Saying what we think gives a wider range of conversation than saying what we know.
Cullen Hightower

Sex is a conversation carried out by other means. If you get on well out of bed, half the problems of bed are solved.
Peter Ustinov

She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw

Shortly after we arrived in Baghdad, we had another conversation with the ambassador. He said that he wanted us to give him the timeline, because we had 90 days to get these prisons operational and transfer responsibility back to the Iraqis.
Janis Karpinski

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Sometimes I wish that I was the weather, you'd bring me up in conversation forever. And when it rained, I'd be the talk of the day.
John Mayer

Sometimes poetry is inspired by the conversation entered into by reading other poems.
John Barton

Ten years ago, it was really difficult for a young actress to walk onto a set and disagree with the director and having that be OK and have a conversation about it and everyone be cool with it.
Maggie Gyllenhaal

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
Winston Churchill

The biggest mistake is believing there is one right way to listen, to talk, to have a conversation - or a relationship.
Deborah Tannen

The desert has its holiness of silence, the crowd its holiness of conversation.
Walter Elliot

The dialogue between client and architect is about as intimate as any conversation you can have, because when you're talking about building a house, you're talking about dreams.
Robert A. M. Stern

The difficulty with this conversation is that it's very different from most of the ones I've had of late. Which, as I explained, have mostly been with trees.
Douglas Adams

The dining room in my old house was truly magnificent, but by far the worst room for conversation. I'd get up from the table, a very long table, and somebody would always say, Paul, I never got to talk to you.
Paul Lynde

The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.
William Temple

The great gift of conversation lies less in displaying it ourselves than in drawing it out of others. He who leaves your company pleased with himself and his own cleverness is perfectly well pleased with you.
Jean de la Bruyere

The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression.
Samuel Johnson

The most influential of all educational factors is the conversation in a child's home.
William Temple

The planned sit-down reception is an artificial forum where one is presented with a limited number of persons with whom he can hold a conversation.
Jerzy Kosinski

The primary use of conversation is to satisfy the impulse to talk.
George Santayana