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...

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.

I’ve now had an opportunity to speak to my teammates. We sat down last night, had a long conversation and we’ll make an educated vote on where our team stands and that’s how it should...

very expressive in the conversation.

Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius

If you love me, wait until you meet my clone!

Our words were a shaky ladder; all I could do was climb, uncertain if I was about to surmount a glorious peak or fall and smash myself on the rocks below.

Prayer at its highest is a two-way conversation-and for me the most important part is listening to God’s replies.

I figured I could get a job at a filling station somewhere, putting gas and oil in people’s cars. I didn’t care what kind of job it was, though. Just so people didn’t know me...

I was having a private conversation with (engineers in) the truck, like we do everyday, and evidently some words that aren’t air-able came out and through a technical difficulty, I may have offended some people....

Betsy liked to talk. Her father always said she got it from her mother, and her mother always said she got it from her father. But whomever she got it from she was certainly a...

what a sad pair we are,” she said. “Surely we can manage a conversation on a topic other than our respective terrible evenings.

It’s not just one conversation. We’ve talked an awful lot about what a leadoff hitter is all about, in my opinion, and the role he plays in setting a table.

But, we had a long conversation yesterday, and we’re back to normal again. Kids are wanting the ball hit to them — instead of not wanting it to them — and they want to make...

So they left the subject and played croquet, which is a very good game for people who are annoyed with one another, giving many opportunities for venting rancor.

Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine.

open and honest public conversation with the nominee…is an important part of this process.

one wonders how much real conversation there is when one party does not, in many districts, have to contend for the votes of minorities, and the other can only elevate minorities into positions of power...

I would hesitate to characterize the conversation beyond confirming that it took place.

It’s hard to hear over the racket of gunfire. Politicians want to talk about war, but the people want to talk about peace.

Ideal conversation must be an exchange of thought, and not, as many of those who worry most about their shortcomings believe, an eloquent exhibition of wit or oratory.

I’m Scissor Tongue when I’m with her, snipping out snippets of dialogue before I even speak them. Being in love is best when you’re silent.

All the inane, meaningless noises people make that pass for intelligent conversation. They might as well be pigs grunting in the pen. (92)

There is nothing like desire for obstructing any resemblance between what one says and what one has on one’s mind.

Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.

Sí. And when I get out of here, I’m gonna fix the door to your car.

The first conversation began awkwardly, although Espinoza had been expecting Pelletier’s call, as if both men found it difficult to say what sooner or later the would have to say. The first twenty minutes were...

Tell me something. Do you believe in God?’Snow darted an apprehensive glance in my direction. ‘What? Who still believes nowadays?”It isn’t that simple. I don’t mean the traditional God of Earth religion. I’m no expert...

It was the kind of conversation you could only hold in whispers.

You never listen to me anymore. Before, if I was talking to you, you would always listen. But now you have no time to even talk to me.’Yeah… Has Keaty told you not to eat...

How often have the greatest thoughts and ideas come to light during conversations with the family over the evening dinner?

If you catch me talking in my sleep, your conversation bored me.

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

I make conversation like I make love to myself—I let my hands do all the talking.

I don’t have any money to speak of. And if I did, what’s there to say? They say money talks, but it doesn’t talk to me. Money won’t even look at me half the time.

Just because you talk about it or advocate for one position doesn’t mean you care more. Just because someone doesn’t talk about it and advocates a different position doesn’t mean they care less.

In fact, the more each person can remove his or her ego from the discussion and focus on the subject matter, the more fruitful the conversation will be for all involved.

When we see them, it’s usually no conversation at all. They go do their thing and we do our thing. That’s probably the best thing. You don’t want any kind of confrontation or anything going...

The most fruitful and natural exercise for our minds is, in my opinion, conversation.

If you hear I will speak but if you listen I will talk.

Fejezzük be ezt a beszélgetést. Túlságosan sok benne a felkiáltójel.

You asked why the rate hate Overlanders so deeply. It is because they know one will be the warrior of the prophecy,” said Vikus.”Oh, I see,” said Gregor. “So, when’s he coming?”Vikus fixed his eyes...

An advice is truly valuable when people not just give it their ears but also their obedience.

Can I get a lock for my tent?Bears can’t unzip tents, Lana.Well, chainsaw psychos who wander the woods looking for young girls all alone to chop up into pieces can.There are no chainsaw psychos! I...

There was no necessity for either to have the last word. For the first word became the only word of their romantic conversation.

Stairs,” Valkyrie said, disappointed.”Not just ordinary stairs,” Skulduggery told her as he led the way down. “Magic stairs.””Really?””Oh, yes.”She followed him into the darkness. “How are they magic?””They just are.””In what way?””In a magicky way.”She...

Fresh from the rarefied environments of Harvard, the author says he purposefully took journalism jobs in small southern towns so that he could learn the art of conversation with ordinary people. Is this gift for...

I had a dream about you. The king decreed we could only speak one word, and that word would be assigned to us. Your word was hello, and my word was goodbye. You made me...