First, let me finish. Then interrupt.

We are more advanced technologically than ever before. However, technology, in many respects, is leading to the decline of conversation.

The art of civil conversation begins at birth. Then goes from the dinner table to the schoolroom, to interaction among friends, to the work place, and on to other places where all manner of social...

The prudent man always studies seriously and earnestly to understand whatever he professes to understand, and not merely to persuade other people that he understands it; and though his talents may not always be very...

We define our identity always in dialogue with, sometimes in struggle against, the things our significant others want to see in us. Even after we outgrow some of these others—our parents, for instance—and they disappear...

Excitement is a crossroad which runs in all directions. No man lacks personality; he just never connected with you at the intersection.

If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible

Too many people talk about the weather, and not enough people talk about agriculture. When somebody says to me, “Beautiful weather we’re having,” I always reply, “Irrigation and crop rotation.

We’re distant cousins. He’s my first cousin, but he’s 5,000 miles away. And he doesn’t talk much.

It was as if my whole life revolved around trying to judge the appropriate point in a conversation to say goodbye

If you don’t forgive those who have hurt you, you give them power of you. When you forgive you are in control of yourself and emotions.

The duke understood the danger in having an important conversation too often in one’s head before having it with the intended party.

Smartphones are tools which fools fiddle with when they are around people that they don’t have the courage, or, the intellect, to converse with.

As of last week, in the last conversation I had with anybody involved in the case, Wayne was not a person of interest.

The art of conversation is the art of hearing as well as of being heard.

Moreover it is easier, in the informality of conversation, to achieve that excitement and incoherence which is the true eloquence of love.

Watch your whole conversation your end result will be your choice. We have a free will to decide what our future destiny will in-tell. Bryan Guras

I’m attracted to guys who are really confident and make conversation.

As far as I am concerned, philosophic questioning is just as likely to make you confused and depressed as it is to improve your condition.

Cut to the chase.” When I’m exasperated with all the verbal running around and skirting the issue, the last thing I want is more chasing. Let’s cut to the caught.

Don’t talk while you’re talking. It interrupts me.

A fan can be used as a listening device, pushing sound waves towards your ears, along with cool air. I listen harder than a hurricane, and that’s why I have a vacant and evacuated expression.

My idea of good company, Mr. Eliot, is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.

In Nepal, the quality of conversation is much more important than accuracy of the content. Maybe we get overexcited about information in England?

I could tell 30 seconds into the conversation that he was a race fan.

What ho!” I said.”What ho!” said Motty.”What ho! What ho!””What ho! What ho! What ho!”After that it seemed rather difficult to go on with the conversation.

Our lease is up in a year, that’s what brought on the conversation. One of the main things that happened [to OFS] was the rise in insurance and fuel costs.

[I]t is things that make us happy when conversation begins to reveal itself as a paltry substitute.

Dallas, is it remotely possible for you to carry on a conversation that’s not loaded down with manure?

Never does one open the discussion by coming right to the heart of the matter. For the heart of the matter is always somewhere else than where it is supposed to be. To allow it...

We must understand that out of community and dialogue, the answers will arrive in their own time and way.

And anyway who the devil should I want to murder?””That would be a very good question,” said Miss Marple. “I have not yet had the pleasure of sufficient conversation with you to evolve a theory...

People say conversation is a lost art; how often I have wished it were.

Or at least half price.” And he was gone again.

It was the talk that mattered supremely: the impassioned exchange of talk. Love was only a minor accompaniment.

it’s all in the conversation.

With the little bit of conversation I heard that took place between Sean and (head trainer) Brad Henderson, you knew it was something more than a guy getting the wind knocked out of him. Each...

I feel comfortable that we can open the doors of conversation with the county.

R.E.A.L. conversation: Recognize judgments. Express thoughts neutrally. Ask questions. Listen for verbal & non-verbal messages.

The author relates George Bernard Shaw’s sentiments that polite conversation excludes the only two subjects that matter, religion and politics.

A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That’s why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.

Two man talk and one may hear, but three cannot take part in a conversation of the most sincere and searching sort.

You stuttered like a kaleidoscope, because you knew too many words.

I’m sorry.””Sorry? For what?” He straightened and moved a bit closer, sounding honestly puzzled.”I am not much of a conversationalist, I’m afraid. I am not used to – to any of this. You must find...

I’ve been talking to myself a lot lately. I don’t know what that’s about, but my mother was the same way. She hated to make small talk with other people, but get her into a...

There is something hugely civilised about allowing long pauses in a conversation. Very few people can stand that kind of silence.

I want to keep a human mouth on my coffee table. It’ll be a great conversation starter.

I listen better with earplugs in, so I can see what your body is really saying.

Well-designed visuals do more than provide information; they bring order to the conversation.

Some people like to hear themselves talk, but I like to hear myself silent.