Quotes About Conversation

A great dinner must include not only yummy food, but good conversation.

Someone who gossips well has a reputation for being good company or even a wit, never for being a gossip.

Did you hear?" he asked. "They found another body around nine this morning. It's the Ripper, definitely." "Good morning," I replied. "Morning. Listen to this. The second victim.

What's dry?' 'Good question. Next question!

No good ever came from not talking.

Very great change starts from very small conversations, held among people who care.

Talk to someone about themselves and they'll listen for hours.

Talking to all those great writers and artists for the magazine was a form of graduate school for me.

That amenity which the French have developed into a great art . . . conversation.

I have always felt that the only great thing about an interview is the questions that are asked.

There's no greater lifestyle and no greater happiness than that of having a continual conversation with God.

The supposed unhappiness of the rich is always a cheerful topic of conversation.

Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good company, good conversation, are the happiest people in the world.

What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor, more unashamed conversation.

The mentally ill frighten and embarrass us. And so we marginalize the people who most need our acceptance. What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor, more unashamed conversation.

There is health in table talk and nursery play. We must wear old shoes and have aunts and cousins.

If you let someone talk for an hour, you're gonna have a pretty good idea of who they are, and I think that's more rewarding than me sitting there going, "That's complete bullshit about health care."

I grew up with a lot of dinner table conversations about health care and ways in which the system was inadequate for the needs of many of the patients they took care of.

Some people take pleasure in regaling one and all with details of their poor health. They are happy to give an organ recital to anyone who will listen.

Sometimes I pray when I really feel like I need God to help me with something, and sometimes we just have conversations. We just kick it.

History is an argument without end.

History is merely gossip

In America journalism is apt to be regarded as an extension of history: in Britain, as an extension of conversation.

If I could have dinner with anyone who lived in history, it would depend on the restaurant.