Quotes about Conversation
Write like you talk. Often.
- Seth Godin
Lawyers know life practically. A bookish man should always have them to converse with.
- Samuel Johnson
I loved exceedingly to converse on religious subjects, indeed I took no pleasure in any worldly concerns, and found all worldly possessions vain.
- John Foxe
After all, I'd never met anyone who would just start praying over a glass of iced tea.
- Elizabeth Musser
It's puzzling work, talking is.
- George Eliot
he was a likable man: sweet-tempered, ready-witted, frank, without grins of suppressed bitterness or other conversational flavors which make half of us an affliction to our friends.
- George Eliot
It is important to learn to understand in a historical text, a text from the past, the living Word of God, that is, to enter into prayer and thus read Sacred Scripture as a conversation with God.
- Pope Benedict XVI
Lawyers know life practically. A bookish man should always have them to converse with.
- Samuel Johnson
That is the happiest conversation where there is no competition, no vanity, but a calm, quiet interchange of sentiments
- Samuel Johnson
You must have taken great pains, sir; you could not naturally been so very stupid.
- Samuel Johnson
I think if Jesus came for the first time, and he was 33 1/2 years old and hung out with these guys, where would he be? They'd probably be at a coffee bar getting a latte or something.
- Michael Smith
But don't you know that girls never think of what they are talking about, or rather never talk of what they are thinking about? And they have always ten times more to say to the man they don't care for, than to him they do.
- Maria Edgeworth