Conversation Quotes · Page 22

The phrase, 'Don't take this the wrong way' has a zero percent success rate.

— Anonymous

“If I were a man I would kill you!" "If you were a man we wouldn't be having this conversation!”

— Georgette Heyer

I think it's important that your work is in conversation with artists in your community.

— Daveed Diggs

EGOTIST: Someone who is usually me-deep in conversation.

— Nikhil Saluja

Confidence in conversation has a greater share than wit.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

You've got to dig in [and learn about things you don't know] if you want to stay in the conversation.

— Suzy Welch

People resent articulacy, as if articulacy were a form of vice.

— Frederic Raphael

“The more you read, the less you sound foolish when you speak.”

— Amit Kalantri

Marriage is the permanent conversation between two people who talk over everything and everyone until death breaks the record.

— Cyril Connolly

The brain was not built to walk into a bar, where you know nobody, and start a conversation. That's not the way…

— Helen Fisher

“You know,I think I'd rather freeze than continue this conversation. You've been warned.Proceed at your own risk." He smiled. "I always do,darlin'.”

— Johanna Lindsey

Anyone who's had a casual conversation with his neighbors or is cognizant of reality TV should already be petrified of democracy.

— David Harsanyi

Like a genial hotelier, Rolex has introduced me to some of the nicest people. I ask about their Rolex and they ask…

— Maurice Chevalier

I'm very much in my own world with The 1975, so when I do an interview I have to treat it like…

— Matty Healy

“When I walk into a room and see people engaging in conversation; I most of the time just get puzzled because I…

— James Michael Dennis

Now I'm in the business and I do have to have these awkward conversations about how I look, how I talk. But…

— Cakes da killa

I keep interested and I keep my eyes wide open...I try to read as much as possible...try to go to places that…

— Nikki Sixx

“At some point, one asks, "Toward what end is my life lived?" A great freedom comes from being able to answer that…

— Diane Ackerman

A lot of conservative writers have twisted that argument in the conversation around Judge [Gonzalo] Curiel and said this is identity politics…

— Dahlia Lithwick

It is possible to live the Christian life just on the surface, knowing only enough to carry on an intelligent conversation in…

— David Jeremiah

It turns out there's only 10 minutes of productive conversation in any family dinner. The rest is taken up with 'take your…

— Bruce Feiler

I sit my three sons down and say, 'Listen to me. When the police stop you, immediately comply. Don't walk away, don't…

— Steve Harvey

My love of storytelling comes from oral tradition, the stories from my grandmother and conversations with [my] mother. The world is full…

— Lucrecia Martel

I'm a great admirer of secularism. At its best, I think it's one of the best things that we have. I don't…

— Marilynne Robinson

It's only by being disruptive that you get people to have a conversation about an issue.

— Gail Bradbrook

“Who says you’ll get hurt again?” I pouted. “Have you met you?” “Right.”

— Kate Evangelista

If Alabama were 8-4, they'd still be dominating the conversation.

— Dabo Swinney

On the phone; 'Well, I better get going.' = I'm tired of talking to you.

— Anonymous

I'm just a friendly bystander who they occasionally ask questions of. That's my level of involvement.

— Alice Sebold

Using someone's name during a conversation was like a casual caress, like stroking their hair.

— Harry Mulisch

“A quote is not a conversation, but an invitation to change your perspective.”

— Shannon L. Alder

One way to prevent conversation from being boring is to say the wrong thing.

— Francis Joseph Sheed

“Can we move this conversation along, I'm getting frightfully tired of 'how'.”

— Dave Barry & Ridley Pearson

I do not read a book; I hold a conversation with the author.

— Elbert Hubbard

So, destroy?" Cal asked. Clearly, the conversation was giving his two brain cells a serious workout.

— Rick Riordan

They are intent on making every conversation and every form of behaviour in the world known to them.

— Edward Snowden

The woman who follows the crowd will usually believe that I said this.

— Albert Einstein

“It's like watching a train wreck, this conversation.”

— Cynthia Hand

If you're yelling you're the one who's lost control of the conversation.

— Taylor Swift

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

— Britney Spears