Top 100 Conversation Is Quotes
#1. Do you know that conversation is one of the greatest pleasures in life? But it wants leisure.
W. Somerset Maugham
#2. I appreciate my my sleep In sleep my conversation is witty My home is dusted My office work is up to date The dog is even well behaved And food is on the table on time But then when I'm asleep I don't have you to clutter and confuse My hungry heart
Nikki Giovanni
#3. Nobody else knows your reason for being. You do. Your bliss guides you to it. When you follow your bliss, when you follow your path to joy, your conversation is of joy, your feelings are of joy - you're right on the path of that which you intended when you came forth into this physical body.
Esther Hicks
#7. Conversation is much like a tennis game except that in tennis you try to put the ball in the most difficult position for the one who must hit it - while in conversation you must try to put it where it will be easy to hit.
Margery Wilson
#8. The art of conversation is the art of hearing as well as of being heard.
William Hazlitt
#9. Anyone who thinks the art of conversation is dead ought to tell a child to go to bed.
Robert Gallagher
#10. Not all prayer is in words, because not all conversation is in words.
Peter Kreeft
#12. No matter what anyone's saying to you from outside, the most important conversation is the one you are gaving with yourself on the inside
Robert T. Kiyosaki
#13. A perfectly tuned conversation is a vision of sanity--a ratification of one's way of being human and one's way in the world.
Deborah Tannen
#14. The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.
William Temple
#15. I like plays where people talk a lot. Conversation is sustained. Argument is sustained.
Tom Stoppard
#16. Conversation is our account of ourselves ... Conversation is the vent of character as well as thoughts ... It is the laboratory of the student.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#17. Don't think of the Internet as a broadcast medium ... think of it as a conversational space. Conversation is the opposite of marketing. It's talking in our own voices about things we want to hear about.
David Weinberger
#18. Conversation is good - you might not agree with everyone, but at least it gives you a chance to contemplate someone else's ideas.
Brandi Chastain
#19. The enthusiasm geologists show for adding new words to their conversation is, if anything, exceeded by their affection for the old. They are not about to drop 'granite.' They say 'granodiorite' when they are in church and 'granite' the rest of the week.
John McPhee
#20. The most difficult thing to understand during conversation is silence.
Henry David Thoreau
#21. Body language is a very powerful tool. We had body language before we had speech, and apparently, 80% of what you understand in a conversation is read through the body, not the words.
Deborah Bull
#22. He leans back casually in his chair as I watch the corner of his mouth pull up just a fraction. "And what sort of conversation is it that you think you've missed?"
I take a deep breath and put the DVD's onto the floor. "The one about us.
Beckie Stevenson
#23. Similarly the men who produce works of genius are not those who live in the most delicate atmosphere, whose conversation is most brilliant, or their culture broadest, but those who have had the power, ceasing in a moment to live only for themselves, to make use of their personality as of a mirror.
Marcel Proust
#24. And surely one of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid ...
Jonathan Swift
#25. Male-female conversation is cross-cultural communication
Deborah Tannen
#28. Conversation creates a new kind of network within organizations. Current networks are used for competitive advantage, but conversation is focused on encouraging people to realize their potential.
Theodore Zeldin
#29. Conversation is the fine art of mutual consideration and communication about matters of common interest that basically have some human importance.
Ordway Tead
#30. The best conversation is rare. Society seems to have agreed to treat fictions as realities, and realities as fictions; and the simple lover of truth, especially if on very high grounds, as a religious or intellectual seeker, finds himself a stranger and alien.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#31. The vanity of shining in conversation is usually subversive of its own desires.
Lydia Sigourney
#32. The art of conversation is to be prompt without being stubborn, to refute without argument, and to clothe great matters in a motley garb.
Benjamin Disraeli
#35. Everything's a business. Love, truth, beauty. Conversation is a business. Spirituality is not a business, so it's going to go against the grain of people who are trying to exploit other people.
Bob Dylan
#38. An Appreciative inquiry Conversation is the catalyst for strengths based innovation.
Tony Dovale
#39. If a conversation is not working, then you need to make a different choice. Stop what you are doing & do something different.
