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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.

If I hear a conversation and somebody says something intriguing, my first thought is, 'Is that a song?' I write all year long, and at the end of the year I pull these forty or fifty things out and say...

Quotes by Toby Keith

The creative tension with spirituality vs. practicality in the world of politics is a vital conversation.

Quotes by Tim Daly

You can't have a conversation with someone who's intimidated by you all the time.

Quotes by Tila Tequila

The French have made conversation their claim to civilisation.

Quotes by Theodore Zeldin

We're all humans. Any human can tell any human's story. I don't want to have this conversation about black film or white film anymore. I wanna have conversations about film.

Quotes by Theodore Melfi

I, for myself, have wanted to get more into producing because I want to be a part of the conversation and be one of the voices in the story we're trying to tell.

Quotes by Teyonah Parris

One FBI agent told us early on that on Monday morning, they would get to the FBI office, and all the agents would talk about 'The Sopranos', having the same conversation about the show, but always from the flip side.

Quotes by Terence Winter

The silent thing onstage allows for a kind of intimacy that no conversation can have. If I just shut up, we're forced to look at each other and really confront that moment.

Quotes by Teller

Everything I ask is a question from Tamron, like it or not. My team does not write my questions. We put together a segment. We talk about the elements that I want, but we have a conversation for that hour...

Quotes by Tamron Hall

The conversation has become so divisive now on all types of immigration reform that it is really hard to move anything.

Quotes by Suzan DelBene

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

Quotes by Sushant Singh Rajput

I'm trying to make the readers feel as if he or she is right there in the conversation, and so I don't try to manipulate it too much.

Quotes by Susan Straight

Maybe it's impossible to spend time with Patrick Stewart and not have the conversation move to the extraterrestrial.

Quotes by Stephen Rodrick

There are two things in ordinary conversation which ordinary people dislike - information and wit.

Quotes by Stephen Leacock

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

Quotes by Stephen Curry

I would love to be nominated for an award at some point or do something that at least engenders the type of cultural conversation that a role like Giancarlo Esposito on 'Breaking Bad,' or actually any of the people on...

Quotes by Stephen Amell

I don't do albums for album sales. I just do it as a conversation piece and a business card.

Quotes by Statik Selektah

I went into a Beverly Hills shop to buy an attache case. They had 250 cases on their shelves. I asked an attractive saleswoman if they carried one made of belting leather. She said 'no.' That was the end of...

Quotes by Stanley Marcus

A good quartet is like a good conversation among friends interacting to each other's ideas.

Quotes by Stan Getz

As far as playing jazz, no other art form, other than conversation, can give the satisfaction of spontaneous interaction.

Quotes by Stan Getz

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.