Conversation Quotes · Page 66

“Although I do not need to be surrounded by others in order to feel alive, I do need some conversation and distraction.”

— Iain Pears

A voyage without companionship, that is to say without conversation, is one of the saddest pleasures of life.

— Madame de Stael

“Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insinuating and insidious something that elicits secrets just like love or liquor.”

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The most welcome guest in society will ever be the one to whose mind everything is a suggestion, and whose words suggest…

— Sarah Josepha Hale

Much of what happens in Love Always is really from overheard conversations in the Russian Tea Room. It's an improvisation of the…

— Ann Beattie

“I’ve heard all sorts of things about a kiss (melting, fireworks, music), but no one ever told me it’s a conversation: asking,…

— Katherine Reay

I'm someone who has a hard time turning down a conversation. And an even harder time starting a conversation and ending it…

— Mike Lee

I'd like to ask Eleanor Roosevelt what she regrets most, because I think that might reveal something that I didn't catch on…

— Russell Freedman

“Writing, when properly managed (as you may be sure I think mine is) is but a different name for conversation. As no…

— Anonymous

I feel strongly about opening up the conversation around the wage gap. It makes a difference how much you get paid, especially…

— Greta Lee

Here in America we have a man [Donald Trump] who is a master of a medium that is all about self-aggrandizement and/or…

— Ben H. Winters

He spent a lot of time flying. He learnt to communicate with birds and discovered that their conversation was fantastically boring. It…

— Anonymous

All my life I've felt on the outside wherever I am - out of the picture, the conversation, at a distance, as…

— Delphine de Vigan

If you go to a diner in the middle of America, people are having these conversations, but our politicians are too scared…

— Donald Trump, Jr

Salander leaned back against the pillow and followed the conversation with a smile. She wondered why she, who had such difficulty talking…

— Anonymous

The shepherds - simple souls - came to adore the Infant Savior. Mary rejoiced at seeing their homage and willing offerings they…

— Peter Julian Eymard

Conversations between parents and kids are important - about race issues, about all kinds of things, about heritage.

— Garcelle Beauvais

Having nine brothers and sisters, you have to stand out. In order to get on the stage with me and Shawn and…

— Damon Wayans

My measure of success is to walk into a restaurant and hear a table debating drug policy. Once the public start the…

— Sam Branson

Girls' feels very active and stirring a conversation and controversial, and you can't really ask for more as an actor.

— Adam Driver

“I appricated that Nell was talking to me like a grown-up, but I had no idea what she meant. Still, I could…

— Silas House

What I have always thought is that there should be a proper national conversation about what kind of immigration policies we have.

— Claire Fox

I was raised to be a very strong and independent woman without anybody ever saying the word feminist or having any political…

— Kellyanne Conway

The laughs are honestly bigger, ... They are the kind of unexpected belly laughs you get with your friends during conversation.

— Drew Carey

A recent conversation: Dubya: Look at the clock, time is racing! Cheney: That's the second hand, George.

— Dennis Miller

I have listened to tapes of myself interviewing people and mostly I try to be better at directing the conversation.

— Maggie Haberman

I've found that if I say what I'm really thinking and feeling, people are more likely to say what they really think…

— Carol Gilligan

That conversation... was as dirty as a sewer! It is not enough for you to take no part in it. You must…

— Josemaria Escriva

There's a classic story I tell about when I did the Man Show about the retarded conversations that you have with the…

— Joe Rogan

That moment at night when you're sleepy but you don't want to end the fun text conversation with your friends.

— Anonymous

I'm definitely a people person. I love socializing and being around people and having a good conversation.

— Emily Deschanel

It wasn't surprising to me because I've had the conversation with him personally, but Will Smith is more interesting a guy that…

— Neal Brennan

That is the happiest conversation where there is no competition, no vanity, but a calm, quiet interchange of sentiments…

— Samuel Johnson

My dad's a Pentecostal minister, meaning that he's full of charisma. If he's telling a story about Noah's ark, you best know…

— John Boyega

That man is guilty of impertinence who considers not the circumstances of time, or engrosses the conversation, or makes himself the subject…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Because of who I am, when I sit at a poker table, I meet people who engage me in conversation, not only…

— James Woods

Conversation, n.: A vocal competition in which the one who is catching his breath is called the listener.

— Ambrose Bierce

If ever you find it hard to sleep at night, don't count sheep. Instead, talk to the Shepherd... lay all your burdens…

— Nishan Panwar

It's absolutely terrifying to think your life can become a conversation point between people who have no idea who you really are.…

— Naomi Ackie

My wife is completely different from me: she's good with everyone, whereas I'm good at directed conversation when I have a purpose…

— Forest Whitaker