Accounts Quote by Laurence Sterne

“Conversation is more than the sum of the words. It is also a way of signaling the importance of another person by showing your…

— Scott Adams

Conversation is an abandonment to ideas, a surrender to persons.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

A text conversation is a short exchange of often grossly truncated language that corresponds to a thought made all the more shallow by the…

— Henry Rollins

“Quantitatively speaking, 'conversation' is inversely proportional to economic standing. If you are traveling in a bus, your fellow passengers will get into a conversation…

— Sudha Murty

There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all.

— Rebecca West

Conversation is the fine art of mutual consideration and communication about matters of common interest that basically have some human importance.

— Ordway Tead

Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food.

— Alfred Hitchcock

So much of what passes for conversation today is degraded. It's either about one-upmanship, or dreary trivia. Even the cut and thrust of wit…

— Theodore Zeldin

Ideal conversation must be an exchange of thought, and not, as many of those who worry most about their shortcomings believe, an eloquent exhibition…

— Emily Post

Conversation is a meeting of minds with different memories and habits. When minds meet, they don't just exchange facts: they transform them, reshape them,…

— Theodore Zeldin

I happen to disagree with the well-entrenched theory that the art of conversation is merely the art of being a good listener. Such advice…

— Barbara Walters