Conversation Quotes

2139 Conversation quotes by 1544 unique authors

I could sit right here and have a 15-minute conversation with somebody and change their whole life. — Young Jeezy
A comedian is sort of like a wild animal. It really just depends on where you catch them. Sometimes they want to cuddle up, and… — Nick Kroll
A child needs to be listened to and talked to at 3 and 4 and 5 years of age. Parents should not wait for the… — Bob Keeshan
On the broad spectrum of solitude, I lean toward the extreme end: I work alone, as well as live alone, so I can pass an… — Caroline Knapp
My parents went crazy when they found out that I had gotten the part in 'Conversations With My Father!' I'd never given acting a thought.… — David Krumholtz
Alone-sex didn't count. It's like the difference between thinking to yourself or having a good conversation with someone--the pleasure is in the exchange. — Lisa Kleypas
The English love for privacy is proverbial, and has not been exaggerated. A stranger who strikes up a conversation is looked upon with suspicion -… — Henry Steele Commager
My wife will tell you it's the little things, like driving my boys to school on my days off so she can rest. We're not… — Daniel Dae Kim
Tone is often the most important part of a conversation - and listening is so much more important than what you say. — Hoda Kotb
Usually, when Nirvana made music, there wasn't a lot of conversation. We wanted everything to be surreal. We didn't want to have some contrived composition. — Dave Grohl
I write because I want to end my loneliness. Books make people less alone. That, before and after everything else, is what books do. They… — Jonathan Safran Foer
I remember as a boy when the conversation on civil rights was won in the South. I remember a time when one of my friends… — Al Gore
If you feel irritated by the absurd remarks of two people whose conversation you happen to overhear, you should imagine that you are listening to… — Arthur Schopenhauer
Angels can recognize the nature of our unique essence on the basis of nothing more than a brief conversation with us. From hearing the tone… — Emanuel Swedenborg
The death of a friendship was usually slow and insidious, like the wearing away of a hillside after years of too much rain. A handful… — Karen Kingsbury
The longer I live, the more I have come to value the gift of eloquence. Every American youth, if he desires for any purpose to… — George Frisbie Hoar
In our land of opportunities and distractions, it's hard to devote our attention to the quiet pleasures of reading. It's as if we live our… — Steve Leveen
When the conversation turns too quickly to films,I see it as a sign of weakness. — Herman Koch
Someday, someday, but certainly not now, I'd like to learn how to have a conversation. — Sherry Turkle
Speakers who have grown up in the American community unconsciously know its rules about taking turns in conversations-in the same way that they know the… — Peter Farb
My folks are economists and have taught economics and social science so I grew up with those kind of conversations around the dinner table. — Seth Gordon
Art to me is not precious enough that I feel territorial about what the word gets applied to. Conversations about what counts as art and… — Maggie Nelson
It's apparent that we can't proceed any further without a name for this institutionalized garrulousness, this psychological patter, this need to catalogue the ego's condition.… — Richard Rosen
Is it appropriate still for a German to have a gun? I only use that as an example of a country that's still deeply involved… — Stephen Daldry
We're in a situation where the solutions that we have are not good enough. The way to improve anything is to have a discussion about… — Edward Felten

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