Quotes About Conversation

When you have a child, as anyone knows who has them, that's basically all you want to talk about.

I guess I'm not really fond of just chit-chatting. I want to learn something and have an experience.

Once coach I felt really connected with was Lions coach Jim Schwartz. I told him I didn't want to leave the meeting because I liked talking to him. He was very genuine.

He doth nothing but talk of his horses.

Mick Jagger and I just really liked each other a lot. We talked all night. We had the same views on nuclear disarmament.

Mona's eyes sparkled. Her grin became so open and joyous that she looked like a little girl. "Do you remember what I always used to tell you?" Duncan squeezed his eyes shut. He shook his head as if he could will the conversation in another direction—any other direction. He'd rather talk about fucking sea spray . "Please, Ma. Don't start—" "Maybe it's the Great Mermaid, leading you to your one true love!

Just out of curiosity, sweetheart; did you ever talk to your doctor about givin' you some tranquilizers?

Dallas, is it remotely possible for you to carry on a conversation that's not loaded down with manure?

Before you go anywhere, Mr. Football Player," Nita said, "I want to know exactly what your intentions are toward my Blue.

I can't chitchat and make breakfast at the same time. You could help, you know, instead of standing there like the Queen of England. Although you're a lot better-looking.

I want your best offer. [...] - You already have it. She bit her lip, nodded. - That's what I thought. And then she walked away.

Isn't it fascinating that he mainly dates women with limited English? But I guess it prevents a silly thing like conversation from interfering with sex.

He talked with more claret than clarity.

Talking to him was like engaging in a fistfight with someone gazing at himself in the mirror while punching you.

Talking to him was like engaging in a fistfight with someone gazing at himself in a mirror while punching you.

In Religion, he gets a lot of complaints about people talking to God in overly loud voices.

A library is a good place to soften solitude; a place where you feel part of a conversation that has gone on for hundreds and hundreds of years even when you're all alone.

Bonnie Raitt sang, "Let's give them something to talk about." She graciously allowed me to use her name when I told her about the Bonnie Raitt/Susan RoAne method. "If it helps people, that's fine with me.

So, Mr. Jeffreys," she inquired of the human bluebottle, "you went to the gym?

Our work, our relationships, and our lives succeed or fail one conversation at a time. While no single conversation is guaranteed to transform a company, a relationship, or a life, any single conversation can. Speak and listen as if this is the most important conversation you will ever have with this person. It could be. Participate as if it matters. It does.

Remember that what gets talked about and how it gets talked about determines what will happen. Or won't happen. And that we succeed or fail, gradually then suddenly, one conversation at a time.

The worst thing about talk ... is that there's no way to lay it to rest. Every fresh breeze brings a new speculation.

Houses, like people, are apt to become rather eccentric if left too much on their own; this house was the architectural equivalent of an old gentleman in a worn dressing-gown and torn slippers, who got up and went to bed at odd times of day, and who kept up a continual conversation with friends no one else could see.

I have a scholar's love of silence and solitude. To sit and pass hour after hour in idle chatter with a roomful of strangers is to me the worst sort of torment.