Quotes About Conversation

The intelligent talk and the wise listen.

At some point in my early forties I realized that my primary goal in just about any verbal exchange is to lighten the mood.

I think men talk to women so they can sleep with them and women sleep with men so they can talk to them.

I always love being in the company of women. It's all about good conversation and great wine.

Men gossip for just as long and about the same subjects as women, but tend to talk more about themselves.

Some women flirt more with what they say, and some with what they do.

I love funny women, and just being around them talking is fine with me. I love an interesting mind.

It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought.

A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talker with a sore throat.

The most welcome guest in society will ever be the one to whose mind everything is a suggestion, and whose words suggest something to everybody.

'Tis social converse, animates the soul.

The moral disposition of the age appears in the refinement of conversation.

Years ago, women sat in the kitchen drinking coffee and discussing life. Now they discuss the same topics while they run.

I prefer women with a past. They're always so damned amusing to talk to.

Researchers have found very little difference between men and women in terms of the amount of time spent gossiping.

We lament, too, the destruction of purity among women and young girls as is evidenced by the increasing immodesty of their dress and conversation and by their participation in shameful dances.

As far as playing jazz, no other art form, other than conversation, can give the satisfaction of spontaneous interaction.

I'm not a television anchor for a Hindi channel or a radio jockey. So I may not be able to have a spontaneous conversation in Hindi. I'm a Bollywood actress, and I can certainly speak my dialogue in Hindi.

I like to do an interview when the other person isn't expecting it. I find it's more spontaneous.

I've found that the most engaging and satisfying author events I've done are with other people, where the conversation is spontaneous. I think that is by far the better way to introduce and promote a book.

My most ideal date would be something spontaneous, probably a concert, where there's good music and we can talk and hang out.

In the sports world it's all about argument. It's all about having a hot take. The other person has to have the polar opposite opinion, and you bash them together. To me it is an outlier to have a conversation be the basis of why you are listening.

There is a cliche that probably has some anecdotal evidence on the side that comedians are very depressed people, but that's because no one is ever going to seem as funny in a normal conversation as compared to when they're up there onstage in the spotlight making a huge audience keel over with laughter.

When influential people speak, conversations spread like ripples in a pond. And those ripples are multidirectional; influencers inspire everyone around them to explore new ideas and think differently about their work.