I consider myself a religious person. God is something very personal with me and I don’t flaunt religion in conversation with others.

He did it (listened) as the world’s most charming and magnetic people do, always asking the right question at the right time, never fidgeting or taking his eyes from the speaker’s face, making the other...

Sometimes thinking is like talking to another person, but that person is also you.

Conversations consist for the most part of things one does not say.

Why should conversation always be so much more coherent than experience?

It has been said already, but bears repeating: no blanket statement can sum up an entire group of people. No book, no chapter, no study, no research report can attempt to do that either. Instead,...

Every friend was once a stranger and if you know this, you have to understand that conversations are the beginning of connection

If I were alone with my clone, and we were enjoying each others’ solitude, I’d have finally have met a man with whom I could hold a conversation consisting entirely of the repetitive response, “Yes,...

Only one person in 1000 is a bore, and HE is interesting because he is one person in 1000.

What I mean is, lots of time you don’t know what interests you most till you start talking about something that doesn’t interest you most. I mean you can’t help it sometimes. What I think...

Everything that happens now in the online world is part of a conversation.

But a conversation like that would not be something that I would have, … It is kind of premature. First, we need to decided who the next governor will be.

High school parties exhausted me because I always felt like I was the only thinking person in a room mostly full of morons obliterating precious IQ points with every gulp of whatever booze they managed...

Well, ‘we’ are certainly happy to hear that. Oh, and I’m also happy to watch our darling little love child dragon while you’re in St. Louis.”I grinned back.

I particularly value conversations which are meetings on the borderline of what I understand and what I don’t, with people who are different from myself.

This is a very friendly town. Every visit, every conversation I’ve had since applying for the position has made me feel like this is absolutely the right decision.

I possess the faculty of enjoying the company of those I – of my friends as well in silence as in conversation.

I didn’t hear the conversation but Mr. Stephens explained to Mr. Roberts that he had plans for me and I’d be all right.

Corrival looked around. ‘So is this it? Is everyone here? Erskine, maybe you should start the ball rolling. I have places to go and things to do.”Me?’ Ravel asked. ‘Why do I have to start...

She moved her hands like crane claws as she spoke, trying to dig at the essence of what she was saying. It was the dirtiest I love you I’ve ever heard.

Stephen Tennant is the most sparkling talker who ever comes to my house, and perhaps the most amusing. He dances like the will-o’-the-wisp where other people stick in the mud. Though his really kindred spirits...

Tony Blair — perhaps I shouldn’t repeat this conversation — told me yesterday that he was in Delhi last week. And he turned on the BBC world service to see what was happening in New...

Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speak by something outside himself-like, for instance, he can’t find any clean socks.

Good conversation is the equivalent of shared emotion.

Huh?” I say.

to enhance the conversation with the governor.

It’s all right to hold a conversation, but you should let go of it now and then.

In conversation the game is, to say something new with old words. And you shall observe a man of the people picking his way along, step by step, using every time an old boulder, yet...

Conversation is so overrated.

It’s far more important why is being said, than what.

The true mark of English conversation is not being able to tell when you’ve been insulted. I think the more sophisticated society becomes, the more it hides behind the masks it manufactures.

It’s the same with cell phones. I never answer them up to my ear. I always put it on speakerphone and hold it six to eight inches away from my brain. Here’s an example of...

Conversation should be like juggling; up go the balls and plates, up and over, in and out, good solid objects that glitter in the footlights and fall with a bang if you miss them.

During conversation, I have no problem making eye contact—with myself in the mirror. Or with my clone, if he’s not rolling his eyes because he knows what I’m going to say.

After I speak, my words merge with the wind, and if you’re listening, your ears act like sails and carry the conversation.

The fun of talk is to explore, but much of it and all that is irresponsible should not be written. Once written you have to stand by it. You may have said it to see...

Most bad,” the host concluded. “If you ask me, something sinister lurks in men who avoid wine, games, the company of lovely women, and dinnertime conversation. Such people are either gravely ill or secretly detest...

Writing, when properly managed, (as you may be sure I think mine is) is but a different name for conversation.

It was mortifying to find how strong the habit of idle speech may become in one’s self. One need not always be saying something in this noisy world.

In order to be company he must display a certain mental activity. But it need not be of a high order. Indeed it might be argued the lower the better. Up to a point. The...

With some people there is easy conversation and not enough time in one meal to get out everything you want to tell her–all the things you didn’t know you’d been holding in until you’re suddenly...

Manners are the ability to put someone else at their ease…by turning any answer into another question.

Whenever I saw her, I felt like I had been living in another country, doing moderately well in another language, and then she showed up speaking English and suddenly I could speak with all the...

Most people are much better at saying things in letters than in conversation, and some people can write artistic, inventive letters, but when they try a poem or story or novel they become pretentious.

Heaven, envious of our joys, is waxen pale; And when we whisper, then the stars fall down To be partakers of our honey talk.(Dido, Queen of Carthage 4.4.52-54)

Be a good listener. With rapt attention, let every communication or conversation you have with your mentor, friends or even strangers be well understood.

I network like a Spanish Inquisitor. I am very good at extracting relevant information. And if you resist, you’ll only confirm your heresy.

It’s no company at all, when people know nothing and say nothing,’ she muttered.

The host took care to produce one or another of these whenever the current subjects seemed about used up, so that the conversation gathered new life and at the same time steered clear of political...

Funny how nobody talks on the tubes, isn’t it? I rarely catch the tube myself, or lifts. Confined spaces, everybody shuts down. Why is that? Perhaps we think everybody on the tube is a potential...