Conversation Quotes

• Novel-writing is a highly skilled and laborious trade. One does not just sit behind a screen jotting down other people's conversation. One has for one's raw material every single thing one has ever seen or heard or felt, and one has to go over that vast, smoldering rubbish-heap of experience, half stifled by fumes and dust, scraping and delving until one finds a few discarded valuables. Then one has to assemble these tarnished and dented fragments, polish them, set them in order, and try to make a coherent and significant arrangement of them.

  

  Evelyn Waugh
  • Heard
  • Material
  • Screen

• The conversation around policing is painful but I believe it provides us with an opportunity to learn, to change and to grow.

  

  Ed Murray
  • Opportunity
  • Change
  • Learn

• The only proper intoxication is conversation.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Conversation
  • Proper
  • Intoxication

• Renew every day your conversation with God: Do this even in preference to eating. Think more often of God than you breathe.

  

  Epictetus
  • God
  • Breathe
  • Conversation

• I have been very influenced by the director Maurice Pialat, who I continue to be in conversation and conflict with and get inspiration from.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Inspiration
  • Conflict
  • Director

• I can wear a hat or take it off, but either way it`s a conversation piece.

  

  Hedda Hopper
  • Conversation
  • Pieces
  • Hats

• I love sitting down and having actual conversations. But I don't do that sound-bite, be-candidly-funny thing.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • Funny
  • Sitting
  • Down And

• The dining room in my old house was truly magnificent, but by far the worst room for conversation. I'd get up from the table, a very long table, and somebody would always say, Paul, I never got to talk to you.

  

  Paul Lynde
  • Long
  • House
  • Comedy

• Alas, everything that men say to one another is alike; the ideas they exchange are almost always the same, in their conversation. But inside all those isolated machines, what hidden recesses, what secret compartments! It is an entire world that each one carries within him, an unknown world that is born and dies in silence! What solitudes all these human bodies are!

  

  Alfred de Musset
  • People
  • Ideas
  • Silence

• The idea that you're going have zero people crossing the border is unrealistic. But today we know that's not the case. Today we know we've got a porous border and people are coming in, and we don't know who they are. So secure the border then we can have a conversation about it.

  

  Rick Perry
  • Today
  • Ideas
  • Cases

• Good conversation turns me on. A connection between two people, a mental one first.

  

  Brian Molko Placebo
  • People
  • Connection
  • Conversation

• If you're yelling you're the one who's lost control of the conversation.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Control
  • Lost
  • Conversation

• Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Novel
  • Memorable
  • Witty

• After the conversations about Indian philosophy, some of the ideas of Quantum Physics that had seemed so crazy suddenly made much more sense.

  

  Werner Heisenberg
  • Philosophy
  • Made
  • Physics

• We stand ready to hear what they have to say.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Conversation

• Laughter is the lightning rod of play, the eroticism of conversation; for now, I've lost the ability to make the sparks fly.

  

  Eva Hoffman
  • Fly
  • Slaughter
  • Eroticism

• I've played Beckett. I put on in the 1950s the first Australian production of 'Waiting for Godot.' I played Estragon. The most interesting conversation I've had about Beckett was with a Dublin taxi driver.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • Interesting
  • Waiting
  • First

• We might make a public moan in the newspapers about the decay of conscience, but in private conversation, no matter what crimes a man may have committed or how cynically he may have debased his talent or his friends, variations on the answer Yes, but I did it for the money, satisfy all but the most tiresome objections.

  

  Lewis H. Lapham
  • Money
  • May
  • Friends

• If you spend any time in Los Angeles, there's only one topic of conversation.

  

  Alan Rickman
  • Time
  • Los Angeles
  • Topic

• The one seeks a midwife to deliver his thoughts, the other, someone to assist: thus a good conversation comes into being.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Conversation
  • Deliver
  • Seeks

• It's going to be a big topic of discussion.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Conversation
  • Discussion
  • Topic

• If I'm writing for a particular artist, I definitely think about their past records, pay attention to the type of tempos that they like. If I have the privilege of actually being in the session with the artist, I just like to have a conversation with them.

  

  Amber Denise Streeter
  • Artist
  • Records
  • Conversation

• Tell me he’s not talking to Brandon,” Claire said. “Um… Ok. He’s not talking to Brandon.” “You’re lying.” “Yeah. He’s talking to Brandon. Look, let Shane do his thing, okay? He’s not as stupid as he looks, mostly.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Stupid
  • Brandon
  • Claire

• There is nothing so delightful as the hearing, or the speaking of truth. For this reason, there is no conversation so agreeable as that of the man of integrity, who hears without any intention to betray, and speaks without any intention to deceive.

  

  Plato
  • Truth
  • Conversation
  • Hearing

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