Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.
~By William Wycherley ~
There are two things in ordinary conversation which ordinary people dislike - information and wit.
~By Stephen Leacock ~
I know it may seem surprising to people, but learning dialog that has a conversational flow to it is not that difficult.
~By Deidre Hall ~
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 ~
The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression.
~By Samuel Johnson ~
When you think you're listening to several conversations at once, they tell me, you may really simply be time sharing - that is, listening a little bit to this one, a little bit to that one.
~By Murray Gell Mann ~
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 cannot forget a conversation that I had with an elderly couple from the tribe. They asked me whether I would kill them after I had finished. When I asked them why they asked that, they replied, Because you white men always do!
~By Roland Joffe ~
I spend a good portion of my dinner-party conversation defending America because no matter what the political agenda, it's still a fantastic, amazing place.
~By Gwyneth Paltrow ~
I've literally, in my entire life I've had two guys come up to me and ask me out. Other than that I have had to go and try to like spend time with them, or sort of start the conversation, basically like spell it out in a Sharpie, like, you know?
~By Jennifer Love Hewitt ~
I deal with this spiritual issue every day - either shooting or processing or sorting or discussing or having conversations - I'm in constant contact with it.
~By Leonard Nimoy ~
Sometimes poetry is inspired by the conversation entered into by reading other poems.
~By John Barton ~
Polite conversation is rarely either.
~By Fran Lebowitz ~
Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
~By William Hazlitt ~
I try to write conversationally; I try to write like people speak and put the emphasis on the right syllable.
~By Don Henley ~
Say this for big league baseball - it is beyond any question the greatest conversation piece ever invented in America.
~By Bruce Catton ~
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 ~
Conversation like television set on honeymoon... unnecessary.
~By Peter Sellers ~
Well, my closest friends are still the ones that I went to school with, but it's nice to go to work, at the studios, and have people there that you're willing to talk to and have a good conversation with.
~By Tom Felton ~
Never had any mathematical conversations with anybody, because there was nobody else in my field.
~By Alonzo Church ~
Americans cannot realize how many chances for mental improvement they lose by their inveterate habit of keeping six conversations when there are twelve in the room.
~By Ernest Dimnet ~
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 ~
Forget all the bars and schmoozing and everybody checking out everybody else. My ideal date would be to park in a dark place, check out the stars, and have a great conversation. When all else fails, you can just make out.
~By Brooke Burke ~
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 ~
I am really driven, but my drive doesn't effect the conversations I have in my head about life, and my worries and fears and insecurities.
~By Zach Braff ~
She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.
~By George Bernard Shaw ~
The critical importance of honest journalism and a free flowing, respectful national conversation needs to be had in our country. But it is being buried as collateral damage in a war whose battles include political correctness and ideological orthodoxy.
~By Juan Williams ~
The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own.
~By Virginia Woolf ~
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 ~
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 ~
Love without conversation is impossible.
~By Mortimer Adler ~
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 ~
What is reading, but silent conversation.
~By Charles Lamb ~
A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.
~By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ~
The voice will guide you-will tell you what to do. In order to do that, you must be quite sensitive with the instrument and accept this daily conversation with your voice.
~By Cecilia Bartoli ~
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 ~
It's finding those nonsensical pieces of conversation that we all do all the time. We do all the time. When we're talking on the telephone, there are arguments with people who agree when they both think that they disagree.
~By Barry Levinson ~
I find it difficult to imagine an afterlife, such as Christians, or at any rate many religious people, conceive it, believing that the conversations with relatives and friends interrupted here on earth will be continued in the hereafter.
~By Edvard Munch ~
Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times because they had nobody to talk about.
~By Agnes Repplier ~
I don't think of myself as giving interviews. I just have conversations. That gets me in trouble.
~By Charles Barkley ~
For the novice runner, I'd say to give yourself at least 2 months of consistently running several times a week at a conversational pace before deciding whether you want to stick with it. Consistency is the most important aspect of training at this point.
~By Frank Shorter ~
I do not wish to hide my origins, nor do I seek to make it a subject of conversation. I am what I am.
~By Ryan Giggs ~
I've found that if I say what I'm really thinking and feeling, people are more likely to say what they really think and feel. The conversation becomes a real conversation.
~By Carol Gilligan ~
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 ~
I tell my friends about my conversations with my father - conversations with an artist.
~By Ray Conniff ~
And I find it very easy to memorize the scripts, which are so close to conversations my husband and I have.
~By Patricia Heaton ~
The great gift of conversation lies less in displaying it ourselves than in drawing it out of others. He who leaves your company pleased with himself and his own cleverness is perfectly well pleased with you.
~By Jean de la Bruyere ~
Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius.
~By Edward Gibbon ~
It is all right to hold a conversation but you should let go of it now and then.
~By Richard Armour ~
Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords - philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather.
