870 Quotes About Conversation

Literature is cake; conversation is bread.

A good conversationalist directs attention, inspires, corrects, affirms, and empowers others. It is a demanding vocation that involves attentiveness, skilled listening, awareness of one’s own interpretive frames, and a will to understand and discern what is true.

The low lintels of the cottage have many disadvantages, but they have one supreme advantage. They afford an immediate topic of conversation. They make things start, quite literally, with a bang.

But he didn't, it happened, know the Munsters well enough to give the case much of a lift; so that they were left together as if over the mere laid table of conversation.

When we converse, we act together toward a common end, and we act upon one another. Indeed, conversation is a form of activism - a political enterprise in the largest and oldest sense - a way of building sustaining community.

Every time I have a good talk with a woman, I fall in love with her.

A bear and a vending machine in a small room. Of course, if he doesn't start talking, we won't get anywhere.

She’s still thinking in diplo-speak, though, and asks a question rather than answering directly.

Talking with Urlick is like pulling rusty nails from tarred wood: both frustrating and laborious. It’s as though he’s allergic to conversation.