Conversations Quotes
536 Conversations quotes by 460 unique authors
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We have one of those conversations where every thing clicks, meshes, corresponds, locks, where even our pauses, even our punctuation marks, seem to be nodding…
— Nick Hornby
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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power. The old proletariat sold its labour power in order to subsist; what little leisure time it had…
— Raoul Vaneigem
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More and more I find myself at a loss for words and didn't want to hear other people talking either. Their conversations seemed false and…
— Paula McLain
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A raintree bent towards a window in one side of the bungalow, eavesdropping on the conversations that had taken place inside over years.
— Tan Twan Eng
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She would make facial expressions as though she were having conversations with people in her head.They seemed to turn into debates more often than not,judging…
— Cecelia Ahern
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When did the cell phone become a license to be rude? And why must I be subjected to your personal conversations?
— Jen Lancaster
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Normally writers do not talk much,because they are saving their conversations for the readers of their book- those invisible listeners with whom we wish to…
— Ruskin Bond
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I hate everything that does not relate to literature, conversations bore me (even when they relate to literature), to visit people bores me, the joys…
— Franz Kafka
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To remember friendship is to recall those conversations that it seemed a sin to break off
— Christopher Hitchens
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Maybe I don't need a relationship after all, she thought. Maybe thinking about these conversations was just as good as having them. She could sit…
— Chuck Klosterman
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You both passed out,” Percy said. “I don’t know why, but Ella told me not to worry about it. She said you were…sharing?” “Sharing,” Ella…
— Rick Riordan
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Talking to people makes me feel like sleeping. Only my ghostly and imaginary friends, only the conversations I have in my dreams, are genuinely real…
— Fernando Pessoa
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Atheism is just a way of clearing the space for better conversations.
— Sam Harris
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So I switch to my MacBook and make my rounds: news sites, blogs, tweets. I scroll back to find the conversations that happened without me…
— Robin Sloan
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To rehearse imaginary conversations on paper is called literature. To do so out loud is called madness.
— Philip Sington
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His attention caught, her companion raised his eyes from the book which lay open beside him on the table and directed them upon her in…
— Georgette Heyer
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I feel such a tenderness for these vulnerable nighttime conversations, the way words take a different shape in the air when there's no light in…
— David Levithan
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One minute you're closer to someone than anyone in the whole world, next minute they need only to say the words 'time apart', 'serious talk'…
— Helen Fielding
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Great. She shook her head. Not only am I having conversations with myself, but now I'm refusing to talk to me. This has got to…
— Trudi Canavan
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I had the lonely child's habit of making up stories and holding conversations with imaginary persons, and I think from the very start my literary…
— George Orwell
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I wondered if that was true: if they were all really children wrapped up in adult bodies, like children's books hidden in the middle of…
— Neil Gaiman
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You can give words, but you can't take them. And when words are given, that is when they are shared. We remember what that was…
— David Levithan
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The best presenters have conversations with their audiences.
— Robert Bly
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Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversations.
— Elizabeth Drew
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I would like to help people have honest and constructive conversations about energy. We need to understand how much energy our modern lifestyles use, decide…
— David J. C. MacKay
Who Wrote These Conversations Quotes
460 authors contributed a total of 536 Conversations Quotes, led by these top contributors: