I never initiated nor did the FBI ever initiate any conversation or correspondence with me.
~By John Sherman Cooper ~
And when I'm writing, I write a lot anyway. I might write pages and pages of conversation between characters that don't necessarily end up in the book, or in the story I'm working on, because they're simply my way of getting to know the characters.
~By Norton Juster ~
Ask those who love Him with a sincere love, and they will tell you that they find no greater or prompter relief amid the troubles of their life than in loving conversation with their Divine Friend.
~By Alphonsus Liguori ~
The dialogue between client and architect is about as intimate as any conversation you can have, because when you're talking about building a house, you're talking about dreams.
~By Robert A. M. Stern ~
I grew up in a house full of women: my mother, grandmother, three sisters, and two female cats. And I still have the buzz of their conversations in my head. As an adult, I have more female friends than male ones: I just love the way that women talk.
~By James Patterson ~
I never knew any painter worthy of the name who paid the smallest attention to what a critic says, even in conversation.
~By Robert Baldwin Ross ~
I consider myself a religious person. God is something very personal with me and I don't flaunt religion in conversation with others.
~By Richard Chamberlain ~
Much of what happens in Love Always is really from overheard conversations in the Russian Tea Room. It's an improvisation of the way certain Hollywood agents think and talk to each other.
~By Ann Beattie ~
The more one listens to ordinary conversations the more apparent it becomes that the reasoning faculties of the brain take little part in the direction of the vocal organs.
~By Edgar Rice Burroghs ~
If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
~By James Whistler ~
In America journalism is apt to be regarded as an extension of history: in Britain, as an extension of conversation.
~By Anthony Sampson ~
There's times when you're having dinner with a good friend and you're in the middle of a conversation and somebody comes up and cuts you off. Can you sign this? Can I take a picture with you? I'm adjusting to all the attention.
~By Verne Troyer ~
In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.
~By George Herbert ~
However, when the privilege depends solely on the broad, undifferentiated claim of public interest in the confidentiality of such conversations, a confrontation with other values arises.
~By Warren E. Burger ~
Two people in a conversation amount to four people talking. The four are what one person says, what he really wanted to say, what his listener heard, and what he thought he heard.
~By William Jennings Bryant ~
Faculty met, and after the usual business, some conversation was had about certain students being addicted to drinking, and it was reported that a citizen of the village had informed a member of the Faculty that there was a good deal of drinking this term among the students.
~By Daniel H. Hill ~
Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds and business. Hence come those frequent absences, so observable in conversation; for whilst the body is confined to present company, the mind is flown to that which it delights in.
~By Mary Astell ~
What I think we need to do to engage the American people in a conversation about entitlement reform is to have a bipartisan group of people who come together and put every solution on the table, every alternative on the table. And then we ought to engage in a long conversation with the American people so they understand the choices.
~By Carly Fiorina ~
It's my responsibility, and entirely my fault, Of course I regret it. It's the kind of locker-room conversation we all use, but as prime minister I shouldn't have used it.
~By Brian Mulroney ~
And one of our points of continuing conversation with our trading partners is the urgency of their taking steps to remove barriers to their improved growth performance.
~By John W. Snow ~
Polite conversation is rarely either.
~By Fran Lebowitz ~
Anyone who thinks the art of conversation is dead ought to tell a child to go to bed.
~By Robert C. Gallagher ~
Prior to being allowed to enter the profession, prospective teachers should be asked to talk with a group of friendly students for at least half an hour and be able to engage them in an interesting conversation about any subject the prospective teacher wants to talk about.
~By William Glasser ~
Conversation didn't seem necessary when I put the accordion down and swung some young lady around the floor.
~By Lawrence Welk ~
My table seats eight, so that's my maximum. Having a small number of guests is the only way to generate good conversation. Besides, your whole house doesn't get wrecked that way.
~By Paul Lynde ~
Love without conversation is impossible.
~By Mortimer Adler ~
Never had any mathematical conversations with anybody, because there was nobody else in my field.
~By Alonzo Church ~
All serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy.
~By Ernest Dimnet ~
It is all right to hold a conversation but you should let go of it now and then.
~By Richard Armour ~
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.
~By Francis Lockier ~
Writing, when properly managed, (as you may be sure I think mine is) is but a different name for conversation.
