Quotes About Conversation

I suppose some men just love the sound of their own voices.

What do you mean like ? Like, like like?

Sitting here in a bar with an asexual cyborg who is probably the only other normal person on the whole goddamned planet.

It's quite common to enter a library and find yourself in conversation with the dead. The best minds of generations long gone crowd every bookshelf. They wait there to be noticed, to be addressed, and to reply in turn. In the library the dead meet the living on collegial terms as a matter of course, every day.

When I get excited about a movie I need to talk.

Do you like eighties music, Nurse Willowes?" "Can we discuss the oldies another time?" "What? What? The oldies? I've already had a man kicking in my ribs, and now you pull out my heart." "Hey!

This reminds me: Are you going to eat the placenta?" Renée asked Harper. "I understand that's a thing now. We stocked a pregnancy guide at the bookstore with a whole chapter of placenta recipes in the back. Omelets and pasta sauces and so on." "No, I don't think so," Harper said. "Dining on the placenta smacks of cannibalism, and I was hoping for a more dignified apocalypse." "Rabbit

It was impossible to have a conversation in a room with a phone. It was like having a conversation in a room with a bat hanging from the ceiling. Even if the bat was asleep, how were you supposed to think about anything else or look at anything else?

Era bom isto: ter pela manhã uma conversa normal, sem finalidade, uma conversa que nada tivesse a ver com o fato de o mundo estar pegando fogo.

In the library the dead meet the living on collegial terms as a matter of course, every day.

Because, of course, it wouldn't do to just talk to her. She had spoken to him in flashes of daylight, and he felt he ought to reply in kind.

Q: Two pennies were talking to each other. Do you know what one of them said to the other one?

My new companion was one of the worst cooks I have ever known. I thanked him for the meal, and since all I had to offer was some conversation, that's what we did. His name was Cullen, but he kept referring to himself as the Former House Nigger, as if it were a rank akin to general.

In polite society what you say to an attractive woman who is dressed in a way that makes you understand the power of biology is, "You look nice.

Parlez-vous français, aussi?

Someone who uses social media successfully doesn't just create content; he or she also creates conversations, and those conversations create communities.

I don't know what you believe in. I believe we just stop. Because if we move on to an afterlife, any kind of afterlife, that means there will be other people there. I'm tired of the chit chat. Oh, that is a handsome boy. He takes after his grandfather. Did they change the breakfast again? It tastes different to me. For Eternity? No thanks.

You really do unique small talk," she said as he caught up to her, walked side by side. "Well, these things keep a conversation well lubricated. Only thing worse than a dry fuck is small talk.

Sherry Turkle, Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age (New York: Penguin, 2015), 42.

Anecdotes and maxims are rich treasures to the man of the world, for he knows how to introduce the former at fit place in conversation.

No one would talk much in society, if he knew how often he misunderstood others.

A collection of anecdotes and maxims is the greatest of treasures for the man of the world, for he knows how to intersperse conversation with the former in fit places, and to recollect the latter on proper occasions.

No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.

I was on the point of breaking off the conversation, for nothing puts me so completely out of patience as the utterance of a wretched commonplace when I am talking from my inmost heart.