Conversation proverbs

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◆ Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.

- Marquis de Sade99

◆ I figured I could get a job at a filling station somewhere, putting gas and oil in people's cars. I didn't care what kind of job it was, though. Just so people didn't know me and I didn't know anybody. I thought what I'd do was, I'd pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes. That way I wouldn't have to have any goddam stupid useless conversations with anybody. If anybody wanted to tell me something, they'd have to write it on a piece of paper and shove it over to me. They'd get bored as hell doing that after a while, and then I'd be through with having conversations for the rest of my life. Everybody'd think I was just a poor deaf-mute bastard and they'd leave me alone.

- J.D. Salinger99

◆ Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee and just as hard to sleep after.

- Anne Morrow Lindbergh99

◆ I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.

- Samuel Johnson99

◆ I'm not good at talking. Can't I just nod my way through a conversation? It's better than nodding off.

- Jarod Kintz99

◆ I don't know what he means by that, but I nod and smile at him. You'd be surprised at how far that response can get you in a conversation where you are completely confused.

- Jodi Picoult99

◆ The art of conversation is the art of hearing as well as of being heard.

- William Hazlitt99

◆ Clearly she was expected to say something, but panic at having to speak stole the thoughts from her head.

- Shannon Hale99

◆ Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speak by something outside himself-like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks.

- Jean Kerr99

◆ We talked for four hours. Well, I talked for four, and she listened for two.?

- Jarod Kintz99

◆ It's hard to hear over the racket of gunfire. Politicians want to talk about war, but the people want to talk about peace.

- Jarod Kintz99

◆ Conversation. What is it? A Mystery! It's the art of never seeming bored, of touching everything with interest, of pleasing with trifles, of being fascinating with nothing at all.

- Guy de Maupassant99

◆ Whenever I saw her, I felt like I had been living in another country, doing moderately well in another language, and then she showed up speaking English and suddenly I could speak with all the complexity and nuance that I hadn't realized was gone. With Lucy I was a native speaker.

- Ann Patchett99

◆ I talked to him on Christmas, and again on March 5th. Neither one of us hung up the phone that whole time. ?

- Jarod Kintz99

◆ I believe that words are strong, that they can overwhelm what we fear when fear seems more awful than life is good.

- Andrew Solomon99