Conversation Quotes · Page 143

As I've gotten older, I've felt I have more authority on that subject. I think the conversation needs to be reframed. What…

— Meghan Daum

For an academic to launch a public conversation about journalistic integrity, the role of religion in society, scholarship and faith is a…

— Reza Aslan

My table seats eight, so that's my maximum. Having a small number of guests is the only way to generate good conversation.…

— Paul Lynde

I was starting to play the ukulele at the same time I was having all these conversations with [the late Ramones guitarist]…

— Eddie Vedder

Do you talk by rule, then, while you are dancing?" Sometimes. One must speak a little, you know. It would look odd…

— Jane Austen

Silence - Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation.

— Benjamin Franklin

Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood.

— William Shakespeare

As a writer one is allowed to have conversations with oneself. What is considered sane in writers is made for the rest…

— Alan Ayckbourn

Most good essays are conversations with yourself - not just your decided thoughts but your dilemmas.

— Phillip Lopate

Most of us have very clear memories of the self-critical internal conversation running on in our heads while we were playing poorly,…

— Barry Green

There was a really positive environment in my household around a conversation about mental illness, and that helped me never really feel…

— Noah Kahan

Always come to a conversation armed with two drinks. Then if it's dire you can pretend you were on the way to…

— Emily Maitlis

'The Naked Civil Servant' by Quentin Crisp. I was so intrigued by the man, I hunted him down when I moved to…

— Tess Daly

A good competition for comedians would be where a comedian has a conversation and is then quizzed on what the other person…

— Dana Gould

I didn't write my speech until the night before, and even then I refused to write it out like I would say…

— Corey Taylor

When I met Elvis, we didn't really have a conversation. I was introduced by my uncle, and he sort of grunted my…

— Tom Petty

I remember my mom had a conversation with Sam Jackson about what she should do with our careers and what the next…

— Aldis Hodge

Pay attention to the gap - the gap between two thoughts, the brief, silent space between words in a conversation, between the…

— Eckhart Tolle

And that said, this [issues of comfort women] is important for reopening a conversation in both Japan and in Korea and on…

— Elise Hu

The dinner table is the center for the teaching and practicing not just of table manners but of conversation, consideration, tolerance, family…

— Judith Martin

If something is being written about a lot, there's a conversation there; there's a dialogue there. There's probably a reason for it…

— Jesse Andrews

Mr. Obama needs to make a phone call to Ankara and have a serious conversation about why the current government in Turkey…

— Vijay Prashad

I would make my job a work of art. I would like whatever it is that I'm doing - everyone's experience of…

— John Denver

I don't need to spend hours in meetings, because I can have a two-minute conversation with a colleague who is pretty damn…

— Sandra E. Peterson

I'll tell you what's funny about it [NSA wiretapping]: They tell us we got to cut the budget; we have to have…

— Michael Shannon