In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge. Votes: 7
George HerbertThe best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter. Votes: 7
Winston ChurchillThere is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees. Votes: 6
Michel de MontaigneNo one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does. Votes: 5
Christopher MorleyUltimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation. Votes: 5
Oscar WildeA man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation. Votes: 5
Mark TwainWhile a truncheon may be used in lieu of conversation, words will always retain their power. Votes: 5
Alan MooreIt is all right to hold a conversation but you should let go of it now and then. Votes: 5
Richard ArmourA single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books. Votes: 5
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowThe most influential of all educational factors is the conversation in a child's home. Votes: 4
William TempleA good quartet is like a good conversation among friends interacting to each other's ideas. Votes: 4
Stan GetzWe should stop having a conversation about cutting Social Security a little bit or a lot. Votes: 4
Elizabeth WarrenMy idea of a good night has always been having a lovely meal and a proper conversation. Votes: 4
Kirsty GallacherThe reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries. Votes: 4
Rene DescartesYou can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. Votes: 4
PlatoPrivate, accidental, confidential conversation breeds thought. Clubs produce oftener words. Votes: 3
Ralph Waldo EmersonRepresentative government demands an ongoing conversation between legislators and constituents. Votes: 3
Alan SiegelEnjoy the vacation without going; enjoy the conversation without talking. Votes: 3
Debasish Mridha M.D.Spirituality is conversation with God, everything else is just religious custom. Votes: 3
Stefan EmundsTravel, instead of broadening the mind, often merely lengthens the conversation. Votes: 3
Elizabeth DrewGreat conversation ... requires an absolute running of two souls into one. Votes: 3
Ralph Waldo EmersonDebate is angular, conversation circular and radiant of the underlying unity. Votes: 3
Amos Bronson AlcottIf anything is naive and lightweight, it's the traditional political conversation. Votes: 3
Marianne WilliamsonThe moral disposition of the age appears in the refinement of conversation. Votes: 3
Mary SomervilleLife doesn't move in straight lines, and neither does a good conversation. Votes: 3
Margaret J. WheatleyJazz vision is a wordless conversation between musical notes and visual expressions. Votes: 3
Barbara JanuszkiewiczToo often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation. Votes: 3
Elizabeth DrewTheater is all about foyers and conversation and digesting what you've seen. Votes: 3
Cate BlanchettFine. Since the tea is not forthcoming, let's have a philosophical conversation. Votes: 3
Anton ChekhovThere is an underlying timelessness in the basic conversation that is mathematics. Votes: 3
Barry MazurKitchens are for conversation. They're not just for cooking; they're for conversations. Votes: 3
Frank DelaneyKnowledge comes from personal experience of truth and awareness, not from conversation. Votes: 3
Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount CherwellDon't steamroll your way into a conversation before establishing any relational credibility. Votes: 3
Bill HybelsI spend many hours in conversation with wonderful characters from fantastic books. Votes: 3
Patti RobertsBusiness is a conversation because the defining work of business is conversation. Votes: 3
David WeinbergerThe true language of commerce is the natural conversation between human beings. Votes: 3
William C. BrownThat amenity which the French have developed into a great art . . . conversation. Votes: 3
Cornelia Otis SkinnerIt makes great conversation to discuss what's wrong with open-wheel racing today. Votes: 3
Mario AndrettiLife, this endless conversation with yourself. Silent in sanity, audible in madness. Votes: 3
Zohra SehgalWhat mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor, more unashamed conversation. Votes: 3
Glenn CloseThe vanity of shining in conversation is usually subversive of its own desires. Votes: 3
Lydia SigourneyIntelligence is usually easy to tell in a 10-minute conversation. Determination is harder. Votes: 3
Sam AltmanThe supposed unhappiness of the rich is always a cheerful topic of conversation. Votes: 3
