Conversation Quotes

2139 Conversation quotes by 1544 unique authors

So different are the colors of life, as we look forward to the future, or backward to the past; and so different the opinions and… — Samuel Johnson
The art of conversation lies in listening. — Malcolm Forbes
Develop serenity and quiet attitudes through your conversation. Depending upon the words we use and the tone in which we use them, we can talk… — Norman Vincent Peale
History is a process of transformation through conversation. In our efforts to produce change,we often forget how important it is to pay attention to what… — Humberto Maturana
Solitude is a condition of peace that stands in direct opposition to loneliness. Loneliness is like sitting in an empty room and being aware of… — Kent Nerburn
The best presenters have conversations with their audiences. — Robert Bly
Lettuce is like conversation; it must be fresh and crisp, so sparkling that you scarcely notice the bitter in it. — Charles Dudley Warner
If you are ever at a loss to support a flagging conversation, introduce the subject of eating. — Leigh Hunt
In private conversation between intimate friends, the wisest men very often talk like the weakest : for indeed the talking with a friend is nothing… — Joseph Addison
A good laugh makes any interview, or any conversation, so much better. — Barbara Walters
Solitary reading will enable a man to stuff himself with information, but without conversation his mind will become like a pond without an outlet-a mass… — William Matthews
It's all about bucks, kid. The rest is conversation. — Michael Douglas
A good quartet is like a good conversation among friends interacting to each other's ideas. — Stan Getz
Jazz music is the power of now. There is no script. It's conversation. The emotion is given to you by musicians as they make split-second… — Wynton Marsalis
Other than conversation, no other art form can give the satisfaction of spontaneous interaction like Jazz. — Stan Getz
Whatever you would have your children become, strive to exhibit in your own lives and conversation. — Lydia Sigourney
There can be no situation in life in which the conversation of my dear sister will not administer some comfort to me. — Mary Wortley Montagu
Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversations. — Elizabeth Drew
Acting doesn't have anything to do with listening to the words. We never really listen, in general conversation, to what the other person is saying.… — Jack Lemmon
I drove away from my mind everything capable of spoiling the sense of the presence of God.... I just make it my business to persevere… — Brother Lawrence
Let's determine to finish well by helping facilitate a lifelong conversation and sense of community between God and the people He has called us to… — Paul Baloche
A human body is a conversation going on, both within the cells and between the cells, and they're telling each other to grow and to… — Danny Hillis
A baby changes your dinner party conversation from politics to poops [very pleasant thanks for that mental image Maurice!] — Unknown Author
Whether talking about addiction, taxation [on cigarettes] or education [about smoking], there is always at the center of the conversation an essential conundrum: How come… — Anna Quindlen
Say this much for big league baseball - it is beyond question the greatest conversation piece ever invented in America. — Bruce Catton

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