Conversation Quotes · Page 11

A good friendship is a conversation that never ends.

— Gloria Steinem

Fine. Since the tea is not forthcoming, let's have a philosophical conversation.

— Anton Chekhov

If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.

— James Whistler

Cribbage, n. A substitute for conversation among those to whom nature has denied ideas.

— Ambrose Bierce

It was a conversation that I didn't want to have with my parents to say mom and dad I missed my flight…

— Manti Te'o

It's no use imagining that bringing great writers together inevitably precipitates great conversation.

— Edward St Aubyn

In order to have a conversation with someone you must reveal yourself.

— James A. Baldwin

The conversation of kisses. Subtle, engrossing, fearless, transforming.

— Alice Munro

I have a bunch of information in my head that I'm not afraid to put in song or onto a canvas. Into…

— John Mellencamp

There's a long conversation we're going to have about how to enforce immigration laws. But physically securing the border is essential.

— Paul Ryan

That which chiefly causes the failure of a dinner-party, is the running short--not of meat, nor yet of drink, but of conversation.

— Lewis Carroll

The parrots are great. They do something I refer to as "the Phone Call from Venus." They repeat all my phone conversations.…

— Carrie Fisher

I really do feel like the work and time we spend avoiding having difficult conversations is so much more wasteful and painful…

— Shonda Rhimes

My father is incapable of showing much affection, or even of carrying on a conversation. I didn't want to have a relationship…

— Kurt Cobain

“They had spoken once, but there is not need for speech if it is only a habit anyay. Kino sighed with satisfaction…

— John Steinbeck

I never, with important air, In conversation overbear. . . . . My tongue within my lips I rein; For who talks…

— John Gay

Speakers who have grown up in the American community unconsciously know its rules about taking turns in conversations-in the same way that…

— Peter Farb

I have often thought how strange it is that men can at once and the same moment cheerfully consign our sex to…

— Frances Power Cobbe

I don't think if you asked any of my childhood friends they would say that I had a weird childhood; they might…

— Jennifer Lynch

“Their conversation is like a gently wicked dance: sound meets sound, curtsies, shimmies, and retires. Another sound enters but is upstaged by…

— Toni Morrison

I started working with James [Schamus] early on, and my role as an executive producer was more about being involved in the…

— Logan Lerman

“He just asked questions, especially to begin a conversation, as if he knew nothing. In the course of the discussion he would…

— Jostein Gaarder

The best thing to me, now that I'm older-and as you get older it's not about the looks...especially here in L.A. where…

— Amber Lancaster

“Snow child, indeed. There was something cold, even calculating, about the girl’s beauty. Something was wrong here, though how the hell could…

— Barry Eisler

“The most interesting conversations always end prematurely.”

— Bhuwan Thapaliya

Food was a constant topic of conversation in our household.

— Paul Lynde

The best part of sleepovers are the deep conversations you have in the middle of the night.

— Anonymous

I think it's important to have conversation about things instead of shutting things down.

— Carrie Preston

Nowadays there is no conversation at all. Teachers distrust talk as much as business men.

— Marshall McLuhan

“Hey, tell me, when did this conversation go completely whoosh?”

— Justin Richards

If one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation would be a very poor business.

— C. S. Lewis

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

— Anonymous

“Right. Conversation. I might want to try some of that.”

— Devon Monk

That one conversation with you that changed everything between us.

— Anonymous

As soon as a woman begins to dress "loud," her manners and conversation partake of the same element.

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

nobody is such a fool as to moider away his time in the slip-slop conversation of a pack of women.

— Lady Hester Stanhope

“Being boring is as likely as being interesting to make one impossible to forget.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

A bacteriologist is a man whose conversation always start with the germ of an idea.

— Evan Esar

...the sound of our lack of conversation amplified by the echo of our footsteps on the stone around us.

— Maggie Stiefvater

Music is a conversation between the audience and me, and I love that about my profession.

— Dianne Reeves