Mason CooleyA good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation. Votes: 3
James BoswellThat's the nice thing about collaborating with someone: Your work becomes a conversation. Votes: 3
Noah BaumbachThere's nothing so dangerous for anyone who has something to hide as conversation. Votes: 3
Agatha ChristieAny conversation I have with anybody that's real is always revealing and inspiring. Votes: 3
Spike JonzeNever criticize, condemn or complain in a conversation with a customer or prospect. Votes: 3
Brian TracySometimes poetry is inspired by the conversation entered into by reading other poems. Votes: 3
John BartonThe desert has its holiness of silence, the crowd its holiness of conversation. Votes: 3
Walter ElliotSexuality is, of course, a great way of having a conversation between people. Votes: 3
Tilda SwintonVery strong personalities must confine themselves in mutual conversation to very gentle subjects. Votes: 3
F. Scott FitzgeraldI can't imagine having a conversation about 'Celebrity Big Brother' in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Votes: 3
Niall FergusonA quote is not a conversation, but an invitation to change your perspective. Votes: 3
Shannon L. AlderThe pleasures of relaxed chat, of casual conversation, encourage the ethnographer in everyone Votes: 3
Richard SennettI wish you would read a little poetry sometimes. Your ignorance cramps my conversation. Votes: 3
Anthony HopeIt was terrible when a single conversation with someone determined your whole future relationship. Votes: 3
Naomi Shihab NyeThe most influential of all educational factor is the conversation in a child's home. Votes: 3
William TempleCribbage, n. A substitute for conversation among those to whom nature has denied ideas. Votes: 3
Ambrose BierceThe most fruitful and natural exercise for our minds is, in my opinion, conversation. Votes: 3
Michel de MontaigneAn artist carries on throughout his life a mysterious, uninterrupted conversation with his public. Votes: 3
Maurice ChevalierThe art of conversation consist as much in listening politely, as in talking agreeably. Votes: 3
Hayley AtwellI think the first prerequisite to civilization is an ability to make polite conversation. Votes: 3
W. H. AudenWhen our life ceases to be inward and private, conversation degenerates into mere gossip. Votes: 3
Henry David ThoreauI'm still not sure I didn't hallucinate the conversation while overdosing on his pheromones. Votes: 3
Sylvia DayAmerican scripts are usually non-stop conversation. People talking over each other. I like that. Votes: 3
Shirley HendersonSilence - Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation. Votes: 3
Benjamin FranklinIt deserves and warrants conversation because somebody is saying, 'Hey, this offends me,' Votes: 3
Darrell GreenA perfect conversation would run much less to brilliant sentences than to unfinished ones. Votes: 3
Louis KronenbergerThe television replaced the sound of conversation that was missing from my grandparents' lives. Votes: 3
Jeffrey EugenidesEvery conversation, every failure, every opportunity is a chance to get better. Starting today. Votes: 3
Gary W. GoldsteinIt's very difficult, I think, especially on two cellphones, to have a romantic conversation. Votes: 3
Rainbow RowellI've always liked the idea of improvised music. Improvised anything. It's what conversation is. Votes: 3
Andy PartridgeWhat students lack in school is an intellectual relationship or conversation with the teacher. Votes: 3
William Glassertethered to the ground by quotidian conversation.the window rosy with anemic November light. Votes: 3
Lauren SlaterThere is never an embarrassing silence that can't be turned into a regrettable conversation. Votes: 3
Robert Breault...tethered to the ground by quotidian conversation.... the window rosy with anemic November light. Votes: 3
Lauren SlaterIf you ever have to support a flagging conversation, introduce the topic of eating. Votes: 3
Leigh HuntGood conversation turns me on. A connection between two people, a mental one first. Votes: 3
Brian MolkoBore: one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation. Votes: 3
Benjamin DisraeliBy creating conversation, we let our customers spread our message by word of mouth. Votes: 3
Anita RoddickOne way to prevent conversation from being boring is to say the wrong thing. Votes: 3
Francis Joseph SheedYou can't have a conversation with someone who's intimidated by you all the time. Votes: 3
Tila TequilaShe had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech. Votes: 3
