Conversation Quotes
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CBGB was a wild place, ... The first time I ever played there was in 1987, I think, with my hardcore band, Scream. And I remember the craziest [thing] about that club was you could be in front of the stage and it could be louder than any show you've ever been to in your life. But if you were towards the back of the club at the bar, you could sit and have a conversation with someone. It was the weirdest thing to me.
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I feel like R&B is really based off of emotion and truth. R&B is a conversation.
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Never criticize, condemn or complain in a conversation with a customer or prospect.
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It's annoying when you're trying to have dinner with your friends, and people come over constantly and ask for your autographs. When I was younger, I'd stand and wait three hours if I had to. I wouldn't think of butting into their conversation or anything like that. Loss of privacy is the biggest thing I don't like.
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We had a couple of good talks. That's the only statement I want to make.
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If a man is often the subject of conversation he soon becomes the subject of criticism.
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I'm more likely to strike up a conversation with a stranger than to try any antic or pickup lines.
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It may be hard to remember how difficult it was for people to talk about HIV/AIDS back in the 1980's and because of both Ronald Reagan and Nancy Reagan - in particular Mrs Reagan - we started a national conversation, when before nobody would talk about it, nobody wanted to do anything about it. Something that I really appreciate was her very effective but low-key advocacy, but it penetrated the public conscience, and people began to say "hey we have to do something about this too.
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In 2000 the then Prime Minister of Japan [Yoshirō Mori] asked me to return to this process, this conversation, these talks, and to do so, incidentally, on the basis of the 1956 declaration. I agreed. Since then we have conducted dialogue in this regard but I cannot say that our Japanese partners and friends have remained within the limits of the 1956 declaration.
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I am annoyed by individuals who are embarrassed by pauses in a conversation. To me, every conversational pause refreshes.
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Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, “and what is the use of a book,” thought Alice, “without pictures or conversation?
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A lot of the girls my age were impressed by silly stuff like money and fame. I wanted to be able to have intellectual and spiritual conversations with someone who was on the same page as me.
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My table seats eight, so that's my maximum. Having a small number of guests is the only way to generate good conversation. Besides, your whole house doesn't get wrecked that way.
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Jazz music is the power of now. There is no script. It's conversation. The emotion is given to you by musicians as they make split-second decisions to fulfill what they feel the moment requires.
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There will be but few people who, when at a loss for topics of conversation, will not reveal the more secret affairs of their friends.
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The national conversation around white entitlement, around institutionalized racism, the Black Lives Matter movement, I think, came about in large part because of the widening and broadening of our understanding of inequality. That conversation was begun by Occupy.
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shane: so is world war fifteen over out there? claire:i think so
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In a conversation, keep in mind that you're more interested in what you have to say than anyone else is.
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What was your name again?" "Still Eve." "No, I'm sure it's something else. That doesn't seem right.
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The most noble and profitable invention of all other, was that of SPEECH, consisting of Names or Appellations, and their Connexion; whereby men register their Thoughts; recall them when they are past; and also declare them one to another for mutuall utility and conversation; without which, there had been amongst men, neither Commonwealth, nor Society, nor Contract, nor Peace, no more than amongst Lyons, Bears, and Wolves.
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I think others may look at the uniqueness of my candidacy, the fact that I'm an African-American, conservative tea party Republican, and somehow race injects itself into the conversation.
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Sexuality is, of course, a great way of having a conversation between people.
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Coffee is a product favouring sociability, friendship, and conversation and it should always be consumed with someone else.
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Though reading and conversation may furnish us with many ideas of men and things, yet it is our own meditation must form our judgment.
