Quotes About Conversation

Smoking pot makes people talk for long periods of time, for instance, so people who advocate pot won't shut the hell up about it.

My stand-up is quite good now, people say. It's just like a big conversation each time. Every gig is a rehearsal.

A continuing conversation with other persons, with cultural products, and with oneself, is a large part of what it means to be a human being, in our time and perhaps in all time.

With eyes Of conjugal attraction unreprov'd. Imparadised in one another's arms. With thee conversing I forget all time. And feel that I am happier than I know.

Musing on the phrase 'waste of time.' So much more complex than it appears. Many 'wastes of time' small talk, daydreaming are imperatives.

I was able to do something that people cant do these days, which is to have quality time with the guys who were trying to be president and a number of them who got the job.

Part of me misses the days when we have four channels in England and we were all talking about everything all the time.

A neighbor will stand at your door talking for 20 minutes because she doesn't have time to come in.

The time has come for a new kind of conversation, a new kind of Christianity, a new kind of revolution.

Now would be a good time to tell me you have your sais with you, Kat. (Cassandra) Nada. You got your kamas on you? (Kat) Yeah. I tucked them into my bra before I left home. (Cassandra)

A person can be religious and still respect secular values and not talk about Jesus all the time as though every American believed in Jesus.

I'm a fan of meeting readers face to face, at reader events, where we're able to sit down and take some time to talk.

My chair was nearest to the fire In every company That talked of love or politics, Ere Time transfigured me.

Man Ray takes a lot of pressure off me. It's like having a third person in a conversation; one of you doesn't have to talk all the time.

I haven't spoken to Oprah herself. She had so much going on, since her network show was wrapping up at the time we were shooting. I can't fault her for that.

I remember Zachary Quinto were just about to go and do So Notorious on VH1, and I was super unemployed, and I think we spent a lot of time talking about how we weren't particularly happy.

I've been trying to write. I also spent a lot of time on different campuses, in conversation, helping other writers. That's what I do: I teach them writing.

I don't know how to speak to celebrities. Every time I talk to Alan Menken, I say something stupid and I have to apologize.

My peers at the time: you know, young black kids from off the streets of Harlem, having these conversations with me in my small, dirty little studio up in Harlem.

When you're that tall, people talk about it all the time.

He actually listened, rather than pretending to listen while waiting a suitable interval before it was his time to talk again.

I recall that, the first time I met a Geordie speaker, it was some days before I could understand a single word he was saying.

Is this a fit time, said my father to himself, to talk of Pensions and Grenadiers?

The bookstore and the coffeehouse are natural allies; Neither has a time limit, slowness is encouraged.