Quotes About Conversation

La hermana de Max, que está tan enamorada de su novio que intenta arreglárselas para hablar a solas con las visitas, pues cara a cara es más fácil explayarse sobre el amor y repetirse.

Many found the very idea hilarious. "Hi, Karen—how's God?" they would ask, as though inquiring about a mutual acquaintance.

We are a talkative and opinionated society and not always good at listening

It is difficult to restrain admirers of Shakespeare once they have begun to speak of him.

there is a direct correlation between our prayer life and our conversations. Perhaps if we spent more time and energy on our prayer life, we would use our tongues more wisely.

He can cook? In a manner of speaking, Mrs. Treadwell said, cheerfully. What manner of speaking is that?

When you get to Lady Kincaid's house, don't leave until you've had a chance to talk to the man, even if you have to drag him by the ear. It may take a bit of persistence. Sophie grinned, feeling better already. That I have in abundance.

I was not giving you a heated look." "What do you call it then?" "I was merely appreciating your, ah…finer points." "Yes, well, I could do the same for you except—" "Except what?" "They are all under the desk.

Coffee is the elixir of life.

How was your day, Rosie?" Dad would ask when he came home from work and I'd tell him it was ebullient. Or limpid. Or dodecahedron. "That's good to hear," he'd say.

The spoken word converts individual knowledge into mutual knowledge, and there is no way back once you've gone over that cliff.

Please assume that I am talking continuously in all the scenes that follow until I tell you that I'm not.

The spoken word converts individual knowledge into mutual knowledge, and there is no way back once you've gone over that cliff. Saying nothing was more amendable

A man at another table accused his breakfast partner of pulling rainbows and unicorns out of her ass.

So much talking makes it hard to listen.

He shrugged. "Are you going to answer me?" "You told me to shut up.

You hear about the two hats hanging on a peg by the door?" She laughed. "No. What about them?" "One says to the other, 'You stay here. I'll go on a head.' 

She asked him, "Everything all right?" "It's good right now." He rubbed her back with his hand. "What did the shrink say?" Claire waited until the bartender had returned to his corner. "She said that I'm not being forthcoming about my emotions." "That's not like you at all." They smiled at each other. Another old argument that wasn't worth having anymore.

Nolan slapped his palms down on the table. "Ya know, Claire, you should really start answering my questions." "Why?" "Because I'm with the FBI. My side always wins." "You keep saying that, but I do not think those words mean what you think they mean." He nodded appreciatively. "Rockin' a little Inigo Montoya. I like it.

Any cop would tell you that the best way to get someone to talk was to be quiet. There was a natural, human inclination to fill silence with noise.

Beszélni valamirÅ'l annyi, mint értelmezni azt.

We're all Bolsheviks now," Izzie said blithely. "And at my table!" Hugh said and laughed.

In my experience—and I admit I didn't anticipate this—most blacks are delighted to have a 100-percent honest conversation with a white man about race.

An egotist will always speak of himself, either in praise or in censure, but a modest man ever shuns making himself the subject of his conversation.