~By Anna Jameson ~
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 ~
The difficulty with this conversation is that it's very different from most of the ones I've had of late. Which, as I explained, have mostly been with trees.
~By Douglas Adams ~
What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming.
~By Edgar Degas ~
To conclude: good journalism is one of the models of good conversation and communication in the wider social context.
~By Rowan D. Williams ~
When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.
~By Samuel Johnson ~
Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.
~By Andre Maurois ~
Tonight was a great opportunity to take on the political status quo that has given us trillion dollar deficits and put millions out of work. Our objective was to inject some common sense into the conversation among Republicans at a time when business-as-usual simply won't work.
~By Gary Johnson ~
I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar.
~By Miguel de Cervantes ~
The primary use of conversation is to satisfy the impulse to talk.
~By George Santayana ~
Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well.
~By Mark Haddon ~
Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
I'm attracted to guys who are really confident and make conversation.
~By Britney Spears ~
I mean, you go to the internet and you can see all these conversations and arguments that our fans have about our music and that's wonderful to know, that people would take the time to be that involved.
~By Alex Lifeson ~
No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation.
~By Fran Lebowitz ~
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 ~
If you start to catalog Hillary Clinton's positions between now and 2008, we're going to have a lot of conversations because there are a lot of places for her to go.
~By Gwen Ifill ~
My mother was a personal friend of God's. They had ongoing conversations.
~By Della Reese ~
My accent remained terrible. It was very hard for me to initiate any conversation with someone I didn't know.
~By Lawrence Welk ~
Body language is a very powerful tool. We had body language before we had speech, and apparently, 80% of what you understand in a conversation is read through the body, not the words.
~By Deborah Bull ~
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 ~
I'm having this conversation with you now. I'm talking, but I'm thinking, feeling, smelling, and moving. Yet I'm concentrating on what you're saying. So that means there's more things going on in the body than just the present thing that the person's got you doing.
~By Ornette Coleman ~
Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.
~By William Butler Yeats ~
If you ever have to support a flagging conversation, introduce the topic of eating.
~By Leigh Hunt ~
The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it.
~By Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton ~
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 ~
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 ~
Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.
~By O. Henry ~
I've never been to the websites. It's a lot healthier for me to keep out of the conversations about me.
~By Fiona Apple ~
I've got to go. That's one of the penalties of being a doctor. I never seem to finish a conversation.
~By Robert M. Fresco ~
A baby changes your dinner party conversation from politics to poops.
~By Maurice Johnstone ~
Prayer is simply a two-way conversation between you and God.
~By Billy Graham ~
We sat around on a hotel balcony with a bottle of wine and tried to figure out how you would go about blowing up a planet. That's the kind of conversations science fiction writers have when they get together. We don't talk about football or anything like that.
~By Kevin J. Anderson ~
If you are ever at a loss to support a flagging conversation, introduce the subject of eating.
~By Leigh Hunt ~
My knowledge of the state of President Roosevelt's health was derived entirely from conversations, from newspaper articles and from photographs.
~By David Bruce ~
A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.
~By Andre Maurois ~
A good conversationalist is not one who remembers what was said, but says what someone wants to remember.
~By John Mason Brown ~
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 ~
Through their play Barbara imagined their lives as adults. They used the dolls to reflect the adult world around them. They would sit and carry on conversations, making the dolls real people.
~By Ruth Handler ~
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 had a long conversation with Steve Carlton. He told me that on the days he pitched, he felt it was his responsibility to make everyone around him better, to lift his teammates. That's what I try to do.
~By Randy Johnson ~
Shortly after we arrived in Baghdad, we had another conversation with the ambassador. He said that he wanted us to give him the timeline, because we had 90 days to get these prisons operational and transfer responsibility back to the Iraqis.
~By Janis Karpinski ~
If Nixon is not forced to turn over tapes of his conversations with the ring of men who were conversing on their violations of the law, then liberty will soon be dead in this nation.
~By Earl Warren ~
If you spend any time in Los Angeles, there's only one topic of conversation.
~By Alan Rickman ~
Eating without conversation is only stoking.
~By Marcelene Cox ~
The biggest mistake is believing there is one right way to listen, to talk, to have a conversation - or a relationship.
~By Deborah Tannen ~
So here we are today with a new conversation. When University of Georgia plays Georgia Tech, it's uniform color versus skin color. We have - we've overcome that level of racial fear.
~By Jesse Jackson ~
Each person's life is lived as a series of conversations.
~By Deborah Tannen ~
You want people walking away from the conversation with some kernel of wisdom or some kind of impact.
~By Harry Dean Stanton ~
A good quartet is like a good conversation among friends interacting to each other's ideas.
~By Stan Getz ~
My perfect girl would be pretty mad, but one you can have a conversation with. No one can be too mad for me, the madder the better. I love a crazy chick!
~By Lee Ryan ~
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