top of page
.png){kind=small}
Conversation Quotes
"The planned sit-down reception is an artificial forum where one is presented with a limited number of persons with whom he can hold a conversation."
27
"Forget all the bars and schmoozing and everybody checking out everybody else. My ideal date would be to park in a dark place, check out the stars, and have a great conversation. When all else fails, you can just make out."
27
"He actually came up to me and we started speaking. And from that conversation we were able to come to a meeting of the minds and it seemed as if it was clear to me that he wanted to do similar things to what I wanted to do."
22
"A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet."
22
"Eating without conversation is only stoking."
21
"No one has to learn to spell to talk, right? You see a little kid holding a conversation with an adult. He probably doesn't know the words he's saying, but he knows where to fit them to make what he's thinking logical to what you're saying."
20
"What frightens us most in a madman is his sane conversation."
16
"I think it's been the topic of conversation for every one... If the U.S. is hit again, how are we going to handle it? Our troops are all over the place."
14
"The voice will guide you-will tell you what to do. In order to do that, you must be quite sensitive with the instrument and accept this daily conversation with your voice."
14
"If you ever have to support a flagging conversation, introduce the topic of eating."
13
"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."
12
"The desert has its holiness of silence, the crowd its holiness of conversation."
12
"I can wear a hat or take it off, but either way it's a conversation piece."
12
"There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees."
12
"If you are ever at a loss to support a flagging conversation, introduce the subject of eating."
11
"And when I'm writing, I write a lot anyway. I might write pages and pages of conversation between characters that don't necessarily end up in the book, or in the story I'm working on, because they're simply my way of getting to know the characters."
11
"The way I write is that I'll actually have a conversation out loud with myself. In a weird way, I just kind of get schizophrenic and play two characters."
11
"You know what? It's a great conversation starter, right? You meet friends that way. Sometimes it's a good thing. And then other times, I guess, the person is just a little too... then you kind of like want to back away. It depends on the person, you know?"
10
"Conversation didn't seem necessary when I put the accordion down and swung some young lady around the floor."
10
"I'm attracted to guys who are really confident and make conversation."
9
"Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine."
9
"For my own part I think no innocent species of wit or pleasantry should be suppressed: and that a good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation."
9
"I do not wish to hide my origins, nor do I seek to make it a subject of conversation. I am what I am."
9
"There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all."
9
"What students lack in school is an intellectual relationship or conversation with the teacher."
9
"Silence is one of the great arts of conversation."
9
"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."
8
"Saying what we think gives a wider range of conversation than saying what we know."
8
"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."
8
"It's my responsibility, and entirely my fault, Of course I regret it. It's the kind of locker-room conversation we all use, but as prime minister I shouldn't have used it."
8
"Shortly after we arrived in Baghdad, we had another conversation with the ambassador. He said that he wanted us to give him the timeline, because we had 90 days to get these prisons operational and transfer responsibility back to the Iraqis."
8
"My accent remained terrible. It was very hard for me to initiate any conversation with someone I didn't know."
8
"These charges that have been made against me, that Prof. Prescott has made, has charged against me, that I denied the atonement in conversation with him, are absolutely false."
8
"It's like breathing in and out to me. It's like having a conversation with someone who isn't there. Because it has to be addressed to somebody - not a particular person, or very rarely."
8
"I had a long conversation with Steve Carlton. He told me that on the days he pitched, he felt it was his responsibility to make everyone around him better, to lift his teammates. That's what I try to do."
8
"By definition, gay is smart. I see plenty of macho heterosexual idiots, but nine times out of 10 you can have a great conversation if you find a gay guy."
7
"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."
7
"The dining room in my old house was truly magnificent, but by far the worst room for conversation. I'd get up from the table, a very long table, and somebody would always say, Paul, I never got to talk to you."
7
"A good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation."
7
"I never initiated nor did the FBI ever initiate any conversation or correspondence with me."
7
"The primary use of conversation is to satisfy the impulse to talk."
7
"Although there exist many thousand subjects for elegant conversation, there are persons who cannot meet a cripple without talking about feet."
7
"The great gift of conversation lies less in displaying it ourselves than in drawing it out of others. He who leaves your company pleased with himself and his own cleverness is perfectly well pleased with you."
7
"It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much."
7
"It is all right to hold a conversation but you should let go of it now and then."
7
"Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence."
6
"What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming."
6
"Lettuce is like conversation; it must be fresh and crisp, so sparkling that you scarcely notice the bitter in it."
6
"One of Brando's problems is that he can't have a conversation with anyone."
6
"The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep."
6
bottom of page