#conversation

Surely only boring people went in for conversations consisting of questions and answers. The art of true conversation consisted in the play of minds. ↗

— Ved Mehta

#art

He actually came up to me and we started speaking. And from that conversation we were able to come to a meeting of the minds and it seemed as if it was clear to me that he wanted to do similar things to what I wanted to do. ↗

— Maurice Ashley

#actually #came #clear #come #conversation

The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it. ↗

— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

#building #consists #conversation #man #observation

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#conversation #great #silence

A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#brings #conversation #dearly #essentials #how

I never initiated nor did the FBI ever initiate any conversation or correspondence with me. ↗

— John Sherman Cooper

#conversation #correspondence #did #ever #fbi

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. ↗

— Ben Elton

#collection #conversation #even #holding #natural

People seem to see no difference between an intimate conversation and a conversation at the water cooler. ↗

— Mike Farrell

#conversation #cooler #difference #intimate #people

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

#conversation #funny #go #i #i can

I don't think men approach me for intellectual conversation. ↗

— Megan Fox

#conversation #i #intellectual #me #men