Casual Conversation Quotes

#1. I found it quite easy to carry on a casual conversation it was as if my real feelings were down fathoms deep in my mind and what we said was just a feathery surface spray.

Dodie Smith

#2. He never, even in the most casual conversation with friends, spoke a sentence which did not sound as if it was ready for the air.

David Halberstam

#3. I've been divorced and I had to get back out there be single again and do some of that in the genuinely miserable state where you really do wonder what the hell is going on. And you feel like trying to have casual conversation with someone you don't know on the surface of the moon or something.

Hank Azaria

#4. But poor Andy - even before he was skipped ahead a grade - had always been a chronically picked-upon kid: scrawny, twitchy, lactose-intolerant, with skin so pale it was almost transparent, and a penchant for throwing out words like 'noxious' and 'chthonic' in casual conversation.

Donna Tartt

#5. Not that we'd had much opportunity for casual conversation - all our conversations so far had been focused on killing each other, killing something else, or trying not to get ourselves or anybody else killed.

Seanan McGuire

#6. Bob exploded. 'There is no such thing as a casual conversation with my mother. Every single word will be twisted recognition until before you know it you're playing Russian roulette in a wind tunnel with a psychotic dwarf, having wagered your birthright for a piece of cheese ...

Meg Rosoff

#7. Anyone who's had a casual conversation with his neighbors or is cognizant of reality TV should already be petrified of democracy.

David Harsanyi

#8. After six months in the academy, trainees learn to: Respect the chain of command and their place on the bottom of that chain. Sprinkle "sir" and "ma'am" into casual conversation. Salute. Follow orders. March in formation. Stay out of trouble. Stay awake. Be on time. Shine shoes.

Peter Moskos

#9. The pleasures of relaxed chat, of casual conversation, encourage the ethnographer in everyone

Richard Sennett

#10. I can't wait to be eighty. So I can shock people by saying "rim job" in casual conversation.

Lena Dunham

#11. Criticism should be a casual conversation.

W. H. Auden

#12. One child must never be set above another, even in casual conversation, not to mention in speeches that circle the globe.

Alice Walker

#13. We are less interested in the number of disciples and more interested in the quality of discipleship.

James MacDonald

#14. The villains were always ugly in books and movies. Necessarily so, it seemed. Because if they were attractive - if their looks matched their charm and their cunning - they wouldn't only be dangerous.
They would be irresistible.

Nenia Campbell

#15. My outfit said style but casual. They say clothes make a statement. Hey, mine made a whole conversation.

Jax Abbott

#16. Perhaps this is fashionable conversation - combative and unsettling, passing for casual talk.

Jessie Burton

#17. It had a long and varied history, mostly involving crime, prostitution and the theater,

Ben Aaronovitch

#18. Using someone's name during a conversation was like a casual caress, like stroking their hair.

Harry Mulisch

#19. The problem with saying yes all the time is that it won't make you Wonder Woman. It'll make you a worn-out woman. And soon you'll find the relationships you treasure most are constantly getting your 'less' instead of your 'best' because of your endless to-do list and overwhelming schedule.

Lysa TerKeurst

#20. If you're lonely, bored, or unhappy, remember you are mad young. There is so much time to meet new people and go to new places.

Ezra Koenig

#21. We need to change our habits of thought, belief, and doing as well as change our systems. Each level reinforces the other: Our habits and beliefs form the psychic substructure of our system, which in turn induces in us the corresponding beliefs and habits.

Charles Eisenstein

#22. Life is too short to do anything that's not challenging.

Michael Mayer

#23. How happy a person is depends upon the depth of his gratitude. You will notice at once that the unhappy person has little gratitude toward life, other people and God.

Zig Ziglar

#24. To punish is the most difficult thing there is. A society such as ours needs to question every aspect of punishment as it is practiced everywhere: in the army, the schools, the factories.

Michel Foucault

#25. I want to do a musical so bad. I don't care what it is. I'm not picky. I just want to do a musical. I'm shameless, but it's true.

Janina Gavankar

#26. [On writing:] What a difficult kind of work to choose! But of course one did not choose it. There was no choice.

Ivy Compton-Burnett

#27. Those who take refuge behind theological barbed wire fences, quite often wish they could have more freedom of thought, but fear the change to the great ocean of truth as they would a cold bath.

Luther Burbank

#28. Sometimes I feel that what used to be once casual conversations between friends are now being substituted with forced conversations containing none of the warmth it possessed earlier. It's better to not have any conversation at all than have forced conversations.

Adhish Mazumder

#29. You've gotta find a way to get out of your own way, so you can progress in life.

Steve Carlton

#30. You used to be able to just call people. You didn't have to be on someone's calendar to have a phone conversation. The telephone was an important and valuable domain of communication, both for casual, friendly chats and for professional exchanges of ideas and information. But no more.

Dan Pallotta