In Conversation Quotes

#1. Drying up in conversation, You will be the one who cannot talk, All your insides fall to pieces, You just sit there wishing you could still make love.

Thom Yorke

#2. When I'm singing I feel like I'm talking to someone. I'm in conversation when I perform - either with myself or with whomever is listening.

Laura Marling

#3. I suppose that when you're growing up, you're bound to reach an age when you feel buffeted by all the changes in your life, when either your mind begins outpacing your body or your body begins outpacing your mind and you're not quite in conversation with yourself anymore.

Kevin Brockmeier

#4. Art is a social object, books and films and records and television shows, they're social objects that bring people together in conversation. I love the notion that I could write something that two people could share. That's the goal.

Graham Moore

#5. At the beginning of a marriage ask yourself whether this woman will be interesting to talk to from now until old age. Everything else in marriage is transitory: most of the time is spent in conversation.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#6. Because of who I am, when I sit at a poker table, I meet people who engage me in conversation, not only about poker, but also about the movie business and about the world of celebrities.

James Woods

#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. Parisians were not easy to engage in conversation. Perhaps that was why the Resistance had been so successful.

Sara Sheridan

#9. If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it in conversation.

Oscar Wilde

#10. I've met a lot of people and happened to inspire a lot of people who I'm in conversation with about business. It's just how things are going for me and it's great, but music is always going to be number one for me.

Nas

#11. Never say anything in writing that you wouldn't comfortably say in conversation. Be yourself when you write. If you're not a person who says 'indeed' or 'moreover,' or who calls someone an individual ('he's a fine individual'), please don't write it.

William Zinsser

#12. I have been very influenced by the director Maurice Pialat, who I continue to be in conversation and conflict with and get inspiration from.

Ira Sachs

#13. The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.

William Temple

#14. I don't believe in literature-I believe in conversation.

Marty Rubin

#15. Melissa was still deep in conversation with Toby. For no good reason, they were arguing about the very important art of making the perfect cup of tea.

Kat Green

#16. Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty.

Joseph Addison

#17. There is in this world no real delight (excepting those of sensuality), but exchange of ideas in conversation.

Samuel Johnson

#18. Man, he could sell. As he liked to say, he lived at the intersection of technology and liberal arts. But there was a more personal side of Steve Jobs, of course, and I was fortunate enough to see a bit of it because I spent hours in conversation with him over the 14 years he ran Apple.

Walt Mossberg

#19. Christianity is not primarily a matter of externals, nevertheless it does find expression in conversation, habits, recreation, emphasis, and ambitions to be noted in our daily life.

Billy Graham

#20. [Winston Churchill] never spares himself in conversation. He gives himself so generously that hardly anyone else is permitted to give anything in his presence.

Aneurin Bevan

#21. The legend of 'The One' had been clear that the connection between a werewolf and his mate could never be denied. The fact that it could be destroyed had never come up in conversation.

Paige Tyler

#22. 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

#23. Good listeners have a huge advantage. For one, when they engage in conversation, they make people 'feel' heard. They 'feel' that someone really understands their wants, needs and desires. And for good reason; a good listener does care to understand.

Simon Sinek

#24. In conversation, points arise! If a human being converses much, it is impossible for him to avoid the truth! (Hercule Poirot)

Agatha Christie

#25. So bleary with jet lag that she could not sleep or make any sense in conversation, and feeling that her brain was a haunted house in which bats flew randomly from one attic beam to another,

Charles Baxter

#26. A person with 'oppositional conversational style' is a person who, in conversation, disagrees with and corrects whatever you say. He or she may do this in a friendly way, or a belligerent way, but this person frames remarks in opposition to whatever you venture.

Gretchen Rubin

#27. The vanity of shining in conversation is usually subversive of its own desires.

Lydia Sigourney

#28. Every night I try to look at the audience and treat every audience differently. It's almost like it's a single entity or a person. I always try to treat it like a conversation and allow it to happen naturally in the same way that you would engage in conversation.

Matt Shultz

#29. The difference between educated people and uneducated people is that educated people have been opened up to the notion that you can disagree without fighting; whereas uneducated people, in conversation, seek to always agree
everybody agrees and agrees and that's considered basic social libation.

John McWhorter

#30. Meaning is made in conversation, reality is created in communication, and knowledge is generated through social interaction ... Language is the vehicle through which we create our understanding of the world.

Diana Whitney

#31. The confusion and undesigned inaccuracy so often to be observed in conversation, especially in that of uneducated persons, proves that truth needs to be cultivated as a talent, as well as recommended as a virtue.

Elizabeth Fry

#32. It was my experience the only people who didn't tread cautiously with badasses were kids. They adored badasses and had no qualms approaching or engaging them in conversation. Badasses were kid magnets, and if the badass was a true badass, he had no qualms about this either.

Kristen Ashley

#33. A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.

Mark Twain

#34. Each time you come in contact with someone this week , notice and engage that person in conversation. Realize that his or her job is not just to bag your groceries or take your complaint over the phone, but that this is a real person with a history and a life.

