Quotes About Conversation

Why did you do it? — I don't know. There isn't always an explanation for everything. — Oh isn't there? I was brought up to think there was. — That's awfully nice. — Do we have to go on and talk this way? — No. — That's a relief. Isn't it?

Who's she?" Georgette turned to me. "Do I have to talk to her?

I drink to make people more interesting, Ernest Hemingway.

These people made it a comfortable café since they were all interested in each other and in their drinks or coffees, or infusions, and in the papers and periodicals which were fastened to rods, and no one was on exhibition.

I was a little drunk. Not drunk in any positive sense, but just enough to be careless. For God's sake, I said, yes, don't you? Oh, how charmingly you get angry, he said. I wish I had that faculty.

You ought to write a book on wines, count, I said. Mr. Barnes, answered the count, All I want out of wine is to enjoy them.

But when we reduce the conversation to simply passing judgment, we are left with no conversation at all.

What does sex mean for you?" "How was sex treated in your family?" "What are the important events that shaped your sexuality?" "What would you like to experience most with me sexually, and what are you most afraid of?" They spark conversations that are provocative and inspiring, that focus on possibilities rather than on problems.

For he was not strong enough to receive the impact of unfamiliar things without a little talk to break their fall.

But at the next flare a big tree on the hill seemed to turn into fire before their eyes, every branch, twig, and leaf, and a purple cloud hung over it. 'Did you hear that crack?' asked Robbie Bell. 'That were its bones.' 'Why do you little niggers talk so much!' said Doc. 'Nobody's profiting by this information.' 'We always talks this much,' said Sam, 'but now everybody so quiet, they hears us.' (The Wide Net)

Hallo, Fremder, sagte er zu dem zweiten Reisenden. Die Welt ist klein! Lange her, seit unsere Köpfe Seite an Seite auf dem Kissen lagen. Eine Ewigkeit!, rief der andere. Da wusste Clement, dass sie alle einander fremd waren und dass die stürmische Nacht vor ihnen lag.

My goals at these things usually extended no further than making at least one moderately clever comment and trying not to spill anything on my shirt.

Andrew Mayne

They've met a thousand liars and heard a million lies. Yours ain't gonna fly. They won't tell you that you're full of crap—they'll keep you talking, getting you to lie about a bunch of things, making notes in their head while you tell yourself that you're the most persuasive motherfucker on the planet. They want you to walk away thinking you got away with it, or so panicked you screw up in front of them.

Some families play board games and eat pizza. We're going to eat Thai while I talk about a serial killer.

You'd be surprised by how eager true believers are to talk." He smiles. "And if that doesn't work, I'll tell them I'm trying to catch a guy who punched a baby dolphin.

polyglot, attempts to draw them into conversation.

Those who say we should dismantle the role of Poet Laureate altogether, the trick they miss is that being called this thing, with the weight of tradition behind it, and with the association of the Royal family, does allow you to have conversations and to open doors, and wallets, for the good of poetry in a way that nothing else would allow.

it was magic to feel you had things to say and people to say them to, and a gentle fog of contentment filled the bar...

We need to talk." she says. "The four most dreaded words in the history of marriage.

It's strange. Hearing you say my name." "I can say it again if you'd like." "No, I'll remember just fine.

Oh, talking to people. That's a thing I should do again sometime.

Vanniv laughed. "Goddess, you love to hear yourself talk, don't you? I mean, I respect that — my voice is amazing — but you're coming on a little strong with the megalomania.

we were both content to spend the trip in awkward silence, which was vastly preferable to awkward conversation. ***