Conversational Quotes
47 quotes by 44 authors
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I am conversational - I just like to engage and talk about things.
— Caroline Rhea
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Marry a man / woman you love to talk to. As you get older, their conversational skills will be as important as any other.
— Tony Robbins
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Flirting is conversational chemistry.
— Isaac Mizrahi
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I was born in Scotland and have lived there all my life. I speak conversational Cantonese with my dad when I'm at home, and very…
— Katie Leung
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Men of great conversational powers almost universally practise a sort of lively sophistry and exaggeration which deceives for the moment both themselves and their auditors.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
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None but those who have loved can be supposed to understand the oratory of the eye, the mute eloquence of a look, or the conversational…
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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The largest factor in predicting group intelligence was the equality of conversational turn taking; groups where a few people dominated the conversation were less collectively…
— Alex Pentland
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It's not an accident that both my sister and I are writers. Our parents created an accidental Petri dish. My family has great storytellers, and…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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The conversational overachiever is someone whose grasp exceeds his reach. This is possible but not attractive.
— Fran Lebowitz
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Criticism is, for me, like essay writing, a wonderful way of relaxation; it doesn't require a heightened and mediated voice, like prose fiction, but rather…
— Joyce Carol Oates
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For the novice runner, I'd say to give yourself at least 2 months of consistently running several times a week at a conversational pace before…
— Frank Shorter
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Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.
— Bill Watterson
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People often ask me why my style is so simple. It is, in fact, deceptively simple, for no two sentences are alike. It is clarity…
— Ruskin Bond
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We were discussing a grisly double murder and Rodriguez was telling us all this in the same sort of conversational tone a person might use…
— Janet Evanovich
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Michael nodded tersely, eyeing a table across the room. It was empty. So empty. So joyfully, blessedly empty. He could picture himself a very happy…
— Julia Quinn
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Good conversational debate is an end in itself, and talking for the love of conversation is what makes us human.
— Bryce Courtenay
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Driven by a wish to save Tomás from a life of penury and misunderstanding, Fermin had decided that he needed to develop my friend's latent…
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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But when I am around strangers, I turn into a conversational Mount St. Helens. I'm dormant, dormant, quiet, quiet, old-guy loners build log cabins on…
— Sarah Vowell
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When faced with people who have very limited conversational skills and no apparent desire to cultivate any it's always easier to simply go along.
— Jeff Lindsay
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Probably there is an imperceptible touch of something permanent that one feels instinctively to adhere to true humour, whereas wit may be the mere conversational…
— Mark Twain
Who Wrote These Conversational Quotes
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