Quotes About Conversation

True confession? The reason we don't talk about race is because we do not speak a common language.

There's nothing worse than silence, strung like heavy beads on too delicate a conversation.

We fall back into silence. I look around XO Cafe and notice that chatter happens mostly at tables where the diners are young and hip. The older couples, the ones sporting wedding bands that wink with their silverware, eat without the pepper of conversation. Is it because they are so comfortable, they already know what the other is thinking? Or is it because after a certain point, there is simply nothing left to say?

There may or may not be a God, but if there is one, I wouldn't want to have him over for dinner.

People sometimes complain that Berliners just sit around all day in cafes, smoking and talking about art. Is that supposed to be a bad thing?

It is both good and horrible to talk with Death when you know he's sitting at your table.

I got something to say to you, big shot. Say it, then, I said, while I'm used to the drone of your voice. I'd rather not get acclimated again.

Az egész reneszánsz ezt a vágyképet dédelgette, fák alatt meghúzódó, h?vös házban jó és bölcs barátok csendes, der?s, mégis komoly társalgásának a képét. Nyugalom és harmónia. Az egész évszázad az egyszer?ség, Å'szinteség, igazság és természetesség megvalósítására törekedett.

A married couple never seem so married as when viewed from the back seat of a motor car, talking quietly together in the front. Polly and Marcus might have been in their bedroom already, so soft and intimate their converse sounded to me, as I sat there alertly mute behind the backs of their heads

But why at least? What a business it is, the human discourse. I

Intellectual discussion, after all, is the real joy of the winter of life, when other pleasures have flown, as it were.

What was your name before that?" I asked. "Frank," she said.

Rule number one: Always stick around for one more drink. That's when things happen. That's when you find out everything you want to know.

Two daiquiris withdrew into a corner of a gorgeous room and one told the other a lie.

He decided to talk to the Hopeless Case

if you ever tell anyone about this conversation, not only will I deny everything but I'll sue you for libel." "A libel is written down," I told him. "If I tell someone, then it would be a slander. Although it wouldn't be anyway since it would be the truth." "Fuck you," he said.

E só naquele momento, com o dia já quase no fim, a gente finalmente começou a conversar. Era como se fôssemos agentes secretos, mas tivéssemos cansado de tudo e decidido simplesmente abandonar o disfarce. (Cinco)

But I thought you were dead,' I put in. 'Mors janua vitae,' he smiled.

Religion has no place in his heart, his home, or his conversation. He is all talk, and his religion is to make noise with his mouth. Really!

The bothersome noise of religious talk grows irksome when laid upon the living score of discordant behavior. Talkative's

Want of reverence of the Word is the ground of all disorders that are in the heart, life, conversation, and in Christian communion.

there is but little of this faithful dealing with men now-a-days, and that makes religion to stink so in the nostrils of many, as it doth; for they are these talkative fools whose religion is only in word, and are debauched and vain in their conversation, that (being so much admitted into the fellowship of the godly) do puzzle the world, blemish Christianity, and grieve the sincere.

Speak not so sourly,' answered Robin. 'Did you eat thorns and vinegar for breakfast today?

Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about themselves, and small people talk about others