George Bernard ShawWhat was the point of even having a conversation when words couldn't be trusted? Votes: 3
James DashnerI would rather take hellebore than spend a conversation with a good, little man. Votes: 3
Edward DahlbergReading a book should not be a passive exercise, but rather a raucous conversation. Votes: 3
Studs TerkelIt's annoying when people tag my name in their conversation with someone else [on Twitter.] Votes: 3
Casper SmartI enjoy women's conversation, and I think that helps me to describe them in fiction. Votes: 3
Alexander McCall SmithUsing someone's name during a conversation was like a casual caress, like stroking their hair. Votes: 3
Harry MulischWhat makes Ireland inclined toward the drama is that it's a great country for conversation. Votes: 3
Lady GregoryPalindromes are the number one conversation stopper, like party killer, I think I've ever seen. Votes: 3
Demetri MartinThere is nothing worse than silence, strung like heavy beads on too delicate a conversation. Votes: 3
Jodi PicoultThe conversation is happening about your brand whether you're a part of it or not. Votes: 3
Seth GodinSpecies conversation is beyond a doubt an issue that truly matters to the American public. Votes: 3
Ian SomerhalderInstead of yielding to idle conversation it might profit one to cultivate silence and contemplation. Votes: 3
Clarence DarrowSociety is frivolous, and shreds its day into scraps, its conversation into ceremonies and escapes. Votes: 3
Ralph Waldo EmersonBehind every communication problem is a sweaty ten-minute conversation that you don't want to have. Votes: 3
Gay HendricksSurely she had endured enough for one evening without having to listen to intelligent conversation? Votes: 3
Stella GibbonsThere are two things in ordinary conversation which ordinary people dislike - information and wit Votes: 3
Stephen LeacockWhistling together. Some kind of performance. I mean, not just a conversation, but a performance. Votes: 3
Kim StanleyFor me, creativity is essentially a spiritual experience, a conversation between my soul and me. Votes: 3
Sue Monk KiddI never initiated nor did the FBI ever initiate any conversation or correspondence with me. Votes: 3
John Sherman CooperSomeday, someday, but certainly not now, I'd like to learn how to have a conversation. Votes: 3
Sherry TurkleSaying what we think gives a wider range of conversation than saying what we know. Votes: 3
Cullen HightowerI know what things are good: friendship and work and conversation. These I shall have. Votes: 3
Rupert BrookeIt has been said that good prose should resemble the conversation of a well-bred man. Votes: 3
W. Somerset MaughamTalkin bout money we could have a conversation Top five tax bracket in the population Votes: 3
Nicki Minaj% of what you understand in a conversation is read through the body, not the words. Votes: 3
Deborah BullEverything is inspiring! It could be fine art or a conversation I have with somebody! Votes: 3
HiromiA good maxim allows you to have the last word without even starting a conversation. Votes: 3
Nassim Nicholas TalebCanada kills any conversation quick, I learned long ago. It's a little trick of mine. Votes: 3
Esi EdugyanTwitter is not a technology. It's a conversation and it's happening with or without you. Votes: 3
Charlene LiIt requires nothing less than a chivalric feeling to sustain a conversation with a lady. Votes: 3
Henry David ThoreauA bacteriologist is a man whose conversation always start with the germ of an idea. Votes: 3
Evan EsarI'm constantly on the brink of tears in conversation about things that happen to people. Votes: 3
Phoebe Waller-BridgeIts a beautiful woman's fate to be the subject of conversation where ever she goes Votes: 3
Oscar WildeIt was hard to have a conversation with anyone, there were so many people talking. Votes: 3
Yogi BerraGive me a half hour's conversation. I will know more than I will reading 20 magazines. Votes: 3
Joseph KennedyWherever conversation's flowing, / Why must I feel it falls on me / To keep things going? Votes: 3
Phyllis McGinleyA kiss is the natures way to stop a conversation, when the words are superfluous Votes: 3
Ingrid BergmanNowadays there is no conversation at all. Teachers distrust talk as much as business men. Votes: 3
Marshall McLuhanPrayer is - loving conversation with the One who has invited us into His embrace. Votes: 3
Richard J. FosterI never had a single conversation about politics with Ross Perot in my life; still haven't. Votes: 3
