Breaths Quote by Ambrose Bierce

Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for competitors.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Conversation, to take another example, is one of the common pleasures of life, but not all conversation is pleasurable. The stutterer finds talking painful,…

— Alexander Lowen

Conversation is an abandonment to ideas, a surrender to persons.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

The primary use of conversation is to satisfy the impulse to talk.

— George Santayana

Good listeners are perceived as good conversationalists.

— Susan RoAne

There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all.

— Rebecca West

Some persons talk simply because they think sound is more manageable than silence.

— Margaret Halsey

Listening is not merely not talking...it means taking a vigorous human interest in what is being told to us.

— Andrew Miller

When you're the person in the room with the microphone, you have a platform to talk about whatever you want, and it's much more…

— Sara Pascoe

But a book suggests conversation: one person is speaking to another, and audible sound is, or should be, natural to that exchange. So I…

— Teju Cole

'The Conversation' is one that, if you watch 'The Conversation' for the opening sequence, where you hear a conversation taking place as the master…

— Colin O'Donoghue