Conversation Quotes - page 6

The reading of all good books is indeed like a conversation with the noblest men of past centuries who were the authors of them, nay a carefully studied conversation, in which they reveal to us none but the best of their thoughts. (René Descartes)
A young man before he leaves the shelter of his father's house, and the guard of a tutor, should be fortify'd with resolution, and made acquainted with men, to secure his virtues, lest he should be led into some ruinous course, or fatal precipice, before he is sufficiently acquainted with the dangers of conversation, and his steadiness enough not to yield to every temptation. View quote
John Locke
I do not say this, that I think there should be no difference of opinions in conversation, nor opposition in men's discourses... 'Tis not the owning one's dissent from another, that I speak against, but the manner of doing it. View quote
John Locke
A novel is, hopefully, the starting point of a conversation, one in which the author engages readers and asks that they see things from a different point of view than they might otherwise. View quote
Anne Fortier
The conversation of bullets. View quote
Markus Zusak
Classics isn't about the ancient world. It's partly about the ancient world, but it's about our conversation. It's how we try to talk to antiquity. View quote
Mary Beard
And when I'm writing, I write a lot anyway. I might write pages and pages of conversation between characters that don't necessarily end up in the book, or in the story I'm working on, because they're simply my way of getting to know the characters. View quote
Norton Juster
Sometimes you have to disconnect to stay connected. Remember the old days when you had eye contact during a conversation? When everyone wasn't looking down at a device in their hands? We've become so focused on that tiny screen that we forget the big picture, the people right in front of us. View quote
Regina Brett
If you'd sat there any longer,' Annabeth said, 'you would have spontaneously combusted. I hope the conversation was worth it? View quote
Rick Riordan
So, destroy?" Cal asked. Clearly, the conversation was giving his two brain cells a serious workout. View quote
Rick Riordan
A pas de deux is a dialogue of love. How can there be conversation if one partner is dumb? (Rudolf Nureyev)
And it's not just a matter of you hurting me. I will hurt you too, even if I don't want to, I'm not the girl you think I am. And you will remember this conversation, and wish that you'd listened to me. View quote
Cinda Williams Chima
Well, my closest friends are still the ones that I went to school with, but it's nice to go to work, at the studios, and have people there that you're willing to talk to and have a good conversation with. View quote
Tom Felton
The brain was not built to walk into a bar, where you know nobody, and start a conversation. That's not the way humanity has courted. View quote
Helen Fisher
She always carried a book, though, in case she needed to read a few pages to avoid unwanted conversation. View quote
Charles Frazier
Once I was in a cafe in Portland and the woman at the next table and I began chatting and in the course of our conversation she strongly recommend I visit this web site called 'The Rumpus' so I could read this advice column called 'Dear Sugar.' It was so painful not to tell her that in fact I was Sugar, but I didn't. View quote
Cheryl Strayed
I found it very difficult to explain to someone why you did a film. It's not like having a conversation. View quote
Charlotte Gainsbourg
I can promise you books and conversation and all my heart. View quote
Gabrielle Zevin
It means that no matter what you write, be it a biography, an autobiography, a detective novel, or a conversation on the street, it all becomes fiction as soon as you write it down. View quote
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Often, as an interviewer, particularly when you're talking to highly visible people, celebrities, and it's known that negative things have happened, they don't want to talk about it, or you have to really work up to it. You have to carefully construct the conversation so that they feel open enough to discuss some of those things with you. View quote
Dave Itzkoff
I get really starstruck and tongue tied when I'm around other writers and the conversation tends not to go well. (Jennifer Weiner)
I don't know if you have noticed this, but it is quite possible for two human beings to have a conversation in which one or both parties involved has absolutely no idea what they're talking about. View quote
Jeff Lindsay
The television replaced the sound of conversation that was missing from my grandparents' lives. View quote
Jeffrey Eugenides
Whenever you read a book or have a conversation, the experience causes physical changes in your brain. It's a little frightening to think that every time you walk away from an encounter, your brain has been altered, sometimes permanently. View quote
George Johnson
We only really learn in conversation after sex. View quote
Judith Merril