Top 1200 Good Conversation Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

Tea beckons us to enjoy quality time with friends and loved ones, and especially to rediscover the art of relaxed conversation.

Anyone who's had a casual conversation with his neighbors or is cognizant of reality TV should already be petrified of democracy.

I am thrilled and honored to have a seat at the table for meaningful conversation with so many accomplished women in the sports world.

I didn't set out to win an Oscar, of course, but to be in this conversation, it's somehow an honour and a strange life experience as well.

A child needs to be listened to and talked to at 3 and 4 and 5 years of age. Parents should not wait for the sophisticated conversation of a teenager.

There was a lot that was tricky about playing with [Thelonious Monk]. It's a musical language where there's really no lyrics. It's something you feel and you're hearing. It's like an ongoing conversation. You really had to listen to this guy. Cause he could play the strangest tempos, and they could be very in-between tempos on some of those compositions. You really had to listen to his arrangements and the way he would play them. On his solos, you'd really have to listen good in there. You'd have to concentrate on what you were doing as well.

Only just the right quantum of wit should be put into a book; in conversation a little excess is allowable.

He who is silent must be agreed with, for what shall the wings of opposition thresh upon, without the winds of conversation to shoulder them.

That which chiefly causes the failure of a dinner-party, is the running short--not of meat, nor yet of drink, but of conversation.

That's why people read books. You get to have the real conversation, as opposed to the pseudo-conversations we have in everyday life.

No right of private conversation was enumerated in the Constitution. I suppose it never occurred to anyone at the time that it could be prevented.

Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords-philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather.

I'm very shy and awkward; I can't have a normal conversation, and then people think I'm being a bit rude, but really I'm not.

There's a smartphone gait: the slow sidewalk weave that comes from being lost in conversation rather than looking where you're going.

Prayer at its highest is a two-way conversation - and for me the most important part is listening to God's replies.

Romance like a ghost escapes touching; it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory.

Modest egotism is the salt of conversation; you do not want too much of it, but if it is altogether omitted, everything tastes flat.

Leave it to an Obama supporter to bring up Iraq in the middle of a conversation about the swine flu pandemic.

'The Anthill' is the podcast wing of The Conversation, the site that presents news and views derived from the academic and research community.

Conversation didn't seem necessary when I put the accordion down and swung some young lady around the floor.

Every conversation I have almost always revolves around, you know, personnel and policy focused on producing results.

If something is being written about a lot, there's a conversation there; there's a dialogue there. There's probably a reason for it that it resonates deeply in some way.

This thing happened where I noticed anytime I got together with four friends or more, the conversation goes to food.

I think you have to ask yourself does voting work on the level that you are trying to effectuate change; that is the conversation you must have.

Helping to open up the conversation about inclusion and diversity in casting has been a dream come true.

I have got so low that I have asked to be hospitalized and for deep narcosis (sleep). I cannot stand being awake. The pain is too much... Something has happened to me, this vital spark has stopped burning - I go to a dinner table now and I don't say a word, just sit there like a dodo. Normally I am the centre of attention, keeps the conversation going, - so that is depressing in itself. It's like another person taking over, very strange. The most important thing I say is 'good evening' and then I go quiet.

At the heart of the failure of most plays is the inability to carry on a thoughtful conversation about your work with yourself.

I found I could perform in front of 200 people, but I would still feel nervous having a one-on-one conversation.

I love engaging in conversation with other moms because we can relate to one another, and we swap valuable insight and information.

The difficulty with this conversation is that it's very different from most of the ones I've had of late. Which, as I explained, have mostly been with trees.

Usually, when Nirvana made music, there wasn't a lot of conversation. We wanted everything to be surreal. We didn't want to have some contrived composition.

The stronger person is not the one making the most noise but the one who can quietly direct the conversation toward defining and solving problems.

Beginning of our conversation with Donald Trump, I made it very clear that Mexico will not pay for the wall.

Clothes are not a frivolous subject, and the conversation around them should not be belittled. How we dress affects what we feel, what we do, and who we are.

Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords - philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather.

I was so fortunate to be raised in a household filled with books and - as you might imagine to be the case in the Bush home - plenty of conversation.

Music is like having a conversation. All musicians inspire each other, and they're all geared to play something that matters.

I only had a telephone conversation with [Donald Trump], whereas [Shinz? ] Abe met with him in person.

Just ended a conversation with one of America's most famous atheists with "God bless you." Couldn't help it. And I meant it. And he knew it.

The beauty of interdisciplinary conversation is that the mode of expression is essentially different for each practitioner, even if ideas are shared.

There was a nice dilemma. How does one interject into a polite conversation, "By the way, in case you're ever interested, I do have a penise."?

My position in life has always been to be that person in the room who can make the conversation and break down any awkwardness.

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

I just use my muscles as a conversation piece, like someone walking a cheetah down 42nd Street.

That silence is one of the great arts of conversation is allowed by Cicero himself, who says, there is not only an art, but even an eloquence in it

I've never been convinced that everything in a relationship needs to be talked about. Some things can't be fixed by a conversation

I battled with my weight as a teenager, partly because there wasn't the information or conversation about how to live a healthy lifestyle.

I'm more likely to strike up a conversation with a stranger than to try any antic or pickup lines.

'Lead with LUV' is the first book I've ever done that's just a pure conversation between my coauthor and me.

Any conversation which does not include the context of the journey of the heart is by definition untrue to who we are as human beings.

On our watch, the conversation with a would-be suicide bomber will not begin with the words, 'You have the right to remain silent.'

I always knew what I thought the theme was, the core, in one word. In 'The Godfather' it was succession. In 'The Conversation' it was privacy. In 'Apocalypse' it was morality.

There`s a long conversation we`re going to have about how to enforce immigration laws. But physically securing the border is essential.

I knew I didn't want to come out in the 'New Yorker'; it just felt wrong. It needed an African conversation.

Conversation doesn’t have to lead to consensus about anything especially not values; it’s enough that it helps people get used to one another

My mother taught me to focus on being myself and not to worry what other people think about you. I know that as long as I'm a good person I'll stay on the right path. From my dad I learned that when someone tells you “No” it's only the beginning of a conversation. They both have always let me know that I can do anything I want to do as long as I don't give up. They are the most important role models in my life because they are exactly who I want to be when I grow up. They are supportive and understanding and I try every day to remember what they've taught me.

I've always hung out with people older than me, with my parents' friends, because I appreciated the conversation.

Whenever I read the psalms, I feel like I am eavesdropping on a saint having a personal conversation with God.

I don't know what to say when I have a crush on somebody. I kind of lose my words. I really try to start a conversation, and I can't. It's horrible.

Always remember that no matter what anyone is saying to you from the outside, the most important conversation is the one you are having with yourself on the inside.