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Letter "C" » Conversation
«Men are capable of talking hours on end over only one subject, women do it and don?t even require a subject.»
Author: Curt Goetz
| About:
Conversation
«Men view discussion as the art of trying to keep their wives quiet, women see it as the art of preventing their husbands from ever speaking.»
Author: Fritz Eckhardt
| About:
Conversation
«There is no such thing as a worthless conversation, provided you know what to listen for. And questions are the breath of life for a conversation.»
Author: James Nathan Miller
| About:
Conversation,
Questioning
| Keywords:
breath, conversation, provided, worthless
«The lower one speaks the closer a woman listens.»
«Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of witnesses»
«New York is a city of conversations overheard, of people at the next restaurant table (micrometers away) checking your watch, of people reading the stories in your newspaper on the subway train.»
Author: William E. Geist
| About:
America and Americans,
Conversation
| Keywords:
checking, City of New York, conversations, newspaper, overhear, overheard, overhears, restaurant, subway, subway train
«One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid»
Author: Jonathan Swift
(Author, Satirist)
| About:
Conversation
| Keywords:
reasonably, unsaid, unsay
«Tallulah was sitting in a group of people, giving the monologue she always thought was conversation.»
Author: Lillian Hellman
(Playwright)
| About:
Conversation
| Keywords:
group of people, monologue, monologues
«Polite conversation is rarely either.»
«Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Conversation,
Questioning
| Keywords:
gentlemen, mode, questioning
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