I don't know how to have casual conversation. You think you're talking about one thing, and either you are and it's incredibly boring, or you're not because it's subtext and you need a decoder ring. —Sir Anthony Hawkins More about this quote Tags: boredom conversation subtlety subtext Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There isn't much better in this life than finding a way to spend a few hours in conversation with people you respect and love. You have to carve this time out of your life because you aren't really living without it. —Gordon Atkinson More about this quote Tags: conversation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live. —Ralph Waldo Emerson More about this quote Tags: conversation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. —Plato More about this quote Tags: conversation play Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Conversation is food for the soul. —Mexican Proverb More about this quote Tags: conversation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid. —Jonathan Swift More about this quote Tags: conversation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Anecdotes and maxims are rich treasures to the man of the world, for he knows how to introduce the former at fit place in conversation. —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe More about this quote Tags: conversation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation. —George Bernard Shaw More about this quote Tags: conversation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
To listen closely and reply well is the highest perfection we are able to attain in the art of conversation. —Francois de La Rochefoucauld More about this quote Tags: conversation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Few are agreeable in conversation, because each thinks more of what he intends to say than of what others are saying, and listens no more when he himself has a chance to speak. —Francois de La Rochefoucauld More about this quote Tags: conversation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Education begins a gentleman, conversation completes him. —Dr. Thomas Fuller More about this quote Tags: conversation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment. —Dorothy Nevill More about this quote Tags: conversation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Each person's life is lived as a series of conversations. —Deborah Tannen More about this quote Tags: conversation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Saying what we think gives us a wider conversational range than saying what we know. —Cullen Hightower More about this quote Tags: conversation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience. —Bill Watterson More about this quote Tags: conversation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email