Quotes About Conversation

Once, John and I were coming form a concert that he had played, and it was late in the morning. We heard a couple leaving, and the lady said, oh, I have to hurry home. I'm going to church tomorrow. And her friends said, church? You've already been to church.

I think only now am I at the age where I've forgiven the past enough to say, 'You know what? Slavery was there. Let's talk about it in ways that will help us face tomorrow.

I have a ton of guy friends who talk to me about their bodies, too. But boys are often left out of the body positivity conversation.

Tone is often the most important part of a conversation - and listening is so much more important than what you say.

The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.

When I spoke, I was listened to; and I was at a loss to know how I had so easily acquired the art of commanding attention, and giving the tone to the conversation.

I do a lot of audio-only interviews at first just to capture a feeling and go deeper, as if you're having the most quiet, intimate conversation you've ever had with someone you love. If I can get that tone of intimacy, then the film will have that.

I drink for the effect, because it loosens up the tongue a little bit.

I'm a notorious late-night texter. I seem to use a lot of lip, heart, and tongue emoji.

I get really starstruck and tongue tied when I'm around other writers and the conversation tends not to go well.

How about keyboards in your mouth? How fast can you type with your tongue? People will think you're just masticating, when you're really talking to your girlfriend.

Hearts that are delicate and kind and tongues that are neither - these make the finest company in the world.

This has been a most wonderful evening. Gertrude has said things tonight it will take her 10 years to understand.

I like raconteurs; I like conversation. I liked the 'Tonight Show' when it was 90 minutes, I like when people aren't plugging things per se, and they're just in the moment being interesting.

The old Johnny Carson 'Tonight Show' was great in that he was so good with the guests, and it was not about him. I think he was very smart in realizing 'I have plenty of screentime on this show. I do my monologue and we do sketches and stuff like that.' During the interview, he really made it about trying to bring the best thing out of the guest.

I'll talk about my Tony all day long.

Can you imagine, just talking and chatting with Tony Leung? I got to ask all my fan girl questions.

Tony Benn and I were very close, very close friends for 30, 40 years. We talked to each other a great deal, and we were great friends. And I was with him shortly before he died, talking about prospects of the world and prospects for peace. And I'm very sad that he's gone.

A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.

I talk too much and I don't listen or pause to think.

I'm trying to make the readers feel as if he or she is right there in the conversation, and so I don't try to manipulate it too much.

We spend too much time talking about each other, at each other, past each other, and not enough time talking with each other.

People in Chandigarh have too much time and they eat your head.

I remembered some people who lived across the street from our home as we were being taken away. When I was a teenager, I had many after-dinner conversations with my father about our internment. He told me that after we were taken away, they came to our house and took everything. We were literally stripped clean.