James StockdaleSo, destroy?" Cal asked. Clearly, the conversation was giving his two brain cells a serious workout. Votes: 3
Rick RiordanI want to hold you close, skin on skin, and let our heartbeats have a conversation. Votes: 3
John Mark GreenLiving and breathing an authentic story is the best way to survive in a conversation-rich world. Votes: 3
Seth GodinWhen the conversation turns too quickly to films,I see it as a sign of weakness. Votes: 3
Herman KochAs soon as you bring up money, I notice, conversation gets sociological, then political, then moral. Votes: 3
Jane SmileyI am often attracted to people with whom I could not hold a five minute conversation. Votes: 3
Mason CooleyI like when you can have a conversation with people and it's not just stock questions. Votes: 3
Jonah HillNo one is qualified to converse in public except those contented to do without such conversation. Votes: 3
Thomas a KempisWhatever you would have your children become, strive to exhibit in your own lives and conversation. Votes: 3
Lydia SigourneyWhat was it that drew you back? My marvellous personality, I suppose? Or my sparkling conversation? Votes: 3
Jonathan StroudArtists are always good for conversation, so long as you want to talk about their art. Votes: 3
Craig JohnsonMy daily conversation, it consists of hustle. Grinding from the bottom sick and tired of struggle. Votes: 3
Kevin GatesThe quality of conversation appears to be a key factor in the evolution of an organization. Votes: 3
Philip StreatfieldSilence holds the door against the strife of tongue and all the impertinences of idle conversation. Votes: 3
James HerveyI like people who can keep the conversation going no matter how random the topic gets. Votes: 3
Turcois OminekSometimes I think fashion is more of a conversation between men than it is for women. Votes: 3
Kim GordonIf a man is often the subject of conversation he soon becomes the subject of criticism. Votes: 3
Immanuel KantIf one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation would be a very poor business. Votes: 3
C. S. LewisAge is just a number, unless of course your trying to have a conversation with them. Votes: 3
Dov DavidoffI am worried that the next generation will not be able to have a real conversation. Votes: 3
Ruth WestheimerA kind word will never replace the conversation that God has prompted you to repeatedly have. Votes: 3
Shannon L. AlderI learned firsthand that there would simply be no wars if people engaged in real conversation. Votes: 3
Mark BurnettI believe that every conversation you have is an invitation to risk revealing the real you. Votes: 3
Keith FerrazziIn God's intention, a meet and happy conversation is the chiefest and noblest end of marriage. Votes: 3
John MiltonI don't like when there's too much conversation because I'm shy and it makes me uncomfortable. Votes: 3
Rita RudnerI enjoy many silent moments with my cat, a conversation always resumed exactly where left off. Votes: 3
Robert BreaultJust as Parkinson's isn't a big topic of conversation in my house, neither is my career. Votes: 3
Michael J. FoxStay out of the gutter in your conversation. Foul talk defiles the man who speaks it. Votes: 3
Gordon B. HinckleyWhat you gotta understand is, in this conversation and in our fight, you're not in control. Votes: 3
Andre WardI could sit right here and have a 15-minute conversation with somebody and change their whole life. Votes: 3
Young JeezyIf you are ever at a loss to support a flagging conversation, introduce the subject of eating. Votes: 3
Leigh HuntA girl who is interesting and educated and can spark conversation - I find that extremely sexy. Votes: 3
Beau MirchoffLOL has turned into something you type when you have nothing better to add into a conversation. Votes: 3
Richard HarrisNaming can satisfy a need, it can shorten a conversation that otherwise might go on for hours. Votes: 3
Nihad SireesA key to the art of conversation is learning how to be an effective and active listener. Votes: 3
Cindy Ann PetersonI just use my muscles as a conversation piece, like someone walking a cheetah down 42nd Street. Votes: 3
Arnold SchwarzeneggerI always love being in the company of women. It's all about good conversation and great wine. Votes: 3
Naomi WattsA lot of people especially want to know about going into business. But it's a two-way conversation. Votes: 3
Alek WekLike many human beings, he took the least sign of conversation as his cue to make noise. Votes: 3
Barbara KingsolverI know how to have a conversation, but I've never done improv. I've never taken improv classes. Votes: 3
