Conversation Quotes - Page 13

Good satire hopefully provides thought-provoking conversation.

A performance is a conversation between you and an audience.

I like to hold a monologue with women. But a dialogue with myself is more stimulating.

There's a difference between using the word to insult somebody and using it to start a journalistic conversation.

The best joke-tellers are those who have the patience to wait for conversation to come around to the point where the jokes in their repertoire have application.

Out of Dostoevsky: Kafka. Out of Tolstoy: Margaret Mitchell. (in conversation, explaining his dislike for Tolstoy)

I must have my share in the conversation.

The newspaper is a lecture. The Web is a conversation.

I am mostly a pretty worried person. In conversations, I am always worried about what to say.

Prayer is a conversation with God, but prayer is no substitute for work.

Conversation makes one what he is.

Confidence in conversation has a greater share than wit.

Why write stories? To join the conversation.

Conversation: The slowest form of human communication.

Everybody talks, but there is no conversation.

% of what you understand in a conversation is read through the body, not the words.

A great way to be left alone on the subway is to appear to be deep in conversation with a small knife.

I hate war, for it spoils conversation.

Good discourse sinks differences and seeks agreements.

Not a sentence or a word is independent of the circumstances under which it is uttered.

My poems and prose are not often in direct conversation with each other, but there's so much crossover - everything that comes out of that crucible of language - that working in poetry and prose is energizing - to me as a writer and to the work itself.

Always he had wanted to tell somebody about his life, but when he had tried, his confidante had looked at him.

In real conversations, we are always trying to outguess each other.

There are many who talk on from ignorance rather than from knowledge, and who find the former an inexhaustible fund of conversation.

A person who talks with equal vivacity on every subject, excites no interest in any. Repose is as necessary in conversation as in a picture.