Holly Sprink

#35. Being British, I don't really have a way of expressing myself in conversation. Music transcends language.

James Blunt

#36. It seemed to me that Mr. Forrester would approve of a woman who could follow him in conversation and not be baffled by ledgers and currency conversions. I had grossly overestimated him.

Gwenn Wright

#37. To the Indian, politics are what the weather is to an Englishman. Politics are an introduction to a stranger on a train, they are the standard filler for embarrassing silences in conversation, they are the inevitable small talk at any social gathering.

Santha Rama Rau

#38. It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought.

Agnes Repplier

#39. It was uncertain. She was in her early forties. Breast cancer. No one could identify exactly how everyone had come to know this fact. Was it a fact? Some people called it rumor. But in fact there was no such thing as rumor. There was fact, and there was what did not come up in conversation.

Joshua Ferris

#40. Until she had had children of her own she had not been able to contemplate the death of either of her parents; when the subject had arisen, in conversation or in her own imagining, she had said only: I just don't know what I'd do.

Sebastian Faulks

#41. I'm much less shy in conversation than I am on my own.

Tom Douglas

#42. My money's on the big Indian,' someone was saying. I peeked up to see that Tyler, Mike, Austin and Ben had there heads bent together, deep in conversation. 'Yeah,' Mike whispered. 'Did you see the size of that Jacob kid? I think he could take Cullen down.' Mike seemed pleased by the idea.

Stephenie Meyer

#43. All of the most important lessons about writing I learned from my father. He never set out to teach me anything, it would just be something he said casually in conversation.

Joss Whedon

#44. Most people are much better at saying things in letters than in conversation, and some people can write artistic, inventive letters, but when they try a poem or story or novel they become pretentious.

Charles Bukowski

#45. I spend many hours in conversation with wonderful characters from fantastic books.

Patti Roberts

#46. A writer of classic prose must simulate two experiences: showing the reader something in the world, and engaging her in conversation.

Anonymous

#47. Do we regard language as more public, more ceremonial, than thought? Just as family men condemn the profanity on the stage that they use constantly in conversation, in the same way we may look to written language as an idealization rather than a reflection of ourselves.

Edmund White

#48. Each painting is its own world, but a lot of times I do see the paintings as one page from a story. You can imagine what has happened before or after. Sometimes they are worded as being a part of a story, especially the paintings where characters are in conversation.

Neil Farber

#49. The actor's realm is that of the fleeting. Of all kinds of fame, it is known, his is the most ephemeral. At least, this is said in conversation. But all kinds of fame are ephemeral. From the point of view of Sirius, Goethe's works in ten thousand years will be dust and his name forgotten.

Albert Camus

#50. When you get an idea, go and write. Don't waste it in conversation.

Kenneth Koch

#51. To mark all that I say in conversation, merely to beget in others, a good opinion of myself, and examine it.

Jonathan Edwards

#52. Anecdotes and maxims are rich treasures to the man of the world, for he knows how to introduce the former at fit place in conversation.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#53. It is an impertinent and unreasonable fault in conversation for one man to take up all the discourse.

Richard Steele

#54. I never, with important air, In conversation overbear ... My tongue within my lips I rein; For who talks much must talk in vain.

John Gay

#55. I do not say this, that I think there should be no difference of opinions in conversation, nor opposition in men's discourses ... 'Tis not the owning one's dissent from another, that I speak against, but the manner of doing it.

John Locke

#56. I don't have to tell you, once you get a corpse really caught up in conversation, your battle's half over.

William Goldman

#57. 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

#58. Repose is as necessary in conversation as in a picture.

William Hazlitt

#59. Only just the right quantum of wit should be put into a book; in conversation a little excess is allowable.

Joseph Joubert

#60. It is by speech that many of our best gains are made. A large part of the good we receive comes to us in conversation.

Washington Gladden

#61. No one will ever shine in conversation, who thinks of saying fine things: to please, one must say many things indifferent, and many very bad.

Francis Lockier

#62. In conversation the game is, to say something new with old words. And you shall observe a man of the people picking his way along, step by step, using every time an old boulder, yet never setting his foot on an old place.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#63. If I can enjoy a joke at the expense of another; if I can in any way slight another in conversation, or even in thought, then I know nothing of Calvary love.

Amy Carmichael

#64. Hem,' he said, and I knew he was a critic now, since, in conversation, they put your name at the beginning of a sentence rather than at the end.

Ernest Hemingway,

#65. One either absorbs the grammatical principles of one's native language in conversation and in reading or one does not. What Sophomore English does (or tries to do) is little more than the naming of parts.

Stephen King

#66. In conversation we are sometimes confused by the tone of our own voice, and mislead to make assertions that do not at all correspond to our opinions.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#67. he was also banned even from engaging in conversation with two or more persons. He could not legally go to a child's birthday party any more than he could attend political rallies

Gillian Kendall

#68. I have no special desire to go crawl around in caves, but I really like the word [spelunking] and want to use it in conversation. I do a lot of things just to use words I like.

