Conversation quotes

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First rule. No conversation lasts longer than 100 total words.

- Ron Swanson

During the course of the seven years I played scenes with an oil slick, I played a scene with a grain of rice. Sometimes with indescribable creatures. I remember having a conversation with something which was simply a smell, that's all. It was part of our job.

- Patrick Stewart

There are those moments when you shake someone's hand, have a conversation with someone, and suddenly your all bound together because you share your humanity in one simple moment.

- Ralph Fiennes

Logic and fact keep interfering with the easy flow of conversation.

- Mason Cooley

I just use my muscles as a conversation piece, like someone walking a cheetah down 42nd Street.

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

If you ever have to support a flagging conversation, introduce the topic of eating.

- Leigh Hunt

You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.

- Plato

There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all.

- Rebecca West

Conversation didn't seem necessary when I put the accordion down and swung some young lady around the floor.

- Lawrence Welk

The primary use of conversation is to satisfy the impulse to talk.

- George Santayana

By definition, gay is smart. I see plenty of macho heterosexual idiots, but nine times out of 10 you can have a great conversation if you find a gay guy.

- Jason Bateman

I haven't heard from Bobby since May when we had our conversation, but then this thing broke last week, where they arrested him, and we were watching what was going on on the whole deal, and I was actually flabbergasted, at what the then police chief Parks was saying.

- Tommy Bond

On our watch, the conversation with a would-be suicide bomber will not begin with the words, 'You have the right to remain silent.'

- Mitt Romney

What students lack in school is an intellectual relationship or conversation with the teacher.

- William Glasser

Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times because they had nobody to talk about.

- Agnes Repplier

What is reading, but silent conversation.

- Charles Lamb

A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.

- Truman Capote

A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.

- Rainer Maria Rilke

I never initiated nor did the FBI ever initiate any conversation or correspondence with me.

- John Sherman Cooper

What frightens us most in a madman is his sane conversation.

- Anatole France

It's like breathing in and out to me. It's like having a conversation with someone who isn't there. Because it has to be addressed to somebody - not a particular person, or very rarely.

- Norman MacCaig

If you are ever at a loss to support a flagging conversation, introduce the subject of eating.

- Leigh Hunt

The dining room in my old house was truly magnificent, but by far the worst room for conversation. I'd get up from the table, a very long table, and somebody would always say, Paul, I never got to talk to you.

- Paul Lynde

I painted one dining room red and I must say, the conversation became very heated in that room.

- Amanda Pays

One of Brando's problems is that he can't have a conversation with anyone.

- Peter Bart

Eating without conversation is only stoking.

- Marcelene Cox

These charges that have been made against me, that Prof. Prescott has made, has charged against me, that I denied the atonement in conversation with him, are absolutely false.

- John Harvey Kellogg

Shortly after we arrived in Baghdad, we had another conversation with the ambassador. He said that he wanted us to give him the timeline, because we had 90 days to get these prisons operational and transfer responsibility back to the Iraqis.

- Janis Karpinski

For my own part I think no innocent species of wit or pleasantry should be suppressed: and that a good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation.

- James Boswell

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

- Marcus Tullius Cicero