Quotes About Conversation

Few conversations, at any time of life, are more stimulating, more spontaneous and more genuinely original than those long ridiculous talks we all have, when we are very young, late at night about the meaning of life.

It oughtn't to need a war to make us talk to each other in buses, and invent our own amusements in the evenings, and live simply, and eat sparingly, and recover the use of our legs, and get up early enough to see the sun rise.

forgetting that the one we are speaking with is a person, not a factory for granting wishes. He invites us to pray so we will engage him in conversation, and through conversation, get to know him.

People tend to annoy me as long as they're talking, and sometimes when they're not.

Emma ended the call and slipped her phone back into

Maryse stared. "You hear her, too?" Luc grimaced. "Unfortunately. Why do you think I looked behind you when

What's wrong?" Gertie asked as she put a bowl of stew in front of me. "Nothing," I said. "Everything." "There's a bit of a gap between those two words," Ida Belle said.

Another stupid party last night; perhaps if larger they might be less intolerable, but here there were only just enough to make one card-table, with six people to look on and talk nonsense to each other.

My idea of good company...is the company of clever, well-informed people, who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.' 'You are mistaken,' said he gently, 'that is not good company, that is the best.

Oh.' 'Veneering. The retired judge. Friend, no

I think the best evenings are when we have messages, things that make us think, but we can also laugh and enjoy each other's company.

Hey! Callie. At last . . . It's been ages you know, since your impressive spadework in the garden . . . and afterwards . . .

Gossip is when you hear something you like about someone you don't.

trouble with people is, they always think they have to talk.

In Nepal, the quality of conversation is much more important than accuracy of the content. Maybe we get overexcited about information in England?

A traveller with an open mind grows richer with each journey, with each encounter, with each conversation.

Get out of my room. It's late, and I'm not dressed for company." She knew she should put on her robe, but she didn't move. "I'm not company, and you're wearing more tonight than the last time I saw you. We need to talk, Callie." -Calinda & Lynx

Maddy: "Um.....William?" she said, driving up the narrow dirt road. "Is there a particular reason you keep a sword behind your backseat?" William: "Because I don't own a gun yet

He pushed the coverlet halfway down his body and crossed his arms behind his head. Linc stared at the overhead fixture, his new best friend for the last several days--he'd actually felt like talking to it a few times.

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She was so unused to conversation in the accepted sense that most of her spoken words were almost meaningless. They were a gesture, like that of a hostess arranging loose covers on the furniture of her room in order to assure herself that everything was prepared for her guests.

Is that all you have, just that one little suitcase?" "There are at least four thousand more in the kitchen," said George. "Oh, good!

Doesn't Cassidy look nice tonight?" "She certainly does," Bob answered. "And I'm sure she has wonderful shaving hygiene too.

A café is for "people who want to be alone but need company for it." –Noel Riley Fitch, Paris Café: The Select Crowd