Conversation Quotes - Page 6

• Debate is the death of conversation.

  Emil Ludwig

  Argument, Debate, Contention

  "Dictionary of Quotations in Communications". Book by Lilless McPherson Shilling, Linda K. Fuller, 1997.

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• I would rather take hellebore than spend a conversation with a good, little man.

  Edward Dahlberg

  Men, Littles, Little Man

  Edward Dahlberg (1964). “Alms for oblivion, essays: With a foreword by Sir Herbert Read”

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• Nicole will come up in conversations where it's in a part of the conversation. Or we may be somewhere and I would tell some story about their mother and I. You know, we always honor her birthday.

  O. J. Simpson

  Birthday, Sports, Mother

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• In my opinion, the most fruitful and natural play of the mind is conversation. I find it sweeter than any other action in life; and if I were forced to choose, I think I would rather lose my sight than my hearing and voice. The study of books is a drowsy and feeble exercise which does not warm you up.

  Michel de Montaigne

  War, Book, Exercise

  "The Autobiography of Michel de Montaigne".

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• I have a contract but it's not a commitment in the ordinary sense. It's our ongoing conversation.

  Diane Sawyer

  Commitment, Ordinary, Ongoing

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• I always love being in the company of women. It's all about good conversation and great wine.

  Naomi Watts

  Women, Wine, Love Is

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I spend a good portion of my dinner-party conversation defending America because no matter what the political agenda, it's still a fantastic, amazing place.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Party, Talking, America

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• 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.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Men, Mankind

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.144, Harvard University Press

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• It is critical that parents and other trusted adults initiate conversations with kids about underage drinking well in advance of the first time they are faced with a decision regarding alcohol.

  Xavier Becerra

  Drinking, Kids, Decision

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• The more one listens to ordinary conversations the more apparent it becomes that the reasoning faculties of the brain take little part in the direction of the vocal organs.

  Edgar Rice Burroughs

  Brain, Ordinary, Littles

  Edgar Rice Burroughs (2015). “THE LOST WORLD COLLECTION: Out of Time’s Abyss, The Land That Time Forgot, The Moon Men, The Man-Eater and more (Illustrated): Caspak Trilogy, The Pellucidar Series, The Moon Trilogy, The People That Time Forgot, The Moon Maid, The Red Hawk, The Cave Girl, The Eternal Lover, Jungle Girl...”, p.1747, e-artnow

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• When you think you're listening to several conversations at once, they tell me, you may really simply be time sharing - that is, listening a little bit to this one, a little bit to that one

  Murray Gell-Mann

  Thinking, Listening, May

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• That is the happiest conversation where there is no competition, no vanity, but a calm, quiet interchange of sentiments...

  Samuel Johnson

  Communication, Vanity, Competition

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1824). “The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., Comprehending an Account of His Studies, and Numerous Works, in Chronological Order: A Series of His Epistolary Correspondence and Conversations with Many Eminent Persons; and Various Original Pieces of His Composition, Never Before Published; the Whole Exhibiting a View of Literature and Literary Men in Great Britain, for Near Half a Century During which He Flourished”, p.335

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• I tell my friends about my conversations with my father - conversations with an artist.

  Ray Conniff

  Father, Artist, My Friends

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• An artist carries on throughout his life a mysterious, uninterrupted conversation with his public.

  Maurice Chevalier

  Life, Artist, Mysterious

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Your ignorance cramps my conversation

  Bob Hope

  Ignorance, Cramps

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

  Alonzo Church

  Fields, Mathematical

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• The United States is a strong and ardent ally of Israel. The fact of the matter is that friends can disagree. I think what's important is that world leaders are able to sit down with one another, have frank conversations and move forward.

  Valerie Jarrett

  Strong, Moving, Thinking

  "WH Sr Adviser Valerie Jarrett". "This Week", abcnews.go.com. March 28, 2010.

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• Well, you know, I think in conversations with members of the Senate and others, they all recognize that the issue of immigration is important. It's important to our nation, it's important to our public safety, it's important to our security, it's important to our economic well-being moving forward. And it's not something that's going to go away.

  Janet Napolitano

  Moving, Thinking, Issues

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• The liar at any rate recognizes that recreation, not instruction, is the aim of conversation, and is a far more civilized being than the blockhead who loudly expresses his disbelief in a story which is told simply for the amusement of the company.

  Oscar Wilde

  Liars, Lying, Stories

  Oscar Wilde (2014). “A Critic in Pall Mall: Being Extracts from Reviews and Miscellanies”, p.60, Simon and Schuster

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• I mean, the trouble with some of the kind of relationship movies I've done, is there's only so many ways you can shoot a conversation. I was really tired of talking heads.

  Lawrence Kasdan

  Tired, Mean, Talking

  Interview with Stax, www.ign.com. March 21, 2003.

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• I would make my job a work of art. I would like whatever it is that I'm doing - everyone's experience of me, everyone's interaction with me, everyone's discussion, conversation, relationship with me - [to be] an event within which they get to see who they are. I would make of my life a work of art.

  John Denver

  Art, Jobs, Events

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• Silence is one great art of conversation.

  William Hazlitt

  Art, Communication, Silence

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1472, Delphi Classics

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• Let the conversation flow at its own pace, don't try to rush it or control it. You need to let go and be part of the conversation.

  Max Weiss

  Letting Go, Trying, Needs

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• One of the most common mistakes people make in any conversation is to think about what they want to say next instead of actually listening to what the other person is saying.

  Max Weiss

  Mistake, Thinking, People

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• I am really driven, but my drive doesn't effect the conversations I have in my head about life, and my worries and fears and insecurities.

  Zach Braff

  Worry, Insecurity, Driven

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