Conversation Quotes

That which is worth telling is not worth having.

~ Raheel Farooq

one wonders how much real conversation there is when one party does not, in many districts, have to contend for the votes of minorities, and the other can only elevate minorities into positions of power when the political wind is blowing in its direction.

~ Garrance Franke-Ruta

Surely only boring people went in for conversations consisting of questions and answers. The art of true conversation consisted in the play of minds.

~ Ved Mehta

She said one thing and I said another and the next thing I knew I wanted to spend the rest of my life in the middle of that conversation.

~ Hank Moody

We don't talk, we hold forth. We don't converse, we expound.

~ J.d. Salinger

Weird people don't care if they're weird. They are the most entertaining to converse with because nothing is off-limits.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

Chester nods all the way through this, but does not rudely interrupt Randy as a younger nerd would. Your younger nerd takes offense quickly when someone near him begins to utter declarative sentences, because he reads into it an ssertion that he, the nerd, does not already know the information being imparted. But your older nerd has more self-confidence, and besides, understands that frequently people need to think out loud. And highly advanced nerds will furthermore understand that uttering declarative sentences whose contents are already known to all present is part of the social process of making conversation and therefore should not be construed as aggression under any circumstances.

~ Neal Stephenson

You have to wait together - for a week, for a year, for a lifetime, before the final intimate conversation may be attained ... and exhausted. So that ... That in effect was love.

~ Ford Madox Ford

Every person has something meaningful to say in the conversation of life.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Just because you talk about it or advocate for one position doesn't mean you care more. Just because someone doesn't talk about it and advocates a different position doesn't mean they care less.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

The conversation was mesmerizing, not for its content but for the cadences of the talk, the rhythm we fell into when we were alone, now as before. Every conversation between friends or lovers creates its own easy or awkward rhythms, hidden talk that runs like a subterranean river under even the most banal exchange.

~ Robert Charles Wilson

But before she tells you anything. I glared at him suspiciously.your seed...Tsaeb winced.What the hell are you talking about?your...well, your seed. You know, you have to knock her up.

~ J.a. Redmerski

[I]t is things that make us happy when conversation begins to reveal itself as a paltry substitute.

~ Rick Moody

Your narrative may fail to grip if you haven't taken any care to find out how well or badly your audience member is faring (or feeling).

~ Christopher Hitchens

It's basically the same in all periods of societies. If you belong to the majority, you can avoid thinking about lots of troubling things.''And those troubling things are all you /can/ think about when you're one of the few.''That's about the size of it,' she said mournfully. 'But maybe, if you're in a situation like that, you learn to think for yourself.''Yes, but maybe what you end up thinking for yourself /about/ is all those troubling things.

~ Haruki Murakami

He had never imagined so clearly the consequences of mailing a letter—the impossibility of retrieving it from the iron mouth of the box; the inevitability if its steady progress through the postal system; the passing from bag to bag and postman to postman until a lone man in a van pulls up to the door and pushes a small pile through the letterbox. It seemed suddenly horrible that one's words could not be taken back, one's thoughts allowed none of the remediation of speaking face to face.

~ Helen Simonson

...I only told you about it because I thought I might get a laugh out of you for once even if it wasn't the truth, Jessie. Things don't have to be true to talk about 'em, you know.

~ Marsha Norman

I demand for the unmarried mother, as a sacred channel of life, the same reverence and respect as for the married mother; for Maternity is a cosmic thing and once it has come to pass, our conversation must not be permitted to blaspheme it.

~ Ben Lindsey

The dialogue between client and architect is about as intimate as any conversation you can have, because when you're talking about building a house, you're talking about dreams.

~ Robert A. M. Stern

The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.

~ William Temple

In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.

~ George Herbert

Love without conversation is impossible.

~ Mortimer Adler

A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.

~ Mark Twain

I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.

~ George Bernard Shaw

Any film that exists that is thorough, you can't give it to an audience of one and have that be effective communication. Communication involves an audience of many that have a conversation, put it through the ringer, filter it and then a sense of it coalesces.

~ Shane Carruth

Polite conversation is rarely either.

~ Fran Lebowitz

The difference between face-to-face conversation and any other medium of communication is simple: No distractions are permitted.

~ Alexandra Petri

'The Conversation' will hopefully touch on issues that will move people to want to strengthen communication and look to each other for solutions.

~ Hill Harper

To pray is to have a conversation with Deity. This sacred and supernal communication with Heavenly Father is a divine and delicate process. This crucial communication should be conducted with great care and in compliance with sacred counsel.

~ L. Lionel Kendrick

There is no roles. No one is keeping any roles. The drummer is also answering everybody and everything. So it is a constant conversation and communication between musicians on an extremely high level with extremely valuable material, motifs, and melodies.

~ Miroslav Vitous

The process of communication with the afterlife - more of an exchange than a conversation - has always fascinated me.

~ Rory Maclean

People seem to see no difference between an intimate conversation and a conversation at the water cooler.

~ Mike Farrell

You used to be able to just call people. You didn't have to be on someone's calendar to have a phone conversation. The telephone was an important and valuable domain of communication, both for casual, friendly chats and for professional exchanges of ideas and information. But no more.

~ Dan Pallotta

We've seen computers play chess and beat grand masters. We've seen computers drive a car across a desert. But interestingly, playing chess is easy, but having a conversation about nothing is really difficult for a computer.

~ Hod Lipson

Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.

~ William Hazlitt

The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you. You're in a conversation and everybody's agreeing with what you're saying - even if you say something totally crazy. You need people who can tell you what you don't want to hear.

~ Al Pacino

Bill Cosby is a famous black guy who has a bully pulpit the size of the world; it's global. He puts his colossal foot on the vulnerable necks of poor people, and as a result of that, we don't have a balanced conversation.

~ Michael Eric Dyson

Prior to being allowed to enter the profession, prospective teachers should be asked to talk with a group of friendly students for at least half an hour and be able to engage them in an interesting conversation about any subject the prospective teacher wants to talk about.

~ William Glasser

I like to be at a party and be a quiet observer, be in conversation. I wouldn't say I was a class clown growing up, but I would definitely sit back in class and take snipes at the teacher.

~ Eric Stonestreet

I gain strength from postive thought and from the daily conversation with God.

~ Ottmar Hitzfeld