Conversation Quotes

2139 Conversation quotes by 1544 unique authors

I love any discourse of rivers, and fish and fishing. — Izaak Walton
Conversation in real life is full of half-finished sentences and overlapping talk. Why shouldn't painting be too? — Edgar Degas
That silence is one of the great arts of conversation is allowed by Cicero himself, who says, there is not only an art, but even… — Hannah More
In meditative prayer, one thinks and speaks not only with the mind and lips, but in a certain sense with one's whole being... All good… — Thomas Merton
Silence holds the door against the strife of tongue and all the impertinences of idle conversation. — James Hervey
The single greatest invention man ever conceived in the dollar bill, because I don't want to know the conversion rate for coconuts. — John Smith
As a salesperson, you will be judged by your ability to keep a stalled conversation moving along briskly. — Harvey Mackay
It is an intimately communicative affair between the painter and his painting, a conversation back and forth, the painting telling the painter even as it… — Ben Shahn
Because the truth of God is love, conversion to God is conversion to love. — Pope Benedict XVI
Living and breathing an authentic story is the best way to survive in a conversation-rich world. — Seth Godin
New York is a city of conversations overheard, of people at the next restaurant table (micrometers away) checking your watch, of people reading the stories… — Bill Geist
We wanted to hear from viewers about why they watch or participate in call-ins on C-SPAN, ... Viewers of all ages and walks of life… — Brian Lamb
It's always a fun collaboration with my brother. I'm very fortunate to be able to work with him. There's an honesty to collaboration. There's a… — Christopher Nolan
This exhibition brings the students' conversations about photography into the Museum space, ... The images in Reclaiming Beautiful present the teenagers' new awareness about how… — Francisco de Quevedo
I'm a huge proponent of exchanges, student exchanges, cultural exchanges, university exchanges. We talk a lot about public diplomacy, .. It's extremely important that we… — Condoleezza Rice
The Linux kernel is under the GPL version 2. Not anything else. Some individual files are licensable under v3, but not the kernel in general.… — Linus Torvalds
Conversation opens our views, and gives our faculties a more vigorous play; it puts us upon turning our notions on every side, and holds them… — William Melmoth
If you want to make a substantial reduction in your carbon footprint, doing it on your own is virtually impossible, especially if you're driving a… — Tom Arnold
In a one-woman show, there must be compelling material that you adore. In both of these there are conversations with you and another character. My… — Valerie Harper
We have, without any fanfare or much conversation, moved into a era in which news organizations are expected to explain themselves. Twenty years ago, it… — Alex Jones
If conversation be an art, like painting, sculpture, and literature, it owes its most power charm to nature; and the least shade of formality or… — Henry Theodore Tuckerman
There are some conversations that are undeniably improved when the rule going in is that you have to stand behind what you say and have… — Jonathan Zittrain
I regret that I was never an athlete. I regret there isn't time in life. I regret that so many of my friends have died.… — Richard Rodriguez
Requesting a change of environment was an extremely difficult decision. After a tremendous amount of reflection and numerous conversations with my family, it made the… — Dany Heatley
How often a mother initiates a conversation with her child is not predictive of the language outcomes - what matters is, if the infant initiates,… — Po Bronson

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