Brie LarsonConversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know. Votes: 3
Andre MauroisDo you know that conversation is one of the greatest pleasures in life? But it wants leisure. Votes: 3
W. Somerset MaughamI tried to groan, Help! Help! But the tone that came out was that of polite conversation. Votes: 3
Samuel BeckettI have a contract but it's not a commitment in the ordinary sense. It's our ongoing conversation. Votes: 3
Diane SawyerA good thing to do when one is sitting, eating, and resting is to have a conversation. Votes: 3
Daniel HandlerIt's all right to hold a conversation, but you should let go of it now and then. Votes: 3
Richard ArmourI feel like R&B is really based off of emotion and truth. R&B is a conversation. Votes: 3
Sevyn StreeterFor people to be able to sit down together and have a conversation, that's the power of love. Votes: 3
Jada Pinkett SmithI painted one dining room red and I must say, the conversation became very heated in that room. Votes: 3
Amanda PaysThe trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech. Votes: 3
George Bernard ShawI also have a feeling your mother's going to have a very ugly conversation with me." " Dimitri Votes: 3
Richelle MeadI didn't get into film to win Academy Awards. I wanted to have a conversation with the audience. Votes: 3
Kevin SmithAlthough I'm not fluent in sign language by a long way, I could have a fairly decent conversation. Votes: 3
Paul TherouxEm, I am trying to have an important conversation!" shouted Seylin. "I will not change into a cat! Votes: 3
Clare B. DunkleThe poor girl does not know how to have a conversation. Unfortunately, she does know how to speak. Votes: 3
Winston ChurchillThere is no arena in which vanity displays itself under such a variety of forms as in conversation. Votes: 3
Blaise PascalIf you cannot close the mouth of one who reviles his brother, at least avoid conversation with him. Votes: 3
Isaac of NinevehI hate being so emotionally slutty. I need to stop loving everyone I have a long conversation with. Votes: 3
Sara QuinThe point of philosophy, as I see it, is to change thinking, and thereby to change the conversation. Votes: 3
Philip KitcherAs soon as a woman begins to dress "loud," her manners and conversation partake of the same element. Votes: 3
Thomas Chandler HaliburtonThey are intent on making every conversation and every form of behavior in the world known to them. Votes: 3
Edward SnowdenIn a conversation, the words can get stuck, I don't know what to say, I get very anxious. Votes: 3
Florence WelchA pas de deux is a dialogue of love. How can there be conversation if one partner is dumb? Votes: 3
Rudolf NureyevIf I start writing a song and you try to have a conversation with me, you're a bad person. Votes: 3
HalseyI say you hurt me. You say I scorned you. We say we care. It begins. The conversation begins. Votes: 3
Louise BernikowIt would be a shame to go out with a hot girl you can't have a decent conversation with! Votes: 3
Justin BieberI like the way you secretly send me a direct message when we're in the middle of a conversation. Votes: 3
Ariel SeraphinoDo I belong in the conversation about the best artists in the world? My answer is yes, I do. Votes: 3
Billy CorganI think that certainty is a closed door, It's the end of the conversation. Doubt is an open door. Votes: 3
John Patrick ShanleyI'm more likely to strike up a conversation with a stranger than to try any antic or pickup lines. Votes: 3
Clayton SnyderWe need to find a way of having a conversation across the parties on how you fund local government. Votes: 3
Johann Lamontnobody is such a fool as to moider away his time in the slip-slop conversation of a pack of women. Votes: 3
Lady Hester StanhopeI used to always read with a pen in my hand, as if the author and I were in a conversation. Votes: 3
Tara Bray SmithConversation without you trying to be sexy can still come off as very sexy. Trust me!
Sevyn StreeterI like plays where people talk a lot. Conversation is sustained. Argument is sustained.
Tom StoppardConversation is the legs on which thought walks; and writing, the wings by which it flies.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of BlessingtonConversation is three women stand on the corner talking. Gossip is when one of them leaves.
Herb ShrinerConversation takes practice; the more we do it, the better we get, and the more easily we do it.
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