870 Quotes About Conversation

I had a calm conversation with one of the protesters who approached me. I asked him to consider that yelling at people might result in them putting their guards up, increasing the tension, and in turn, people yelling back. It’s a cyclical deterioration where no one hears or understands one another. Anger and fear are the brothers that are born of this kind of relationship. I would say the same to those who yell back at the protesters.

Bored by the tedious and improving conversation of those who have neither the wit to exaggerate nor the genius to romance. Tired of the intelligent person whose reminiscences are always based upon memory, whose statements are invariably limited by probability, and who is at any time liable to be corroborated by the merest Philistine who happens to be present.Society sooner or later must return to its lost leader — the cultured and fascinating liar.

The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.

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

During a conversation, listening is as powerful as loving.

I once heard the word 'conversation'described as a progression of exchangesbut there is no progress hereso maybe I will instead compare thisto the bullet drop—the idea that if you shoota gun & drop a bullet from the same locationthey will hit the floor at the same time, hundreds of feet apart.("The Lover as a Dream")

Read, travel, talk to people, because if you only what's happened to you, you know nothing.

My doctor says I must not have any serious conversation after seven [o'clock]. It makes me talk in my sleep.

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 commercials.