Conversation Quotes - Page 18

I don't think politics is any longer about a conversation with the country.

Show me the man who isn't interested in discussing himself.

Conversation is not a search after knowledge, but an endeavor at effect.

How can you read and talk at the same time?” I asked. “Well, I usually can’t, but neither the book nor the conversation is particularly intellectually challenging.

A novel is a conversation between a reader and a writer.

I like to build places online where readers can have productive conversations about books.

Make Things rather than Persons the subjects of conversations.

Reasonable men are the best dictionaries of conversation.

There were no hundreds and hundreds of cases of domestic violence. I would have no knowledge of that or have any idea how I would authenticate that. That was never the intent of the writer's conversation with me.

I get really starstruck and tongue tied when I'm around other writers and the conversation tends not to go well.

Is there anything else you need from me?" Ranger asked. "Not right now." "There will come a time," Ranger said. "Let me know when." And he disconnected. I opened the freezer and stuck my head in to cool off. If there'd been any more innuendo in that conversation, I could have fried an egg on my forehead.

As soon as you bring up money, I notice, conversation gets sociological, then political, then moral.

I really [enjoy] working with new people and just sort of the freshness of it. ... I [want] to have those new conversations, musically and otherwise.

My dad and I get into it all the time. He loves to discuss politics much more than I do and we have pretty heated conversations.

What was the point of even having a conversation when words couldn't be trusted?

If art doesn't require an audience, can an intimate conversation be a work of art? Can a thought be a work of art? Maybe. I don't know. These questions are completely hypothetical for me, because I love interacting with audiences. I want my poems to be heard.

Someone has said that conversation is sex for the soul.

I began a conversation with the heads of our esteemed department of political science, and instantly I concluded, 'Hopelessly incompetent!

I had a great conversation with Trent Reznor. Trent said, "I'd have a sixpack, too, if I didn't write my own music!"

A continuing conversation with other persons, with cultural products, and with oneself, is a large part of what it means to be a human being, in our time and perhaps in all time.

He died in the middle of our conversation. How rude.

Everything is inspiring! It could be fine art or a conversation I have with somebody!

When the conversation turns too quickly to films,I see it as a sign of weakness.

Most English talk is a quadrille in a sentry-box.

A beautifully constructed borshch, such as you are going to experience presently, ought not only to banish conversation but almost to annihilate thought.