Conversation Quotes · Page 82

I don't spend too much time attempting to defend myself against people who seem to have zero desire to have a substantive…

— Sho Baraka

Is it a form of social play that underneath the words people say, there is a different conversation going on?

— Vanna Bonta

Daring greatly means the courage to be vulnerable. It means to show up and be seen. To ask for what you need.…

— Brené Brown

“When you talk to a sympathetic mind about technology, gender, age, and experience disappear completely, and soon you’re one-on-one with the topic…

— Carmelo S. Amarena

“Having occupied both sides of the podium, I greatly prefer no podium at all. Just a conversation between reader and author.”

— Oran Kangas

Flirting? We were merely indulging in a little risqué conversation," Magnus said, offended. "When I begin to flirt, I assure you the…

— Cassandra Clare

“The topics which language limits us to aren’t much worth discussing in the first place. (attrib: F.L. Vanderson)”

— Mort W. Lumsden

“NONVERSATION—noun: a conversation in which one person isn’t paying attention to what the other person is saying, generally due to lack of…

— Neil Strauss

By empowering people to initiate a conversation prior to surgery regarding their pain control options, we hope to reduce the incidence of…

— Kristi Funk

I never did well meeting strangers, so my favorite part of partying as a couple was that I didn't need to strike…

— Andrew W.K

During contract negotiations, when I started to notice as well as hear from friends about Jeff Jarrett's shady business tactics, I did…

— Reby Sky

Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college,…

— Nicholson Baker

We exchanged a couple of ideas and stuff like that, but that's about it. I just think ... consulting on 'Tintin' was…

— Janusz Kaminski

I suspect that he was a child who thought differently than his peers, who may have had serious conversations with grown-ups, who…

— Anne Lamott

Capablanca used to talk calmly and moderately about everything. However, when our conversation turned to the problems of the battle for the…

— Alexander Koblencs

Cuvier had even in his address & manner the character of a superior Man, much general power & eloquence in conversation &…

— Humphry Davy

If you can't really have a conversation with someone candidly about it it's something that you'll always have something to learn from…

— Elizabeth Olsen

I have found that life is alive and we are requested to have a friendship with it, to have a conversation with…

— Mark Nepo

Out of Dostoevsky: Kafka. Out of Tolstoy: Margaret Mitchell. (in conversation, explaining his dislike for Tolstoy)

— Joseph Brodsky

“After about 20 years of marriage, I think I'm finally starting to scratch the surface of what women want. And I think…

— Mel Gibson

My worldview comes from a collection of the books I have read, the people I have met, and my conversations with my…

— Brian Kilmeade

I need to be in front of my obstacle. I like to have a back dialogue; I like to talk with people;…

— Maiwenn

People can feel stuff in a different way when it's through music. If you can get some inspiration into a song, it…

— Santigold

Good conversational debate is an end in itself, and talking for the love of conversation is what makes us human.

— Bryce Courtenay

Pretty much everyone on my iPod, I'd like to be friends with. But I'd say that the main two that I'd love…

— Finn Jones

Oh, this thing of keeping in constant touch with God, of making him the object of my thought and the companion of…

— Frank Laubach

The first person I came out to was God. And the first conversation I ever had with anybody was in prayer.

— Andrew Sullivan

If we ever meet in real life, we can have a conversation. But you should go and live your real life and…

— Matt Corby

Without leisure there can be neither art nor science nor fine conversation, nor any ceremonious performance of the offices of love and…

— Lewis Mumford

I don't even care anymore. If you wanna talk, hit me up, I'm not gonna try to start a conversation anymore to…

— Maria Micah Rosales

In real life, I can't be earnest, I can't have a serious conversation. I will fob everything off on jokes and humour.

— CMAT

It used to be that you would go in to see a CEO, and you would ask them, 'Is your company for…

— Henry Kravis

“But at the same time, there is pressure to use technology in classroom in ways that make conversation nearly impossible. Interestingly, this…

— Sherry Turkle

My parents went crazy when they found out that I had gotten the part in 'Conversations With My Father!' I'd never given…

— David Krumholtz

“An engaging conversation is a two-way street. Learn to delight in dialogue to ensure mutual respect and consideration.”

— Susan C. Young

Ah, good conversation - there's nothing like it, is there? The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.

— Edith Wharton

I am a person of faith, is how I'd like to describe myself. And praying is just a conversation with God.

— Ego Nwodim

And, as for what is called improving conversation, that is merely the foolish method by which the still more foolish philanthropist feebly…

— Oscar Wilde

'Lead with LUV' is the first book I've ever done that's just a pure conversation between my coauthor and me.

— Ken Blanchard

C-C-Can you get bones in your buh-buh-brain?' Bill asked. This was turning into the most interesting conversation he'd had in weeks.

— Stephen King