Quotes About Conversation

los días para decir cómo estaba y si

Mario Vargas Llosa

La mujer sonreía teatralmente y se había lanzado a hablar sin pausas. En el chisporroteo de palabras, las formulas de cortesía que Alberto había escuchado en su infancia aparecían como en caricatura, condimentadas con adjetivos lujosos y gratuitos, y a ratos comprendía que lo trataban de señor y de don y lo interrogaban sin esperar su respuesta. Se halló envuelto en una costra verbal, en un laberinto sonoro.

We talked and talked and talked. Maybe love comes in at the eyes, but not nearly as much as it comes in at the ears, at least in my experience. As we talked, lights flicked on inside my head; by the end of the night I was a planterium.

Funnily enough, it is the subject one dreads talking about at length one ends up talking about at length, often without the slightest provocation.

We were freshman, taking her film class, and we'd spend hours after school sitting in her classroom talking about any old thing—life, sex, Forrest Gump.

We were up the whole night just talking, walking the city. You can walk those blocks forever, take a break on the edge of the fountain, eat pizza and snow cones, awed by the human carnival all around you.

It was hard to overestimate the desire of a man living in isolation to talk.

He knew there was no road map for this session. That was not how interrogation worked. Conversations were improvisational.

Charlar un poco es sólo ser simpático, ¿no? —Yo no sé charlar —dije.

Bueno, ¿cómo te va, capitán? Y yo dije: —Me va muy bien, gracias —que es lo que se supone que tienes que decir.

And I said, "I needed to sit down and be quiet and think." And he said, "OK, let's keep it simple. What are you doing at the railway station?" And I said, "I'm going to see Mother." And he said, "Mother?

It's very nice of you to come and say hello." I didn't reply to this either because Mrs. Alexander was doing what is called chatting, where people say things to each other which aren't questions and answers and aren't connected.

I didn't reply to this either because Mrs. Alexander was doing what is called chatting, where people say things to each other which aren't questions and answers and aren't connected.

Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well

Their conversation had gone like this: 'Something something, something something, something something something…the White Dog of Afghanistan…something something something, something, something, something else, something entirely unintelligible.

That's writing, huh. What does it do?" "It's like talking, but it makes no sound.

A cat is an excuse for a lonely woman to talk to herself. That's what a cat is.

Anywhere - and, it follows, nowhere - can be a place. As long as we are there, to think and talk, to listen and respond. The world, once conscious of itself in the form of human making, is a vast concert hall. What sounds there is not the divine music of celestial spheres, as the ancient Greek mathematicians believed, but the sound of one human after another issuing the daily plea: to be heard, to be understood, to be accommodated.

There, in the silence that's never quite silent, I realized that, if there are at least seven thousand wants to speak, there are at least seven thousand ways to listen.

Living is a conversation with no end, a dance with no steps, a song with no words, a reason too big for any mind.

In 2008, America elected a man with no "hands-on experience" of anything who promptly cocooned himself within a circle of advisors with less experience of business, of the private sector, of doing than any previous administration in American history. You want "change," so you vote for a bunch of guys who've never done nuthin' but sit around talking?

MICHAEL E MANN is the bristlecone pine of scientists. Just as removing the bristlecones makes his hockey stick collapse, so removing Mann from the climate conversation would make a lot of the drama and hysteria and sheer unpleasantness disappear.

Esta cultura griega de la conversación la tuvo presente, sobre todo, el evangelista Lucas en su evangelio y en los Hechos de los Apóstoles.