Surely only boring people went in for conversations consisting of questions and answers. The art of true conversation consisted in the play of minds.

Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee and just as hard to sleep after.

A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech.

Can I get your cell phone number so we can text like normal antisocial human beings, since we are both too fucked up to have a conversation?

I fill my life with speech, but not with people who are truly listening.

I was eavesdropping, but I was so into what she was saying that when she said, I love you, I almost shouted it back from across the restaurant.

Have you been waiting in this line her whole life?

Talk helps shape one’s thoughts.

The topics which language limits us to aren’t much worth discussing in the first place.(attrib: F.L. Vanderson)

We had this conversation, and everybody in the room just disappeared. We were talking about our favorite old movies and all were the same ones. We just clicked in terms of our creative ideas. Edward...

That’s stupid. All that is, is rationalization for [Heisman voters] manipulating the conversation to get the answer they had in mind, … That’s like saying old Heisman winners like Marcus Allen, they did it all...

Bit by bit, I found myself relaxing into the conversation. Kitty had a natural talent for drawing people out of themselves, and it was easy to fall in with her, to feel comfortable in her...

Talking about abstract things is important. Having big, wild conversations about concepts like art, music, time travel, and dreams makes it much easier when you’ll eventually need to talk about things like anger, sadness, pain,...

I left this conversation hours ago, but somehow my mouth is still moving, words are still forming, and none have seemed to offend. Amazing, the mind. My mind, I mean. Not hers.

Protecting our kids from sexual abuse is not accomplished in a single conversation, but in ongoing conversations grounded in honesty and trust.

Like many human beings, he took the least sign of conversation as his cue to make noise.

During relaxation we drop our guard. Particularly in conversation. Relaxed conversation leads to openness. And in openness we often reveal what should never be revealed.

I can’t remember what I said to her, and she can’t remember what she heard. I must have said I love you.

I’m never lonelier than when I’m in a crowded room, talking to nobody, awkward and isolated, trying to decide how to stand so I don’t appear as if I want to start Roger Bannistering a...

I had a dream about you. When our talks ended, we left off with leftovers. I stuffed our conversation in Tupperware, but you just left it out to rot and decompose.

When at a networking event, there’s usually a guy alone in the corner talking to himself. That guy is me. Stop by and say hi. My nametag will say Bob, because even if you’re dyslexic...

Genuine people never seems to be in rush. In their conversation they make the other person feel special.

My phone buzzes. It’s from Karou: a list of conversation openers that I won’t be needing. —a) Hi. I’m Zuzana. I’m actually a marionette brought to life by the Blue Fairy, and the only way...

Shocked my old friend from China, Deja Vu, when I turned up at his door without notice.

Women prefer speaking to talking.

Talking with three people deeply is better than talking with thirty people superficially.

You know you’re about as forthcoming as a mime.

I believe that words are strong, that they can overwhelm what we fear when fear seems more awful than life is good.

Anything can inspire me – a conversation, something strikes you about words which can end up being a title.

Frasier (Responding to the suggestion that he undertake the difficult work of closure in a relationship): “What you just said about my success made a lot of sense. I tuned you out after that.

Go sip on gossip, and leave the coffee talk for me to chug. I’ll be in the kitchen, giggling like a schoolgirl if you need me.

A funny person is funny only for so long, but a wit can sit down and go on being spellbinding forever. One is not meant to laugh. One stays quiet and marvels. Spontaneously witty talk...

I’m hoping that we’ve had enough conversation with the other airlines that they’re going to keep their fares in line or even reduce them.

Silence is expansive, filling up a whole room in seconds, like a balloon filled with awkwardness. It’s amazing how saying nothing can be so different from having nothing to say.

Wherever freedom is being discussed, we’re all part of the conversation.

They do not learn, fixed in their ways as they are. You are naïve tothink otherwise. It’s an illness, Assassin, for which there is but one cure.’‘You’re wrong. And that’s why you must be put...

Yanked out of the present, Adam discovered the richness of the past in people’s stories.

She hardly ever began conversations with strangers just to talk. It was not a matter of shyness. For her, a conversation had a straightforward function. How do I get to the pharmacy? or How much...

Things said for conversation are chalk eggs. Don’t say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.

Jack Kennedy brought an “intense concentration” and a “gently teasing humor” to the dinner table, along with what Katherine Graham called his habit of “vacuum cleaning your brain.

The most animated talks we have are about…things

All of the conversation is how he’s going to write it.

Everybody talks, but there is no conversation.

They were going to have a conversation, he realized. Archie didn’t know a lot about women, but he had been married and he knew when a conversation was coming, and he knew when a woman...

If they’re together long enough, every couple has one conversation over and over. This was ours.

The pinnacle of every conversation is coming to the point.

I don’t see that conversation going that way at this point.

How do we know we’re not people in a movie?’ she asked.I looked at her not knowing how to reply.Mama, […] how do we know that things are real?’Great. Now we have a junior existentialist...

She felt that her speech was voicing the incoherency her thoughts, and stopped abruptly.

Conversationally, we were Fred and Ginger — spin, slide, shuffle, bend.