Quotes About Conversation

Faith in Judaism is not about ontology (what exists?) or epistemology (what can we know?) but about relationships – about the people with whom we converse.

The purpose of the Seder to my mind is to inspire conversations with your family about the human drama and hopefully transmit values to the next generation. I've always felt like this could be better.

Well, I make that one murder victim, one police interrogation and one conversation with a ghost," George said. "Now that's what I call a busy evening." Lockwood nodded. "To think some people just watch television.

The skull's…spirit? He…he looks different." The youth scowled. "Yeah? You look just the same. I was banking on frostbite taking a few of your fingers, or even your nose. Here's hoping something else has dropped off that I don't know about. If not, I'll be sorely disappointed." Lockwood stared. "Does he always talk like this?" "No. Usually he's worse. See what I have to put up with?

Lucy,' Lockwood said, 'the last time I saw body language like yours was when we were chatting to Martine Grey about her missing husband, and afterwards found him at the bottom of her freezer.

This is an interview, not a boxing match.

Holly was staring at me. "Who were you talking to just then?" "No one! You!" "I don't believe you." "Look, does it really matter right now?" "If we're going to be working together, Lucy...." "Oh, hell! All right! I'll tell you! It's an evil haunted skull that lives in my backpack! Happy, now?

Lucy,' Lockwood said, 'the last time I saw body language like yours was when we were chatting to Martine Grey about her missing husband, and afterwards found him at the bottom of her freezer.

As their conversation had ebbed, it left anxieties strewn behind it, scattered like pebbles in his mind.

Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.

Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of conversation, as in books it is generally the worst sort of reading

Conversation is but carving!Give no more to every guestThan he's able to digest.Give him always of the prime,And but little at a time.Carve to all but just enough,Let them neither starve nor stuff,And that you may have your due,Let your neighbor carve for you.

For conversation well endu'd;She calls it witty to be rude;And, placing raillery in railing,Will tell aloud your greatest failing.

One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.

But moving from conversation to violence is just as hard as moving from flirting to kissing. There's that leap you have to take, to shed your inhibitions and expose your naked impulses.

Ideal conversation must be an exchange of thought, and not, as many of those who worry most about their shortcomings believe, an eloquent exhibition of wit or oratory.

I have never heard such a conversation outside a police court.

Quick dinner with ... Ang [Lee] and his wife Jane who's visiting with the children for a while. We talked about her work as a microbiologist and the behaviour of the epithingalingie under the influence of cholesterol. She's fascinated by cholesterol. Says it's very beautiful: bright yellow. She says Ang is wholly uninterested. He has no idea what she does. I check this out for myself. 'What does Jane do?' I ask. 'Science,' he says vaguely.

Basta parlarci dieci minuti, con certi diciassettenni - con i ragazzi intendo, perché con le ragazze è un'altra storia, più complicata - e salta fuori subito che sono dei maledetti insicuri.

Vivevano il loro strano sogno e si raccontavano tutto e camminavano e parlavano e ridevano e camminavano e parlavano contro tutto il già visto come in un lungo sogno, quei matti. E poi, e poi.

La conversación tomó rumbos cosmopolitas: a ella lo que más le gustaba del mundo era Nueva York, porque no había indios, sólo negros.

The movies people don't talk about or remember after six months' time don't really matter.

Simple, informal UML diagrams can anchor a discussion.

Talk of citizenship today is often thin and tinny. The word has a faintly old-fashioned feel to it when used in everyday conversation. When evoked in national politics, it's usually accompanied by the shrill whine of a descending culture-war mortar.