Quotes About Conversation

Abram spoke long into the night. His stories took shape slowly and deliberately

James: And I take back what I said about you being totalitarian. Lucy: It's about time. That term doesn't really suit me. James: I know. You like flirting too much. Lucy: Totalitarians aren't flirts? James: Historically speaking, no.

Lucy: I don't feel like talking about college. It increases my stress level. James: And increased stress levels lead to hair loss. Lucy: My head-hair volume is fine. James: You say that like I should be concerned about leg-hair volume.

If he only knew how often she and Eileen had discussed the benefits of Netflix on dateless weekend nights.

You look great," he said. It made her smile, even if it was a lie. "I'm as big as a house." He laughed. "I like houses. In fact, I'm thinking about architecture as a career.

Stacey: "I'm surprised you haven't thrown me out." Comfort: "At your current weight, I'd need some sort of catapult.

drinking beer with friends is perhaps the most underestimated of all Reformation insights and essential to ongoing reform; and wasting time with a choice friend or two on a regular basis might be the best investment of time you ever make.

The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.

The moon is friend for the lonesome to talk to.

What did they live on," said Alice, who always took a great interest in questions of eating and drinking. "They lived on treacle," said the Dormouse, after thinking a moment or two. "They couldn't have done that, you know," Alice gently remarked. "They'd have been ill." "So they were," said the Dormouse, "very ill." Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

The good thing about being with a woman who has amnesia is that the conversation gets to be all about you

Ma non sa lei che cosa è il "De Officiis"?» chiese improvvisamente a Gigi, e come in un tono di rimprovero. Gigi, ora, tagliuzzava una gomma con la punta del temperino: levò il viso, atteggiandolo a profondo interesse. «Ma è la grande Etica della latinità!» proclamò Frugoni entusiasta, con voce piena, potente.

Para sa akin, basta manliligaw, malinis ang hangarin. Bakit ka ba liligawan ng lalaki kung meron siyang masamang balak? Kung katawan ko lang ang habol, madadaan naman sa simpleng usapan 'yun.

Dinner is a great first date. Don't believe that stuff about girls not wanting to eat on a first date - sharing a romantic meal is so sexy.

I knew that in a few minutes I'd have to enter a happy, unthinking world. A world that revolved around the solid pedestal of money, with an optimistic view I knew something about from listening to the conversations of my friends.

Creo que hay pocos momentos más gratificantes en la vida que cuando lejanos retazos de información, conversaciones inconexas oídas aquí o allá e intuiciones vagas se alinean de pronto como planetas en el cielo o, mejor aún, como piezas de un calidoscopio que encajan hasta formar un dibujo perfecto.

Great conversations or presentations take you to ideas you'd never considered.

un lenguaje corporal y una ejecución verbal genuinos y naturales, casi como si estuviesen manteniendo una conversación en lugar de dirigirse a un público amplio.

Similarly, Carl Schurz reported that in his conversation with a plantation owner, who was beside himself that emancipation had left him without any slaves to do the heavy lifting, the man dismissed the idea of working the land himself. "The idea that he would work with his hands as a farmer seemed to strike him as ludicrously absurd. He told me with a smile that he had never done a day's work of that kind in his life.

The attempt to create defensiveness through trivialization is the first conversational gambit which greets threatening reforms. This pre-establishes the perimeters of discourse.

Our friendship is made up of these brief frenzied exchanges, but the quality of our conversation, for all its feverish outpouring, is genuine.

Gossip is mischievous, light and easy to raise, but grievous to bear and hard to get rid of. No gossip ever dies away entirely, if many people voice it: it too is a kind of divinity." Hesiod, Works and Days

Ian's discomfort was followed by a memory of a conversation he once had with Aunt Lillian about the indignities she had suffered as a young woman from the attention of men. He had not until this moment considered what it must have actually felt like.

He kept saying weird things to me in Elizabeth English." "Like what?" Christina asked. "Like 'Me thinks I never forget a face,'" Mimi said. "Me thinks that makes no sense," said Grant.