Quotes About Conversation

Most of the comics that I talk to I've never talked to for more than ten minutes ever. So 95 percent of the time you're really hearing the first conversation between me and that guy on the podcast.

I like a book to be full of the memory of what it is, a voice in an endless conversation, and yet at the same time to be new.

Questions for questions. You're a man who's spent time at court.

My lawyer has been a good friend of mine for a long time. He and I continuously have conversations.

I get accused all the time of having a big mouth. But if you ask me, guys gossip way more than girls do.

I see it happen in uniracial congregations all the time. But people - when they're in mixed company, we speak differently.

I was gonna put him on the bus...I got tired of him talking, it was time for him to go home.

talking to yourself again, jas? yes, it beats talking to you. oh, time machine back to first grade much? only to visit your brain.

Another definition of modernity: conversations can be more and more completely reconstructed with clips from other conversations taking place at the same time on the planet.

There is nothing so annoying as having two people talking when you're busy interrupting.

A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.

Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.

Well, Ben Rogers, if I was as ignorant as you I wouldn't let on.

Our opinions do not really blossom into fruition until we have expressed them to someone else.

I love to hear myself talk, because I get so much instruction and moral upheaval out of it.

Presently he turned to me and said, just as one might speak of the weather, or any other common matter— You know about transmigration of souls; do you know about transposition of epochs—and bodies? I said I had not heard of it.

Say," said Ham Sandwich

Mary Jane she set at the head of the table, with Susan alongside of her, and said how bad the biscuits was, and how mean the preserves was, and how ornery and tough the fried chickens was—and all that kind of rot, the way women always do for to force out compliments;

The passengers are not garrulous, but still they are sociable.

What connection is there, President, between this uncanny creature and the disappearance of Lord Beltham, of which we were talking at dinner?

Being a good conversationalist is really what a liberal arts education is all about.

Sometimes how you talk is all you got. Even if your talk is wrong.

That's when I have to ask him. "Can you really talk like that? Being holy and all?" "What? Because I'm a priest?" He finishes the dregs of his coffee. "Sure. God knows what's important.

We're silent now, both waiting, till I remind myself that I'm the older one and should therefore initiate conversation. But I don't. I don't want to waste this girl with idle chitchat. She's beautiful.