Conversation Quotes - Page 8

I am a diffident man. I find it hard to carry on a conversation.

The exchange by e-mail is more intimate than conversation - you allow yourself to say things you otherwise wouldn't.

The material comes from whenever you realize that you and someone else have something in common. So any conversation you've had more than once, anything you see happening to you that you see happening to a friend, you go, Hmmm, that's a situation I can make funny.

In conversation avoid the extremes of forwardness and reserve.

A conversation isn't a competition.

Fine. Since the tea is not forthcoming, let's have a philosophical conversation.

When I start asking my friends, "What do you think this means?" And it leads to way more interesting conversations than what it actually ends up meaning in the dictionary. Like "apocryphal," for instance.

Conversation, n.: A vocal competition in which the one who is catching his breath is called the listener.

Never had any mathematical conversations with anybody, because there was nobody else in my field.

It wasn't only fanatics and drunkards who began conversations with strangers in public.

Repose is as necessary in conversation as in a picture.

Prior to being allowed to enter the profession, prospective teachers should be asked to talk with a group of friendly students for at least half an hour and be able to engage them in an interesting conversation about any subject the prospective teacher wants to talk about.

The more you perform, the more adept you get at the nuances of navigating that communal conversation.

Everybody knows that really intimate conversation is only possible between two or three. As soon as there are six or seven, collective language begins to dominate. That is why it is a complete misinterpretation to apply to the Church the words 'Wheresoever two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.' Christ did not say two hundred, or fifty, or ten. He said two or three.

I see in my friends that don't have kids, when they come over, and the amount of times our conversation gets interrupted by my children. It's almost jarring.

Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen.

The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression.

I don't like when there's too much conversation because I'm shy and it makes me uncomfortable.

I consider myself a religious person. God is something very personal with me and I don't flaunt religion in conversation with others.

Private, accidental, confidential conversation breeds thought. Clubs produce oftener words.

Conversation is a game of circles.

Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live.

In an easy matter. Anybody can be eloquent.

Its a beautiful woman's fate to be the subject of conversation where ever she goes

I feel like so much of my life is about a conversation I'm having with myself. I do interact with other people, but often I'm more interested in what I'm learning in the relationship I have with myself.