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Quotes About Conversation

It's easier and sociabler to talk technique than it is to make art.
~ John Barth
A diverse and lively collection, the highest art of the interview.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
Our jobs as artists is to make sure our art tells a real story and let people see themselves in these characters. It's about having a conversation about being better people.
~ Lil Rel Howery
That's something lacking in a lot of modern-day families - just talking. It's almost a lost art form.
~ Ryan Kwanten
Two individuals, conversing honestly, can be inspired by the feeling that they are engaged in a joint enterprise, aiming at inventing an art which has not been tried before.
~ Theodore Zeldin
I became an artist because I wanted to be an active participant in the conversation about art.
~ Kamand Kojouri
Communication is an art and a meaningful conversation is a masterpiece.
~ Jasz Gill
Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty.
~ Joseph Addison
She wanted to ask him how his
~ Danielle Steel
What is a date? A date is when two people, who hardly know each other, go out to dinner, and push their food around their plates nervously, while trying to ask as many questions as possible in the shortest possible time.
~ Danielle Steel
Have you ever been to Chicago?" he asked
~ Danielle Steel
He's talking to rocks now," Kernel says. "A definite lunatic," Kirilli purrs.
~ Darren Shan
Nos contamos historias de fantasmas mientras caminábamos. Fue Steve quien habló la mayor parte del tiempo, ya que él sabe mucho más que yo al respecto. Estaba en plena forma. A veces olvida los finales de las historias, o confunde los nombres, pero aquella noche no. ¡Aquello era mejor que estar con Stephen King!
~ Darren Shan
The boy spoke two words, the first a short guttural verb, the second "you.
~ Dashiell Hammett
I said: All right, talk, but do you mind putting the gun away? My wife doesn't care, but I'm pregnant and I don't want the child to be born with...
~ Dashiell Hammett
I said: 'All right, talk, but do you mind putting the gun away? My wife doesn't care, but I'm pregnant.
~ Dashiell Hammett
Nora was eating a piece of cold duck with one hand and working on a jig-saw puzzle with the other when I got home. I thought you'd gone to live with her, she said. You used to be a detective: find me a brownish piece shaped something like a snail with a long neck. Piece of duck or puzzle?...
~ Dashiell Hammett
Dorothy wants to talk to you. Don't ask her to eat with us. When Nora returned from the telephone she had a look in her eye. Now what's up? I asked. Nothing. Just 'how are you' and all that. I said: if you're lying to the old man, God'll punish you.
~ Dashiell Hammett
She tilted her head to the right. You didn't even tell me you had taken the case. I had done what? Oh, I see what you mean. Well, I hadn't and haven't. My getting shot ought to prove I was an innocent bystander. Does it hurt much? It itches. I forgot to have the dressing changed this afternoon. Wasn't Nora utterly terrified? So was I and so was the guy that shot me. There's Halsey. I haven't spoken to him yet.
~ Dashiell Hammett
Your playmates sent him?" I asked, nodding at the dead man. "I only talked to him with this," he said, patting the automatic on the bed, "but I reckon they did." "How did it happen?" "It happened simple enough. I heard the door opening, and I switched on the light, and there he was, and I shot him, and there he is.
~ Dashiell Hammett
I told him about the letter Wynant had sent his sister. He said: "He writes a lot of people, don't he?
~ Dashiell Hammett
Why don't you lift the end?" said Alf. "It's me back, Alf," complained Mack. "You know how it troubles me." "No more than mine troubles me," said Alf. "But I said it first," said Mack.
~ Dave Barry
You and Teacher," said Molly. "Yes," said Peter. "She's very clever. You'll like her." "I'm sure," said Molly.
~ Dave Barry
Molly squeaked and clicked (the clicks were the hardest) something back, which she hoped was "Hello." What she actually said was "My teeth are green," but the porpoise was too polite to point that out.
~ Dave Barry