Top 560 Conversation Quotes

When Richard Pryor did comedy, it was like he was having a conversation.

Comedy should be a source of positivity. I don’t want to bully people, and I don’t want people to come to my show to feel terrible about something. So I’m actually very open to having a conversation about what I should or shouldn’t say.

I feel like my first conversation with someone, I really get a good feeling about who that person is and mainly about how open they are.

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

The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression.

My wife is completely different from me: she’s good with everyone, whereas I’m good at directed conversation when I have a purpose for it, like now. If everyone’s sitting around being social, I’m not great.

Courage and willingness to just go for it, whether it is a conversation or a spontaneous trip or trying new things that are scary – it is a really attractive quality.

It’s very important to respect the conversation between a priest and the members of their flock.

Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds and business. Hence come those frequent absences, so observable in conversation; for whilst the body is confined to present company, the mind is flown to that which it delights in.

Although I’m not fluent in sign language by a long way, I could have a fairly decent conversation.

I was a foggy, erratic teenager: a fifth child, the last in the queue for conversation or attention.

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

Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation.

There’s no reason why I can’t be a mogul. When I step into a room and I’m there to have a conversation, if it pertains to business, I want to be respected as a guy who knows what he’s talking about. And that, to me, holds more weight than anything else.

The critical importance of honest journalism and a free flowing, respectful national conversation needs to be had in our country. But it is being buried as collateral damage in a war whose battles include political correctness and ideological orthodoxy.

I think of my own work as part of a decades-long conversation about books and reading with people I will mainly never meet.

Immediately after the San Bernardino shooting, when it was unclear whether Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik were motivated by a terroristic ideology, the focus of the conversation was on gun laws.

It is all right to hold a conversation but you should let go of it now and then.

My mother certainly never altered the topics of her conversation based on children being present.

You’re in the public eye and you just hope that people don’t come up and interrupt you while your in the middle of a meal or a conversation or something like that.

It’s hard to tell what is even mainstream anymore because there’s so many platforms now. And they’re all topics of conversation.

Let’s restore sanity and fairness to the tax cut conversation. We simply cannot afford to hand over the bank vault to our nation’s millionaires and billionaires while the middle class picks up spare change.

Men have just come up to me and asked for my number right away. That doesn’t work. You have to know somebody and have a conversation.

I think it’s been the topic of conversation for every one… If the U.S. is hit again, how are we going to handle it? Our troops are all over the place.

I really think that in the media world that we live in now, especially for writers, it has to be a conversation. With very few exceptions, it can’t be this one-way, ‘Here I am on the mountaintop preaching to all of you great unwashed readers in hopes of saving you.’ It doesn’t work that way.

I am a partisan for conversation. To make room for it, I see some first, deliberate steps. At home, we can create sacred spaces: the kitchen, the dining room. We can make our cars ‘device-free zones.’ We can demonstrate the value of conversation to our children. And we can do the same thing at work.

There is something about the South that accepts the supernatural. If you don’t accept it and you’re having a conversation with someone who does, it’s just one of those polite things where you don’t question their belief in ghosts. You just go, ‘Oh, yeah, okay.’ It’s amazing to be able to have conversations like that.

It used to be that you commit to something, and then basically you spend your year doing that. Now there’s a constant conversation of how you have to keep working in order to remind people that you’re around.

Jazz vision is a wordless conversation between musical notes and visual expressions.

We’re trying to create one holistic beauty experience where you can be inspired by other women, both the people we’re interviewing and the community contributing to the conversation.

It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought.

Donald Trump is a champion of women. He recognizes that we add to the conversation, and that certainly something as Republican Party chair I’m going to be reaching out to women all across this country.

I’m trying to make the readers feel as if he or she is right there in the conversation, and so I don’t try to manipulate it too much.

What Richard and Mildred Loving did was, by their nature, not by any calculus, they separated themselves from the political conversation. They did not have an agenda. They did not want to be martyrs. They did not want to be symbols of a movement.

When music is allowed to take the place of devotion and prayer, it is a terrible curse. Young people assemble together to sing, and, although professed Christians, frequently dishonor God and their faith by their frivolous conversation and their choice of music.

Beauty has always been an element of discussion for black women, whether or not we were the ones having the conversation.

There are always those ‘Gossip Girl’ walk-and-talk scenes where you’re walking and just talking about life and death. You’re having a serious conversation, looking someone in the eye, but everywhere around you, it’s literally a circus.

Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.

The Buddha over and over again spoke clearly and definitely on post-mortem states – as in his conversation with Vasetta.

Four out of five HSN corporate officers are women. I’m a believer that a diversity of mindset enables us to have an engaged conversation.

I learned firsthand that there would simply be no wars if people engaged in real conversation.

I started a lecture series that was inspired by my reporting on race in America. The ‘Black in America’ series launched on CNN in 2007 as an opportunity to freshen the national conversation on race.

Man, he could sell. As he liked to say, he lived at the intersection of technology and liberal arts. But there was a more personal side of Steve Jobs, of course, and I was fortunate enough to see a bit of it because I spent hours in conversation with him over the 14 years he ran Apple.

I didn’t get into film to win Academy Awards. I wanted to have a conversation with the audience.

Don’t knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn’t start a conversation if it didn’t change once in a while.

I think laughter and stimulating conversation are the things that truly make a romantic evening.

A novel is a conversation starter, and if the author isn’t there for the after-party, both the writer and the reader are missing a lot.

I had a great conversation with Tom Waits, of all people.

This is what I have discovered – and it has been a gift in itself – that books live over and over again in different people’s minds. That I might mean one thing as I write, but a reader’s experiences will take it somewhere else. That is like a conversation, I think. It is a true connecting up.

When I get economic development calls from business leaders who are considering relocating or expanding in Arkansas, the abilities of our workforce are always a critical part of the conversation.

Pretty much every weekend, my wife and I have the shall-we-live-in-the-country conversation. I suppose it’s something to do with getting older and feeling I want to shed some of the things I’ve been doing for the last 20 years and go back to my roots.

The best way for women to acquire knowledge is from conversation with a father, a brother, or a friend, in the way of family intercourse and easy conversation, and by such a course of reading as they may recommend.

If you’re trying to write about what the Chinese people are talking about, you can sometimes get a distorted picture if you go online and look at the conversation on social media.

My accent remained terrible. It was very hard for me to initiate any conversation with someone I didn’t know.

One thing that really bothers me is when a young black person speaks or leads a conversation, and afterward a white person says, ‘You’re really articulate.’