Top 1200 Interesting Conversation Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Living and breathing an authentic story is the best way to survive in a conversation-rich world.

Being British, I don't really have a way of expressing myself in conversation. Music transcends language.

There's no way to be prepared for a conversation with someone you don't know about something that means the world to you.

I once interviewed Anthony Burgess on the radio. I played pop records between the conversation.

The more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me is the pleasure and charm of conversation.

I don't like going to the movies with people that talk a lot. They want to have a conversation or something.

Most of the time, communication gets confused with conversation. In fact, the two are distinctly different.

Every rippling muscle is a book not read, a movie not seen, or a conversation not held.

That's probably the most boring conversation you could hear - an actor talk about politics. I won't go there.

Whenever people ask you where you're from and you say New Orleans, it's always going to create a conversation.

It's time to change the conversation about nature to focus on what we all have in common: our shared humanity.

Oftentimes in a marriage, you really don't have to say anything. You can sort of have a conversation without words.

My sister, brother, and I are 180 degrees different. Having a conversation with them, you have to tread lightly.

I never had a single conversation about politics with Ross Perot in my life; still haven't.

I tried to use the questions and answers as an armature on which to build a sculpture of genuine conversation.

American scripts are usually non-stop conversation. People talking over each other. I like that.

The photograph is to a great degree evidence of the conversation I had with the person. It's a part of my visual diary.

If one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation would be a very poor business.

[On Thomas Babington Macaulay:] He was a most disagreeable companion to my fancy ... His conversation was a procession of one.

Women who just don't like each other because the other one is a woman and "women don't like each other" myth - that's not interesting to me at all. How do you compete in the market place, how you stay relevant after many years of being in the public eye - all of that. To me, that's interesting and that's real.

Good conversation turns me on. A connection between two people, a mental one first.

That character in conversation which commonly passes for agreeable is made up of civility and falsehood.

The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.

My daily conversation, it consists of hustle. Grinding from the bottom sick and tired of struggle.

Conversation in society is found to be on a platform so low as to exclude science, the saint, and the poet.

I never got into 'MacGyver,' but 'All the President's Men' and 'The Conversation' were big for me.

People with big personalities are best in the center of the table. They can help carry the conversation from that place.

All journalists hope that their work will inspire a broader conversation. I think that's just what journalism is.

I read the paper every day. There are certain subjects that will catch my attention. I have an entire file of articles. Of course I make up the story, especially since most criminals are not very smart and fictional crime must be clever. I have to make sure the story I am telling is interesting and realistic. In this book I went on line and found out the manners of codes. I thought it interesting to use them as a jumping off point.

I like a book to be full of the memory of what it is, a voice in an endless conversation, and yet at the same time to be new.

To listen closely and reply well is the highest perfection we are able to attain in the art of conversation.

All conversation, in addition to whatever else it does, displays, and asks for recognition of, our competence.

A good memory and a tongue tied in the middle is a combination which gives immortality to conversation.

I am often attracted to people with whom I could not hold a five minute conversation.

Unless you work in HR, it's not your responsibility to necessarily police and monitor workplace conversation.

We all lose when bullying and personal attacks become a substitute for genuine conversation and principled disagreement.

I wish you would read a little poetry sometimes. Your ignorance cramps my conversation.

It has been said that good prose should resemble the conversation of a well-bred man.

Talkin bout money we could have a conversation Top five tax bracket in the population

I learned that a long walk and calm conversation are an incredible combination if you want to build a bridge.

Is it a form of social play that underneath the words people say, there is a different conversation going on?

A perfect conversation would run much less to brilliant sentences than to unfinished ones.

If you cannot close the mouth of one who reviles his brother, at least avoid conversation with him.

America does, in the future, need to have a conversation with and try to move forward with Russia.

There is in this world no real delight (excepting those of sensuality), but exchange of ideas in conversation.

I'm a sports idiot - watching it, playing it, making conversation about it - I got nothing.

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

I could sit right here and have a 15-minute conversation with somebody and change their whole life.

Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.

I guess in general, because it's such a popular trend in mainstream American pop, that there's been some kind of negative reaction to it. But at the same time, it's a really interesting effect and really interesting texture, and a lot of credit goes to Rostam for producing our music, and all the work that he puts into it, and just trying different things. Ezra did a vocal take, Rostam threw auto-tune on it, and we all liked the way it sounded.

The key to conversation at work is flexibility and understanding how what you say might be perceived by others.

I can't remember ever having a conversation about the definition of consent when I was a kid. I knew that no meant no, but that's it.

I also have a feeling your mother’s going to have a very ugly conversation with me." – Dimitri

No one's arguing that the Internet is evil. But talking about strangers is another conversation you have to have with your kids.

My favorite Batman stories were very much in conversation with the zeitgeist over the years.

I didn't grow up in a household where dinner conversation was, 'How did the market do today?'

Being 90 is not simple, but it's interesting, very interesting. Before I was 90, I could walk, I could see well, I could hear terrific, and now, I can't hear or see or walk.

We live in a technological universe in which we are always communicating. And yet we have sacrificed conversation for mere connection.

Palindromes are the number one conversation stopper, like party killer, I think I've ever seen.

We are redefining what leadership looks like and pushing for every single person to be part of that conversation.