John Stoker
#40. The most fun thing about doing the show is that, as a nerd, the fun has been in learning and having it be like a grad school for me, every day. Every moment is a new experience. Every conversation is a new gain.
Steven Yeun
#41. New York is a sucked orange. All conversation is at an end, when we have discharged ourselves of a dozen personalities, domestic or imported, which make up our American existence.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#42. Talk shows are proof that conversation is dead.
Mason Cooley
#43. Conversation is interesting in proportion to the originality of the central ideas which serve as pivots and the fitness of the little facts and observations which are contributed by the talkers.
Philip Gilbert Hamerton
#44. 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.
Truman Capote
#45. It's amazing how many people think a conversation is little more than reading their resume aloud.
Marshall Thornton
#46. Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#47. John Wesley's conversation is good, but he is never at leisure. He is always obliged to go at a certain hour. This is very disagreeable to a man who loves to fold his legs and have his talk out as I do.
Samuel Johnson
#48. Good conversational debate is an end in itself, and talking for the love of conversation is what makes us human.
Bryce Courtenay
#49. That silence is one of the great arts of conversation is allowed by Cicero himself, who says, there is not only an art, but even an eloquence in it
Hannah More
#50. Not to discuss with a man worthy of conversation is to waste the man. To discuss with a man not worthy of conversation is to waste words. The wise waste neither men nor words.
Confucius
#51. Conversation is a beautiful thing. When I was a younger guy, just wandering around talking to people was what kept me connected to the world.
Marc Maron
#52. It doesn't matter. Take Eddie's blood. Take Belikov's blood. Take your own for all I care. But If she doesn't want to give hers, then that's all there is to it. She said no. This conversation is done.
Richelle Mead
#53. I mean to retire, where nobody will have heard about my special skills. And conversation is mainly about the weather.
Eilean Ni Chuilleanain
#54. In Nepal, the quality of conversation is much more important than accuracy of the content. Maybe we get overexcited about information in England?
Jane Wilson-Howarth
#55. When people love one another, conversation is not a necessity but a pleasure, and when they reach, as at times they do, deep into the immeasurable part of what holds them together, everything can pass between them without a word.
Mark Helprin
#56. A good conversation is the only human equivalent: the realizing that decent points are being made and understood, that irony is in play, and elaboration, and that a dull and obvious remark would be almost physically hurtful.
Christopher Hitchens
#57. The irrepressible spirit that made his playing seem like good conversation is the Rubinstein legacy for pianists, if they can pick up their heads from the keyboard long enough to claim it.
Donal Henahan
#58. Conversation is but carving! Give no more to every guest Than he's able to digest.
Jonathan Swift
#59. For it has come about, by the wise economy of nature, that our modern spirit can almost dispense with language; the commonest expressions do, since no expressions do; hence the most ordinary conversation is often the most poetic, and the most poetic is precisely that which cannot be written down.
Virginia Woolf
#60. Among the Igbo the art of conversation is regarded very highly, and proverbs are the palm-oil with which words are eaten.
Chinua Achebe
#62. A man may forgive many wrongs, but he cannot easily forgive anyone who makes it plain that his conversation is tedious.
Stevie Smith
#63. I find it, as ever, very unprofitable to have much to do with men. It is sowing the wind, but not reaping even the whirlwind; onlyreaping an unprofitable calm and stagnation. Our conversation is a smooth, and civil, and never-ending speculation merely.
Henry David Thoreau
#64. I've always liked the idea of improvised music. Improvised anything. It's what conversation is.
Andy Partridge
#65. 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.
Douglas Adams
#66. Much female conversation is, in fact, about survival - but in code.
Louise Bernikow
#67. True conversation is its own experience, and experience, not words, is the thing that brings people closer.
Doug Cooper
#68. Now that he was semidressed, I recovered enough to say, "Not really. But I guess if you want me to hold a conversation with you, you should keep your clothes on."
He gestured for me to follow him through the house, and I thought I heard him mutter, "Conversation is so overrated.
Renae Kaye
#69. One would think that the larger the company is in which we are engaged, the greater variety of thoughts and subjects would be started into discourse; but, instead of this we find that conversation is never so much straightened and confined, as in numerous assemblies.
