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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."
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"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."
20
"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."
18
"Eating without conversation is only stoking."
15
"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."
10
"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."
9
"If you ever have to support a flagging conversation, introduce the topic of eating."
8
"The desert has its holiness of silence, the crowd its holiness of conversation."
7
"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."
7
"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."
6
"There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees."
6
"What frightens us most in a madman is his sane conversation."
5
"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?"
5
"Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine."
5
"If you are ever at a loss to support a flagging conversation, introduce the subject of eating."
5
"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."
5
"I do not wish to hide my origins, nor do I seek to make it a subject of conversation. I am what I am."
5
"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."
5
"The prisoners for better security against conversation shall have a canvas bag put over the head of each and tied around the neck, with a holes for proper breathing and eating, but not seeing."
5
"I just use my muscles as a conversation piece, like someone walking a cheetah down 42nd Street."
5
"I can wear a hat or take it off, but either way it's a conversation piece."
5
"Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence."
4
"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."
4
"There are those moments when you shake someone's hand, have a conversation with someone, and suddenly your all bound together because you share your humanity in one simple moment."
4
"I just had that conversation this morning with my doctor. I just got back from the hospital a half-hour ago, and nothing will make me happier than to replicate the DNA of my amazing husband. I'm optimistic."
4
"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."
4
"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."
4
"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."
4
"I never initiated nor did the FBI ever initiate any conversation or correspondence with me."
4
"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."
4
"I'm attracted to guys who are really confident and make conversation."
3
"Saying what we think gives a wider range of conversation than saying what we know."
3
"One of Brando's problems is that he can't have a conversation with anyone."
3
"I painted one dining room red and I must say, the conversation became very heated in that room."
3
"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."
3
"I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation."
3
"Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times because they had nobody to talk about."
3
"Conversation didn't seem necessary when I put the accordion down and swung some young lady around the floor."
3
"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."
3
"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."
3
"Silence is one of the great arts of conversation."
3
"The primary use of conversation is to satisfy the impulse to talk."
3
"Although there exist many thousand subjects for elegant conversation, there are persons who cannot meet a cripple without talking about feet."
3
"A : I know what you're going to say, B.B : Yes, I've dreamed about this chat, A."
2
"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."
2
"Lettuce is like conversation; it must be fresh and crisp, so sparkling that you scarcely notice the bitter in it."
2
"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."
2
"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."
2
"My accent remained terrible. It was very hard for me to initiate any conversation with someone I didn't know."
2
"There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all."
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