Conversation Quotes
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The worst part of an eminent man's conversation is, nine times out of ten, to be found in that part by which he means to be clever.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of conversation, as it is generally in books the worst sort of reading.
Jonathan Swift
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I was at a White House Correspondents' Dinner, and I met Bobby Jindal, and we had a perfectly lovely twenty minute conversation.
Cenk Uygur
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We had got as far as this, when who should walk in but the gentleman himself, who had been drinking his beer in the taproom and had heard the whole conversation. Who was I? What did I want? What did I mean by asking questions? He had a fine flow of language, and his adjectives were very vigorous.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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Em, I am trying to have an important conversation!" shouted Seylin. "I will not change into a cat!
Clare B. Dunkle
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Bleep theory belongs in philosophy, not a science class. But I think it does have enough merit to be a topic of conversation somewhere other than the backwoods and closets.
Eric Johnson
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All of this conversation about chat and assistance lays the groundwork for what I would look at as the future of commerce.
Harper Reed
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I like to be at a party and be a quiet observer, be in conversation. I wouldn't say I was a class clown growing up, but I would definitely sit back in class and take snipes at the teacher.
Eric Stonestreet
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Writing is a conversation, to me. The best kind. You can't get interrupted.
Gerald Asher
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Laughter is the lightning rod of play, the eroticism of conversation.
Eva Hoffman
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I believe that the American people ought to be part of the conversation about what's happening in our economy, and what's happening in Washington and what's happening on Wall Street.
Alison Stewart
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I have no special desire to go crawl around in caves, but I really like the word spelunking and want to use it in conversation. I do a lot of things just to use words I like.
Evan Mandery
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I felt like there wasn't a political discourse. I felt like there was just one set of values, and any one set of values was wrong; that there should at least be room for conversation.
Cecily McMillan
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Most of us have very clear memories of the self-critical internal conversation running on in our heads while we were playing poorly, and yet it often seems that we hardly remember noticing it at all while we were playing well.
Barry Green
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Hit records create slang, and if you create slang, you get into a broader conversation level.
Ernest Dion Wilson
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I must have my share in the conversation.
Jane Austen
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In the sports world it's all about argument. It's all about having a hot take. The other person has to have the polar opposite opinion, and you bash them together. To me it is an outlier to have a conversation be the basis of why you are listening.
Rich Eisen
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Yeah, but our guys are too smart for that. We talk all the time about that and they understand it.
Joe Gibbs
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I love fantasizing about what my next meal is going to be; it's probably my favorite topic of conversation.
Antoni Porowski
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I want to steer the national conversation in the right direction, from my point of view. I want to get under Robert Gibbs' skin and Rahm Emanuel's skin and Barack Obama's skin.
Cenk Uygur
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We have to be role models. We have to be curious. Above all, we have to pay attention and be part of the conversation while our kids are still listening to us.
Anya Kamenetz
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The words I’m sorry did not appear in the conversation, though it was what we ate for dinner.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
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At some point you do not need to talk to have a conversation. The conversation exists whether you have it or not. It continues silently in a parallel dimension of the marriage. They both pause to let it run its course toward another stalemate.
Chris Bachelder
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If you're trying to write about what the Chinese people are talking about, you can sometimes get a distorted picture if you go online and look at the conversation on social media.
Evan Osnos