Conversation Quotes

2139 Conversation quotes by 1544 unique authors

The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own. — Virginia Woolf
Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living,… — William Butler Yeats
People in bands don't have the kind of conversations people might think they have. The best things about being in a band are the things… — Thom Yorke
Sometimes you have to disconnect to stay connected. Remember the old days when you had eye contact during a conversation? When everyone wasn't looking down… — Regina Brett
Bill Cosby is a famous black guy who has a bully pulpit the size of the world; it's global. He puts his colossal foot on… — Michael Eric Dyson
The brain was not built to walk into a bar, where you know nobody, and start a conversation. That's not the way humanity has courted. — Helen Fisher
I'm a huge Coppola fan. But more of 'Apocalypse Now' and 'The Conversation.' 'The Godfather' for me is, like, number three or four on the… — Anurag Kashyap
The decentralized nature of online conversations often makes it easier to manipulate public opinion, both domestically and globally. Regimes that once relied on centralized systems… — Evgeny Morozov
Democracy isn't solely about polite conversations in parliaments. It needs to be continually refreshed with raw passions, anger and ideals. — Geoff Mulgan
Having a human conversation is not something I've had any training in either as a comedian or as, you know, a human being. — John Oliver
We know that people are less open in conversations if the other conversant puts a cell phone on the table. Even if it's turned off.… — Douglas Rushkoff
Cronshaw stopped for a moment to drink. He had pondered for twenty years the problem whether he loved liquor because it made him talk or… — W. Somerset Maugham
the soul of conversation is sympathy — Thomas Campbell
Ah, good conversation - there's nothing like it, is there? The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing. — Edith Wharton
It's important to be heroic, ambitious, productive, efficient, creative, and progressive, but these qualities don't necessarily nurture soul. The soul has different concerns, of equal… — Thomas Moore
Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated. — Marquis de Sade
Sweet, crazy conversations full of half sentences, daydreams and misunderstandings more thrilling than understanding could ever be. — Toni Morrison
I've made a profound transformation. I've fashioned some cyber-underwear. I'm not scared of anything! Actually, I am scared of a few things. Cyber world is… — Tom Waits
He's never quite got the trick of conversation, tending to hear in dissenting views, however mild, a kind of affront, an invitation to mortal combat. — Ian Mcewan
Yes, my mind was wandering. I wished I were there with someone who could bring peace to my heart someone with whom I could spend… — Paulo Coelho
Occasionally, in the middle of a conversation her name would be mentioned, and she would run down the steps of a chance sentence, without turning… — Vladimir Nabokov
Its a beautiful woman's fate to be the subject of conversation where ever she goes — Oscar Wilde
I don't want to analyze myself or anything, but I think, in fact I know this to be true, that I enter the world through… — Aaron Sorkin
She will look at you as women look at men, and she will judge you as a woman judge men...not on the strength of their… — Orson Scott Card
The jostling of young minds against each other has this wonderful attribute that one can never foresee the spark, nor predict the flash. What will… — Victor Hugo

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