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Quotes About Conversation

Geras pašnekovas pats daug nekalba, bet sugeba prakalbinti kitus. Taigi, pokalbio meistrai yra ne tie, kurie moka kalb?ti, o tie, kurie moka klausyti.
~ Guy Kawasaki
Here is a list of the top 100 users discussing social media and a list that Peg compiled of social-media tweets. To find more topics, search for Twitter lists. You can also create your own.
~ Guy Kawasaki
If you can sit here and talk to a person you don't know very well, and talk about all these things you've been through—that's something. That's courage. It's knowing yourself.
~ Hector Tobar
The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.
~ H.L. Mencken
Before a man speaks it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks, it is seldom necessary to assume it.
~ H.L. Mencken
Whenever a woman begins to talk of anything, she is talking to, of, or at a man.
~ H.L. Mencken
So talked a while with Sarr about his cats—the usual subject of conversation, especially because, now that summer's coming, they're bringing in dead things every night. Field mice, moles, shrews, birds, even a little garter snake. They don't eat them, just lay them out on the porch for the Poroths to see—sort of an offering, I guess.
~ H.P. Lovecraft
In Brekkukot, words were too precious to use -- because they meant something; our conversation was like pristine money before inflation; experience was too profound to be capable of expression; only the bluebottle was free.
~ Halldor Laxness
At detumescence, after all, there is conversation, that is where love begins.
~ Hanif Kureishi
Cuando hablo conmigo mismo, es con ella con quien hablo
~ Hanif Kureishi
Men in plural […] can experience meaningfulness only because they can talk with and make sense to each other and themselves.
~ Hannah Arendt
The things of the world become human for us only when we can discuss them with our fellows. We humanize what is going on in the world and in ourselves only by speaking of it, and in the course of speaking of it we learn to be human.
~ Hannah Arendt
Sorrow and Suffering withdrew a little, as they always did when the Shepherd was present, leaving him to talk with Much-Afraid alone.
~ Hannah Hurnard
Superbe! Charmant! exclaimed the ladies; for they all used to chatter French, each one worse than her neighbor.
~ Hans Christian Andersen
Win's phone rang. He picked it up and said, "Articulate. Okay, put it through." Two seconds later he handed the phone to Myron. "For me?" Myron asked. Win gave him flat eyes. "No," he said. "I'm handing you the phone because it's too heavy for me." Everyone's a wiseass.
~ Harlan Coben
The other: "Oh my God, we were like so wasted." "From beer?" "Beer and shots, yeah." "How did you get home?" "Randy drove." At the top of the stairs, Myron stiffened.
~ Harlan Coben
The secret in any interview was the ability to not fill the silence. A few seconds passed.
~ Harlan Coben
He called us." "Dominick Rochester?" "Yes." "When?" "Last night. He said he met with you." Met, Myron thought. Nice euphemism.
~ Harlan Coben
Hey, come on, Myron, that was just talk." Ned tried to smile his way out of it, but Myron kept his face stern. "It didn't mean anything.
~ Harlan Coben
Why do you keep asking about Win?" "I actually came to the club to find him," Bucky said. "But I think it's better this way." "What way?" "Talking to you first. Maybe after Ã¢â'¬Â¦ well, we'll see. Shouldn't hope for too much." Myron nodded. "I have no idea what you're talking about." Bucky
~ Harlan Coben
I used to always prefer to text, and in fact got indignant when people called. This was totally irrational.
~ Matt Mullenweg
I'm a Southerner - I never take satisfaction in touching a nerve. I guess if I'm forced to find a good side, I'm glad that people are talking about an issue that hasn't really been discussed all that much. I'm glad that people are talking about it from the black perspective and the white perspective.
~ Kathryn Stockett
I think it's really easy to approach a touchy subject head-on, but 'Sharp Objects' does it in a way that's subtle and it presents mental illness as something quite common and normalized. It's so common and shouldn't be a conversation we're afraid to talk about.
~ Eliza Scanlen
I find acting tough, but sitting around chatting - that's easy.
~ Nick Frost