Conversation Quotes - page 4

I'm having this conversation with you now. I'm talking, but I'm thinking, feeling, smelling, and moving. Yet I'm concentrating on what you're saying. So that means there's more things going on in the body than just the present thing that the person's got you doing. (Ornette Coleman)
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. View quote
Ornette Coleman
The function of a blog is on some level to start a conversation that you're not involved in any more because you've already had your say. That thing of coming right off the news - did you see what I saw this morning, can you believe it? View quote
Nora Ephron
She will look at you as women look at men, and she will judge you as women judge men - not on the strength of their arguments, and not on their cleverness or prowess in battle, but rather on the force of their character, the intensity of their passion, the strength of their soul, their compassion, and - ah, this above all - their conversation. View quote
Orson Scott Card
British conversation is like a game of cricket or a boxing match; personal allusions are forbidden like hitting below the belt, and anyone who loses his temper is disqualified. View quote
André Maurois
I was always wanting to learn and be one of those actresses who can actually hold a conversation as opposed to standing there looking pretty. View quote
Michelle Trachtenberg
If the minds of women were enlightened and improved, the domestic circle would be more frequently refreshed by intelligent conversation, a means of edification now deplorably neglected, for want of that cultivation which these intellectual advantages would confer. View quote
Sarah Grimké
[Girls] study under the paralyzing idea that their acquirements cannot be brought into practical use. They may subserve the purposes of promoting individual domestic pleasure and social enjoyment in conversation, but what are they in comparison with the grand stimulation of independence and self- reliance, of the capability of contributing to the comfort and happiness of those whom they love as their own souls? View quote
Sarah Grimké
Look at your [English] ladies of quality are they not forever parting with their husbands - forfeiting their reputations - and is their life aught but dissipation? In common genteel life, indeed, you may now and then meet with very fine girls - who have politeness, sense and conversation - but these are few - and then look at your trademen's daughters - what are they? poor creatures indeed! all pertness, imitation and folly. View quote
Frances Burney
God knew where he was, but he asked so as to start a conversation with Adam and avoid startling him too much to reply. View quote
Rashi
It's true that I wouldn't have written the first book had my sister and mother been alive. It was my way of continuing our conversation. It's also this Jewish thing of naming and remembering people, and I think there is a sense of keeping that side of life going. (Nigella Lawson)
Ah, good conversation - there's nothing like it, is there? The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing. View quote
Edith Wharton
I've always been impulsive. My thinking is usually pretty good, but I always seem to do it after I do my talking-by which time I've generally destroyed all basis for further conversation. View quote
Roger Zelazny
Religious faith is the only area of discourse where immunity through conversation is considered noble. It's the only area of our lives where someone can win points for saying, "There's nothing that you can do to change my mind and I'm taking no state of the world ultimately into account in believing what I believe. There's nothing to change about the world that would cause me to revise my beliefs." View quote
Sam Harris
It is hardly surprising that children should enthusiastically start their education at an early age with the Absolute Knowledge of computer science; while they are unable to read, for reading demands making judgments at every line.... Conversation is almost dead, and soon so too will be those who knew how to speak. View quote
Guy Debord
Its a beautiful woman's fate to be the subject of conversation where ever she goes. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation. View quote
Oscar Wilde
The Buddha also counseled the monks and nuns to avoid wasting any precious time by engaging in idle conversation, oversleeping, pursuing fame and recognition, chasing after desires, spending time with people of poor character, and being satisfied with only a shallow understanding of the teaching. View quote
Nhat Hanh
A beautifully constructed borsch, such as you are going to experience presently, ought not only to banish conversation but almost to annihilate thought. View quote
Saki
To mark all that I say in conversation, merely to beget in others, a good opinion of myself, and examine it. View quote
Jonathan Edwards (theologian)
Well, well, perhaps I am a bit of a talker. A popular fellow such as I am -- my friends get round me -- we chaff, we sparkle, we tell witty stories -- and somehow my tongue gets wagging. I have the gift of conversation. I've been told I ought to have a salon, whatever that may be. (Kenneth Grahame)
But Conversation, choose what theme we may, And chiefly when religion leads the way, Should flow, like waters after summer show'rs, Not as if raised by mere mechanic powers. View quote
William Cowper
Every artist joins a conversation that's been going on for generations, even millennia, before he or she joins the scene. View quote
John Barth
Religion is by no means a proper subject of conversation in a mixed company. View quote
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
Silence - Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation. View quote
Benjamin Franklin