conversation quotes

He who talks more is sooner exhausted.

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.

Talking, it seemed to me, was the point of adult existence.

I had one incident where my daughter said that a girl asked if she was a brown person. I said, ‚We’re black. You have black people, white people, Chinese people, Hispanic people; we’re all brought up differently.‘

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

Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.

Usually, when Nirvana made music, there wasn’t a lot of conversation. We wanted everything to be surreal. We didn’t want to have some contrived composition.

People like to talk about war.

I’m the most boring person to talk to.

I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, ‚Where’s the self-help section?‘ She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose.

Our diplomacy and development budget is not just about reducing spending and finding efficiencies. We need a frank conversation about what we stand for as that ‚shining city on a hill.‘ And that conversation begins by acknowledging that we can’t do it on the cheap.

The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.

I could talk all day, T stands for talking, T stands for tender, T stands for things that don’t even rhyme with T.

I remember I was flying home to Los Angeles one day. I was talking to the woman next to me and the flight attendant tried to tell me I was sitting next to somebody that I should know. I didn’t recognize her but it ended up being Beyonce’s sister, Solange Knowles.

People are generally amazed that I would take an interest in any forum that would require me to stop talking for three hours.

If in the twilight of memory we should meet once more, we shall speak again together and you shall sing to me a deeper song.

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can’t, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

I can unload my opinion on anybody at anytime.

For me to talk with Obama and the conversation I had with him, I was letting him know that me and my fans have a special connection, and it’s love, and I believe that love is the answer.

The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression.

In the normal flow of a conversation, our attention is divided. We hear parts of what other people are saying, in order to follow and keep the conversation going. At the same time, we’re planning what we’ll say next, some exciting story of our own.

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.

My favorite book is anything by Kurt Vonnegut – he’s my literary hero. I got to meet him several times, which was a great thrill for me. I don’t really remember what we talked about.

Even now I will go to, like, an industry event, and all the ladies will be over here and all the guys over here, and I will go to the guys‘ table and sit because I just feel I can have a much better conversation over there. And that’s automatic; it’s not prejudice.

You might be the funniest guy in the world, but if you don’t have anything to talk about, people are eventually going to gravitate towards the guy that’s actually saying something.

Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.

When you are trying to impress people with words, the more you say, the more common you appear, and the less in control. Even if you are saying something banal, it will seem original if you make it vague, open-ended, and sphinxlike.

A friend of mine tells that I talk in shorthand and then smudge it.

So, I’m lying on the couch and Laura walks in and I say, ‚Free at last,‘ and she says ‚You’re free all right, you’re free to do the dishes.‘ So I say, ‚You’re talking to the former president, baby,‘ and she said, ‚consider this your new domestic policy agenda.‘

I miss people. I miss going anywhere and meeting a random person and saying ‚Hi‘ and having a conversation about life. I love people.

It’s always fun to talk about jazz.

Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order.

I vividly remember a conversation I had many years ago in 1974, which marked a turning point in my leadership journey. I was sitting at a Holiday Inn with my friend, Kurt Campmeyer, when he asked me if I had a personal growth plan. I didn’t. In fact, I didn’t even know you were supposed to have one.

There was a stool there, and some fella kept asking me if I wanted to sit down. When I saw the stool sitting there, it gave me the idea. I’ll just put the stool out there and I’ll talk to Mr. Obama and ask him why he didn’t keep all of the promises he made to everybody.

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.

I have an urge to communicate. I think I’m a change from what it would be like dating a normal guy who doesn’t talk too much.

No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.

In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.

If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.

There is one way to have a short but exciting conversation with me, and that is to move too slow.

I don’t like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is amusing to coquette with an echo for a little while, but one soon tires of it.

I hate talking about music, to tell you the truth.

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

Prayer is simply a two-way conversation between you and God.

Repartee is something we think of twenty-four hours too late.

Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.

People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they’ll have good voice boxes in case there’s ever anything really meaningful to say.

It’s not morbid to talk about death. Most people don’t worry about death, they worry about a bad death.

Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

Dinner was made for eating, not for talking.

Democracy is a daring concept – a hope that we’ll be best governed if all of us participate in the act of government. It is meant to be a conversation, a place where the intelligence and local knowledge of the electorate sums together to arrive at actions that reflect the participation of the largest possible number of people.

In this experiment, made on the 9th of October, 1876, actual conversation, backwards and forwards, upon the same line, and by the same instruments reciprocally used, was successfully carried on for the first time upon a real line of miles in length.