Quotes About Conversation

Evening," Zane said. It was a pretty wordy opening for him.

Talking isn't hard," she whispered to herself. "You've been doing it since you were two. You know how to do this.

We resent being talked to. We'd rather be talked with.

Stop talking about inclusion and engagement and start including and engaging in every conversation, every meeting.

Our work, our relationships, and our lives succeed or fail one conversation at a time.

How much love you have is up to you and while it may seem complicated, it isn't.  Not really. It's all about our conversations.  By having honest, courageous, meaningful conversations with your partner, you can foster true connection and a fierce love that will withstand the test of time and grow stronger over the years.

While no single conversation is guaranteed to change the trajectory of a relationship, any single conversation can.

Yes, the conversation is the relationship. One conversation at a time, you are building, destroying, or flatlining your relationships.

He was one of those people whose ideas are too lively to be confined in their brains and spill out into the world to the consternation of passers-by. He talked to himself and the expression on his face changed constantly. Within the space of a single moment he looked surprized, insulted, resolute, and angry--emotions which were presumably the consequences of the energetic conversation he was holding with the ideal people inside his head.

There was very little about her face and figure that was in any way remarkable, but it was the sort of face which, when animated by conversation or laughter, is completely transformed. She had a lovely disposition, a quick mind and a fondness for the comical. She was always very ready to smile and, since a smile is the most becoming ornament that any lady can wear, she had been known upon occasion to outshine women who were acknowledged beauties in three countries.

Mr. Norrell gazed at Strange with an odd expression upon his face as though he would have been glad of a little conversation with him, but had not the least idea how to begin.

And being a man – and a clever one – and forty-two years old, he naturally had a great deal of information and a great many opinions upon almost every subject you care to mention, which he was eager to communicate to a lovely woman of nineteen – all of which, he thought, she could not fail but to find quite enthralling.

To sit and pass hour after hour in idle chatter with a roomful of strangers is to me the worst sort of torment

Places change imperceptibly – in detail, at least – a good deal,' said the Doctor, making an effort to keep up a conversation that plainly would not go on itself; 'and people too; population shifts – there's an old fellow, sir, they call Death.

Those hours of opium happiness which the Doctor and I spent together in secret were regulated with a scientific accuracy. We did not blindly smoke the drug of paradise, and leave our dreams to chance. While smoking, we carefully steered our conversation through the brightest and calmest channels of thought.

I grew up in a family in which political issues were often discussed, and debated intensely.

I was so enthused with literature -- not stuck on literature, but in love with letters -- that I was easily inclined to bring all the conversations round to works I had read or fictitious characters from my readings about whom I loved to talk

Since words are like the color of a painting, how you organize and use them will have an effect on the discussion as a whole, choosing your words carefully is a talent that may dramatically improve your capacity to frame any discussion"

Your frame is a mental structure that determines how you see the universe. The viewpoint and fundamental meaning of a conversation are its frames."

I know that asshole you were with in college --" "Can we leave that asshole out of it?" Please, gentlemen, one asshole at a time.

Rick said, "Is there some place we can go and talk?" "You want to talk?," Keir raised an eyebrow. "I never thought I'd see the day." "Nah, I want to tell you this joke I heard." Keir nodded, patient. "Shoot." "Two Irish cops walk into a bar. The first cop says..." Rick's voice dropped. He said gruffly, "I love you. Come home." Keir managed to keep his voice steady. "What's the other cop say?" The sweetness of Rick's smile was like a kick in his chest. "That's what I'm here to find out, boyo.

Okay, baby?" Riordan was walking toward me. I realized he was talking to me.

what the hell did you do to Detective Dean? She talks about you like she thinks you're the devil. Did you really tell her the Partridge Family were potential suspects?" I cleared my throat. "That was a misunderstanding." "She thinks you're deliberately trying to make fools out of them." I said shortly, "It wouldn't be hard. But no.

As Mark Twain famously quipped, "Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.