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Quotes About Conversation

Greetings, ax murderer! I was just wondering how you like your eggs?
~ Libba Bray
I don't want to have this conversation. It's sunny out. There's bacon downstairs.
~ Libba Bray
We take such pains to be polite. We never say what we mean. For all it matters, we could greet each other and speak only of cheese - How was your Limburger, miss? Salty as a ripe Stinking Bishop, thank you. Ah, very cheddar, miss. I'll have your Stilton brought to your Camembert, then. - and no one would likely notice.
~ Libba Bray
Hold up. How do you accidentally have sex with somebody? Adina scoffed. Is she all, 'Oh, I'm so sorry, I didn't s ee your penis there'? Tiara squealed and waved her hands. Don't say that word! What? Accidentally? Sorry? Penis? Gah! Tiara put her fingers in her ears. What about phallic? Petra teased. Like, 'Yon volcano is quite phallic, Lady Tiara.' Tiara looked confused. Phallic means penis-like, Petra explained. Ooh, Tiara said.
~ Libba Bray
Usually, I avoid the topic by shoving food into my mouth then making I'm sorry, as you can see, it would be rude for me to speak hand signals
~ Libba Bray
I read a lot.' 'Me, too. One Hundred and Thirty-fifth Street Library,' Memphis said, a little cocky. 'Seward Park Library,' Ling answered in kind. 'It's like you're picking baseball teams for books,' Sam said.
~ Libba Bray
Bueno..., el viernes pasado, cuando los dos estábamos junto a los buzones... - ¿Sí? Evie movió las cejas insinuantemente. - Me puse muy cerca de él... - Ajá. - Y le dije, así, sin más: «Qué día más bonito, ¿verdad?». - ¿Y? - Y eso fue todo. Bueno, me contestó que sí. Así que ambos estuvimos de acuerdo respecto al clima.
~ Libba Bray
I don't want to have this conversation. It's sunny out. There's bacon downstairs. My life is starting over today. I've just made it official.
~ Libba Bray
I don't want to have this conversation. It's sunny out. There's bacon downstairs. My life is starting over today.
~ Libba Bray
the caller might say abruptly, 'Whoozis?' In that case I would say grandly, '*Whom* are you calling, sir?' And he would hang up immediately without even an expletive. Of all the four-letter words I know, the speediest turn-off in such circumstances is *whom*.
~ Lilian Jackson Braun
What do you communicate to your husband? One wife put it like this: I told God about his bad points, and I told him about his good points.
~ Linda Dillow
What?" he demanded testily. Trammell raised his eyebrows. "I didn't say anything." "You're thinking something, though. You've got that shit-eating smirk on your face." "Why would anyone smirk while they eat shit?" Trammell asked rhetorically.
~ Linda Howard
Alex said, his voice subdued, tense. "So it would seem," D.D.
~ Lisa Gardner
The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society
~ Nicolas Chamfort
TV has had a stronger impact on our society than any single invention since the automobile. It has put the dead hand on conversation.
~ Ann Landers
We're not living in a society that science actually dominates the conversation. We're living in a situation where some science is allowed and a lot of it's about policy.
~ Josh Fox
Every object in the world can pass from a closed, silent existence to an oral state, open to appropriation by society, for there is no law, whether natural or not, which forbids talking about things
~ Roland Barthes
Spiritual people are not those who engage in certain spiritual practices; they are those who draw their life from a conversational relationship with God.
~ Dallas Willard
I still have a spiritual base and a spiritual foundation. And my conversation with God is very open-ended. I pray for humility, honestly, because it's very easy to be caught up in this world.
~ Katy Perry
Most of us waste our energy through chattering - endlessly chattering, gossiping, criticising, backbiting.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
Prayer is a friendly conversation with the One we know loves us.
~ Teresa of Avila
Life for the Christian is a dialogue with God.
~ J. H. Oldham
It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.
~ Yogi Berra
Throughout the history of the sport, the heavyweight champion has been... a reason to talk about boxing at the water cooler.
~ Teddy Atlas