Quotes About Conversation

We would not say very much in company if we realized how often we misunderstand what others say.

Because everyone uses language to talk, everyone thinks they can talk about language.

The most important things in life happen over conversations while eating.

There's a sense of spontaneity, and no emphasis on jokes in this show. People generally talk the way they talk in life if you were in this particular situation.

I'm shy and can't for the life of me barge around and slap people on the back. I sit in a corner by myself and am tickled to death when someone comes over to talk to me

A good argument, like a good dialogue, is always a proof of life, but I'd much rather go and read a book.

Open-heart surgery is now part of a typical life experience for many people. Folks talk casually about 'having a stent put in,' as if they had their tires rotated.

All my life I've been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.

In meeting again after a separation, acquaintances ask after our outward life, friends after our inner life.

When our life ceases to be inward and private, conversation degenerates into mere gossip.

It is a difficult task to talk to the purpose, and to put life and perspicuity into our discourse.

Each person's life is lived as a series of conversations.

Dialogue is easy. It's what you've been doing almost every day, most of your life.

Life doesn't move in straight lines, and neither does a good conversation.

There are times when I have to take, I call it a "silence bath," where I shut off all of the external gadgets. I go walk around, talk to people, and just live life for a while.

And I'm excited when I find somebody stimulating to talk with. That's one of the great treasures in life.

Money, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in parlors without an apology, is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses.

The life of the golfer is not all gloom; There's always the lies in the locker room.

I have found that life is alive and we are requested to have a friendship with it, to have a conversation with life and that conversation is restorative and healing and always nearby.

Bono (singer, musician, activist): People were very good to me. I was walking with [my wife] Ali, and Freddie Mercury pulled me aside and said, 'Oh, Bo-No … Is it Bo-No or Bon-O?' I told him, 'It's Bon-O.

But wait - where did the gods come from 100,000 years ago? Early Homo Sapiens certainly had conversations with other early Homo Sapiens regarding what they thought of one another, and what they thought about a third early Homo Sapiens who had insulted them, and why they were no longer on speaking terms with the other person, ad finitum, just as happens today. But you cannot have such conversations about the gods or with the gods unless you have gods.

In short, early Homo sapiens had adquired the cognitive ability to enter into a conversation with the gods, just as modern Homo sapiens does today.

The white realtor lady asks if I'm adopted—like that's some legitimate, socially appropriate question to ask—and is halfway through a gushy story about her friend's new baby from Korea when I say, "Haven't you ever heard of interracial marriage? It's all the rage in civilized countries," and she shuts up and purses her lips.

Elaine Oliver is one of those people who thinks she needs to yell into a cell phone and cannot imagine anyone else might hear her conversation. 'I'm stiff from that yoga class Juana made me go to!' she was shouting, presumably to Dad. 'I did something to my groin area. ... Sure, you can massage it later.