Quotes About Conversation

A conversation does not have to be scintillating in order to be memorable. I once met a president of the United States, and his second sentence to me was about knees.

I don't think you can bring the races together by joking about the differences between them. I'd rather talk about the similarities, about what's universal in their experiences.

We live in a technological universe in which we are always communicating. And yet we have sacrificed conversation for mere connection.

I'd love to have a program like 'Dr. Laura.' I studied psychology at the University of Miami, and when I rode the bus home from school, perfect strangers would strike up conversations with me and end up telling me their life stories. I think they could sense that I was studying to help people. That, or I have a face like a priest.

For the establishment, philosophy is both an elitist and an idealist discipline: In high school, it is a compulsory subject; at university, they teach the idealist line. They are conducting a conversation with themselves.

It's rather like attending a university seminar where you are talking to a few gifted specialists who deliver a paper to an audience of their peers. That's one way of making music.

People learn racism through dialogue. Somebody tells them about it. So if you can learn it through dialogue, you can also unlearn it through dialogue.

It's a sad day in this country when you can't talk about law and order unless they want to call you a racist.

If you're having dinner with friends and they're always on the phone or always texting, it's just impolite. Unless it's something important - like someone is in the hospital or something - don't do it.

I think standup is pretty good for an introvert because you are performing, but, I mean, it's on your own terms. There are so many people in the room, but it's a one-sided conversation. And you actually don't have to interact - unless you want to.

You don't talk to Richard Petty unless he talks to you.

Conversation is three women stand on the corner talking. Gossip is when one of them leaves.

I'll watch a movie only if it meets the following criteria: 1. It has to have at least two women in it. 2. Who talk to each other. 3. About something besides a man.

Women, tend to talk more than men, and they do this thing where they say things that can easily be shown. Like, they don't need to do that.

That silence is one of the great arts of conversation is allowed by Cicero himself, who says, there is not only an art, but even an eloquence in it

I don't know why, but women in a hair salon share their deepest secrets.

I make fun whenever I go. If I go to restaurant by myself, rest assured, people will be talking about it.

If American men are obsessed with money, American women are obsessed with weight. The men talk of gain, the women talk of loss, and I do not know which talk is the more boring.

Real-life discussions involve a great many bores and boors who have never learned that the art of conversation demands listening as well as talking.

I feel like this is a feminist issue and is going to be a part of a feminist conversation, and I wanted images of women of color in that conversation - feminism historically has left us out.

At its heart, all intellectual and emotional life is a conversation, and the conversation begins at birth.

I got quite bored, serving in the bar. Since I was there, the customers wouldn't talk about women, and with half their subject matter denied them, it was: horses, silence; horses, silence.

There are men who talk of women and others who talk to them. I don't talk of them, I prefer talking to them

In the room the women come and go talking of Michelangelo.