I tried to use the questions and answers as an armature on which to build a sculpture of genuine conversation.
Clifton Fadiman

I wanted when we began this to have a conversation, the kind that you're able to have, and the only way I knew how to do it was not to have a pre-interview.
James Lipton

I wish you would read a little poetry sometimes. Your ignorance cramps my conversation.
Anthony Hope

I'm attracted to guys who are really confident and make conversation.
Britney Spears

I'm having this conversation with you now. I'm talking, but I'm thinking, feeling, smelling, and moving. Yet I'm concentrating on what you're saying. So that means there's more things going on in the body than just the present thing that the person's got you doing.
Ornette Coleman

I'm smart and I can be really funny and interesting and I can go toe-to-toe with anybody in a conversation.
Megan Fox

I've been in a serious conversation with one of my children, and a fan has come up. I've been in a public bathroom and had the hand come under the stall with a paper and pen. That sort of thing anybody can live without.
Helen Reddy

I've found that if I say what I'm really thinking and feeling, people are more likely to say what they really think and feel. The conversation becomes a real conversation.
Carol Gilligan

I've got to go. That's one of the penalties of being a doctor. I never seem to finish a conversation.
Robert M. Fresco

I've literally, in my entire life I've had two guys come up to me and ask me out. Other than that I have had to go and try to like spend time with them, or sort of start the conversation, basically like spell it out in a Sharpie, like, you know?
Jennifer Love Hewitt

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.
Emily Post

If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
James Whistler

If you are ever at a loss to support a flagging conversation, introduce the subject of eating.
Leigh Hunt

If you begin a conversation about potato salad and find yourself being called a castrating bitch, don't waste your time going around and around about this with your girlfriends, trying to figure out what happened.
Merrill Markoe

If you ever have to support a flagging conversation, introduce the topic of eating.
Leigh Hunt

If you go out to dinner with someone, you find out what they prefer in food. We ought to be able to have a conversation to find out what people prefer when it comes to sex.
Betty Dodson

If you spend any time in Los Angeles, there's only one topic of conversation.
Alan Rickman

If you're interested in how people behave, if you're interested in the way they talk about themselves, the way the conceive of themselves, it's very hard to ignore drugs nowadays, because that is so much part of the conversation.
Jonathan Franzen

In America journalism is apt to be regarded as an extension of history: in Britain, as an extension of conversation.
Anthony Sampson

In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.
George Herbert