Trying To Make Conversation Quotes

#1. Like most bookworms I read so as not to be alone, which often annoys those who are trying to make conversation with me.

Jonathan Hull

#2. English is the product of a Saxon warrior trying to make a date with an Angle bar-maid, and as such is no more legitimate than any of the other products of that conversation.

H. Beam Piper

#3. I quoted David Hare one of his lines the other day to illuminate whatever point we were trying to make in the conversation, and I said 'What play was that?' and he said 'It was your line, you said it about a hundred and fifty times in The Vertical Hour.'

Bill Nighy

#4. I'm trying to make the readers feel as if he or she is right there in the conversation, and so I don't try to manipulate it too much.

Susan Straight

#5. I've had a lot of experience with people smarter than I am.

Gerald R. Ford

#6. This dramatic increase in the speed of information and the precipitous decline in critical thinking have been disastrous.

Bronwen Dickey

#7. That was one lesson he should've learned the first time. We don't, of course. It's okay, Karla once said, because if we all learned what we should learn, the first time round, we wouldn't need love at all.

Gregory David Roberts

#8. So now she was trying her best to make conversation, but a parent can't leave a child alone for so long and expect the occasional nicety to count for much. Those bonds break away much more quickly and permanently than most people would like to believe.

Anthony Breznican

#9. The main three components are the blues, improvisation - which is some kind of element that people are trying to make it up - and swing, which means even though they're making up music, they're trying to make it up together. It feels great, like you're having a great conversation with somebody.

Wynton Marsalis

#10. If you're trying to make someone happy, you gotta try and make them happy. If you're trying to have a normal conversation, you've got to have a normal conversation. If you're trying to make them sad, you've got to make them sad. I think that's how you get real performances out of people.

Jonah Hill

#11. I'm naturally curious, and I read four newspapers a day.

Eli Broad

#12. The simplest things in life are what makes us happy eventually. A warm and comfy home, being loved, and knowing that somebody can't live without you

Ika Natassa