Evan Mandery

#69. We never could clearly understand how it is that egotism, so unpopular in conversation, should be so popular in writing.

Thomas B. Macaulay

#70. Individuals are fine once you get to know them, especially if they're interesting in conversation or have large, sumptuous breasts, but I don't like people in the plural and I've seen very little to change my mind about that.

Yahtzee Croshaw

#71. I was diagnosed a number of years ago with obsessive-compulsive disorder - which everyone has, to some degree - and I have this really annoying trait where in conversation, I always steer it back to something that happened to me.

Paula Poundstone

#72. If you never mention the Lord in conversation with each other,isn't that proof that you aren't so concerned about Him?

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#73. Listening well and answering well is one of the greatest perfections that can be obtained in conversation.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#74. Reading good books is like engaging in conversation with the most cultivated minds of past centuries who had composed them, or rather, taking part in a well-conducted dialogue in which such minds reveal to us only the best of their thoughts.

Rene Descartes

#75. Sometimes in conversation the sound of our own voice distracts us and misleads us into making assertions that in no way express our true opinions.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#76. A deaf and dumb person who sees two men in conversation - may nevertheless understand from the attitudes and gestures of the speakers, how well their discussion is getting along.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#77. I needed reassurance from the doubts that were beginning to surface in my mind since I'd first given voice to them in conversation with Amy.

Catherine Sanderson

#78. I think there's a natural chemistry between us as friends; and there's really no separation between the rapport that we feel when we're in conversation and when we're playing music, it's one in the same.

Benny Green

#79. Out of Dostoevsky: Kafka. Out of Tolstoy: Margaret Mitchell.
(in conversation, explaining his dislike for Tolstoy)

Joseph Brodsky

#80. If you should attempt to maintain that film is an art in conversation with a cultured, intelligent American, he'll just plain stop talking to you.

Ilya Ilf

#81. WANT shows up in conversation - EXPECTATION shows up in behavior.

Les Brown

#82. There is no music more powerful than hip-hop. No other music so purely demands an instant affirmative on such a global scale. When the beat drops, people nod their heads, "yes," in the same way that they would in conversation with a loved one, a parent, professor, or minister.

Saul Williams

#83. It is like the feeling you have when someone says your first name all the time in conversation and you know he's been reading Carnegie.

Reid Hoffman

#84. I and me are always too deeply in conversation: how could I endure it,
if there were not a friend?
The friend of the hermit is always the third one: the third one is the float which prevents the conversation of the two from sinking into the depth.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#85. In conversation marketing, you're providing a service, a continuing dialogue whose course through the Web is unknown. The more value it adds to the ecosystem, the more it will be shared, amplified and celebrated.

John Battelle

#86. In conversation, he came off as if he was enjoying a private joke at your expense. When he sang, though, he sounded as if he believed every word with all his heart. And it became hard to dislike him.

Sebastian Rotella

#87. I consider myself a religious person. God is something very personal with me and I don't flaunt religion in conversation with others.

Richard Chamberlain

#88. I engage my subjects in conversation, patterned after psychiatric questioning, with the aim of discovering something about the reasoning underlying their right but especially their wrong answers.

Jean Piaget

#89. When considering marriage one should ask oneself this question; 'will I be able to talk with this person into old age?' Everything else is transitory, the most time is spent in conversation.

Bertrand Russell

#90. What manner of men should ministers be? They should thunder in preaching, and lighten in conversation; they should be flaming in prayer, shining in life, and burning in spirit.

Charles Spurgeon

#91. There is no one who does not exaggerate. In conversation, men are encumbered with personality, and talk to much.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#92. We only really learn in conversation after sex.

Judith Merril

#93. In any case, it wouldn't affect the results at all, but that phrase the balance of power always sounds impressive in conversation, as if you'd been reading Clausewitz and Sun Tzu. I

Michel Houellebecq

#94. I never knew any painter worthy of the name who paid the smallest attention to what a critic says, even in conversation.

Robert Baldwin Ross

#95. You need hope to form a thought. It takes-I don't know-optimism to speak, to engage in conversation. Because really, what's the point of all this communicating? What difference does it really make what we say to each other? Or what we do, for that matter?

Noah Hawley

#96. There is nothing by which a man exasperates most people more, than displaying a superior ability of briliancy in conversation. They seem pleased at the time; but their envy makes them curse him at their hearts.

Samuel Johnson

#97. Here I have opportunity enough for the exercise of my talent, as the chief of my time is spent in conversation.

Jane Austen

#98. Wit in conversation is only a readiness of thought and a facility of expression, or a quick conception and an easy delivery.

Alexander Pope

#99. Withdrawn into the peace of this desert, along with some books, few but wise, I live in conversation with the deceased, and listen to the dead with my eyes

Francisco De Quevedo

#100. We should not see print and electronic literature as in competition, but rather in conversation. The more voices that join in, the richer the dialogue is likely to be.

N. Katherine Hayles