Conversation Quotes

• It used to be thought that our genes were historically immutable and that it was not possible to imagine a conversation between culture and genetics.

  

  Nicholas A. Christakis
  • Culture
  • Conversation
  • Genetics

• A bit of conversational sex makes a pleasant climate for creative effort.

  

  Anita Loos
  • Effort
  • Sex
  • Creativity

• Philosophy finds talkativeness a disease very difficult and hard to cure. For its remedy, conversation, requires hearers: but talkative people hear nobody, for they are ever prating. And the first evil this inability to keep silence produces is an inability to listen.

  

  Plutarch
  • Silence
  • Philosophy
  • Disease

• shane: so is world war fifteen over out there? claire:i think so

  

  Rachel Caine
  • World
  • War
  • Conversation

• 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.

  

  Niger Innis
  • Race
  • Conversation
  • Candidacy

• I cannot forget a conversation that I had with an elderly couple from the tribe. They asked me whether I would kill them after I had finished. When I asked them why they asked that, they replied, Because you white men always do!

  

  Roland Joffe
  • Couple
  • Conversation
  • Finished

• Pillow talk is the strongest conversation on the planet.

  

  Ernest Dion Wilson
  • Conversation
  • Planet
  • Pillow

• Though reading and conversation may furnish us with many ideas of men and things, yet it is our own meditation must form our judgment.

  

  Isaac Watts
  • Ideas
  • Meditation
  • Judgment

• In a conversation, keep in mind that you're more interested in what you have to say than anyone else is.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Mind
  • Conversation

• 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.

  

  Thomas Hobbes
  • Conversation
  • Speech
  • Register

• What was your name again?" "Still Eve." "No, I'm sure it's something else. That doesn't seem right.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Conversation

• Develop serenity and quiet attitudes through your conversation. Depending upon the words we use and the tone in which we use them, we can talk ourselves into being nervous, high-strung, and upset. By our speech, we can also achieve quiet reactions. Talk peaceful to be peaceful.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • Achieve
  • Conversation
  • Talk

• I am afraid that you have been listening to the conversation of someone older than yourself. That is always a dangerous thing to do, and if you allow it to degenerate into a habit, you will find it absolutely fatal to any intellectual development.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Habit
  • Dangerous
  • Development

• I always loved mascara and eyelash curlers to make your eyes look very open and wide and when I'm having a conversation with somebody that's always the first thing I'm attracted to, so I've been into mascara since I was little.

  

  Erin Brady
  • Eye
  • Looks
  • Firsts

• Straight people don't have to think every time they talk, about whether they are coming out. We do. That might be hard, but that's also why we have to come out. if we don't, it's pretty much impossible to have a conversation about anything beyond the weather without lying. we really have no choice, do we ?

  

  Bill Konigsberg
  • Conversation
  • Weather
  • No Choice

• Almost all women will give a sympathizing hearing to men who are in love. Be they ever so old, they grow young again with that conversation, and renew their own early times.

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Men
  • Women
  • Young

• Sexuality is, of course, a great way of having a conversation between people.

  

  Tilda Swinton
  • People
  • Conversation
  • Sexuality

• The reading of all good books is indeed like a conversation with the noblest men of past centuries who were the authors of them, nay a carefully studied conversation, in which they reveal to us none but the best of their thoughts.

  

  Rene Descartes
  • Author
  • Centuries
  • Good Book

• An hour of play is worth a lifetime of conversation.

  

  Plato
  • Play
  • Conversation
  • Lifetime

• Of all bad listeners, the worst and most terrible to encounter is the man who is so fond of listening that he wishes to hear, not only your conversation, but that of every other person in the room.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Conversation
  • Room
  • Listeners

• Texting has become my favorite way to communicate. I feel like many of my relationships are based in this, because in a sense it feels the closest to actual conversation that isn't the phone.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • Way
  • Relationship
  • Conversation

• 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.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Dialogue
  • Bases
  • Declaration

• Don't let other people's conversations about what you're doing or you've done be part of your own conversation.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • People
  • Done
  • Conversation

• I was always kind of finding humor to be an access point to the conversation, to a pain relief, if you will. My mother was in a wheelchair since I was very young, so she was in pain and we used humor.

  

  Tom Shadyac
  • Mother
  • Kind
  • Pain

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