Quotes About Conversation

Articles always end up being about my appearance. I had a conversation with Jude Law: he told me people's obsession with looks goes away after a while.

If you have a good ear for dialogue, you just can't help thinking about the way people talk. You're drawn to it. And the obsessive interest in it forces you to develop it. You almost can't help yourself.

I need to be in front of my obstacle. I like to have a back dialogue; I like to talk with people; I like to share ideas.

Occasionally, I make waffles for breakfast for any employee who wants to talk to me. I make them around 8 A.M. as an incentive for people to show up early.

There are so many occasions when I'd like to go back in time and have a word with myself.

It's funny: We have so many shows and so many channels and so many things to occupy people as entertainment, especially with a show like 'Scandal,' which is clearly a hit, with a lot of heat around it - but every once in a while, people will say, 'What are you doing?' and I'll say 'Scandal,' and they'll have no idea what I'm talking about.

The compulsive talker must go through the herculean transformation of learning to quit or must become a great monologuist.

It was getting to be the best conversation she ever had. She had always thought the only way to have conversations like that was in your head. Then

If these really smart philosophers can't agree on what wisdom says, why should I pay them any attention? The answer is——because it's the best shot you've got. If you seriously want to improve your opinions, there's nothing better you can do than engage in a conversation with the best minds our history has produced.

In a group when the conversation takes a trend that is upsetting, try injecting peaceful ideas into the talk.

Negative conversation adversely affects circumstances. Certainly talk of a tense and nervous nature enhances inner agitation.

But in Texas discourse is seldom continuous. You may fill in a mile, a meal, and a murder between your paragraphs without detriment to your thesis.

He could talk through twenty cigarettes on any topic that you brought up. And he never sat up when he could lie down; and never stood when he could sit.

We were in the main dining-room, and there was a fine-dressed crowd there, all talking loud and enjoyable about the two St. Louis topics, the water supply and the colour line. They mix the two subjects so fast that strangers often think they are discussing water-colours; and that has given the old town something of a rep as an art centre.

I thought that the world was a vast system of signs, a conversation between giant beings. My actions, the cricket's saw, the star's blink, were nothing but pauses and syllables, scattered phrases from that dialogue. What word could it be, of which I was only a syllable? Who speaks the word? To whom is it spoken?

Everything is language.

La palabra del hombre es hija de la muerte. Hablamos porque somos mortales: las palabras no son signos. Son años. Al decir lo que dicen los nombres que decimos dicen tiempo: nos dicen, somos hombres del tiempo. Conversar es humano.

Ain't the best prayin' jest bein' with God and talkin' a while, like He's a good friend, stead a-like he runs a store and you've come in a-hopin' to git a bargain?

People will say anything to appear interesting.

Çok hata ettim, ona hava att?m, onunla arkadaÅŸ olamad?m," dedi Süleyman. "Ama o da çok sivri dilliydi. Kimse, k?zlarla nas?l konuÅŸulur, bu zor iÅŸin s?rr?n? bize öÄŸretmedi. Bir erkekle konuÅŸur gibi, ama hiç küfür etmeden konuÅŸuyordum. Olmad?

Samiha asked, "Did you write the letters to me or to my sister?" "I wrote the letters to you," said Mevlut.

K?z?n?n o kar???k çantas?na göz at?nca ÅŸehirle, insanlarla, kurumlarla kendisinin baÅŸard???ndan daha derin ve düzgün bir iliÅŸki kurduÄŸunu, kendisinin yaln?zca sat?c? olarak tan?d??? pek çok insanla pek çok ÅŸeyler konuÅŸtuÄŸunu anlard?.

She will look at you as women look at men, and she will judge you as a woman judge men...not on the strength of their arguments, and not in their cleverness or prowess in battle, but rather on the force of their character, the intensity of their passion, their strength of soul, their compassion, and...ah, this above all...their conversation.

Firequencher raised his hand. I've been staying out of family conversations. Do I get credit for that?