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Quotes About Conversation

Speaking is half his that speaks, and half his that hears.
~ Michel de Montaigne
If you cannot close the mouth of one who reviles his brother, at least avoid conversation with him.
~ Isaac of Nineveh
It is all right to hold a conversation but you should let go of it now and then.
~ Richard Armour
I turned off the talking politicos. Too much jabbering at each other. Not enough care about humans.
~ Leonard Nimoy
Everyone just wasting time because they have so much of it to waste, minutes slipping by on who's with who and did you hear.
~ Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall
Occasionally, you will be given the chance to be either intellectual or pleasant. Leave being intellectual to others.
~ Ernie J Zelinski
Flirting is conversational chemistry.
~ Isaac Mizrahi
Communication: the thing humans forgot when we invented words.
~ Richard Branson
When a generation talks just to itself, it becomes more filled with folly than it might have otherwise.
~ Stewart Brand
I sometimes find that in interviews you learn more about yourself than the person learned about you.
~ William Shatner
i feel great when i used to speak with persons who believe hope
~ DINESH DEVIREDDY
We've talked, and alot has been said, but no words were uttered at all
~ A.M.M Alusi
I've since learned that when someone changes the conversational direction, it serves as a powerful marker of what is on his or her mind.
~ James W. Pennebaker
For days I could talk of nothing else with my mother except my ambitions to be a great man, a great colored man, to reflect credit on the race and gain fame for myself.
~ James Weldon Johnson
It may be because Southerners are very much like Frenchmen in that they must talk; and not only must they talk, but they must express their opinions.
~ James Weldon Johnson
And that was the day she invented it, this particular glazed expression of hers. She had created it to please her father, but it had served her well in her life. When she wore it, most men thought she was listening to them, and most women knew that the conversation was over.
~ Jami Attenberg
Barbra joined her at the table and sipped from an enormous glass of water filled with lemon slices. Ah, yes, and there's her lunch, she thought.
~ Jami Attenberg
Cock size was a thing she hadn't talked about since college, now that she thought about it. Who discusses such things when they get older? Who has the leisure time?)
~ Jami Attenberg
MacEmm, can I ask you? I don't know does it mean... does it mean anything with marrying, MacEmm? Doyler and me. " " No Jim, you can't ask me that." "I don't know, you see" "I haven't cigarrettes to be answering questions like that.
~ Jamie O'Neill
A short time later he spoke to Brother Lucien, who vehemently rejected the idea in fright.
~ Jan Guillou
Happiness can start by a conversation with coffee or Tea.
~ Jan Jansen Easy Branches
I thought you drove down here in a Buick," said Absalom Greer, "but it looks like you've come drivin' a hard bargain.
~ Jan Karon
She had called Cynthia then to come out and speak the truth, and Cynthia had uplifted and encouraged her.
~ Jan Karon
Their counselor had taught them to pray before big talks, to be sensitive to timing.
~ Jan Karon