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Conversation Quotes

Conversation is an art, which is why many people are just talkers but not good conversationalists. Conversation is the exchange of ideas, the flow of thoughts, where two or more people communicate as equals, walk through the conversation step-by-step. Conversation is not talking to people; rather it is talking to people, listening, and responding to what they say. The foundation of stimulating and effective conversation is questions, which are like a breath of fresh air preventing the conversation from flagging. For a hilarious and witty take on conversation, read the famous discussion quotations and sayings given below.

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.

Elizabeth Olsen

Movies are in a much longer production conversation before an actor is even involved. I always thought of actors as the last piece of the puzzle - so you're a tool.

George Bernard Shaw

I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.

Michel de Montaigne

There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.

Osama bin Laden

Even as you enter the fourth year after the Sept. 11 attacks, Bush is still misleading and deluding you and hiding the real reason from you.

Sir Thomas Browne

Forcible ways make not an end of evil, but leave hatred and malice behind them.

Anurag Kashyap

I'm a huge Coppola fan. But more of 'Apocalypse Now' and 'The Conversation.' 'The Godfather' for me is, like, number three or four on the list.

Susan Wojcicki

Girls are being left out of the conversation when it comes to technology, led to think of tech as insular and antisocial without ever being given a chance to correct those perceptions.

Nick Jonas

I flirted with Rihanna once. It didn't work - but it didn't not work. It didn't go anywhere, but it was a great conversation.

Christopher Morley

No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.

Mark Wahlberg

I like to talk to people. I've got one assistant, one Blackberry. That's my overhead. I don't text that much or email. I like to sit down face-to-face and have a conversation with you. I'm old-fashioned.

Alan Rickman

If you spend any time in Los Angeles, there's only one topic of conversation.

Winona Ryder

It's all about knowing when to listen to that conversation and - without sounding really hokey - when to tune it out and follow your heart.

Charles Lamb

What is reading, but silent conversation.

Laurence Sterne

Writing, when properly managed, (as you may be sure I think mine is) is but a different name for conversation.

Lawrence Peter Berra

It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

Billy Graham

Prayer is simply a two-way conversation between you and God.

Madonna Ciccone

I'm encouraging other people, whether they're professionals or not, to use their creativity to express themselves, to get a conversation going, to get the party started, really.

Helen Reddy

I've been in a serious conversation with one of my children, and a fan has come up. I've been in a public bathroom and had the hand come under the stall with a paper and pen. That sort of thing anybody can live without.

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Megan Fox

I'm smart and I can be really funny and interesting and I can go toe-to-toe with anybody in a conversation.

I think that just sitting down and having casual conversation is the hardest stuff to do. But the extremes? I know what it feels like to come racing around the corner at 90 miles an hour, sliding the car sideways. I know what gear I'm hitting it in when I'm coming around the corner and where I need to downshift. So to me, that's the fun stuff.

Mike Pence

I'm interested in continuing our conversation about the discomfiture I picked up in the mainstream media with one particular element of this debate. It was this discomfort with a law against adultery.

Stephen Curry

You know, I'm trying to chase rings, and that's all I'm about. So that's where the conversation stops for me.

Al Gore

There are many who would much prefer that the word 'climate' never be mentioned and that the issue be eliminated from our national conversation.

Anatole France

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

Brie Larson

I know how to have a conversation, but I've never done improv. I've never taken improv classes.

Ian Somerhalder

Species conversation is beyond a doubt an issue that truly matters to the American public.

Oscar Wilde

Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

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

Brad Pitt

I think someone's conversation, whether in e-mail or in person, should be private.

Kevin Smith

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

Britney Spears

I'm attracted to guys who are really confident and make conversation.

Florence Pugh

Someone asked if I wanted to be the first female Bond, and I was saying that I don't think we necessarily need that whole conversation.

Ben Affleck

I like roundtables because you can talk more directly to people. And you also can get kind of a vibe on what a journalist's take is on something, and have a conversation with them more.

Rita Rudner

I don't like when there's too much conversation because I'm shy and it makes me uncomfortable.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.

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Miguel de Cervantes

I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar.

George Santayana

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

Al Gore

The conversation on global warming has been stalled because a shrinking group of denialists fly into a rage when it's mentioned.

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Winona Ryder

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.

Michael J. Fox

Just as Parkinson's isn't a big topic of conversation in my house, neither is my career.

Samuel Johnson

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

Ron Howard

Don't make election popularity largely a matter of which candidate hires the most creative and effective propagandists. Insist that it be, instead, a running conversation with the public.

Sushant Singh Rajput

When I am not acting or performing, I want to keep quiet and not to have a conversation.

Jay-Z

It's hilarious a lot of times. You have a conversation with someone, and he's like, 'You speak so well!' I'm like, 'What do you mean? Do you understand that's an insult?

Jason Bateman

My father was a director and producer, so when I was a little kid, he would take me to movies and show me what's good and what's not good and why, and often that would take me to a conversation about directing.

Jonathan Groff

'Looking' is more than just a television show. It's contributing to the cultural conversation, and for me, those are the most exciting projects to be a part of.

Ron Howard

Imagine if the people who have lived and learned still had the vitality to act upon the hard learned lessons - and not just share in a conversation, but lead.

Megan Fox

I don't think men approach me for intellectual conversation.

Taylor Swift

If you're yelling you're the one who's lost control of the conversation.

Brie Larson

I found I could perform in front of 200 people, but I would still feel nervous having a one-on-one conversation.

A child can ask questions that a wise man cannot answer.