(1522 quotes found)
“The difficulty with this conversation is that it's very different from most of the ones I've had of late. Which, as I explained, have mostly been with trees.”
Douglas Adams
“Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.”
Robert Louis Stevenson
“I just use my muscles as a conversation piece, like someone walking a cheetah down 42nd Street.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger
“One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid”
Jonathan Swift
“Little-minded people's thoughts move in such small circles that five minutes conversation gives you an arc long enough to determine their whole curve.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes
“Conversation"God and I in space alone . . .and nobody else in view . . ."And where are all the people,Oh Lord" I said, "the earth below and the sky overheadand the dead that I once knew?""That was a dream," God smiledand said: "The dream that seemed tobe true; there were no peopleliving or dead; there was no earth, and no sky overhead,there was only myself in you.""Why do I feel no fear?" I asked,"meeting you here in this way?For I have sinned, I know full welland is there heaven and is there hell,and is this Judgement Day?""Nay, those were but dreams" the Great God said, "dreams that have ceased to be.There are no such things as fear and sin;there is no you . . . you never have been.There is nothing at all but me.”
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
“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
“Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation”
Elizabeth Drew
“The dialogue between client and architect is about as intimate as any conversation you can have, because when you're talking about building a house, you're talking about dreams.”
Robert A. M. Stern
“There can be no situation in life in which the conversation of my dear sister will not administer some comfort to me.”
Mary Worley Montagu
