Quotes About Conversation

The more you talk, the less you'll have to say. The more you listen, the more sensible will be what you say.

I grew up in a family where the women were just nuts. They didn't stand around in cardigans making polite conversation while they chopped tomatoes.

You don't have to be a believer in a lot of superstition and nonsense - there's a difference between thinking to oneself and thinking as a form of conversation, even if there are no answers.

Elena. Hush, let me talk to the crazy lady.

Raphael, in case you're getting ideas - I won't be this civilized if you decide you need a concubine. In fact, it's a good bet I'll turn homicidal. He didn't look up from his conversation with Astaad as he said, A pity, in that cool "Archangel" tone of his. I will now have to ask the pilot to empty the hold of my chosen females. We're going to have to talk about this new sense of humor of yours.

No self-respecting wolf would eat a rodent - though we might've been able to use your teeth as decorations," Andrew said with a straight face. Teijan hissed out a very unratlike snarl. "Why the hell do I bother to talk to you?" "Hawke thinks I give you cheese." He pulled a small, foil-wrapped wedge out of his pocket. "Here you go" "*** you" But the Rat alpha was laughing.

Am I invited to this movie night," Sam interrupted to say, "or were you planning to ignore me sitting right here?" "The ignore one," Inés answered, quick as a shot. "My heart is broken." "I bleed for you." "Cruel." "It wasn't my best effort.

That day, two dangerous men sat, had a beer, and discussed the latest football scores.

Para cuando llegamos al final del Paseo, me di cuenta de que hablaba con Annie como si la conociera de toda la vida en lugar de unos pocos días.

Solo iba a decir que, si todavía no tienes que irte, puedes venir conmigo a mi casa y te enseño mi habitación o algo. Pero son casi las seis… —Y yo iba a decir que, si no vais a cenar todavía, a lo mejor puedo ir a tu casa y ver tu habitación.

We may not have computers or telephones or television, but we have books and conversations. And we talk to each other in person, not through e-mails and texts.

Men expected idiotic chatter from pretty women, so she had incorporated it into her routine.

Maybe she'd spoken of me to him but I was positive my grandmother had never mentioned tall-dark-and-snooty. I'd have remembered.

You meet in the shop? But what do you do here?" They looked at me as though I'd said something very stupid. Rafe and Sylvia answered together, "We knit.

The more you read, the more you will find your thoughts and conversation reflecting your reading, and the more you will want to read.

Just like a man," she says. "Does not know how to be silent, thinks we always want to hear what he has to say, always talking talking talking, interrupting his betters.

It was terrible when a single conversation with someone determined your whole future relationship.

Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

I often asked Laplace what he thought of God. He owned that he was an atheist.

Then he will talk—good gods! how he will talk!

Perils of solitude #1: People talk to you. I'd rather listen.

The clearest way to see through a culture is to attend to its tools for conversation.

A book is an attempt to make through permanent and to contribute to the great conversation conducted by authors of the past. […] The telegraph is suited only to the flashing of messages, each to be quickly replaced by a more up-to-date message. Facts push other facts into and then out of consciousness at speeds that neither permit nor require evaluation. (70)

television's way of knowing is uncompromisingly hostile to typography's way of knowing; that television's conversations promote incoherence and triviality; that the phrase "serious television" is a contradiction in terms; and that television speaks in only one persistent voice—the voice of entertainment