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.

Though blue sky and the road’s yellow dust and the green of the nearing oasis were all snuffed out, he (newly converted Saul) did not miss them. Light suffused his blinded eyes, his mind.

He was one of that class of men who, apart from a scientific career in which they may well have proved brilliantly successful, have acquired an entirely different kind of culture, literary or artistic, for...

A pas de deux is a dialogue of love. How can there be conversation if one partner is dumb?

The day drags along, you make thousands of plans, you imagine every possible conversation, you promise to change your behavior in certain ways–and you feel more and more anxious until your loved one arrives. But...

The conversation was mesmerizing, not for its content but for the cadences of the talk, the rhythm we fell into when we were alone, now as before. Every conversation between friends or lovers creates its...

I appricated that Nell was talking to me like a grown-up, but I had no idea what she meant. Still, I could see that the words flowed together like water over a riverbed.

CONVERSATION, n. A fair to the display of the minor mental commodities, each exhibitor being too intent upon the arrangement of his own wares to observe those of his neighbor.

I often look to men to model behavior,” she goes on after a pause. “Not because I want to squelch what’s feminine about me, but because sometimes I want a little more action, a little...

A man once asked me … how I managed in my books to write such natural conversation between men when they were by themselves. Was I, by any chance, a member of a large, mixed...

I sat next to a salmon on the sofa. After ten minutes of bear-like conversation, it was dead. Oh well, at least surrealism is still alive.

I was in the shower the other day and I noticed on the back of the shampoo bottle it said, “Avoid contact with eyes. In case of eye contact, flush with water.” and I thought,...

Is talking to your clone like talking to yourself, talking to someone else, both, or in the middle?

I spoke to him early the week following the pardon, and we had a relatively brief conversation in which he affirmed to me that he had made this decision on the merits and expressed a...

If we make that field goal, we wouldn’t be having this conversation.

This, I believe, is the appropriate image of human intercourse — appropriate because it recognizes the qualities, the diversities, and the proper relationships of human utterances. As civilized human beings, we are the inheritors, neither...

The difference between educated people and uneducated people is that educated people have been opened up to the notion that you can disagree without fighting; whereas uneducated people, in conversation, seek to always agree–everybody agrees...

That which is worth telling is not worth having.

I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.

I’m not a guru people, and I happen to have a very well developed sense of humor. Why else would I still be talking to you?

Friendship is an obstetric art; it draws out our richest and deepest resources; it unfolds the wings of our dreams and hidden indeterminate thoughts; it serves as a check on our judgements, tries out our...