Conversation Quotes
2139 Conversation quotes by 1544 unique authors
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The Art of Conversation could not die in Australia; it never lived. Television did not kill it; there was nothing there to kill.
— George Mikes
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Rigel, Betelgeuse, and Orion. There was no finer church, no finer choir, than the stars speaking in silence to the many consumptives silently condemned, a…
— Mark Helprin
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At the end of the table, the secretary was reading the decision in some case, but in such a mournful and monotonous voice, that the…
— Nikolai Gogol
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I consider myself a religious person. God is something very personal with me and I don't flaunt religion in conversation with others.
— Richard Chamberlain
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No collection of people who are all waiting for the same thing are capable of holding a natural conversation. Even if the thing they are…
— Ben Elton
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The conversations you are most resisting are the conversations you most need to be having.
— Robin Sharma
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Be mindful of your self-talk. It's a conversation with the universe.
— David James
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All social change begins with a conversation.
— Margaret J. Wheatley
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Engagement is shaped by the interpretation of its intentions. In order for social media to mutually benefit you and your customers, you must engage them…
— Brian Solis
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I dislike organized games, swimming pools, fashionable resorts, night clubs, music in restaurants, and political manifestoes; I enjoy driving from coast to coast, good food…
— James Hilton
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The phrase 'academic freedom' is often used carelessly: here is a work that will allow a more careful conversation about those many crucial issues facing…
— Kwame Anthony Appiah
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Another definition of modernity: conversations can be more and more completely reconstructed with clips from other conversations taking place at the same time on the…
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Most of the writers I know are weird hybrids. There's a strong streak of egomania coupled with extreme shyness. Writing's kind of like exhibitionism in…
— David Foster Wallace
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Introverts don't like small talk conversation, but they typically don't mind writing. The more people can "see" you on Facebook, Twitter, Google+, or a blog,…
— Thom S. Rainer
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Content isn't king. If I sent you to a desert island and gave you the choice of taking your friends or your movies, you'd choose…
— Cory Doctorow
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I like hearing myself talk. It is one of my greatest pleasures. I often have long conversations all by myself. Sometimes I am so clever…
— Oscar Wilde
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The term 'laity' is one of the worst in the vocabulary of religion and ought to be banished from the Christian conversation.
— Karl Barth
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The least Anararchic person in that conversation is the person saying 'you can't be an anarchist if you believe in god.' Because that's not an…
— Stefan Molyneux
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A song ain't nothing but a conversation fixed up to where you can talk it over and over without getting tired of it.
— Woody Guthrie
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Sometimes the fragment of a conversation, the color of the sky, the image in a dream, has everything to do with where the song begins.
— Rosanne Cash
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And so I urge you: carry on an ongoing conversation with God about the daily stuff of life, a little like Tevye in Fiddler on…
— Richard J. Foster
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I don't think any poetry is written that isn't primarily written to the self, in a way... I'm always talking to myself. But I seem…
— Kay Ryan
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Perhaps the most reliable route to meaning and joy, to plunging below the surface and seeking more than the superficiality of material ambition, is connection…
— Michael Short
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True browsing means that we discover shelves and subjects that we could not have anticipated when we started. And the books we read introduce us…
— Ramona Koval
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It was a conversation that I didn't want to have with my parents to say mom and dad I missed my flight....
— Manti Te'o
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