Conversation Quotes
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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.
Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
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Pillow talk is the strongest conversation on the planet.
Ernest Dion Wilson
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I cannot please everybody, but it is important to have one eye. This builds a faithful following and, consequently, good clientele. That's why the conversation - the dialogue with visitors and customers - is so important.
Carla Sozzani
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I am annoyed by individuals who are embarrassed by pauses in a conversation. To me, every conversational pause refreshes.
George Sanders
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English tradition debars from dinner-table conversation almost all topics that might interest the conversers and insists upon strict adherence to banalities.
Elspeth Huxley
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Is there anything more terrible than a "call"? It affords an occasion for the exchange of the most threadbare commonplaces. Calls and the theatre are the two great centers for the propagation of platitudes.
Miguel de Unamuno
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That which chiefly causes the failure of a dinner-party, is the running short--not of meat, nor yet of drink, but of conversation.
Lewis Carroll
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What was your name again?" "Still Eve." "No, I'm sure it's something else. That doesn't seem right.
Rachel Caine
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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.
Dave Grohl Nirvana
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I tend to gravitate to the darkest or most obscure part of any venue in an effort to have my own space to experience the music on my own, free from unwanted conversations and other distractions.
Henry Rollins Black Flag
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Occasionally, in the middle of a conversation her name would be mentioned, and she would run down the steps of a chance sentence, without turning her head.
Vladimir Nabokov
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There is no arena in which vanity displays itself under such a variety of forms as in conversation.
Blaise Pascal
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Reading has always been in the chief joy, a never-ending topic of conversation, and often a lifesaver, in my family.
Elizabeth Borton de Trevino
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Conversation's got to have some root in the past, or else you've got to explain every remark you make, an' it wears a person out.
Sarah Orne Jewett
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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.
Vladimir Putin
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I remember saying things, but I have no idea what was said. It was generally a friendly conversation.” —Associated Press reporter Jack Sullivan, attempting to recount a 3 A.M. exchange we had at a dinner party and inadvertently describing the past ten years of my life.
Chuck Klosterman
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That's why Black Lives Matter thinks I'm so great. The fact of the matter is that everything is consciousness. This conversation is important.
Bethann Hardison
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An hour of play is worth a lifetime of conversation.
Plato
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Sometimes a line of mathematical research extending through decades can be thought of as one long conversation in which many mathematicians take part. This is fortunately true at present.
Barry Mazur
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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.
Nick Cannon
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The conversation people need to have is no longer about women assuming positions of leadership within the existing power structure, it's about the power structures themselves, it's about how to go about assuming power, how to change the structures.
Elizabeth Lesser
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shane: so is world war fifteen over out there? claire:i think so
Rachel Caine
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Man Ray takes a lot of pressure off me. It's like having a third person in a conversation; one of you doesn't have to talk all the time.
William Wegman
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I remember I was walking through a store, and I saw clothes a 25-year-old would wear. And the conversation in my head was, 'I'm not young and fabulous anymore.' But, immediately, there was a voice that said, 'No, you can be older and fabulous.' In other words, still just as fabulous, but in a different way.
Marianne Williamson