Conversation Quotes - Page 12

• The art of conversation consist as much in listening politely, as in talking agreeably.

  Hayley Atwell

  Art, Communication, Talking

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• The real relatedness between two people is experienced in the small tasks they do together: the quiet conversation when the day's upheavels are at rest, the soft word of understanding, the daily companionship, the encouragement offered in a difficult moment, the small gift when least expected, the spontaneous gesture of love.

  Robert A. Johnson

  Marriage, Encouragement, Real

  Robert A. Johnson (1983). “We, understanding the psychology of romantic love”, Harper San Francisco

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• At its heart, all intellectual and emotional life is a conversation, and the conversation begins at birth.

  Susan Jacoby

  Women, Heart, Emotional

  Susan Jacoby (2008). “The Age of American Unreason”, p.269, Vintage

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• I don't Twitter. I can't even remember my password name. I have problems with electronics, so what I've done is hire a young man out of college, whose very fingers are the extension of computer keys, and he Twitters. He does the mechanics, but I very carefully modulate what is said and have used Twitter to publicize stuff, have conversations and instigate competition.

  William Shatner

  College, Men, Keys

  Source: collider.com

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• Almost all women will give a sympathizing hearing to men who are in love. Be they ever so old, they grow young again with that conversation, and renew their own early times.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Women, Love Is, Giving

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1873). “Works”, p.457

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• It deserves and warrants conversation because somebody is saying, 'Hey, this offends me,'

  Darrell Green

  Hey, Warrants, Deserve

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• Journeys are the midwives of thought. Few places are more conducive to internal conversations than a moving plane, ship or train. There is an almost quaint correlation between what is in front of our eyes and the thoughts we are able to have in our heads: large thoughts at times requiring large views, new thoughts new places. Introspective reflections which are liable to stall are helped along by the flow of the landscape. The mind may be reluctant to think properly when thinking is all it is supposed to do.

  Alain de Botton

  Moving, Eye, Reflection

  Alain de Botton (2003). “The Art of Travel”, p.32, Penguin UK

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• As readers, we are seldom interested in the fine sentiments of a lesson learnt; we seldom care about the good manners of morals. Repentance puts an end to conversation; forgiveness becomes the stuff of moralistic tracts. Revenge - bloodthirsty, justice-hungry revenge - is the very essence of romance, lying at the heart of much of the best fiction.

  Alberto Manguel

  Revenge, Lying, Heart

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• the wasting of time is the most personal, most private, most intimate form of conversation with oneself, as well as with another.

  Mary Ruefle

  Time, Leisure, Intimate

  Mary Ruefle (2012). “Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures”, p.126, Wave Books

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• Stay out of the gutter in your conversation. Foul talk defiles the man who speaks it.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Men, Gutters, Speak

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• There's a rhythm to the words combined with the pictures [in a comic]. Whenever I'm working on a comic strip I re-read it, probably hundreds of times through to pay attention to how all of those things work. Sometimes even changing the angle of a character's eyebrow can really, seriously alter the effect and overall interpretation of a scene. And the insertion of a pause or a cough or a sniff, and all these things that we do in conversation, can bring it to life in a strange way.

  Chris Ware

  Character, Eyebrows, Attention

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• Reading has always been in the chief joy, a never-ending topic of conversation, and often a lifesaver, in my family.

  Elizabeth Borton de Trevino

  Reading, Joy, Topics

  Elizabeth Borton de Treviño (1977). “The hearthstone of my heart”, Doubleday Books

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• For never has there been, in modern times, such a Homeric world, where so much value is pinned onto the utterance of name! Entire conversations, entire lives, are devoted to the act of naming people, and in Pakistan the affluent would be totally devoid of talk if they were unable to take names in vain. Caste and all its subclassifications are recreated every day in the structure of a conversation that knows which names to name.

  Sara Suleri

  Names, People, Would Be

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• If a person begins by telling you, 'Do not be offended at what I am going to say,' prepare yourself for something that she knows will certainly offend you.

