Quotes About Conversation

83]So often Christians, especially preachers, think that their only service is always to have to "offer" something when they are together with other people. They forget that listening can be a greater service than speaking. Many people seek a sympathetic ear and do not find it among Christians, because these Christians are talking even when they should be listening.

America, . . . a place of free expression of everything with everyone, which is made possible through the civil courage characteristic of the American and through the lack of all inhibiting officiousness in personal conversation" (Bonhoeffer, cf. report from 1931).

Let thy speech be better than silence or be silent

I don't think that Prokofiev ever treated me seriously as a composer; he considered only Stravinsky a rival and never missed a chance to take a shot at him. I remember once he started telling me some vile story about Stravinsky. I cut him off.

Really, we musicians do like to talk about Mussorgsky. In fact, I think that it's the second most favourite topic after Tchaikovsky's love life.

Ima smisla roditi se da bi se doživeo jedan...razgovor.

Gleda biblioteku: dva zida puna knjiga do tavanice - to je sav njegov svet. Iz njega ga niko ne ugrožava i ne ponižava. Tu bira sabesednike. Spusti pogled na radni sto i pisa?u mašinu: taj ružni predmet organ je njegovog tela; on ga na ovom svetu jedino poznaje, njemu je skoro sve rekao što je moglo da stane u re?, on je sve zapamtio.

Ruthanna said, her interest piqued. Maya shook her head

What am I going to say to my mother tomorrow?" she asked. "Take this in your mouth while you're thinking about it," he answered, pushing her head down on him.

of thing. "Were you at Cornelia's?" "Ghastly.

Conversation is not dialogue, it's monologues. No one ever really listens in conversations. It's civility that makes you wait and pretend you give a fuck what the other person is saying.

A pessimist is a person who has to listen to too many optimists.

A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.

A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimist.

Shit," Pablo says.

Why do women love to talk about love?" Giorgio asks. "Why don't men, is more the question," Ana says.

One of the sad features of most close relationships is the decay of intimacy as a function of time, turmoil, and all the little misunderstandings that inevitably occur between people, leading them, year in and year out, toward the same tired conclusions: conversation falters; friendships fail.

Since the conversation had deteriorated to a loop, Dortmunder abandoned it and looked out his window instead at the thin sunlight out there, until Murch's Mom made the right turn onto Eighth Avenue and sank contentedly into the perpetual blockage there, a traffic snarl well into its second century, running—or not running—from below Penn Station up to above the Port Authority bus terminal.

Conversation in real life is full of half-finished sentences and overlapping talk. Why shouldn't painting be too?

I don't think I've ever prayed in my entire life, never sat and had an imaginary chat with God.

When I eat with my friends, it is a moment of real pleasure, when I really enjoy my life.

The telling of a story, like virtually everything in this life, was always made all the easier by a cup of tea.

To be able to talk to your heart's content about a book you like with someone who feels the same way about it is one of the greatest joys that life can offer.

Bruce [Dern] and I are in this car just for days and days, just talking about life and I could listen to his stories forever.