Conversation Quotes · Page 6

Not knowing what to text back, but not wanting the conversation to end.

— Anonymous

I was an adult before I began to learn that there is a difference between a conversation and an argument.

— Marion Dane Bauer

I’m more interested in a photography that is ‘unfinished’ - a photography that is suggestive and can trigger a conversation or dialogue.…

— Paolo Pellegrin

You're always in a rush, or else you're too exhausted to have a proper conversation. Soon enough, the long hours, the traveling,…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression.

— Samuel Johnson

“He was like a man who had served a term in prison or had been to Harvard College or had left for…

— Carson McCullers

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

— Isabel Allende

School is established, not in order that it should be convenient for the children to study, but that teachers should be able…

— Leo Tolstoy

If I walk into a place, a party, say, and there's a bookshelf, I immediately gravitate toward it. Unless there's a bar.…

— Jonathan Evison

“The very fact that a Frenchman was prepared, after tow minutes of conversation, to be so friendly towards anyone, especially one who…

— Tahir Shah

It's not what you know about the computer that's important, but your ability to do things with it. By studying French in…

— Seymour Papert

Limbo is the place. In Limbo one has natural happiness without the beatific vision; no harps; no communal order; but wine and…

— Evelyn Waugh

(I want to) make good stories that have a redemptive message and allow people to dig into their own lives and personal…

— Drew Waters

I have a contract but it's not a commitment in the ordinary sense. It's our ongoing conversation.

— Diane Sawyer

There is speaking well, speaking easily, speaking justly and speaking seasonably: It is offending against the last, to speak of entertainments before…

— Jean de la Bruyere

I think the thing that he wants even more that would solidify his position would be a couple championships. Hopefully we can…

— John Elway

Different people, in good faith, can look at the same fact and interpret it differently. But that's where an interesting conversation begins.

— Eric Schlosser

Conversation augments pleasure and diminishes pain by our having shares in either; for silent woes are greatest, as silent satisfaction leas; since…

— William Wycherley

I grew up in the sort of cultural milieu that always regarded conversations about the political discourse as tremendously low-brow.

— Joseph Brodsky

You're not learning anything unless you're having the difficult conversations,

— Gwyneth Paltrow

I guess the best advice I ever got or anyone could get for doing a talk show, though it has not been…

— Dick Cavett

I think that cosmetic enhancements in my profession are just an occupational hazard. But I think, more culturally, I'm interested in starting…

— Frances McDormand

The problem with movies and books is they make evil look glamorous, exciting, when it's no such thing. It's boring and it's…

— Dean Koontz

Make Things rather than Persons the subjects of conversations.

— John Adams

There are many who would much prefer that the word 'climate' never be mentioned and that the issue be eliminated from our…

— Al Gore