Conversation Quotes · Page 24

Surely she had endured enough for one evening without having to listen to intelligent conversation?

— Stella Gibbons

What frightens us most in a madman is his sane conversation.

— Anatole France

I wish my artwork could persuade millions of people to join a global conversation about sustainability.

— Edward Burtynsky

If anything is naive and lightweight, it's the traditional political conversation.

— Marianne Williamson

That's what you want art to do, to open people up and start conversations.

— Adepero Oduye

I have been talking to a couple of people today; Me, myself and I... They are all great.

— Punkinhead Abhishek

A good rule of conversation is never answer a foolish question.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

I prefer listening to talking, reading to socializing ... I like to think before I speak (softly).

— Susan Cain

I remember buying The Fugees' 'The Score' my freshman year and feeling like this whole new world and this whole new conversation…

— Ari Melber

We've had great conversations with the United Kingdom and meetings, Israel, Mexico, Japan, China and Canada, really, really productive conversations.

— Donald Trump

Make your friends your teachers and mingle the pleasures of conversation with the advantages of instruction.

— Baltasar Gracian

I love it when someone starts a conversation - romantic, platonic, small talk - as long as it's related to food.

— Rohit Saraf

We need to make sure that we protect our babies. But we also need to make sure we protect our rights, I…

— John E. James

There has to be a reason and objective (to air strikes). What does it do to move the effort down the road…

— Chuck Hagel

If you're in a conversation with me, the last thing I'll probably say when I'm walking away is, 'Thank you and sorry.'

— Jack Antonoff

It gets you nowhere if the other person's tail is only just in sight for the second half of the conversation.

— A. A. Milne

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'm in a new club, by the way. And I don't know if you're first timers like I am, but I'm in…

— Dane Cook

I don't need to convince men that feminism is important, that just isn't a goal of mine. I can't even have that…

— Kathleen Hanna

Ideas matter in New York. I am certain that more conversations in New York are about ideas than anywhere else. Not just…

— David Frost

I've travelled extensively in the last 16 years - to slums in Bangladesh, to townships in South Africa, to all kinds of…

— Melinda Gates

The celebrations Of secret nonmeetings are empty, Unspoken conversations, Unuttered words. Glances that don't intersect Don't know where to come to rest.…

— Anna Akhmatova

I always loved mascara and eyelash curlers to make your eyes look very open and wide and when I'm having a conversation…

— Erin Brady

Very often, when you get into a conversation that's more of a debate, you'll pick up that the other person is venting…

— Mark Goulston

The time has come for a new kind of conversation, a new kind of Christianity, a new kind of revolution.

— Shane Claiborne

What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor, more unashamed conversation.

— Glenn Close

Repose is as necessary in conversation as in a picture.

— William Hazlitt

A picture is worth a thousand words, but conversations with them generally end in dissapointment.

— Dov Davidoff

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

— Brian Molko

In conversation avoid the extremes of forwardness and reserve.

— Cato the Younger

“A conversation with Mabh was like playing tag with a grizzly bear.”

— Lesley Livingston

We should stop having a conversation about cutting Social Security a little bit or a lot.

— Elizabeth Warren

Smiling like an idiot while having an amazing conversation with your bestfriend.

— Anonymous

In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.

— George Herbert

Having a sarcastic conversation with yourself when people are ignoring you.

— Anonymous

“This is a damn useless conversation. Goodbye. (Charles Goodnight to Woodrow Call)”

— Larry McMurtry

Prayer is the most important conversation of the day.

— Anonymous

The true language of commerce is the natural conversation between human beings.

— William C. Brown

Virtually anything is more stimulating than conversations with strangers at social gatherings.

— James Cook

“I think good conversation is really the best form of sex.”

— Paul Russell