The topic of weather isn’t small talk, when you’re conversing with a meteorologist.

[M]rs. Miniver was beginning to feel more than a little weary of exchanging ideas (especially political ones) and of hearing other people exchange theirs. It’s all very well, she reflected, when the ideas have had...

Weird people don’t care if they’re weird. They are the most entertaining to converse with because nothing is off-limits.

We are here to celebrate Black Sabbath tonight a decade or so late, but that’s another conversation, another argument.

Past conversations were slowly realigning in Blue’s head, taking on new shades of meaning as they did.

The bulk of our conversation is at the dinner table.

I like people who can keep the conversation going no matter how random the topic gets.

Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for competitors.

Communication is the one class no one graduates from. Even the wisest man’s words will be misinterpreted by a fool.

Sometimes I hesitate to use the term sexual abuse. It conjures up worst-case scenarios in our minds, and we think, “That will never happen to my kids.” And we never begin the conversation regarding sexual...

I had a dream about you, You were peeing behind a house and when I approached you, you smiled and said to me “Your face makes me happy” I was so flattered by your words...

Imagine going to work every day to do only and exactly what you love!! All the work gets done because of the abundant diversity of your team. Different skills, interests and talents are woven together...

Good Morning!” said Bilbo, and he meant it. The sun was shining, and the grass was very green. But Gandalf looked at him from under long bushy eyebrows that stuck out further than the brim...

There’s always something to talk about, even if you talk about how there is nothing to talk about. Of course, I’m talking about love.

I had a dream about you. The lettuce in my sandwich was crunchier than your conversation, and all I could hear when you spoke was myself chewing. You made such a tasty conversation that I...

You gotta run more than your mouth to escape the treadmill of mediocrity. A true hustler jogs during the day, and sleepwalks at night.

They were learning that New York had another life, too — subterranean, like almost everything that was human in the city — a life of writers meeting in restaurants at lunchtime or in coffee houses...

A good conversation always involves a certain amount of complaining. I like to bond over mutual hatreds and petty grievances.

He was through with this conversation. As a rule, they tended to avoid questions like “How sane are we?” and “Do our lives have meaning?” The need for avoidance was acute and apparent to both...

I’ve been waiting to have this conversation for years.

I find that often simple words say all that needs to be said in less time, using less energy, with all the details wanted- fully in tact. Love it.

I’ll just miss talking to him. He was such a good teacher in everything. No matter what the conversation was about, he was always teaching me. I just loved talking to him. I can’t begin...

Thomas’s mistake, like most of the behavior he leaked into the world, had been avoidable: to join another human being in a situation that virtually demanded unscripted, spontaneous conversation, and thus to risk total moral...

I like the way you secretly send me a direct message when we’re in the middle of a conversation.

You have to wait together – for a week, for a year, for a lifetime, before the final intimate conversation may be attained … and exhausted. So that … That in effect was love.

He strains his conversation through a cigar.

Dad.

This was the first conversation, we will hold further meetings.

I talked to him on Christmas, and again on March 5th. Neither one of us hung up the phone that whole time.

An artist’s work is one long conversation with life.

My last conversation was awhile back and was really about our heritage, trying to figure out where we came from and what we did,

I don’t believe that.” She seems like suck a force,this reasonable girl who kills with a turn of her fingers. She would have left all this behind, if she had the chance. “I honestly don’t...

And just so you know for the future, I like my double-chocolate chipcookies warm and soft in the middle . . . and without magnets glued to them.

[Reunion] was so loud you couldn’t even speak. [Saturday], during free throws you didn’t want to have a conversation or chew your popcorn because everybody next to you could hear it. This is a beautiful...

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.