Quotes About Conversation

Tell me what's going on in your world, Joey

I just had a word with him. Timmers and I have this little understanding. He behaves himself and he gets to keep his front teeth.

Miss N. had taught her nurses to watch carefully in order to understand what the ill required and provide it. Not medicine—that was the doctors' domain—but the things she argued were equally crucial to recovery: light, air, warmth, cleanliness, rest, comfort, nourishment, and conversation.

Under the thousand crystal candelabras I danced with ten elderly gentlemen who had nothing to say but did not let that stop them. I answered only, Indeed and Oh yes and Do you think so?

In the yard of the inn, Daffy Cadwaladyr introduced himself. Short for Davyd, he said pleasantly. The Londoner looked as if she'd never heard a sillier name in her life.

A Nightingale!" he marvelled. Ah, so Matron had told him that much. Lib was always shy of introducing the great lady's name into conversation and loathed the whimsical title that had come to be attached to all those Miss N. had trained, as if they were dolls cast in her heroic mould. "Yes, I had the honour of serving under her at Scutari." "Noble labour." It

youre beautiful', he said without grandiloquence. 'that's the least of it', she replied politely.

Penny for your thoughts!' he said. 'They're not worth a penny,' said George

afternoon Pip's mother, Mrs Hilton, went to tea with Lady Candling

CHAPTER SEVEN A TALK WITH THE CARETAKER

You don't know what you're talking about,' said George, scornfully. 'Come on, you others!

is not Watzisname,' said Watzisname, patiently. 'I have told

This was the signal for everyone to begin talking at the tops of their voices.

So, what did you get for me? Angeline paused for a beat. Jeans. What? croaked Artemis. And a T-shirt.

Certainly, Doctor. Let's talk about your chair. Victorian?

I have no time for babbling foolishness." "Don't be so hasty," said Victor. "There's always time for babbling.

Commander: What's that? Foaly: It's a finger, what does look like?

How did that go?' he asked. 'Your first lengthy conversation with a girl your own age?' 'Fabulous,' said Artemis, voice dripping with sarcasm. 'We're planning a June wedding.

It's a game box. They were invented so teenagers wouldn't have to talk to grownups.

You still awake?' asked the anesthetist. 'Nope,' I replied.

Artemis hooked the speaker over one ear, adjusting the mike stem so it wound across his mouth. 'Foaly? Are you listening?' 'Are you kidding?' came the reply. 'This is better than human soap operas.

I tried to talk about National Geographic one night, and Jason gave me a look like I was insulting him, so I moved on to a safer subject: which of the girls have implants.

Ich höre mir das nicht länger an. Jede Sekunde, die ich mit dir spreche, ist eine verlorene Sekunde. Da blickte Root ihm direkt in die Augen. Das macht dann, alles in allem, gut sechshundert verlorene Jahre, was, mein Freund ?

Now, Master Fowl, let's talk, shall we?