating.

Author: Leigh Hunt

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.

Author: Holly Johnson

I had a long conversation with Steve Carlton. He told me that on the days he pitched, he felt it was his responsibility to make everyone around him better, to lift his teammates. That's what I try to do.

Author: Randy Johnson

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

Author: Samuel Johnson

And when I'm writing, I write a lot anyway. I might write pages and pages of conversation between characters that don't necessarily end up in the book, or in the story I'm working on, because they're simply my way of getting to know the characters.

Author: Norton Juster

Shortly after we arrived in Baghdad, we had another conversation with the ambassador. He said that he wanted us to give him the timeline, because we had 90 days to get these prisons operational and transfer responsibility back to the Iraqis.

Author: Janis Karpinski

These charges that have been made against me, that Prof. Prescott has made, has charged against me, that I denied the atonement in conversation with him, are absolutely false.

Author: John Kellogg

The planned sit-down reception is an artificial forum where one is presented with a limited number of persons with whom he can hold a conversation.

Author: Jerzy Kosinski

What is reading, but silent conversation.

Author: Charles Lamb

Polite conversation is rarely either.

Author: Fran Lebowitz

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

Author: Fran Lebowitz

I wanted when we began this to have a conversation, the kind that you're able to have, and the only way I knew how to do it was not to have a pre-interview.

Author: James Lipton

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.

Author: Francis Lockier

You know what? It's a great conversation starter, right? You meet friends that way. Sometimes it's a good thing. And then other times, I guess, the person is just a little too... then you kind of like want to back away. It depends on the person, you know?

Author: Alison Lohman

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.

Author: Paul Lynde

The dining room in my old house was truly magnificent, but by far the worst room for conversation. I'd get up from the table, a very long table, and somebody would always say, Paul, I never got to talk to you.

Author: Paul Lynde

It's like breathing in and out to me. It's like having a conversation with someone who isn't there. Because it has to be addressed to somebody - not a particular person, or very rarely.

Author: Norman MacCaig

Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.

Author: Andre Maurois

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.

Author: John Mayer

He who is silent must be agreed with, for what shall the wings of opposition thresh upon, without the winds of conversation to shoulder them.

Author: Bryant McGill

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

Author: Michel Montaigne

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.

Author: Brian Mulroney

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

Author: Amanda Pays

You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.

Author: Plato

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

Author: Agnes Repplier

A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.

Author: Rainer Rilke

On our watch, the conversation with a would-be suicide bomber will not begin with the words, 'You have the right to remain silent.'

Author: Mitt Romney

The primary use of conversation is to satisfy the impulse to talk.

Author: George Santayana

A conversation goes sometimes into personal things and that's nicer. You look to each other and you have a different picture, you get into a relationship.

Author: Maximilian Schell

I just use my muscles as a conversation piece, like someone walking a cheetah down 42nd Street.

Author: Arnold Schwarzenegger

Conversation like television set on honeymoon... unnecessary.

Author: Peter Sellers

I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.

Author: George Shaw

I'm attracted to guys who are really confident and make conversation.

Author: Britney Spears

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.

Author: Edwin Stanton

Writing, when properly managed, (as you may be sure I think mine is) is but a different name for conversation.

Author: Laurence Sterne

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.

Author: Patrick Stewart

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

Author: Mark Twain

Lettuce is like conversation; it must be fresh and crisp, so sparkling that you scarcely notice the bitter in it.

Author: Charles Warner

Conversation didn't seem necessary when I put the accordion down and swung some young lady around the floor.

Author: Lawrence Welk

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

Author: Lawrence Welk

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

Author: Rebecca West

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

Author: Oscar Wilde