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Quotes About Conversation

It was said in Clan Campbell that there were a dozen ways of wasting your breath, and talking to Gerald were six of them.
~ Simon R. Green
spoken to Malamore like this, ever. He wheeled around towards Dirlewanger,
~ Simon Sebag Montefiore
One woman even disparaged Johnson for failing to include obscenities. "No, Madam, I hope I have not daubed my fingers," he replied, archly. "I find, however, that you have been looking for them.
~ Simon Winchester
Come on, Abby," said Kate. "You're going to sit with Uncle Bobby while Daddy and I talk to the policemen." Abby slid off the hospital bed and took her mother's hand. "Is Bob here?" Josh asked. Bob Deuce had been Josh's friend since they were twelve.
~ Simon Wood
I flip open my phone to text Jessica: Me: Guess who's pregnant? Jess: u? Me: Get real. Jess: ur mom? Me: yep Jess: Mazel tov!? Me: Don't congratulate me, plz Jess: Could b worse Me: How? Jess: Could be u? Me: I'm a virgin. Jess: Nobody's perfect.
~ Simone Elkeles
A text pops up on the screen. It's from Luis. I can't help but grin when I read his perfectly thought-out message. Luis: Hey
~ Simone Elkeles
After she'd eaten her custard I took her head in my lap, and she talked to me of the balance of nature and the planets, the permanence of the sky and the stars, and of suffering, which after all is only another way of existing.
~ Simone Schwarz-Bart
Your ignorance, cramps my conversation.
~ Sir Anthony Hawkins
We drank coffee. We talked. She loved Charles Dickens, whom she read in Norwegian. Years after she was dead, I wrote a dissertation on Dickens, and though my study of the great man would no doubt have alarmed her, I had a funny feeling that by taking on the English novelist I was returning to my Norwegian roots.
~ Siri Hustvedt
It marks the moment when a meandering conversation between two men took an irrevocable turn toward friendship.
~ Siri Hustvedt
I love talk and I love fishing. I'm having a ball.
~ Martin Milner
Gotta love speaking to the mother. What a unique and adorable woman.
~ Gregg Sulkin
I do love to eavesdrop. It's inspirational, not only for subject matter but for actual dialogue, the way people talk.
~ Lynda Barry
Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords-philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather.
~ Anna Brownell Jameson
Recent research has indicated that the average individual listens for only seventeen seconds before interrupting and interjecting his own ideas.
~ Gary Chapman
I love talking about Scientology.
~ Giovanni Ribisi
He was so. So dirty, and just moving in front of me, and cute. I was in love with him, especially because he was talking to me.
~ James Franco
I also love to surf the Net and talk on the phone with friends.
~ Kiana Tom
I love sitting down and having actual conversations. But I don't do that sound-bite, be-candidly-funny thing.
~ Kristen Stewart
My perfect girl would be pretty mad, but one you can have a conversation with. No one can be too mad for me, the madder the better. I love a crazy chick!
~ Lee Ryan
If only I could find a guy who wasn't in his 70s to talk to me about white cranes, I'd be madly in love.
~ Leelee Sobieski
I love being funny and talking with fellas.
~ Eddie Jemison
She blushed and so did he. She greeted him in a faltering voice, and he spoke to her without knowing what he was saying.
~ Voltaire, Candide
None love to speak so much, when the mood of speaking comes, as they who are naturally taciturn.
~ Henry Ward Beecher