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Conversation Quotes

Talk worth having, and talk worth protecting.

One line here questions why private conversation was never explicitly protected in the Constitution, while another simply prefers talk that stays easy rather than turning into a battle of opinions. See Communication quotes for related lines.

'Into The Gloss,' what I think it did so well was create a conversation around beauty and make beauty the main event as opposed to the ugly step-sister, which it often is in magazines.

Quotes by Emily Weiss

Ideal conversation must be an exchange of thought, and not, as many of those who worry most about their shortcomings believe, an eloquent exhibition of wit or oratory.

Quotes by Emily Post

As my marriage was slowly dissolving into silent meals and awkward nights of avoiding conversation, I started pondering an unmarried future and wondered if I'd ever be able to hack being single again.

Quotes by Emily V. Gordon

I'm definitely a people person. I love socializing and being around people and having a good conversation.

Quotes by Emily Deschanel

A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech.

Quotes by Emil Cioran

With code, what it means is what it does. It doesn't express, not really. It's a very bounded conversation. And writing is not bounded. That's what's hard about it.

Quotes by Ellen Ullman

I have been the person who tries to keep conversation light while talking to someone whose heart has been smashed.

Quotes by Elizabeth McCracken

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.

Quotes by Elizabeth Olsen

Travel, instead of broadening the mind, often merely lengthens the conversation.

Quotes by Elizabeth Drew

Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation.

Quotes by Elizabeth Drew

I think it's really easy to approach a touchy subject head-on, but 'Sharp Objects' does it in a way that's subtle and it presents mental illness as something quite common and normalized. It's so common and shouldn't be a conversation...

Quotes by Eliza Scanlen

I feel like my first conversation with someone, I really get a good feeling about who that person is and mainly about how open they are.

Quotes by Elisabeth Shue

I'm very shy and awkward; I can't have a normal conversation, and then people think I'm being a bit rude, but really I'm not.

Quotes by Eliot Sumner

The prisoners for better security against conversation shall have a canvas bag put over the head of each and tied around the neck, with a holes for proper breathing and eating, but not seeing.

Quotes by Edwin M. Stanton

It's no use imagining that bringing great writers together inevitably precipitates great conversation.

Quotes by Edward St Aubyn

I think a lot of people in their average day actually imagine two sides of a conversation at one point or another. I think that the mental trick of holding two sides of a conversation in your head is actually...

Quotes by Edward Norton

We're in a situation where the solutions that we have are not good enough. The way to improve anything is to have a discussion about its flaws. To understand what the one or two or three things are about it...

Quotes by Edward Felten

The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it.

Quotes by Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius.

Quotes by Edward Gibbon

I wish my artwork could persuade millions of people to join a global conversation about sustainability.

Quotes by Edward Burtynsky

Frequently Asked Questions

What angle do these "Conversation" quotes take?
A few different ones — privacy and free speech, the etiquette of public life, what makes a conversation worthwhile, and even a specific film called "The Conversation."
Is there a quote about privacy rights and conversation?
Yes: "No right of private conversation was enumerated in the Constitution. I suppose it never occurred to anyone at the time that it could be prevented." It's a legal/historical observation about how privacy wasn't explicitly spelled out.
What does the quote about debate say?
"There is no fun in getting into a debate or a contest of wills. If something important comes out of the conversation, okay. If not, that's okay, too." It treats conversation as something that doesn't need to be won.
Is there a quote about being interrupted in public?
One describes the discomfort of fame this way: being in "the public eye" and hoping "that people don't come up and interrupt you while your in the middle of a meal or a conversation."
Is there a film-related quote here?
Yes — a filmmaker discusses re-mastering "'The Conversation'" for DVD, calling it "the first film I edited on a flatbed machine." Dialogue quotes is a related page if you want more on spoken exchange specifically.

There's also a filmmaking memory tied to editing 'The Conversation' on an old-school editing bay, alongside the everyday frustration of being interrupted mid-meal or mid-talk in public. Browse Conversations quotes and Converse quotes for more.