Dumb.com >> Quotes >> Conversation Quotes
Conversation Quotes
This section contains Conversation Quotes


Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)

With thee conversing I forget all time: All seasons and their change, all please alike. (Quote by - John Milton)

Sir, you are dealing with conversations taken in an individual's private workplace, .. How would you like to have the conversations in your office recorded and broadcast to the world?. (Quote by - Jim Hall)

I've been with him in public; he's almost annoyingly nice. He'll sit there and hold a conversation with people that want to talk football. The next thing you know, they're talking baseball, they're talking, 'Where are you from?' That's just the kind of guy he is. Everywhere I go with him, he ends up holding an extended conversation with a stranger. (Quote by - Joey Galloway)

He and the clinic are working together to see how Eric can best save lives and best do his work as a doctor and a scientist. Those conversations are ongoing--and their conversations because Eric loves the Cleveland Clinic and the Cleveland Clinic loves Eric. He's not looking to get out of there even, he's trying to analyze his different options on what he wants to do in life. (Quote by - Mark Lanier)

We fully anticipate that those conversations will take place in the next two weeks. I would like to see us wrapped up on the budget no later than Friday, April 7. We can actually sit and have those conversations beginning Monday. (Quote by - Rep. Scott Raecker)

Sometimes the best conversation between two people is simply being with each other ..in silence. (Quote by - Lorrin L. Lee)

Men of great conversational powers almost universally practise a sort of lively sophistry and exaggeration which deceives for the moment both themselves and their auditors. (Quote by - Thomas Babington Macaulay)

I never, with important air, In conversation overbear. . . . . My tongue within my lips I rein; For who talks much must talk in vain. (Quote by - John Gay)

He and I have had conversations, and he's unsure at this point. We'll have another conversation. I told him I'll probably drop by to visit him and take a ride on his tractor at some point in the next month or so. But I don't have any immediate plans to do that because nothing is going to be decided in that conversation. (Quote by - Mike Sherman)

Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing. (Quote by - Robert Benchley)

For years, President Bush has denied knowing about conversations between his top aides and Washington reporters, conversations where his aides like Scooter Libby sought to justify the war in Iraq and discredit the White House's critics by leaking national security secrets. (Quote by - Harry Reid)

We did have a conversation last night when he told me, and as you can all imagine it was a difficult conversation from both parties. (Quote by - Lou Lamoriello)

Conversation is the laboratory and workshop of the student. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)

You'll hear people season their conversation with it, .. They won't just have a whole conversation in Cherokee - though some of our elders will - but other times, people will just throw in phrases in order to be able to express themselves the way they're thinking. (Quote by - Kay Henderson)

We are absolutely happy to have conversations with people about that (burying lines), however, we can all agree that it's appropriate for the customers who benefit from such a conversion to handle the expense. None of the communities we have talked with in the past about this have chosen to go forward with it. (Quote by - Paige Sheehan)

The techniques of opening conversation are universal. I knew long ago and rediscovered that the best way to attract attention, help, and conversation is to be lost. A man who seeing his mother starving to death on a path kicks her in the stomach to clear the way, will cheerfully devote several hours of his time giving wrong directions to a total stranger who claims to be lost. (Quote by - John Steinbeck)

There are some conversations that are undeniably improved when the rule going in is that you have to stand behind what you say and have to wear a name tag when you do it. But that's certainly not all conversations. People might be prepared to ethically stand behind what they say, but might be in a position that they can't afford to lose their house over it. Speech shouldn't just be for people with lawyers. (Quote by - Jonathan Zittrain)

The contract will make him the highest-paid athlete in the history of Converse. One of the things attractive about the Converse offer was, in addition to the financial aspect, he is going to be the face of this brand. (Quote by - Henry Thomas)

Conversion has been this way from the very beginning. As soon as one makes the declaration, he is a Muslim. Even if he does not have a conversion card, he is considered a convert already. (Quote by - Datuk Mohd Nakhaie Ahmad)

There was a serious conversation about stockpiling, a serious conversation about the additional costs, .. But in the end, there was a very strong feeling that .. we would not exclude student-athletes who have high academic achievement from receiving merit-based aid. (Quote by - Myles Brand)

We took sweet counsel together, and walked unto the house of God in company. (Quote by - Bible)

Conversation is a meeting of minds with different memories and habits. When minds meet, they don't just exchange facts: they transform them, reshape them, draw different implications from them, engage in new trains of thought. Conversation doesn't just reshuffle the cards: it creates new cards. (Quote by - Theodore Zeldin)

We set up a wiretapping operation in a flophouse where we listened to their conversations, which were in German, and then translated and recorded the conversations of the Nazi spies. (Quote by - John Orton)

Discourse, the sweeter banquet of the mind. (Quote by - Homer)

Pages:  1  2  3  4  5