  Eliza Leslie

  Persons, Knows, Ifs

  Eliza Leslie (1839). “Miss Leslie's Behaviour Book: A Guide and Manual for Ladies as Regards Their Conversation; Manners; Dress; with Full Instructions and Advice in Letter Writing [!]; Receiving Presents; Incorrect Words”, p.208

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• The telephone conversation is, by its very nature, reactive, not reflective. Immediacy is its prime virtue. ... The letter, written in absorbed solitude, is an act of faith: it assumes the presence of humanity: world and self are generated from within: loneliness is courted, not feared. To write a letter is to be alone with my thoughts in the conjured presence of another person. I keep myself imaginative company. I occupy the empty room.

  Vivian Gornick

  Loneliness, Writing, Empty Rooms

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• I actually hear into life - seeing everything that's occurring as a conversation with God in some form. So it really is the next song on the radio - a chance utterance of a friend on the street - it really is what's happening right now. I stop and think, 'What is life trying to tell me right now?' And "What does my soul know about this?'

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Song, Thinking, Soul

  Source: www.trulyalive.net

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• There was a very small crowd - minuscule compared to the crowd that he gathered later - at a private home in Los Angeles. And we were standing on the back patio, waiting for him. And he came through the house, saw me and immediately put his hand up in the Vulcan gesture. He said, 'They told me you were here.' We had a wonderful, brief conversation and I said, 'It would be logical if you would become president.'

  Leonard Nimoy

  Home, Hands, House

  "POTUS, Trekkie". Interview with Ben Smith, www.politico.com. May 8, 2009.

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• For me, Twitter is a public persona. It's UbuWeb or Kenneth Goldsmith (as opposed to Kenny Goldsmith). I don't interact. It's a lousy form for conversation and opinion (what can you really say in 140 characters?), but a wonderful propaganda and sloganeering tool. I use it as a one-way street.

  Kenneth Goldsmith

  Character, Tools, Use

  "What Would Twitter Do?". Interview with Sheila Heti, believermagblog.wordpress.com. August 15, 2014.

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• Twitter has allowed the conversation to broaden and become more inclusive. At times, the conversation is really tense but that's because we're talking about really important issues. It's not going to be easy but at least the conversations are happening.

  Roxane Gay

  Talking, Issues, Important

  Source: logger.believermag.com

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• St. Seraphim, like Francis of Assisi, talked to animals. One day two nuns saw him deep in conversation with a bear. The bears of the Russian forests are very ferocious, and the two women were terrified. But Seraphim reassured them and showed them that he who is sanctified lives in peace with all creation, just as Adam did before the Fall.

  Olivier Clement

  Fall, Animal, Two

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• When you get to 60, the word "retirement" comes in on every conversation.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Retirement

  Source: www.nola.com

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• I feel at home in intimate concert halls. I can take risks and I'm immediately forgiven if the risk is a failure because it's such a cozy atmosphere. It opens up the opportunity for conversation and for interacting with the crowd.

  Jason Mraz

  Home, Opportunity, Risk

  Source: www.student-weekly.com

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• When I was younger, I was just always looking for - you're always looking for this hot, so hot, like super-hot girl. And then, as I've gotten older, different things are really important to me, like just honesty. Being able to sit down and have a conversation.

  Blake Griffin

  Girl, Honesty, Important

  Source: www.gq.com

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• I normally don't initiate conversations with guys unless they want to talk about certain things - when I'm at the facility, I'm there to play football. If you want to talk about the meaning of life, games, whatever, I'm more than happy to, but when I'm in that building, I'm being paid to play football. Conversely, when I'm not at the facility, that's my life to live.

  Chris Kluwe

  Football, Play, Games

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• The exceeding delight we take in talking about ourselves should give us cause to fear that we are giving but very little pleasureto our listeners.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Fear, Vanity, Talking

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