Quotes About Conversation

I love to talk about nothing. It's the only thing I know anything about.

History is merely gossip.

Most a barátom kiáltott föl: - Egyébként még sosem ettem ebben az országban egy jó Esterházy-rostélyost. - Vállat vontam, tekints zicsinek.

How are you? My father could say this quicker than anybody. He was always the first to say how are you, provided the occasion called for it, and he saw his chance. Thanks to this skill, he was made ambassador to England ...

I cannot remember what we talked about except that we never stopped talking.

Conversations in French bubble around me like a long-forgotten perfume I am desperate to inhale. Familiar words trickle back, first in a stream then a river, though I've scarcely heard them in half a century.

hesitated, knowing that he was talking about

Hey, I gotta take a piss. Want to come with me? Said no man ever.

Why do all your friends talk like books?

At the dinner table, make "what you're reading" as regular a part of conversation

no one finds a braggart wise. And once I no longer thought of listening as "waiting to talk," I began to have more meaningful conversations.

What part did she give you?" Zoe asked her mother. "Mary, the mother of God." "Talk about miscasting," Nelia said.

When I'm asked for the 'elevator speech' that sums up my work, I always respond, 'I always take the stairs, so I don't have an elevator speech. If you'd like to walk with me awhile, I'd love to talk.' I don't know of a life worth living or work worth doing that can be reduced to a sound bite." (40)

There is no guarantee that starting a small conversation will lead to something larger. But the failure to take any step at all, no matter how small, comes with an ironclad guarantee that we will not be part of helping change happen.

J'aime la lecture car c'est la seule conversation à laquelle on peut couper court à tout instant, et dans l'instant.

Socrates started an argument with a cow-herd's dog and discovered it had friends;

Do they always flirt with biblical quotes?" Asil asked Tad. In long-suffering tones, Tad said, "They can flirt with the periodic table or a restaurant menu. We've learned to live with it. Get a room you guys.

Charles looked at her thoughtfully. "People talk to you," he said. "That could be useful.

You are a sick, sick man," I told him. "Thank you," Ben replied, looking modest.

I like what you've done to your face," Ben said, tapping his eye.

Sometimes the most interesting part of the conversation with someone who can't lie is the questions they don't answer.

One, one, two, zero," I told him through the chattering of my teeth. "It's my birthday.

Hello," said a Traveler, crouching down on Tier's other side. "You must be the Bard." "Tier," said Seraph, "this is Kors. Kors, my husband, Tier. Kors, what do you want?" Ah, thought Tier contentedly, all that in under a breath, my Seraph at her charismatic best.

I backed the Mercedes out of the garage and waited for Gabriel to close the door and get in. "Your eyes are gold, Mercy," said Gabriel as he slid into the front seat. "I didn't know they did that.