Quotes About Conversation

You all of you try to talk as if nothing had happened, And yet you are talking of nothing else. Why not get to the point Or if you want to pretend that I am another person— A person that you have conspired to invent, please do so In my absence. I shall be less embarrassing to you. Agatha?

For what is more formal than a family dinner? An official occasion of uncomfortable people Who meet very seldom, making conversation.

It's amazing the stupid things I say sometimes. I mean, you could start an entire branch of scientific research about the stuff I say that gets proved wrong while I'm still busy saying it.

Sometimes I talk about baseball just to annoy people who don't understand it.

What, you don't have a sofa gun? I thought everyone did.

Every time you open your mouth," Clarence said, "you just seem older and weirder.

Kunskapsnivån i landet är så otroligt hög att ingen längre tycker det är nån idé att höra på när nån annan pratar.

Bombay is a city where gossip is treated as a commodity.

The very fact that a Frenchman was prepared, after tow minutes of conversation, to be so friendly towards anyone, especially one who had come from England, made me restless.

Kill One, Skip One The beer garden was crowded with people in rumpled sport shirts and slacks and cool cotton dresses. It was hot, smoky, wet and rank with the odor of beer, turgidly alive with sluggish conversation and the rasping of a juke box. I bought a beer at the bar and asked if Baxter Osgood was around.

Not all nine-fingered girls have hatchets, she said in Tradertalk. Some of us just tried to have a conversation with a snapping turtle. (Sandry to Daja, referring to her conversation with Tris.)

I'm sorry, I didn't mean-- To speak of it? asked the K'mir. Diane nodded. You have to, just to bleed off the poison from the memory.

Typing on a screen isn't the same as talking face-to-face," Gramma Bea said, prying Fana's worries wide open. "Life is something you touch. Typing is easy. Touching is hard." Gramma

Conraj starts to talk to the Cat, which sometimes purrs, like a polite acquaintance whose mind is on other things.

Your leave to sit." "The countryside is as much yours as mine, sir." "Damn you then, I'll sit." "It's hardly needful you should send me to Hell for that. But then, you have another way in mind.

The servants listened in fascination as Cornelia's conversation grew more and more ribald, less and less shocked at itself. Eventually, roaring drunk as any good madam of the Bhorga, Cornelia had been hoisted up by six male servants and borne, singing her own requiem, to her chamber.

I'm a skeptic of religious systems, not of the faith. Someday I will be happy to discuss the difference with you.

You don't talk much, do you?" she blurted out. "I didn't think there was a need. You seem to be holding up both our ends of the conversation admirably.

They will hunt you down. And when they find you, you will find yourself trapped in conversation with a pale young lady all dressed in white who cannot converse on topics other than the weather, who received vouchers to Almack's, and hair ribbons." - Anthony Bridgerton

Vergie didn't shut up about movie stars until I fell asleep. Of course, I'm just assuming she shut up then.

Learn to listen when people are talking. First, it's a great art, and second, it's quite possible that when people say one thing they mean another.

Do you want to stand here talking about the car, or are you going to get in it?" CeeCee asked. I was the person with horrible red hair and a mound of pink crust surrounding a diamond in her ear. I was at risk, and I had just made out with a girl in a bathroom. I got into the car.

Dean Philip Hinckler was prone to semi-sentences that expired, half-finished, in rhetorical cul-de-sacs.

Cómo lo mismo da? No es lo mismo. Pasado mañana es después de mañana, y mañana es mucho después de hoy. Y hoy mismo es bastante después de ahora, en que estabamos charlando con el compañero Bruno, y yo me sentiría mucho mejor si me pudiera olvidar del tiempo y beber alguna cosa caliente.