Conversation Quotes

Playing is just about feeling. Playing isn't necessarily about misery. Playing isn't necessarily about happiness. But it's just about letting yourself feel all those things that you have already on the inside of you, but you're all the time trying to push them aside because they don't make for polite conversation or something.

~ Janis Joplin

When they told me I had cancer - a very rare form called appendiceal cancer - I was shocked. But I went straight into battle mode. Every morning, I'd wake up and have an internal conversation with cancer. 'All right, dude,' I'd tell it, 'go ahead and hit me. But I'm going to hit you back even harder.'

~ Stuart Scott

I grew up in a family where the women were just nuts. They didn't stand around in cardigans making polite conversation while they chopped tomatoes.

~ Nadia Giosia

If you are ever at a loss to support a flagging conversation, introduce the subject of eating.

~ Leigh Hunt

Eating without conversation is only stoking.

~ Marcelene Cox

For most women, the language of conversation is primarily a language of rapport: a way of establishing connections and negotiating relationships.

~ Deborah Tannen

Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well.

~ Mark Haddon

The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.

~ René Descartes

No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.

~ Christopher Morley

My pet peeve is when people criticize things when they're just trying to have a conversation.

~ Jeff Baena

So here we are today with a new conversation. When University of Georgia plays Georgia Tech, it's uniform color versus skin color. We have - we've overcome that level of racial fear.

~ Jesse Jackson

In the conversation about women in leadership, male voices are noticeably absent.

~ Adam Grant

I think you need to be intentional at times about your leadership - where you're eating lunch, who you're interacting with, making guys feel like you're interested in what they're doing. If it's authentic, then it's going to be an easy conversation and easy hangout time.

~ Aaron Rodgers

Courage and willingness to just go for it, whether it is a conversation or a spontaneous trip or trying new things that are scary - it is a really attractive quality.

~ Alanis Morissette

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

~ Marcus Tullius Cicero

I've been fortunate enough to write a book and travel the country to sign and sell it, so I can safely say that a five-second burst of conversation while you're scribbling your name, over and over, is not the most reliable way to bond with Americans.

~ Gwen Ifill

Whether a plane to Singapore, a subway in Manhattan, or the streets of Cincinnati, I search for meaningful conversation wherever I may travel. Without it, I believe we lose the ability to not only understand others, but more importantly, ourselves.

~ Dhani Jones

Nicole will come up in conversations where it's in a part of the conversation. Or we may be somewhere and I would tell some story about their mother and I. You know, we always honor her birthday.

~ O. J. Simpson

Different people, in good faith, can look at the same fact and interpret it differently. But that's where an interesting conversation begins.

~ Eric Schlosser

Ask those who love Him with a sincere love, and they will tell you that they find no greater or prompter relief amid the troubles of their life than in loving conversation with their Divine Friend.

~ Alphonsus Liguori

I think that 'Little Angels' provides the gateway into that conversation about faith and about the Lord and about God's love for us. Remembering that the angels are just the messengers and the message is the message of love.

~ Roma Downey

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

~ André Maurois

Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.

~ Robert Louis Stevenson

Those who wish well to the State ought to choose to places of trust men of inward principle, justified by exemplary conversation.

~ John Witherspoon

Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.

~ André Maurois

Someone said to me at a party once, 'Oh, yeah, you're a comedian? Then how come you're not funny now?' And I just wanted to say, 'Well, I'm just going to take this conversation we're having and then repeat that to strangers, and then that's the joke. You're the joke later.'

~ Mike Birbiglia

I'm smart and I can be really funny and interesting and I can go toe-to-toe with anybody in a conversation.

~ Megan Fox

An artist carries on throughout his life a mysterious, uninterrupted conversation with his public.

~ Maurice Chevalier

The sad thing is that I feel so boring because 'Twilight' is literally how every conversation I have these days begins - whether it's someone I'm meeting for the first time or someone I just haven't seen in a while. The first thing I want to say to them is, 'It's insane! And, as a person, I can't do anything!'

~ Kristen Stewart

We can't have democracy if we're having to protect you and our users from the government over stuff we've never had a conversation about. We need to know what the parameters are, what kind of surveillance the government is going to do, and how and why.

~ Larry Page

Your goal in an online dating profile and in your first message to somebody is to strike up a conversation.

~ Sam Yagan

The most influential of all educational factors is the conversation in a child's home.

~ William Temple

I think that just sitting down and having casual conversation is the hardest stuff to do. But the extremes? I know what it feels like to come racing around the corner at 90 miles an hour, sliding the car sideways. I know what gear I'm hitting it in when I'm coming around the corner and where I need to downshift. So to me, that's the fun stuff.

~ Paul Walker

The creative process is mysterious; a conversation, a ride in the car, or a melody can trigger something.

~ Alejandro González Iñárritu

Being black, Latino, or Asian is not a genre. Romantic comedies, thrillers, action - those are genres. I think there's a lot of people who want to have the conversation. I don't think people are afraid of it, I just think it's the time to have that conversation. Race is not a genre.

~ Mara Brock Akil

It's very difficult, I think, especially on two cellphones, to have a romantic conversation.

~ Rainbow Rowell

A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.

~ Rainer Maria Rilke

The biggest mistake is believing there is one right way to listen, to talk, to have a conversation - or a relationship.

~ Deborah Tannen

I've been reading poetry publicly for 20 years, and this is what you do - you express, you sometimes dig a bit to get a conversation started. That's the point of poetry. You're supposed to go, 'Hmmmm,' and 'Woooh!'

~ Jill Scott

Sometimes poetry is inspired by the conversation entered into by reading other poems.

~ John Barton