Joseph Addison
#70. What track needs to figure out: how to engage us between the races. Instead, the entire off-the-track conversation is about doping. This is how you kill a sport.
Malcolm Gladwell
#71. Remember that conversation is like ping pong. You say something, she says something. Then you respond to something she's just said, then she bats it back. You ask her a question. She replies. Do you get the idea?
Sue Townsend
#72. But the truth is that the world has changed. And not participating in the conversation is a loud statement of its own to your customer base. You can't control your branding message in any case because your customers are already talking about you online. The best you can do is to participate.
Vanessa Fox
#73. The tone of good conversation is brilliant and natural; it is neither tedious nor frivolous; it is instructive without pedantry, gay without tumultuousness, polished without affectation, gallant without insipidity, waggish without equivocation.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#74. One of the first observations to make in conversation is the state, or the character, and the education of the person to whom we speak.
Suzanne Curchod
#75. A book without conversation, is like a life without friends, you know it's going to end, but you want it to be soon.
Ken Balneaves
#76. 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.
Andre Maurois
#77. Why don't I have my attorney give you a call?"
Secret code for 'This conversation is over.
Kenneth Eade
#78. The true mark of English conversation is not being able to tell when you've been insulted. I think the more sophisticated society becomes, the more it hides behind the masks it manufactures.
Christopher Fowler
#79. I have found that life is alive and we are requested to have a friendship with it, to have a conversation with life and that conversation is restorative and healing and always nearby.
Mark Nepo
#80. The primary use of conversation is to satisfy the impulse to talk.
George Santayana
#81. Eloquence is a republican art, as conversation is an aristocratic one.
George Santayana
#82. The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression.
Samuel Johnson
#83. Conversation is a meeting of minds with different memories and habits. When minds meet, they don't just exchange facts: they transform them, reshape them, draw different implications from them, engage in new trains of thought. Conversation doesn't just reshuffle the cards: it creates new cards.
Theodore Zeldin
#84. So the whole conversation is going right off course. It's like a supermarket trolley with a wonky wheel, because all the time I'm thinking, this should be easy to push along, and everything I say just takes me in the wrong direction.
Nick Hornby
#85. The measure of a conversation is how much mutual recognition there is in it; how much shared there is in it. If you're talking about what's in your own head, or without thought to what people looking and listening will feel, you might as well be in a room talking to yourself.
Dylan Moran
#86. Leonard Cohen can give you "Leonard Cohen" - the self-deprecating wit, the slow, considered speech, the perfectly-honed anecdote - Tom Waits is far more comfortable giving a journalist "Tom Waits" the character, whose conversation is really a series of strange tales, learned or ad-libbed.
Sylvie Simmons
#88. Good conversation is the equivalent of shared emotion.
Marty Rubin
#89. We aren't negotiating." "Humans are always negotiating. That's what conversation is.
Pierce Brown
#90. I think good conversation is really the best form of sex.
Paul Russell
#91. In God's intention, a meet and happy conversation is the chiefest and noblest end of marriage.
John Milton
#92. How can you read and talk at the same time?" I asked.
"Well, I usually can't, but neither the book nor the conversation is particularly intellectually challenging.
John Green
#93. I see everybody arguing about what the value of music should be instead of what I think the bigger conversation is, which is that music has value, it's subjective and we're moving to a new era where the audience is taking more responsibility for supporting artists at whatever level.
Amanda Palmer
#94. The courageous conversation is the one you don't want to have.
David Whyte
#96. Always remember that no matter what anyone is saying to you from the outside, the most important conversation is the one you are having with yourself on the inside.
Robert Kiyosaki
#97. Conversation is king. Content is just something to talk about.
Cory Doctorow
#98. The great secret of succeeding in conversation is to admire little, to hear
much; always to distrust our own reason, and sometimes that of our
friends; never to pretend to wit, but to make that of others appear as much
as possibly we can; to hearken.
Benjamin Franklin
#99. The least interesting aspect of good conversation is what is actually said. What is more interesting is all the deliberations and emotions that take place simultaneously
Tor Norretranders
#100. The beauty of interdisciplinary conversation is that the mode of expression is essentially different for each practitioner, even if ideas are shared.
Sarah Hall
