Conversation Quotes

2139 Conversation quotes by 1544 unique authors

I would challenge anybody in their darkest moment to write what they're grateful for, even stupid little things like the green grass that made them… — Jim Carrey
Do you know that conversation is one of the greatest pleasures in life? But it wants leisure. — W. Somerset Maugham
An artist carries on throughout his life a mysterious, uninterrupted conversation with his public. — Maurice Chevalier
It is very wonderful to see persons of the best sense passing hours together in shuffling and dividing a pack of cards with no conversation… — Joseph Addison
When I entered graduate school I had carried out the instructions given to me by my father and had knocked on both Murray Gell-Mann's and… — Kenneth G. Wilson
Three days of uninterrupted company in a vehicle will make you better acquainted with another, than one hour's conversation with him every day for three… — Johann Kaspar Lavater
Not just any talk is conversation; not any talk raises consciousness. Good conversation has an edge: it opens your eyes to something, quickens your ears.… — James Hillman
I don't know anything that gives me greater pleasure, or profit either, than talking or listening to philosophy. But when it comes to ordinary conversation,… — Plato
Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords-philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather. — Anna Brownell Jameson
Business is a conversation because the defining work of business is conversation - literally. And 'knowledge workers' are simply those people whose job consists of… — David Weinberger
Something fundamental changes when people begin to ask questions together. The questions create more of a learning conversation than the normal stale debate about problems. — Unknown Author
Advice is unfriendly to learning, especially when it is sought. Most of the time when people seek advice, they just want to be heard. Advice… — Peter Block
An organsation's results are determined through webs of human commitments, born in webs of human conversations. — Fernando Flores
When our life ceases to be inward and private, conversation degenerates into mere gossip. — Henry David Thoreau
This all came of a conversation I had with [John] Steinbeck once when we were standing in a men's room somewhere. Steinbeck asked me why… — Eddie Condon
The first basic need of a male is sexual fulfillment; for a female, affection. The second most basic need of a male is recreational companionship;… — Myles Munroe
Physically the Celts are terrifying in appearance, with deep sounding and very harsh voices. In conversation they use few words and speak in riddles, for… — Diodorus Siculus
I really don't like going out. I don't like restaurants because I don't like the idea of someone, a waitress, being responsible for my evening.… — Amy Sedaris
Daring greatly means the courage to be vulnerable. It means to show up and be seen. To ask for what you need. To talk about… — BrenÃ© Brown
"Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation." -If you press me to say why I loved him, I… — Michel de Montaigne

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