Quotes About Intelligent Conversation

#1. We owe to one another all the wit and good humour we can command; and nothing so clears our mental vistas as sympathetic and intelligent conversation.

Agnes Repplier

#2. All the inane, meaningless noises people make that pass for intelligent conversation. They might as well be pigs grunting in the pen. (92)

Norma Fox Mazer

#3. It is possible to live the Christian life just on the surface, knowing only enough to carry on an intelligent conversation in the church foyer with another equally uninformed believer, but when that happens you are vulnerable to the attack of the deceiver.

David Jeremiah

#4. If the minds of women were enlightened and improved, the domestic work 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.

Sarah Moore Grimke

#5. Then I tried to get them in a little intelligent conversation, but it was practically impossible.

J.D. Salinger

#6. Since I enjoy intelligent conversation, I generally want an IQ that's larger than the bra size."

"So, if I'm a drooling idiot, you'll leave me alone?

Ann Bruce

#7. Surely she had endured enough for one evening without having to listen to intelligent conversation?

Stella Gibbons

#8. By the time the shade had reached the river, Augustus would have mellowed with the evening and be ready for some intelligent conversation, which usually involved talking to himself.

Larry McMurtry

#9. Disagreement is part of being a person who has choices. One of those choices is to respect others and engage in intelligent conversation about differences of opinion without becoming enemies, eventually allowing us to move forward to compromise.

Ben Carson

#10. The more you talk to cats ... the smarter they become. An occasional 'nice kitty' will have no measurable effect; intelligent conversation is required.

Lilian Jackson Braun

#11. A big group of daily friends or a white painted house with bills and mirrors, are not a necessity to me - but an intelligent conversation while sharing another coffee, is.

Charlotte Eriksson

#12. The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting.

Henry James

#13. Talking to oneself, I have often thought, is the best way to be sure of intelligent and witty conversation.

Grant Morrison

#14. The largest factor in predicting group intelligence was the equality of conversational turn taking; groups where a few people dominated the conversation were less collectively intelligent than those with a more equal distribution of conversational turn taking.

Alex Pentland

#15. Remember that it is not by a tyrant's words, but only by his deeds that we can know him.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#16. Other, more technically adroit people would soon generate closer approximations of reality. What mattered was (a) it was a rational, testable hypothesis; and (b) James made it so clear and interesting that it provoked a lot of intelligent people to join the conversation. "The

Michael Lewis

#17. 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

#18. If you're trying to get somebody and this might be the only time you're going to catch him, but he is holding his baby and with his mama, you ain't gonna let that chance go by. That's the mentality of the streets. If you let that chance go by, he might catch your ass.

Snoop Dogg

#19. Common sense is nothing but a collection of misconceptions acquired by age eighteen. Furthermore, What sounds intelligent in a conversation or a meeting, or, particularly, in the media, is suspicious.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#20. Bore: one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation.

Benjamin Disraeli

#21. People gravitate occasionally to the brilliantly made art low budget films, which is maybe one out of every five hundred low budget films made.

Roger Corman

#22. You are too winsome to resist, too innocent to keep, and far too delightful to easily let go

Judith James

#23. After the golden age of Latinity, we gradually slide into the silver, and at length precipitately descend into the iron.

Isaac D'Israeli

#24. Many times in my life, I've seen someone decide, 'I'm going to do this. This is going to happen for me.' And good or bad, it always does.

Scarlett Savage

#25. We may not be responsible for the world that created our minds, but we can take responsibility for the mind with which we create our world.

Gabor Mate

#26. Doorman - a genius who can open the door of your car with one hand, help you in with the other, and still have one left for the tip.

Dorothy Kilgallen

#27. There's a monster in our wood. She'll get you if you're not good. Drag you under leaves and sticks. Punish you for all your tricks. Anest of hair and gnawed bone. You are never, ever coming ... home.

Holly Black

#28. I don't like the actors to work together beforehand. I trust my intuition, and I like when the actors are the same.

Olivier Dahan

#29. 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

#30. She started thinking about all the euphemisms for death, all the anxious taboos that had always fascinated her. It was too bad you could never have an intelligent discussion on the subject. People were either too young or too old, or else they didn't have time.

Tove Jansson

#31. I was introduced to Mr. Davy, who has rooms adjoining mine (in the Royal Institution); he is a very agreeable and intelligent young man, and we have interesting conversation in an evening ...

John Dalton

#32. It is the thinnest lines that define us.

David Macinnis Gill

#33. What the holy hand grenade was that?

Josephine Angelini

#34. Sweet mother of sex, they're triplets!

M. Leighton

#35. All my life I've been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.

Susan Sontag