Conversation Quotes · Page 39

Okay, outside," the clerk said. "Conversation outside. Bye! Have a nice night!

— Maggie Stiefvater

% of what you understand in a conversation is read through the body, not the words.

— Deborah Bull

It's very difficult, I think, especially on two cellphones, to have a romantic conversation.

— Rainbow Rowell

I like plays where people talk a lot. Conversation is sustained. Argument is sustained.

— Tom Stoppard

“[I]t is things that make us happy when conversation begins to reveal itself as a paltry substitute.”

— Rick Moody

The pleasures of relaxed chat, of casual conversation, encourage the ethnographer in everyone

— Richard Sennett

What was the point of even having a conversation when words couldn't be trusted?

— James Dashner

I always have Trident gum with me because I talk to people all the time.

— Tina Knowles

In the sallies of badinage a polite fool shines; but in gravity he is as awkward as an elephant disporting.

— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

I hope that being in places from the [Shinzo Abe] Prime Minister's past will motivate us to have a sincere, very practical…

— Vladimir Putin

“What is the name of the woman on the telephone?” “Alis K.” “Is that her real name?” “No.” Conversation between ‘BB’ and…

— Steen Langstrup

Where do real conversations about citizenship occur? In our schools. Think about the things you learned in first grade. "My Country 'Tis…

— Henry Louis Gates

I feel like this is a feminist issue and is going to be a part of a feminist conversation, and I wanted…

— Tatyana Fazlalizadeh

Method is not less requisite in ordinary conversation than in writing, provided a man would talk to make himself understood.

— Joseph Addison

Civility is the natural state for people who know how limited their own individual powers are and know, too, that they need…

— David Brooks

How strange it is, sometimes, which conversations or events stays with us while so much else melts as fast as April snow.

— Marlena De Blasi

Very often, when you get into a conversation that's more of a debate, you'll pick up that the other person is venting…

— Mark Goulston

What you hear in focus groups and conversations, people will give you 20 minutes of rage about how the borders are out…

— David Brooks

I would say, as an entrepreneur everything you do - every action you take in product development, in marketing, every conversation you…

— Eric Ries

Religion is by no means a proper subject of conversation in mixed company; it should only be treated among a very few…

— Lord Chesterfield

If you say to people that they, as a matter of fact, can't protect their conversations, in particular their political conversations, I…

— Whitfield Diffie

I think a lot of people in their average day actually imagine two sides of a conversation at one point or another.…

— Edward Norton

The idea of the book ["The Japanese Lover"] came in a conversation that I had with a friend walking in the streets…

— Isabel Allende

We did 'The Conversation' on the Zeus network because we already are on TV and we felt like us being our own…

— Ray J

“My preferred pastimes are conversation, reading, travel and writing, in that order.”

— Truman Capote

I hate that if I don't start the conversation, there won't be one!

— Anonymous

When our life ceases to be inward and private, conversation degenerates into mere gossip.

— Henry David Thoreau

I'd love to get in a room with Kanye at some point, have a conversation, and see if something cooks up.

— Andy Mineo

If you don't mind, the adults are trying to have a conversation here.

— Triple H

I feel like R&B is really based off of emotion and truth. R&B is a conversation.

— Sevyn Streeter

When a girl is really feeling you, she goes back and reads the whole conversation again when it's over.

— Anonymous

We need a grownup conversation about why our political economy is killing life on Earth.

— Gail Bradbrook

Years of therapy go down the drain after one conversation with you.

— Anonymous

I have never fallen in love with my own voice, but I've always had an attraction for it.

— Tom Snyder

“It only needs a desire, not words; to start a conversation.”

— Pratik Akkawar

I had a great conversation with Tom Waits, of all people.

— Oscar Isaac

Put down the weight of your aloneness and ease into the conversation.

— David Whyte

A lot of people especially want to know about going into business. But it's a two-way conversation.

— Alek Wek

Always say less than you think you need. Inject some space into the conversation.

— Timothy Morton

When you get an idea, go and write. Don't waste it in conversation.

— Kenneth Koch