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...

We don’t talk, we hold forth. We don’t converse, we expound.

My perfect girl would be pretty mad, but one you can have a conversation with. No one can be too mad for me, the madder the better. I love a crazy chick!

Tamina serves coffee and calvados to the customers (there aren’t all that many, the room being always half empty) and then goes back behind the bar. Almost always there is someone sitting on a barstool,...

I could see that this conversation wasn’t about money, it was about him coming back and trying to play and trying to win another Stanley Cup. He wasn’t happy about the way his career had...

There is a difference between ‘talking’ and ‘having a conversation’. When you talk you pass time but when you have a conversation, you create memories.

In good company there is never such discourse between two, across the table, as takes place when you leave them alone. In good company, the individuals merge their egotism into a social soul exactly coextensive...

Without having read it, being told what was in the newspaper, I’m not going to deny that that conversation took place. But that’s it. That’s a business situation that should remain between the people that...

Most adults have a vocabulary of around 60,000 words, meaning that children must learn 10 to 20 words a day between the ages of eight months and 18 years. And yet the most frequent 100...

Of course, to avoid getting stuck in that convo with someone you dislike or feel uncomfortable around, don’t be passive, be proactive. Do not let them direct your interaction on their terms, do it on...

One last thing,” it never is. Unless they die right after speaking. Make sure that they do. Check their pulse to be certain.

We talked for four hours. Well, I talked for four, and she listened for two.

I would have aimed for his heart, but I wasn’t sure he actually had one. Do any of you have one?

We both tried to speak at the same time, and ended up remaining silent the whole night. That’s when I realized we were in love.

You know, Amway people are all about Amway, and when they didn’t — when they didn’t try any conversation further about it, that’s when I pretty much thought, well, they’re not with Amway.

Words suck. I mean, every thing has been said. I can’t remember the last real interesting conversation I’ve had in a long time. Words aren’t as important as the energy derived from music, especially live.

Your steady rain of words soaked me to the skin

That turned a two-way conversation into a one-way discussion.

I want love, passion, honesty, and companionship… sex that drives me crazy and conversation that drives me sane.

On Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell in His Girl Friday:”These two simply appreciate one another more than either of them appreciates anyone else, and they would rather be appreciated by one another more than by...

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,...