Conversation Quotes

2139 Conversation quotes by 1544 unique authors

Two people in a conversation amount to four people talking. The four are what one person says, what he really wanted to say, what his… — William Jennings Bryan
Show me the man who isn't interested in discussing himself. — John Steinbeck
Grief remains one of the few things that has the power to silence us. It is a whisper in the world and a clamor within.… — Anna Quindlen
I like to build places online where readers can have productive conversations about books. — John Green
I don't think we should see the world of books as fundamentally separate from the world of the Internet. Yes, the Internet contains a lot… — John Green
The only happy talkers are dandies who extract pleasure from the very perishability of their material and who would not be able to tolerate the… — Cyril Connolly
Without leisure there can be neither art nor science nor fine conversation, nor any ceremonious performance of the offices of love and friendship. — Lewis Mumford
People resent articulacy, as if articulacy were a form of vice. — Frederic Raphael
Is there anything more terrible than a "call"? It affords an occasion for the exchange of the most threadbare commonplaces. Calls and the theatre are… — Miguel de Unamuno
We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men. — Jorge Luis Borges
If you talked or laughed in church, told lies, had impure thoughts or conversations, you were bad; if you obeyed your parents or guardians, went… — Mary McCarthy
What great delight it is to see the ones we love and then to have speech with them. — Vincent McNabb
I don't want clever conversation, I never want to work that hard, I just want someone I can talk to, I want you just the… — Billy Joel
Man does not speak because he thinks; he thinks because he speaks. Or rather, speaking is no different than thinking: to speak is to think. — Octavio Paz
Well, well, perhaps I am a bit of a talker. A popular fellow such as I am -- my friends get round me -- we… — Kenneth Grahame
Much of what happens in Love Always is really from overheard conversations in the Russian Tea Room. It's an improvisation of the way certain Hollywood… — Ann Beattie
How ironical that it is by means of speech that man can degrade himself below the level of dumb creation -- for a chatterbox is… — Soren Kierkegaard
A journalist is basically a chronicler, not an interpreter of events. Where else in society do you have the license to eavesdrop on so many… — Bill Moyers
Mediocre people have an answer for everything and are astonished at nothing. They always want to have the air of knowing better than you what… — Eugene Delacroix
I don't think if you asked any of my childhood friends they would say that I had a weird childhood; they might say there weren't… — Jennifer Lynch
It's like breathing in and out to me. It's like having a conversation with someone who isn't there. Because it has to be addressed to… — Norman MacCaig
The Conversation' was the first film I edited on a flatbed machine - a KEM editing machine. I've been using Final Cut or the AVID… — Walter Murch
I trained with the FBI in Portland and I also had many conversations with female FBI agents in Los Angeles, as well. That was again… — Connie Nielsen
Blogging and the Internet allow us to engage in a lot more real time conversations as opposed to a one-way dump of information or a… — Indra Nooyi
Movies are in a much longer production conversation before an actor is even involved. I always thought of actors as the last piece of the… — Elizabeth Olsen

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