Quotes about Conversation
So here's a question for you. How old did you say you were?' Alice made a short calculation, and said 'Seven years and six months.' 'Wrong!' Humpty Dumpty exclaimed triumphantly. 'You never said a word like it!' 'I though you meant How old ARE you?' Alice explained. 'If I'd meant that, I'd have said it,' said Humpty Dumpty. Alice didn't want
- Lewis Carroll
can't explain it,' said the Gryphon hastily. 'Go on with the next verse.' 'But about his toes?' the Mock Turtle persisted. 'How could he turn them out with his nose, you know?' 'It's the first position in dancing.' Alice said; but was dreadfully puzzled by the whole thing, and longed to change the subject. 'Go on with the next verse,' the
- Lewis Carroll
Spiritual people are not those who engage in certain spiritual practices; they are those who draw their life from a conversational relationship with God.
- Dallas Willard
Prayer is a friendly conversation with the One we know loves us.
- Teresa of Avila
You might think of praying without ceasing as communicating with God on one line while also taking calls on another. Even while you are talking on the other line, you never lose your awareness of the need to return your attention to the Lord. So praying without ceasing means you never really stop conversing with God; you simply have frequent interruptions.
- Donald Whitney
God is eavesdropping on us, waiting for us to speak a few words to Him.
- Dutch Sheets
The best of life is conversation, and the greatest success is confidence, or perfect understanding between sincere people.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I hate dainty minds,' answered Marjorie. 'But a girl has to be dainty in person. If she looks like a million dollars she can talk about Russia, ping-pong, or the League of Nations and get away with it.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
They talked aimlessly back and forth, each speaking for the other.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
I returned rather feebly to the subject of her daughter. 'I suppose she talks, she eats, and everything.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
They were all tall and slender with heads groomed like manikins' heads, and as they talked the heads waved gracefully above their dark tailored suits, rather like long-stemmed flowers and rather like cobras' hoods.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
She could make fascinating and almost brilliant conversation out of the thinnest air that ever floated through a drawing-room.
- F Scott Fitzgerald