Quotes About Conversation

Being indebted is to be cautious, inhibited, and to never speak out of turn. It is to lead a life constrained by choices that are never your own. The man or woman who feels comfortable holding court at a dinner party will speak in long sentences, with heightened dramatic pauses, assured that no one will interject while they're mid-thought, whereas I, who am grateful to be invited, speak quickly in clipped compressed bursts, so that I can get a word in before I'm interrupted.

These are people who are eager to complain (or brag) about what's going on in their lives, but when the conversation shifts to you, they become uninterested and suddenly need to go.

Hey man, how's things in Chocolate

Why was she in such a rush to tell him that?

Er is niets tegen geoudehoer, zolang er maar Gods zegen op rust, dat is wat ik altijd zeg.

If you can't say anything nice about anyone else, come sit next to me.

it is nice that nobody writes as they talk and that the printed language is different from the spoken otherwise you could not lose yourself in books and of course you do you completely do.

I didn't know what to say in reply, so I simply nodded, which always works because the meaning is put into it by the person you are talking to.

Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes.

It is always the humble man who talks too much; the proud man watches himself too closely.

People love talking, and I have never been a huge talker. I carry on an inner monologue, but the words often don't reach my lips.

Civil conversations about personal perspective will be welcome in the bunker, if only because we'll be cognizant of the fact that incivility didn't work out too well, given the whole apocalypse thing.

L'unica cosa che ci fa differenti è che tu, quando hai finito di parlare con loro, hai la possibilità di sentirti stanco. Puoi andare a casa e spegnere la tua mente e ogni sua malattia.

Nothing is so indecent that it cannot be said to another person if the proper words are used to convey it.

Non s'impara qualcosa dagli altri che nelle conversazioni a due, dove colui che insegna si adatta alla natura dell'altro, rispiega, esemplifica, domanda, discute e non detta il suo verbo dall'alto.

One develops an instinct for letting silence do the heavy lifting. In the three, four, five seconds that passed without either of us speaking, the many ways the conversation could go came and went like time-lapse film of flowers blooming and dying.

Plus there was the standard French insult of ignoring your French and answering in English.

TV," I said, "do you believe in God?" "I believe," he said, "in Walt Disney." "You too!" We had clicked.

Because it lacks message threading , in which messages take the form of a set of ordered, often nested replies to an initial post, it's not easy to track specific discussions.

Time's passage through the memory is like molten glass that can be opaque or crystallize at any given moment at will: a thousand days are melted into one conversation, one glance, one hurt, and one hurt can be shattered and sprinkled over a thousand days.

Wherever I go, bookstores are still the closest thing to a town square.

The uncomfortable truth seems to be that the amount of talk by women has been measured less against the amount of men's talk than against the expectation of female silence.

Women have to learn how to talk as much as we listen. Men have to learn how to listen as much as they talk.

Not one study has proved that women talk more than men, but numerous studies indicate that men talk more than women. Women are thought to be more talkative than men because they are being measured against the expectation of female silence.