Quotes About Conversation

A WEEK AFTER GETTING back from Burning Man for the third time, I was in the Oval Office with Obama. He complimented me on my multicolored striped socks, saying if he weren't president, he could wear socks like mine.

John was a constant talker. Yoko would punctuate his sentences with a "Yes, yes" or some little bit of emphasis.

I can talk a blue streak, but Bono can talk a category four storm. I don't know if we ever completely finished a topic.

I would sooner converse with a snake! He side-stepped the clutter. Speak and have done. Even snakes prefer their choice of company.

How fishy on the fishiness scale? Ten is a stickleback and one is a whale shark. A whale isn't a fish, Thursday. A whale shark is--sort of. All right, it's as fishy as a crayfish. A crayfish isn't a fish. A starfish, then. Still not a fish. This is a very odd conversation, Thursday.

Were you listening to a word I said?' 'I kind of switched off when you drew breath.

I was in '78 recently, he announced. I brought you this. He handed me a single by the Beatles. I didn't recognize the title. Didn't they split in '70? Not always. How are things?

Dragons, like four o'clock tea, crumpets, marmalade, and zip-up cardigans, are a peculiarity to the Ununited Kingdoms. They are fierce, fire-breathing creatures of great intelligence, dignity, and sensitivity who could and did converse on matters of great importance. But for all their intelligence, wit, and social graces, dragons still had one habit that made them impossible to ignore." "And that is?" "They liked to eat people.

Tea?" said Gordon with masterful good timing. "I've made a cake, too." "Thank you.

I tried to think of a reasonable opening line, as I had several things to say that could be described as witty OR intelligent, but not both. Quite WHY I needed to talk to her I had no idea.

Rotten luck," said Falstaff as I walked past. "There were the remains of a fine woman about Havisham.

seguimos charlando y riéndonos con esa risa floja que le da a la gente en los entierros o sitios así

men talk to women so they can sleep with them and women sleep with men so they can talk to them. Where does that leave us, she asked lightly. In a Zen garden. Green and yellow mosses, raked gravel. Silence.

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little. It is plain than an ignorant person thinks everything he does know important, and he tells it to everybody. But a well-educated man is not so ready to display his learning; he would have too much to say, and he sees that there is much more to be said, so he holds his peace.

All through the meal Mr Horsfield talked without thinking of what he was saying. He was full of an absurd feeling of expectancy.

Melanie,' I plucked up courage to ask at last, 'why do you have such a funny name?' She blushed. 'When I was born I looked like a melon.' 'Don't worry,' I reassured her, 'you don't any more.

I know how it is. Saying too much. Saying too little. Who says enough? Just enough? My closest conversations are bad translations. That's not what I meant--not what I meant at all.

He had never talked of what he wanted to do, where he was going, he never joined in the aimless conversations that clustered round the idea of something better in another time. He didn't believe in the future, only the present, and as our future, our years, had turned so relentlessly into identical presents, I understood him more.

Généralement, les gens qui savant peu parlent becoup, et les gens qui savant beaucoup parlent peu.

Happiness has no particular outward sign to discover itself by; we must be able to view the heart before we can be certain who are truly happy; but contentment is to be read in the eyes, the conversation, the accent, the manner, and seems to communicate itself to him that perceives it.

Cuando cada cual tiene su quehacer, nadie habla sino cuando tiene algo que decir; pero cuando no se hace nada, es forzoso estar hablando siempre; y he ahí la más incómoda y peligrosa de todas las sujeciones.

If you want to say something clever, you have only to talk long enough.

And you, Mackie," said the doctor. "It's been a long time.

I marvel at these young people: drinking their coffee, they tell clear, plausible stories. If they are asked what they did yesterday, they aren't embarrassed: they bring you up to date in a few words. If I were in their place, I'd fall all over myself.