Quotes About Conversation

Sapevamo che se la comprensione del testo è una dura e solitaria conquista della mente, la frase scema stabilisce invece una connivenza riposante che può esistere solo tra amici intimi. Soltanto con gli amici più stretti ci raccontiamo le storielle più stupide, come per rendere un implicito omaggio alla loro raffinatezza intellettuale. Con gli altri facciamo i brillanti, sfoggiamo il nostro sapere, ce la tiriamo, seduciamo.

Quel che noi leggiamo, lo taciamo. Il piacere del libro letto lo teniamo spesso gelosamente segreto. Sia perchè non vi vediamo materia di conversazione, sia perchè prima di poterne dire una parola dobbiamo lasciar fare al tempo la sua splendida opera di distillazione.

L'amore è sempre stato di bocca buona riguardo ai suoi primi alimenti. Le prime conversazioni dell'amore assomigliano agli omogeneizzati dei bambini. Non importano gli ingredienti, tanto è di altro che si parla. L'amore sfida le leggi della dietetica, si nutre di tutto e un niente lo nutre. Si son viste autentiche passioni nascere da conversazioni così povere di proteine da reggersi a stento in piedi.

Boswell spent much of the evening lamenting his country's dreadful politics. Isherwood listened attentively. Inwardly, however, he wondered why it was that enlightened Americans always found it necessary to bash their country whenever they set foot in the mother ship. "I'm

I hate textbooks. I hate how they shoehorn even the most incongruous words – like 'cup' and 'bookcase,' or 'pencil' and 'ashtray' – onto the same page, and then call it 'vocabulary.' In a conversation, the language is always fluid, moving, and you have to move with it. You walk and talk and see where the words come from, and where they should go. It was in this way that I learned to count like a Viking.

We can be honest without saying what we mean to say, we can talk about the weather while ignoring the rain.

hearing as her husband. "Can you please tell me exactly what happened this evening? Start with when you first heard the dog and continue until you called Mrs. Leighton." Davies twisted her lips. "Mrs. Leighton?" "My mother," Harper said. Kimberly Davies

A human body is a conversation going on, both within the cells and between the cells, and they're telling each other to grow and to die; when you're sick, something's gone wrong with that conversation.

The pub, Ian. Today. Be there.' And I slammed my phone down, dramatically. And then I realized what I'd done and rang him back and told him which pub and at what time, and he said could we make it a bit later, and I said okay, and he said bye and so did I. It was just like in a film.

We supped at our pints, imagining a whale fighting a giant squid, probably just as thousands of other men in pubs across the land were doing at that moment.

We should spend less time at universities filling our students' minds with content by lecturing at them, and more time igniting their creativity … by actually talking with them.

As juvenile as we sound, sometimes the most fun thing in the world is laughing with girls about boys.

One of the pitfalls of having an ex-boyfriend is that people still pair you together in their memories, and sooner or later someone's bound to mention him. And now that it has happened . . . I can't say I feel nothing. I don't think it's possible to get royally dumped by the only boy I've ever done it with, let alone loved, and then feel nothing when he's brought up in conversation.

I heard she killed herself," Hunter says. "That would explain why she wasn't moving," Max says.

Even when we are confused and struggle, if we will only stay in the conversation with God, He will take us where we need to go.

Nora: "How do you feel?" Nick: "Terrible. I must've gone to bed sober.

Nick: "Don't you think maybe a drink would help you to sleep?" Nora: "No, thanks." Nick: "Maybe it would if I took one.

Talking is something you can't do judiciously unless you keep in practice.

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I think almost every writer in the world would hope that books would be always talked about with respect and civility and depth and seriousness.

If there is no art, no culture, then what the fuck are we going to talk about? These are our stories and our stories are all we got!

LEO: We're the last to leave. BARKEEP: Ahuhrumhuh...koff, koff, humn... LEO: Do you think he wants us to leave? KAREN: No, no, probably just a bit of sarcasm gone down the wrong way.

Author and counselor Dennis Rainey of FamilyLife explains that women are traditionally more verbal than men. I've heard him say men usually speak about 10,000–20,000 words a day, while women speak 30,000–50,000 words per day—with gusts up to 125,000! That's why a lot of guys come home from a busy day at work, hit the sofa, and don't say a word. They can't. They've already used up their quota.

The man persisted. "No, no, no. It was so funny. What software did you use? - apparently in the belief that the software had built-in humor generation.