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Conversation

I love those daring people who can keep a conversation going on, no matters how stupid or random. They just continue.

The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
- Dorothy Nevill

Anyone who thinks the art of conversation is dead ought to tell a child to go to bed.
- Robert C. Gallagher

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

I have a contract but it's not a commitment in the ordinary sense. It's our ongoing conversation.
- Diane Sawyer

A pas de deux is a dialogue of love. How can there be conversation if one partner is dumb?
- Rudolf Nureyev

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

I never knew any painter worthy of the name who paid the smallest attention to what a critic says, even in conversation.
- Robert Baldwin Ross

This is a time for a national conversation. A conversation about the document that binds us as a nation and a people. That document, of course, is the Constitution.
- Mike DeWine

Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
- Oscar Wilde

A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.
- Mark Twain

There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all.
- Rebecca West