Quotes About Conversation

Audrey nodded warily. She had never cared for conspiratorial female conversation of this sort. Its assumption of shared preoccupations was usually unfounded in her experience, its intimacies almost always the trapdoor to some subterranean hostility.

Look lak we done run our conversation from grass roots tuh pine trees.

Well, Ah see Mouth-Almighty is still sittin' in de same place. And Ah reckon they got me up in they mouth now.

Pheoby's hungry listening helped Janie to tell her story. So she went on thinking back to her young years and explaining them to her friend in soft, easy phrases while all around the house, the night time put on flesh and blackness.

Time makes everything old so the kissing, young darkness became a monstropolous old thing while Janie talked.

Ah hears what they say 'cause they just will collect round mah porch 'cause it's on de big road. Mah husband git so sick of 'em sometime he

Well all right then. Since you own up you ain't smart enough tuh find out whut Ah'm talkin' 'bout, Ah'll tell you. Whut is it dat keeps uh man from gettin' burnt on uh red-hot stove—caution or nature?" "Shucks! Ah thought you had somethin' hard tuh ast me. Walter kin tell yuh dat." "If de conversation is too deep for yuh, how come yuh don't tell me so, and hush up?

dey's parched up from not knowin' things. Dem meatskins is got tuh rattle tuh make out they's alive. Let 'em consolate theyselves wid talk. 'Course, talkin' don't amount tuh uh hill uh beans when yuh can't do nothin' else. And listenin' tuh dat kind uh talk is jus' lak openin' yo' mouth and lettin' de moon shine down yo' throat.

Por alguns instantes, Liesel ficou calada. Era uma daquelas conversas que precisam que um tempo se escoe entre um dito e outro.

I've got ADHD. I don't mind talking about that.

I like to talk. I admit it.

It's always fun when people ask you for advice.

I'm a linguist. I study how people talk to each other and how the ways we talk affect our relationships.

I'd like to be with someone kind who can hold a conversation and is in my age group. If that's too much to ask, I'll do without.

People don't talk to me on airplanes.

I know a lot about words. I get paid to write stories, so I get to talk with people about the meaning behind words all day.

I'm no good at anecdotes.

My mom will sometimes call me Winnie. It's so annoying. I'm like, 'Who are you talking to?'

If I want to talk to Salman I can do it anytime.

Certainly in the case of 'Kill Your Friends,' a book I wrote more than 10 years ago, I routinely meet interviewers who appear to know the book better than I do. But still, you have to talk about it.

What language are you talking in now? It appears to be bollocks.

I like to argue with the radio.

I always wanted to write a book that would have people talking, theorizing, arguing.

Artists talk in 'art speak.'