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Conversation Quotes - Page 7

Conversation is the laboratory and workshop of the student.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871”, p.94, University of Georgia Press

Nowadays there is no conversation at all. Teachers distrust talk as much as business men.

Marshall McLuhan, Matie Molinaro, Corinne McLuhan, William Toye (1987). “Letters of Marshall McLuhan”, Oxford University Press, USA

But stories somehow lengthen when begun.

Lord Byron (2013). “Byron: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.352, Routledge

nobody is such a fool as to moider away his time in the slip-slop conversation of a pack of women.

Lady Hester Lucy Stanhope (1845). “Memoirs of the Lady Hester Stanhope: As Related by Herself in Conversations with Her Physician; Comprising Her Opinions and Anecdotes of Some of the Most Remarkable Persons of Her Time”, p.377

As a salesperson, you will be judged by your ability to keep a stalled conversation moving along briskly.

Harvey Mackay (2011). “The Mackay MBA of Selling in the Real World”, Penguin

Using someone's name during a conversation was like a casual caress, like stroking their hair.

Harry Mulisch, Paul Vincent (1997). “The Discovery of Heaven”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

The primary use of conversation is to satisfy the impulse to talk.

George Santayana (1937). “The Works of George Santayana”