~By Laurence Sterne ~
What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming.
~By Edgar Degas ~
Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
~By Robert Louis Stevenson ~
Why are people saying it's too soon? Like the people on that flight, we need to agree about what to do about terrorism. And I think we need to have that conversation now.
~By Paul Greengrass ~
I met my wife through playing golf. She is French and couldn't speak English and I couldn't speak French, so there was little chance of us getting involved in any boring conversations - that's why we got married really quickly.
~By Sean Connery ~
A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.
~By Mark Twain ~
There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
~By Michel de Montaigne ~
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.
~By Ben Elton ~
I have not made any suggestions about climate change. This is more about blending or shifting the conversation about the environment versus the economy. It's just such an old, outdated conversation.
~By Jennifer Granholm ~
I don't think of myself as giving interviews. I just have conversations. That gets me in trouble.
~By Charles Barkley ~
You know what? It's a great conversation starter, right? You meet friends that way. Sometimes it's a good thing. And then other times, I guess, the person is just a little too... then you kind of like want to back away. It depends on the person, you know?
~By Alison Lohman ~
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.
~By James Nathan Miller ~
You're in the public eye and you just hope that people don't come up and interrupt you while your in the middle of a meal or a conversation or something like that.
~By Wayne Rogers ~
I mean, the trouble with some of the kind of relationship movies I've done, is there's only so many ways you can shoot a conversation. I was really tired of talking heads.
~By Lawrence Kasdan ~
The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
I have been further enlightened by the conversation and correspondence of some illustrious Italians, whom I would gladly name, were I not afraid of exposing them to danger.
~By Edmond About ~
His daughter returned from her boarding school, improved in fashionable airs and expert in manufacturing fashionable toys; but, in her conversation, he sought in vain for that refined and fertile mind which he had fondly expected.
~By Emma Willard ~
And I find it very easy to memorize the scripts, which are so close to conversations my husband and I have.
~By Patricia Heaton ~
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
~By George Bernard Shaw ~
The primary use of conversation is to satisfy the impulse to talk.
~By George Santayana ~
An artist carries on throughout his life a mysterious, uninterrupted conversation with his public.
~By Maurice Chevalier ~
Ten years ago, it was really difficult for a young actress to walk onto a set and disagree with the director and having that be OK and have a conversation about it and everyone be cool with it.
~By Maggie Gyllenhaal ~
For my own part I think no innocent species of wit or pleasantry should be suppressed: and that a good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation.
~By James Boswell ~
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.
~By Maurice Ashley ~
I cannot imagine any other country in the world where the opposition would seek, and the chief executive would allow, the dissemination of his most private and personal conversations with his staff, which, to be honest, do not exactly confer sainthood on anyone concerned.
~By Gerald R. Ford ~
You can pick out actors by the glazed look that comes into their eyes when the conversation wanders away from themselves.
~By Michael Wilding ~
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.
~By Mike DeWine ~
Most of my relationships were people in the business. Having said that, me and Tim don't really talk that much about work. He comes into my bit of the house every so often to vent but we don't really have very high, cultured conversations.
~By Helena Bonham Carter ~
And I always read the English translation and always have conversations with my translator, for example about the names. I always have to approve it.
~By Cornelia Funke ~
I listen like mad to any conversation taking place next to me just trying to hear why this is funny. Women's restrooms are especially great. I wash my hands twice waiting for people to come in and start talking.
~By Lynda Barry ~
If you're interested in how people behave, if you're interested in the way they talk about themselves, the way the conceive of themselves, it's very hard to ignore drugs nowadays, because that is so much part of the conversation.
~By Jonathan Franzen ~
After about 20 years of marriage, I'm finally starting to scratch the surface of what women want. And I think the answer lies somewhere between conversation and chocolate.
~By Mel Gibson ~
Lettuce is like conversation; it must be fresh and crisp, so sparkling that you scarcely notice the bitter in it.
~By Charles Dudley Warner ~
I do expect that the President will say something at the beginning of his remarks today, at the conversation.
~By Scott McClellan ~
It is commonly agreed that children spend more hours per year watching television than in the classroom, and far less in actual conversation with their parents.
~By Paul Weyrich ~
He who is silent must be agreed with, for what shall the wings of opposition thresh upon, without the winds of conversation to shoulder them.
