Conversation Quotes

2139 Conversation quotes by 1544 unique authors

Reading a book should not be a passive exercise, but rather a raucous conversation. — Studs Terkel
Like a cross between Paul Auster's The Book of Illusions and Janice Lee's Damnation, The Absolution of Roberto Acestes Laing is at once smart and slyly unsettling. It is expert… — Brian Evenson
There may be an art to conversation, and some are better at it than others, but conversation's virtue lies in randomness and possibility: people, without… — Lynne Tillman
Martin Swinger is one of those rare singer-songwriters who excels at everything: singing, songwriting, guitar-playing, and being so present with his humor, tenderness, and wild… — Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
There's no telling from poem to poem where this brilliant 'conversation' about maleness and gender will lead---there are poems about husbands and wives, parents and… — Unknown Author
I love conversations with kids in the meet and greet lines — little people with little voices! I love babies. Someday I would love to… — Taylor Swift
Men have just come up to me and asked for my number right away. That doesn't work. You have to know somebody and have a… — Leah Remini
I found it very difficult to explain to someone why you did a film. It's not like having a conversation. — Charlotte Gainsbourg
Whistling together. Some kind of performance. I mean, not just a conversation, but a performance. — Kim Stanley
Like a genial hotelier, Rolex has introduced me to some of the nicest people. I ask about their Rolex and they ask about mine. It's… — Maurice Chevalier
Do I belong in the conversation about the best artists in the world? My answer is yes, I do. — Billy Corgan
A lot of the girls my age were impressed by silly stuff like money and fame. I wanted to be able to have intellectual and… — Nick Cannon
Sixty-five percent of Americans don't have the conversation with their children. So you're sending off boys and girls off to college, off to high school,… — Mariska Hargitay
The problem with listening, of course, is that we don't. There's too much noise going on in our heads, so we never hear anything. The… — Philip Glass
Most of us have very clear memories of the self-critical internal conversation running on in our heads while we were playing poorly, and yet it… — Barry Green
Every Thanksgiving, Barack sits down to call some of our troops and thank them for their service. When he tells me about these conversations, it… — Michelle Obama
There's a thing that creeps into this conversation ... that if you complain about the depiction of women [in comics], it becomes, 'Well, but ladies… — Kelly Sue DeConnick
The best ideas start as conversations. — Jonathan Ive
This place of mine never is entered by humans come for conversation, only by the mute moon's light shafts that slip in between the trees. — SaigyÅ
[The imagination] . . . inspires an audacious mental habit. We are as elastic as the gas of gunpowder, and . . . a word… — Marsilio Ficino
Ugly reports and conversations are always available to those who would promote the sordid and sensational. None of us are yet perfect. We each have… — Marvin J. Ashton
If, for instance, they have heard something from the postman, they attribute it to a semi-official statement; if they have fallen into conversation with a… — Evelyn Waugh
Some people who experience a religious conversion seem to undergo a personality change. They can be quite congenial and easygoing when talking about mundane things,… — Darrel Ray
It gets you nowhere if the other person's tail is only just in sight for the second half of the conversation. — A A Milne
We are identified and known by the sort of fruit, the quantity of fruit, and the quality of fruit borne out in our daily conversation,… — W. Phillip Keller

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