"Silence is one of the great arts of conversation."

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"Sometimes I wish that I was the weather, you'd bring me up in conversation forever. And when it rained, I'd be the talk of the day."

John Mayer, American Musician

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"What frightens us most in a madman is his sane conversation."

Anatole France, French Novelist

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

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

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"Ten years ago, it was really difficult for a young actress to walk onto a set and disagree with the director and having that be OK and have a conversation about it and everyone be cool with it."

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"I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar."

Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish Novelist

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"I haven't heard from Bobby since May when we had our conversation, but then this thing broke last week, where they arrested him, and we were watching what was going on on the whole deal, and I was actually flabbergasted, at what the then police chief Parks was saying."

Tommy Bond, American Actor

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

Leigh Hunt, English Poet

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"A conversation goes sometimes into personal things and that's nicer. You look to each other and you have a different picture, you get into a relationship."

Maximilian Schell, Swiss Actor

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"The difficulty with this conversation is that it's very different from most of the ones I've had of late. Which, as I explained, have mostly been with trees."

Douglas Adams, English Writer

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"A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech."

Emile M. Cioran, Romanian Philosopher

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"Sometimes I wish that I was the weather, you'd bring me up in conversation forever. And when it rained, I'd be the talk of the day."

"What frightens us most in a madman is his sane conversation."

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

"Ten years ago, it was really difficult for a young actress to walk onto a set and disagree with the director and having that be OK and have a conversation about it and everyone be cool with it."

"I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar."

"I haven't heard from Bobby since May when we had our conversation, but then this thing broke last week, where they arrested him, and we were watching what was going on on the whole deal, and I was actually flabbergasted, at what the then police chief Parks was saying."

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

"A conversation goes sometimes into personal things and that's nicer. You look to each other and you have a different picture, you get into a relationship."

"The difficulty with this conversation is that it's very different from most of the ones I've had of late. Which, as I explained, have mostly been with trees."

"A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech."

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"Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive."