Conversation Quotes

2139 Conversation quotes by 1544 unique authors

He spent a lot of time flying. He learnt to communicate with birds and discovered that their conversation was fantastically boring. It was all to… — Douglas Adams
We define our identity always in dialogue with, sometimes in struggle against, the things our significant others want to see in us. Even after we… — Charles Taylor
Boredom forces you to ring people you haven’t seen for eighteen years and halfway through the conversation you remember why you left it so long.… — Jeremy Clarkson
So, destroy?" Cal asked. Clearly, the conversation was giving his two brain cells a serious workout. — Rick Riordan
A person's success in life can usually be measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations he or she is willing to have. — Tim Ferriss
I find more and more that I am a man of the 1920s. I still expect something exciting. Drinks, animated conversation, gaiety: the uninhibited exchange… — Edmund Wilson
Newton's Third Law of Conversation, if it existed, would hold that every statement implies an equal and opposite statement. To say that I'd turned the… — Hugh Laurie
You're always in a rush, or else you're too exhausted to have a proper conversation. Soon enough, the long hours, the traveling, the broken sleep… — Kazuo Ishiguro
The best way to know someone is to have a conversation with them. — Neal Stephenson
I could think of nothing else to say to her. In fact I could never think of anything to say to her, and I sat… — Harper Lee
People say strange things, the boy thought. Sometimes it's better to be with the sheep, who don't say anything. And better still to be alone… — Paulo Coelho
All my life I've felt on the outside wherever I am - out of the picture, the conversation, at a distance, as though I were… — Delphine de Vigan
Owen meany who rarely wasted words and who had the conversation-stopping habit of dropping remarks like coins into a deep pool of water... remarks that… — John Irving
He almost said to himself that he did not like her, before their conversation ended; he tried so hard to compensate himself for the mortified… — Elizabeth Gaskell
Are we, like, having a conversation?" "Did you just, like, ask me for advice and listen with an open mind? If so, then yes, I… — Karen Marie Moning
Why write stories? To join the conversation. — Dorothy Allison
I have no special desire to go crawl around in caves, but I really like the word [spelunking] and want to use it in conversation.… — Evan Mandery
[Mrs. Allen was] never satisfied with the day unless she spent the chief of it by the side of Mrs. Thorpe, in what they called… — Jane Austen
In university courses we do exercises. Term papers, quizzes, final examinations are not meant for publication. We move through a course on Dostoevsky or Poe… — John Gardner
We spend so much time bantering about the words when the real open conversations might very well be our actions. I worry about our rhetoric. — Anna Deavere Smith
Blessed are they who hold lively conversations with the helplessly mute, for they shall be called dentists. — Ann Landers
There was very little about her face and figure that was in any way remarkable, but it was the sort of face which, when animated… — Susanna Clarke
Because everybody lies. It's part of living in society. Don't get me wrong-I think it's necessary. The last thing anyone wants is to live in… — Nicholas Sparks
We change people through conversation, not through censorship. — Jay-Z
She was not often invited to join in the conversation of the others, nor did she desire it. Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually… — Jane Austen

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