Quotes 81 till 100 of 148.
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More knowledge may be gained of a man's real character by a short conversation with one of his servants than from a formal and studied narrative, begun with his pedigree and ended with his funeral.
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My God! The English language is a form of communication! Conversation isn't just crossfire where you shoot and get shot at! Where you've got to duck for your life and aim to kill! Words aren't only bombs and bullets — no, they're little gifts, containing meanings!
Portnoy's Complaint (1969) -
No collection of people who are all waiting for the same thing are capable of holding a natural conversation. Even if the thing they are waiting for is only a taxi.
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No one is qualified to converse in public except those contented to do without such conversation.
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No one will ever shine in conversation, who thinks of saying fine things: to please, one must say many things indifferent, and many very bad.
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Nothing a man writes can please him as profoundly as something he does with his back, shoulders and hands. For writing is an artificial activity. It is a lonely and private substitute for conversation.
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Of all bad listeners, the worst and most terrible to encounter is the man who is so fond of listening that he wishes to hear, not only your conversation, but that of every other person in the room.
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On the broad spectrum of solitude, I lean toward the extreme end: I work alone, as well as live alone, so I can pass an entire day without uttering so much as a hello to another human being. Sometimes a day's conversation consists of only five words, uttered at the local Starbucks: 'Large coffee with milk, please.'
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One of the very best rules of conversation is to never, say anything which any of the company wish had been left unsaid.
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Only if we can restrain ourselves is conversation possible. Good talk rises upon much discipline.
The complete life (1943) -
Our companions please us less from the charms we find in their conversation than from those they find in ours.
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People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.
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People who make puns are like wanton boys that put coppers on the railroad tracks. They amuse themselves and other children, but their little trick may upset a freight train of conversation for the sake of a battered witticism.
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Periodically, at the end of a conversation, someone will ask me, 'Is there something I can do for you?' I used to answer with 'Do something that is helpful to something or someone in my world.'
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Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen.
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Romance like a ghost escapes touching; it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory.
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Say this much for big league baseball - it is beyond question the greatest conversation piece ever invented in America.
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Saying what we think gives a wider range of conversation than saying what we know.
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Sex is a conversation carried out by other means. If you get on well out of bed, half the problems of bed are solved.
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