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Quotes About Conversation

Did you hear the nonsensical prattle spewing from her pie-hole?
~ Tucker Max
Out of anger comes controversy, out of controversy comes conversation, out of conversation comes action.
~ Tupac Shakur
most of them won't have a book in the house, though, when they have to, they'll talk about the latest book that's selling millions of copies around the world. Our readers may not read books, but they are fascinated by great eccentric painters who sell for billions.
~ Umberto Eco
Não pertenço àquela laia de maus escritores que dizem escrever apenas para si mesmos. As únicas coisas que os autores escrevem para si próprios são listas de compras, que os ajudam a lembrar-se do que precisam adquirir, e podem ser descartadas. Tudo o mais, incluindo o rol de roupas para lavar, são mensagens endereçadas a outrem. Não são monólogos, mas diálogos.
~ Umberto Eco
A fool is one who always talks outside his glass.
~ Umberto Eco
Vespers In which the rest of the abbey is visited, William comes to some conclusions about Adelmo's death, there is a conversation with the brother glazier about glasses for reading and about phantoms for those who seek to read too much.   At
~ Umberto Eco
The pair practiced the French art of conversation, which meant that neither tried to force his ideas, but each brought forward such wit or wisdom as he possessed, and the other listened and in return received an equal share of attention.
~ Upton Sinclair
The larger magnates and their wives had decided ideas. For them the Hitler invention meant no more strikes or labor-union agitation, no more Reds fighting in the streets; it meant wages fixed and permanent, resulting in such prosperity as heavy industry had never before known. In short, the Third Reich was the magnate's dream, and Lanny was struck by the curious resemblance of their conversation to that of his father.
~ Upton Sinclair
Der alte Herr had steadily refused to meet Corporal Schicklgruber, because he talked too much, and in the army it was customary for a non-commissioned officer to wait for his superior to speak first. Emil expressed his ideas
~ Upton Sinclair
Der alte Herr had steadily refused to meet Corporal Schicklgruber, because he talked too much, and in the army it was customary for a non-commissioned officer to wait for his superior to speak first.
~ Upton Sinclair
Whereas before he had waited for me to ask questions, now it was he who put up little ideas, little debating points, as though he wanted to get a discussion going.
~ V.S. Naipaul
I know that. I do watch Spooks.' Carol was surprised. 'You do? I don't.' 'You should. They do.
~ Val McDermid
I'm telling you the truth, Carol. Even though it's actually none of your business.' She half turned, found a smile from somewhere and said, 'You're quite right. It is none of my business. Till tomorrow Tony.
~ Val McDermid
Years ago, I had a conversation with an actor who maintained, 'Once you can fake sincerity, you can achieve anything.' Even when I had no respect for the people I was dealing with, it was important to behave as if I did.
~ Val McDermid
Thank you, ma'am.' Carol ended the call and
~ Val McDermid
get used to my motormouth. I've been this way ever since I was fourteen months old and I'm not likely to change now. Katie and I recognized each other as soul mates in first grade and we've been involved in a conversational marathon ever since.
~ Vicki Lewis Thompson
Table talk and Lovers' talk equally elude the grasp; Lovers' Talk is clouds, Table Talk is smoke. Les Miserables
~ Victor Hugo
Of a disposition at once unsociable and talkative, desiring to see no one, yet wishing to converse with some one, he got out of the difficulty by talking to himself.
~ Victor Hugo
D'une complexion farouche et bavarde, ayant le désir de ne voir personne et le besoin de parler à quelqu'un, il se tirait d'affaire en se parlant à lui-même. Quiconque a vécu solitaire sait à quel point le monologue est dans la nature. La parole intérieure démange. Haranguer l'espace est un exutoire. Parler tout haut et tout seul, cela fait l'effet d'un dialogue avec le dieu qu'on a en soit.
~ Victor Hugo
All is not at an end on earth since we can still talk nonsense.
~ Victor Hugo
In a little town, there are many mouths which talk, and very few heads which think.
~ Victor Hugo
where there are many mouths which talk, and very few heads which think.
~ Victor Hugo
many mouths which talk, and very few heads which think.
~ Victor Hugo
Certain persons are malicious solely through a necessity for talking. Their conversation, the chat of the drawing-room, gossip of the anteroom, is like those chimneys which consume wood rapidly; they need a great amount of combustibles; and their combustibles are furnished by their neighbors.
~ Victor Hugo