Conversation Quotes · Page 98

How ironical that it is by means of speech that man can degrade himself below the level of dumb creation -- for…

— Soren Kierkegaard

Good conversation turns me on. A connection between two people, a mental one first.

— Brian Molko

Werewolves were far more terrifying than vampires. It is probably the idea of seeing the human within the beast and knowing you…

— Glen Duncan

I was never going to get any sleep. I was going to have Alice in Wonderland conversation after Alice in Wonderland conversation…

— Connie Willis

It's a conversation that nobody really likes to have, and it seems that we never can get to a solution with it…

— Katey Sagal

“I'm sorry." "Sorry? For what?" He straightened and moved a bit closer, sounding honestly puzzled. "I am not much of a conversationalist,…

— Candace Camp

Maybe I don't need a relationship after all, she thought. Maybe thinking about these conversations was just as good as having them.…

— Chuck Klosterman

There is no question that food is a conversation starter.

— Jock Zonfrillo

When I was younger, I was just always looking for - you're always looking for this hot, so hot, like super-hot girl.…

— Blake Griffin

I have often had cause to feel that my hands are cleverer than my head. That is a crude way of characterizing…

— George Wald

We change people through conversation, not through censorship.

— Jay-Z

I believe comedy is a really good lens to filter serious issues through. If people are laughing, they don't necessarily realize until…

— Kenya Barris

We need a better way to talk about eating animals, a way that doesn't ignore or even just shruggingly accept things like…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

A perfect conversation would run much less to brilliant sentences than to unfinished ones.

— Louis Kronenberger

It has always seemed to me the real art in this business is not so much moving information or guidance or policy…

— Edward R. Murrow

For the introvert, conversation can be a very limited forum for self expression. When a song moves you, a writer gets you…

— Laurie Helgoe

There is no one who does not exaggerate. In conversation, men are encumbered with personality, and talk too much.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sometimes you need to have a tough conversation or face a tough situation, and take it head on.

— Dave Martinez

A lot of women from conversation could fall in love and that's a scary thing, I try to duck em good, cause…

— Wale

There is never an embarrassing silence that can't be turned into a regrettable conversation.

— Robert Breault

When you're on set all day, and you don't look people in the eye, it's really relaxing. Normally when you talk to…

— Ryan Cartwright

Previous technologies have expanded communication. But the last round may be contracting it. The eloquence of letters has turned into the unnuanced…

— Rebecca Solnit

The devil take these people and their language! They take a dozen monosyllabic words in their jaws, chew them, crunch them and…

— Heinrich Heine

That amenity which the French have developed into a great art . . . conversation.

— Cornelia Otis Skinner

People sometimes think that defining a term is pedantic and useless, but terms need to be defined if they're going to be…

— Pattiann Rogers

I never actually got around to taping conversations with my guests, but there are a lot of things you can learn from…

— Pierre Trudeau

When you get a critique, people think you're criticizing them but it's really an intellectual conversation. You can't get emotionally attached.

— Kalup Linzy

You always want to be able to convey items of interest, items that make the fan see what's happening, help them in…

— Hubie Brown

I discovered Twitter, as I remember, and the idea of watching a global conversation go by immediately struck me as a fantastic…

— Debra Hamel

Click, clack, click, clack, went their conversation, like so many knitting-needles, purl, plain, purl, plain, achieving a complex pattern of references, cross-references,…

— Vita Sackville-West

I think standup is pretty good for an introvert because you are performing, but, I mean, it's on your own terms. There…

— Amy Schumer

All of the most important lessons about writing I learned from my father. He never set out to teach me anything, it…

— Joss Whedon

We should be able to have a conversation about immigration; we should be able to have a conversation about what skills we…

— Amber Rudd

“Talking about abstract things is important. Having big, wild conversations about concepts like art, music, time travel, and dreams makes it much…

— Anonymous

A woman who knows that she doesn't have to get all decked out to look good is sexy. A woman who can…

— Benedict Cumberbatch

Sexuality is, of course, a great way of having a conversation between people.

— Tilda Swinton

Talking is good. Conversations have to be forever.

— Michelle Obama

If we begin by the conversation that some people shouldn't be encouraged to come to the polls, that does nothing to help…

— Marc Lamont Hill

Given the cultural barriers to intersex conversation, the amazing thing is that we would even expect women and men to have anything…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

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