~By Bryant H. McGill ~
Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
The way I write is that I'll actually have a conversation out loud with myself. In a weird way, I just kind of get schizophrenic and play two characters.
~By Zach Braff ~
There are those moments when you shake someone's hand, have a conversation with someone, and suddenly your all bound together because you share your humanity in one simple moment.
~By Ralph Fiennes ~
For most women, the language of conversation is primarily a language of rapport: a way of establishing connections and negotiating relationships.
~By Deborah Tannen ~
I think it's been the topic of conversation for every one... If the U.S. is hit again, how are we going to handle it? Our troops are all over the place.
~By Holly Johnson ~
I haven't heard from Bobby since May when we had our conversation, but then this thing broke last week, where they arrested him, and we were watching what was going on on the whole deal, and I was actually flabbergasted, at what the then police chief Parks was saying.
~By Tommy Bond ~
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.
~By George William Curtis ~
Well, you know, I think in conversations with members of the Senate and others, they all recognize that the issue of immigration is important. It's important to our nation, it's important to our public safety, it's important to our security, it's important to our economic well-being moving forward. And it's not something that's going to go away.
~By Janet Napolitano ~
No one has to learn to spell to talk, right? You see a little kid holding a conversation with an adult. He probably doesn't know the words he's saying, but he knows where to fit them to make what he's thinking logical to what you're saying.
~By Ornette Coleman ~
Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.
~By Mark Twain ~
Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine.
~By Amos Bronson Alcott ~
This is what I want in heaven... words to become notes and conversations to be symphonies.
~By Tina Turner ~
On our watch, the conversation with a would-be suicide bomber will not begin with the words, 'You have the right to remain silent.'
~By Mitt Romney ~
I'm smart and I can be really funny and interesting and I can go toe-to-toe with anybody in a conversation.
~By Megan Fox ~
Some of us may just, in one-on-one conversations with our family, with our friends, over the back fence with our neighbors, talk about the reality of our lives and realize that we're not alone, that we have a right to be physically safe and emotionally safe in our own homes.
~By Patricia Ireland ~
I think that people are definitely interested in the idea that Joan has conversations with God.
~By Amber Tamblyn ~
A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.
~By Rainer Maria Rilke ~
Saying what we think gives a wider range of conversation than saying what we know.
~By Cullen Hightower ~
A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.
~By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ~
If you go out to dinner with someone, you find out what they prefer in food. We ought to be able to have a conversation to find out what people prefer when it comes to sex.
~By Betty Dodson ~
I really don't like going out. I don't like restaurants because I don't like the idea of someone, a waitress, being responsible for my evening. I like seconds, and more, and lots of conversation, and I've always hated the idea that in a restaurant an evening just ends. I find that incredibly depressing.
~By Amy Sedaris ~
If you're doing an interview, you need conversational tension. After you talk to them, you're not going to have a relationship with them, they're not going to like you, they're not going to be your friend.
~By Chuck Klosterman ~
Each person's life is lived as a series of conversations.
~By Deborah Tannen ~
A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.
~By Henry Ward Beecher ~
Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.
~By O. Henry ~
In England only uneducated people show off their knowledge; nobody quotes Latin or Greek authors in the course of conversation, unless he has never read them.
~By George Mikes ~
People seem to see no difference between an intimate conversation and a conversation at the water cooler.
~By Mike Farrell ~
It's fun having songs about parties and gigolos, but I really wanted to use my music as a form of art. Art is supposed to spark conversation and make people think, and I wanted to do that with this song.
~By Nick Cannon ~
I demand for the unmarried mother, as a sacred channel of life, the same reverence and respect as for the married mother; for Maternity is a cosmic thing and once it has come to pass, our conversation must not be permitted to blaspheme it.
~By Ben Lindsey ~
People say conversation is a lost art; how often I have wished it were.
~By Edward R. Murrow ~
Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
I have a contract but it's not a commitment in the ordinary sense. It's our ongoing conversation.
~By Diane Sawyer ~
Those who wish well to the State ought to choose to places of trust men of inward principle, justified by exemplary conversation.
~By John Witherspoon ~
Ideal conversation must be an exchange of thought, and not, as many of those who worry most about their shortcomings believe, an eloquent exhibition of wit or oratory.
~By Emily Post ~
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