Conversation. What is it? A Mystery! It’s the art of never seeming bored, of touching everything with interest, of pleasing with trifles, of being fascinating with nothing at all.

There is nothing that makes me happier than sitting around the dinner table and talking until the candles are burned down.

[When Jim Nicholson was ambassador to the Holy See last year, he had a memorable conversation with a Polish archbishop, introduced to him as] Secretary of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints. … So...

It only needs a desire, not words; to start a conversation.

If they were all worked out, we’d be having a different conversation today,

Plato worried that philosophical writing would take the place of living conversations for which, in philosophy, there is no substitute.

The middle path makes me wary. . . . But in the middle of my life, I am coming to see the middle path as a walk with wisdom where conversations of complexity can be...

…And tonight—Geryon? You okay?Yes fine, I’m listening. Tonight—?Why do you have your jacket over your head?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Can’t hear...

Where are you?” he asked. “I’m right here” she said. “I know, but it feels like one percent of you is somewhere else, where is that one percent?” he said. “I don’t know….I think I’m...

Drunken men give some of the best pep talks.

Talking about one’s feelings defeats the purpose of having those feelings. Once you try to put the human experience into words, it becomes little more than a spectator sport. Everything must have a cause, and...

very constructive and even a friendly conversation.

Dinner was good. The conversation was great, but the food was bad, so it averaged out. I wish I were as good in bed as I am in the kitchen.

We live in the moment and they think about what’s coming. If they didn’t keep us in check, we’d fuck up the planet”.

He just ran out in the middle of the conversation. I thought it was a fight,

Awareness is about improving social intelligence. If you can’t see, hear, or feel the dynamics of a conversation, you can’t manage them.

Americans no longer talk to each other, they entertain each other. They do not exchange ideas, they exchange images. They do not argue with propositions; they argue with good looks, celebrities and comercials.

When bodies talk, a hand brushing across a face declares love the tongue never speaks. When bodies talk, eyes make promises and lips keep them in the silent transfer of vows of the heart. When...

Sorrow spoken lends a little courage to the speaker.

I cannot say your worships have delivered the matter well when I find the ass in compound with the major part of your syllables […] our very priests must become mockers if they shall encounter...

The prudent man always studies seriously and earnestly to understand whatever he professes to understand, and not merely to persuade other people that he understands it; and though his talents may not always be very...

We define our identity always in dialogue with, sometimes in struggle against, the things our significant others want to see in us. Even after we outgrow some of these others—our parents, for instance—and they disappear...

Excitement is a crossroad which runs in all directions. No man lacks personality; he just never connected with you at the intersection.

If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible

Too many people talk about the weather, and not enough people talk about agriculture. When somebody says to me, “Beautiful weather we’re having,” I always reply, “Irrigation and crop rotation.

We’re distant cousins. He’s my first cousin, but he’s 5,000 miles away. And he doesn’t talk much.

It was as if my whole life revolved around trying to judge the appropriate point in a conversation to say goodbye

If you don’t forgive those who have hurt you, you give them power of you. When you forgive you are in control of yourself and emotions.

The duke understood the danger in having an important conversation too often in one’s head before having it with the intended party.

As of last week, in the last conversation I had with anybody involved in the case, Wayne was not a person of interest.

The art of conversation is the art of hearing as well as of being heard.

Moreover it is easier, in the informality of conversation, to achieve that excitement and incoherence which is the true eloquence of love.

Watch your whole conversation your end result will be your choice. We have a free will to decide what our future destiny will in-tell. Bryan Guras

I’m attracted to guys who are really confident and make conversation.

As far as I am concerned, philosophic questioning is just as likely to make you confused and depressed as it is to improve your condition.

Cut to the chase.” When I’m exasperated with all the verbal running around and skirting the issue, the last thing I want is more chasing. Let’s cut to the caught.

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.