Conversation Quotes · Page 53

I tried to use the questions and answers as an armature on which to build a sculpture of genuine conversation

— Clifton Fadiman

When you're walking, then start texting and walk slower and slower and slower till you're just standing there texting.

— Anonymous

One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had…

— Jonathan Swift

One child must never be set above another, even in casual conversation, not to mention in speeches that circle the globe.

— Alice Walker

Subtle and literate, The Dance of Intimacy is like a long, revealing conversation with a wise and compassionate friend.

— Maggie Scarf

A deaf and dumb person who sees two men in conversation - may nevertheless understand from the attitudes and gestures of the…

— Leonardo da Vinci

I don't want to get into extended conversations with people on MySpace, because there are friends I have extended conversations with every…

— Patton Oswalt

Sweet, crazy conversations full of half sentences, daydreams and misunderstandings more thrilling than understanding could ever be.

— Toni Morrison

I interviewed Kim Kardashian recently and had a conversation with her mother. A lot of people have various thoughts about Kim Kardashian,…

— Martin Sorrell

I've long suspected that one of the reasons why human beings haven't yet figured out how to carry on a conversation with…

— John Michael Greer

Conversations...begin with the sort of imaginative engagement you get when you read a novel or watch a movie or attend to a…

— Kwame Anthony Appiah

How many young girls there are who do not see any wrongdoing in following certain shameless styles like so many sheep. They…

— Pope Pius XII

I've been really happy to be in that conversation with Scott [Derrickson] for a few months now. We started chewing this cud…

— Tilda Swinton

The world is waiting for you to wake up to the person you are called to be. Stop listening to the negative…

— Les Brown

“We have the oddest conversations.” “I find this conversation more than odd. It’s positively shocking.” “Why? Because I understand the principle of…

— Tessa Dare

Since nothing appears to me to give Children so much becoming Confidence and Behavior, and so raise them to the conversation of…

— John Locke

A person who talks with equal vivacity on every subject, excites no interest in any. Repose is as necessary in conversation as…

— William Hazlitt

We spend so much time bantering about the words when the real open conversations might very well be our actions. I worry…

— Anna Deavere Smith

My accent remained terrible. It was very hard for me to initiate any conversation with someone I didn't know.

— Lawrence Welk

I'm over the word 'like' in conversation, and 'you know' seems to be the placeholder of choice, but when I'm writing dialogue,…

— Karin Slaughter

“There's so few things men can talk about. If a man doesn't like baseball, then he must like horses, and if he…

— Truman Capote

The mentally ill frighten and embarrass us. And so we marginalize the people who most need our acceptance. What mental health needs…

— Glenn Close

I always describe race as the final taboo in American theatre. There's a real reluctance to have that conversation in an open,…

— Lynn Nottage

When you encounter someone you were destined to meet, the conversation will take flight as if it were on wings of angels,…

— Anonymous

The conversation of human beings seldom interested him, but it crossed his mind that the males and females always got along best…

— Terry Pratchett

No right of private conversation was enumerated in the Constitution. I suppose it never occurred to anyone at the time that it…

— Whitfield Diffie

We're all humans. Any human can tell any human's story. I don't want to have this conversation about black film or white…

— Theodore Melfi

Much of the conversation in the country consisted of lines from television shows, both past and present.

— Kurt Vonnegut

It's hilarious a lot of times. You have a conversation with someone, and he's like, 'You speak so well!' I'm like, 'What…

— Jay-Z

I love to cook. But I'm a bit rubbish. I tend to start something and then dip into a book or have…

— Isla Fisher

“Is my conversation putting you to sleep, or is the rufie I slipped in your dog food finally starting to kick in?”

— Jarod Kintz

When cafe life thrives, talk is a shared limberness of the mind that improves appetite for conversation: an adequate sentence maker is…

— Vivian Gornick

Tone is often the most important part of a conversation - and listening is so much more important than what you say.

— Hoda Kotb

If something is being written about a lot, there's a conversation there; there's a dialogue there. There's probably a reason for it…

— Jesse Andrews

Say the first word. Set the tone for the conversation. Be poised, prepared, and ready to say the first word in any…

— Gloria Feldt

Would you like to be a brilliant conversationalist? Just give your natural enthusiasm free reign and say whatever comes into your head.…

— Alain-Rene Lesage

One never discusses anything with anybody who can understand one discusses things with people who cannot understand.

— Gertrude Stein

Generative ideas emerge from joint thinking, from significant conversations, and from sustained, shared struggles to achieve new insights from partners in thought.

— Anonymous

I'm an American so its kind of hard for me to talk about 9/11. So whenever someone brings it up in a…

— Zach Galifianakis

I wonder if the conversations you've never had with someone count, if you've been over them a thousand times in your mind.

— Jodi Picoult