Conversation Quotes · Page 63

He's never quite got the trick of conversation, tending to hear in dissenting views, however mild, a kind of affront, an invitation…

— Ian Mcewan

Very rarely does food enhance the conversation. If the food is really good, there'll be much less conversation because you'd be concentrating…

— Richard Lugar

“it seemed one could just say are you serious? for the rest of existence and it would never be unjustified and would…

— lorrie moore

Writing in a journal reminds you of your goals and of your learning in life. It offers a place where you can…

— Anonymous

I don't know it's not really a conversation until it's a reality. We'll see. A lot can happen between now and when…

— Rick Carlisle

I don't have bad relationships with my players. But I don't get into long conversations with them either.

— Scotty Bowman

Every artist joins a conversation that's been going on for generations, even millennia, before he or she joins the scene.

— John Barth

I began a conversation with the heads of our esteemed department of political science, and instantly I concluded, 'Hopelessly incompetent!

— Ira Carmen

The conversations have been cordial. [Donald Trump] has been open to suggestions, and the main thing that I've tried to transmit is…

— Barack Obama

The national conversation around white entitlement, around institutionalized racism, the Black Lives Matter movement, I think, came about in large part because…

— Cathy O'Neil

“I respect you more than that." I almost fell off the couch. I parted my hair and looked up at him, but…

— Karen Marie Moning

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

It is given to few persons to keep this secret well. Those who lay down rules too often break them, and the…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Somehow, the conversation mentioned your name. And someone asked if I knew you. Looking away I thought of all the times we…

— Anonymous

His struggle for a bare living left him no time to take advantage of the public evening school. In time he learned…

— Mary Antin

I'm having this conversation with you now. I'm talking, but I'm thinking, feeling, smelling, and moving. Yet I'm concentrating on what you're…

— Ornette Coleman

As my marriage was slowly dissolving into silent meals and awkward nights of avoiding conversation, I started pondering an unmarried future and…

— Emily V. Gordon

People love conversation, and movies are conversations, and an audience has to participate; it has to fill in some blanks.

— Peter Hedges

I've never seen a professor of religion on television before, and I thought that was fascinating. The creative tension with spirituality vs.…

— Tim Daly

I fancy the character of a poet is in every country the same,--fond of enjoying the present, careless of the future; his…

— Oliver Goldsmith

“It's a sweet thing to sit quietly in the early-morning darkness and talk to God for a while. It's amazing what you…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

Sometimes I'll start a sentence and I don't know where it's going. I just hope to find it somewhere along the way.…

— Michael Scott

There can be no situation in life in which the conversation of my dear sister will not administer some comfort to me.

— Anonymous

I love my husband, but it is nothing like a conversation with a woman that understands you. I grow so much from…

— Beyonce Knowles

At least in Russia, you cannot just go and tap into someone's phone conversation without a warrant issued by court. That's more…

— Vladimir Putin

A diary need not be a dreary chronicle of one's movements; it should aim rather at giving salient account of some particular…

— A. C. Benson

Even though I'm from the Midwest, the majority of my life has been spent on the coasts where being gay wasn't really…

— Andrew Rannells

A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

These esoteric, intellectual debates-I want them to come to New Jersey and sit across from the widows and the orphans and have…

— Chris Christie

To believe in God starts with a conclusion about Him, develops into confidence in Him, and then matures into a conversation with…

— Stuart Briscoe

Foreigners...the most difficult people to hold a conversation with. Just nod and agree boys, nod and agree.

— Anonymous

In a conversation, keep in mind that you're more interested in what you have to say than anyone else is.

— Andy Rooney

Conversation is interesting in proportion to the originality of the central ideas which serve as pivots and the fitness of the little…

— Philip Gilbert Hamerton

I disapprove of lots of decisions made by George Bush: the war, the meddling in the affairs of other countries, the conversations…

— Tommy Hilfiger

I think people will have great conversations about religions, women's sexuality, gender issues and gay issues.

— Pam Grier

As diversity becomes part of the larger conversation, we're going to see more industries become more inclusive.

— Ego Nwodim

With actors, normally I don't like to have any conversation about background and about motivations and all this.

— Werner Herzog

The language of the internet is English, and an overwhelming proportion of the global computer chatter also originates from America, influencing the…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

We are redefining what leadership looks like and pushing for every single person to be part of that conversation.

— Michelle Wu

“He was through with this conversation. As a rule, they tended to avoid questions like "How sane are we?" and "Do our…

— Michael Chabon