Conversation Quotes

2139 Conversation quotes by 1544 unique authors

There's times when you're having dinner with a good friend and you're in the middle of a conversation and somebody comes up and cuts you… — Verne Troyer
People are hurting out there, perhaps they are ready to start a conversation about whether an AR-15 belongs in the hands of a citizen, whether… — Brian Williams
People like ourselves may see nothing wondrous in writing, but our anthropologists know how strange and magical it appears to a purely oral people -… — Neil Postman
Knowledge comes from personal experience of truth and awareness, not from conversation. — Frederick Lenz
We sat around on a hotel balcony with a bottle of wine and tried to figure out how you would go about blowing up a… — Kevin J. Anderson
A girl who is interesting and educated and can spark conversation - I find that extremely sexy. — Beau Mirchoff
A real conversation always contains an invitation. You are inviting another person to reveal herself or himself to you, to tell you who they are… — David Whyte
Asking anyone what she or he is reading is a necessary part of conversation, exchanging news. So I take recommendations from friends - and I… — Marianne Wiggins
To conclude: good journalism is one of the models of good conversation and communication in the wider social context. — Rowan Williams
Would you like to be a brilliant conversationalist? Just give your natural enthusiasm free reign and say whatever comes into your head. Your rashness will… — Alain-Rene Lesage
The fullest instruction, and the fullest enjoyment are never derived from books, till we have ventilated the ideas thus obtained in free and easy chat… — William Matthews
It is by speech that many of our best gains are made. A large part of the good we receive comes to us in conversation. — Washington Gladden
It is true that despite occasional gleams of Churchillian eloquence he [Gen. Douglas MacArthur] usually spoke poorly. He was far more effective in conversations a… — William Manchester
Listening to someone talk isn't at all like listening to their words played over on a machine. What you hear when you have a face… — Oriana Fallaci
Do the Right Thing' was my first union film. I looked at the rosters, and for the most part, it was white males. Especially the… — Spike Lee
If one looks at all closely at the middle of our own century, the events that occupy us, our customs, our achievements and even our… — Jean le Rond d'Alembert
When we enter the landscape to learn something, we are obligated, I think, to pay attention rather than constantly to pose questions. To approach the… — Barry Lopez
The idea is to find some bit of holiness in everything-food, sex, earning and spending money, having children, conversations with friends. Everything can be seen… — Harold S. Kushner
May I so boldly suggest that this Thanksgiving, we focus on one-on-one conversations, instead of broadcasting our lives to the masses. — Randi Zuckerberg
Cuvier had even in his address & manner the character of a superior Man, much general power & eloquence in conversation & great variety of… — Humphry Davy
9 saw the first direct-dialed long-distance telephone call, between New York and San Francisco. Of course, back in that primitive era the parties had to… — Dave Barry
Sometimes I observe with curiosity that uninterrupted activity which, independent of the subject of any conversation I may be carrying on, continues its course in… — Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
I was introduced to Mr. Davy, who has rooms adjoining mine (in the Royal Institution); he is a very agreeable and intelligent young man, and… — John Dalton
In the Phaedrus, Plato argued that the new arrival of writing would revolutionize culture for the worst. He suggested that it would substitute reminiscence for… — Marshall McLuhan
I watch the confusion of friends all numb with love moving like stray dogs to the anthem of night long conversations of pulsing rhythms and… — Bruce Cockburn

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