Conversation Quotes · Page 70

Shyness means you are in the hallway of a greater presence. You just don't know how to take the conversation another step.…

— David Whyte

A lot of water and air signs that are just like, trying to have a lowkey conversation. Fire sign enters the room…

— Michelle Zauner

Be a good listener...It makes the person who's speaking to you feel loved,cared for and worthy of being heard.

— Wayne Dyer

Don't discount the power of your words. The thought that they might cause unnecessary hurt or discomfort should inform every conversation.

— P. M. Forni

I attended the bedside of a friend who was dying in a Dublin hospital. She lived her last hours in a public…

— Gabriel Byrne

We never could clearly understand how it is that egotism, so unpopular in conversation, should be so popular in writing.

— Thomas B. Macaulay

“The tantrums of cloth-headed celluloid idols are deemed fit for grown-up conversation, while silence settles over such a truly important matter as…

— Clifton Fadiman

Conversations among the members of your marketplace happen whether you like it or not. Good marketing encourages the right sort of conversations.

— Seth Godin

I think Donald Trump is very uninterested in his business. In the past he would be talking up his business, but since…

— Christopher Ruddy

I had an ASU student looking for it in my shop last week, and he defined the Bacchants for me as 'those…

— Kevin Hearne

“Before the day I didn't fit, this conversation was largely an abstraction for me. My stance was the same as it is…

— Lindy West

A handwritten letter carries a lot of risk. It's a one-sided conversation that reveals the truth of the writer. Furthermore, the writer…

— Adriana Trigiani

I had a studio session with Nipsey Hussle. We didn't record, but we just vibed and we talked. It was just good…

— Fabolous

There was a sense of all the things that go on on the street, particularly in New York, that you are just…

— Jennifer Beals

I vividly remember a conversation I had many years ago in 1974, which marked a turning point in my leadership journey. I…

— John C. Maxwell

“Most people he knew, his wife included, wouldn't make it through an hour on the promise of four sentences. But Frankie Bard…

— Sarah Blake

The weakness of traditional canvassing is that it prevents a real conversation with people who are, on the whole, less tribal and…

— Wes Streeting

“Any conversation is a unique jazz performance. Some are more pleasing to the ears, but that is not necessarily a measurement of…

— Frank Herbert

Love is two minds of one heart having a conversation without either having the need of saying anything to be heard.

— Stuart Morris

It's the reaction I've gotten my whole life: that I learn something and try to tell people in conversation, but when I…

— Adam Conover

“Betsy liked to talk. Her father always said she got it from her mother, and her mother always said she got it…

— Maud Hart Lovelace

“The conversation between your fingers and someone else’s skin. This is the most important discussion you can ever have.”

— Iain Thomas

The only thing that annoys me more then people who only hit me when they need something...is the fake conversation before they…

— Anonymous

Conversation in society is found to be on a platform so low as to exclude science, the saint, and the poet.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Most men would no longer enjoy conversing with most women if they stopped bringing their vaginas along.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“I would have chatted with Tempi, but trying to have a conversation with him was like playing catch with a well.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

A baby changes your dinner party conversation from politics to poops [very pleasant thanks for that mental image Maurice!]

— Mo Johnston

Women are upset if their partner has an intimate conversation of any kind with someone who isn't them. They consider it a…

— Drew Pinsky

M&A negotiations feel really fun. This is one of the biggest killers of companies, is they entertain acquisition conversations.

— Sam Altman

I see in my friends that don't have kids, when they come over, and the amount of times our conversation gets interrupted…

— Shannyn Sossamon

I want to make it clear, I'm not whining, and the Celtics owe me nothing. But having said that, you would think…

— Robert Parish

The reason people need advice on using social media is that they're a much more complex and nuanced way to communicate than…

— Alexis Ohanian

One of the first observations to make in conversation is the state, or the character, and the education of the person to…

— Suzanne Curchod

I think others may look at the uniqueness of my candidacy, the fact that I'm an African-American, conservative tea party Republican, and…

— Niger Innis

The voice will guide you-will tell you what to do. In order to do that, you must be quite sensitive with the…

— Cecilia Bartoli

I try to see what that person is thinking or feeling about that particular day. I just get more of a sense…

— Joel Stein

It has been wonderful to be the home port for the brave and brilliant forces of ABC News around the world and…

— Diane Sawyer

I think you have to ask yourself does voting work on the level that you are trying to effectuate change; that is…

— Lupe Fiasco

When you think you're listening to several conversations at once, they tell me, you may really simply be time sharing - that…

— Murray Gell-Mann

I began to think that melancholy was a dialect that only some people knew-or could even hear-and in my conversations, I sought…

— Virginia Heffernan