These charges that have been made against me, that Prof. Prescott has made, has charged against me, that I denied the atonement in conversation with him, are absolutely false.
~By John Harvey Kellogg ~
The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has a sense that a catastrophe has occurred in the psychic landscape.
~By Leonard Cohen ~
Travel, instead of broadening the mind, often merely lengthens the conversation.
~By Elizabeth Drew ~
Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
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 primary use of conversation is to satisfy the impulse to talk.
~By George Santayana ~
One of Brando's problems is that he can't have a conversation with anyone.
~By Peter Bart ~
Saying what we think gives a wider range of conversation than saying what we know.
~By Cullen Hightower ~
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 ~
Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good plays, good company, good conversation - what are they? They are the happiest people in the world.
~By William Lyon Phelps ~
For the past few years I have engaged in several inappropriate conversations conducted over Twitter, Facebook, e-mail and occasionally on the phone with women I have met online.
~By Anthony Weiner ~
I never had a single conversation about politics with Ross Perot in my life; still haven't.
~By James Stockdale ~
True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
~By Joseph Addison ~
A baby changes your dinner party conversation from politics to poops.
~By Maurice Johnstone ~
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 ~
Although there exist many thousand subjects for elegant conversation, there are persons who cannot meet a cripple without talking about feet.
~By Ernest Bramah ~
Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well.
~By Mark Haddon ~
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 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 ~
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 ~
The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.
~By Rene Descartes ~
Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.
~By O. Henry ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Lettuce is like conversation; it must be fresh and crisp, so sparkling that you scarcely notice the bitter in it.
~By Charles Dudley Warner ~
A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.
~By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ~
Sometimes poetry is inspired by the conversation entered into by reading other poems.
~By John Barton ~
Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times because they had nobody to talk about.
~By Agnes Repplier ~
Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
~By William Hazlitt ~
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 ~
A conversation goes sometimes into personal things and that's nicer. You look to each other and you have a different picture, you get into a relationship.
~By Maximilian Schell ~
I found it very difficult to explain to someone why you did a film. It's not like having a conversation.
~By Charlotte Gainsbourg ~
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 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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
The desert has its holiness of silence, the crowd its holiness of conversation.
~By Walter Elliot ~
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 ~
In Washington, DC, politics dominate even the most casual conversations.
~By Armstrong Williams ~
The planned sit-down reception is an artificial forum where one is presented with a limited number of persons with whom he can hold a conversation.
~By Jerzy Kosinski ~
If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
~By James Whistler ~
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 ~
Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while.
~By Kin Hubbard ~
It means that no matter what you write, be it a biography, an autobiography, a detective novel, or a conversation on the street, it all becomes fiction as soon as you write it down.
~By Guillermo Cabrera Infante ~
My mom has a good way of engaging me in a conversation about the choices I make, listening, being objective and open-minded, and respecting those choices so long as they don't put me in danger.
~By Casey Affleck ~
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 ~
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 ~
I tell my friends about my conversations with my father - conversations with an artist.
~By Ray Conniff ~
There's no conversation more boring than talking about what it's really like to live in Newport and how the show compares to the real thing. I just don't care.
~By Adam Brody ~
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 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 ~
What frightens us most in a madman is his sane conversation.
~By Anatole France ~
Polite conversation is rarely either.
~By Fran Lebowitz ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.
~By Christopher Morley ~
Writing, when properly managed, (as you may be sure I think mine is) is but a different name for conversation.
~By Laurence Sterne ~
My accent remained terrible. It was very hard for me to initiate any conversation with someone I didn't know.
~By Lawrence Welk ~
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 ~
What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming.
~By Edgar Degas ~
People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.
~By George Adam Smith ~
All serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy.
~By Ernest Dimnet ~
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 ~
Anyone who thinks the art of conversation is dead ought to tell a child to go to bed.
~By Robert C. Gallagher ~
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 ~
They're pretty particular about what they show. They certainly edit the scripts and have conversations with the writers about what they are and aren't willing to portray. But the writers and the network are pretty much on the same page.
~By James Denton ~
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 ~
There is one instance that we cite in the report where in one of the conversations a member of organized crime is talking to another member of organized crime and he suggests that Attorney General Kennedy should be murdered.
~By Louis Stokes ~
The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it.
~By Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton ~
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 ~
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 ~
It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought.
~By Agnes Repplier ~
Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.
~By H. L. Mencken ~
My knowledge of the state of President Roosevelt's health was derived entirely from conversations, from newspaper articles and from photographs.
~By David Bruce ~
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 ~
A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.
~By Truman Capote ~
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 ~
To conclude: good journalism is one of the models of good conversation and communication in the wider social context.
~By Rowan D. Williams ~
In America journalism is apt to be regarded as an extension of history: in Britain, as an extension of conversation.
~By Anthony Sampson ~
Eating without conversation is only stoking.
~By Marcelene Cox ~
Sometimes interviews are fun and good conversations, but stuff like photo shoots and appearances at places where you have to meet a lot of people - I was never really made for this kind of stuff.
~By Fiona Apple ~
I try to write conversationally; I try to write like people speak and put the emphasis on the right syllable.
~By Don Henley ~
I think that people are definitely interested in the idea that Joan has conversations with God.
~By Amber Tamblyn ~
My parents went crazy when they found out that I had gotten the part in Conversations With My Father! I'd never given acting a thought. They were proud of me and very encouraging.
~By David Krumholtz ~
Nicole will come up in conversations where it's in a part of the conversation. Or we may be somewhere and I would tell some story about their mother and I. You know, we always honor her birthday.
~By O. J. Simpson ~
I got to sit down with people who I admired, and have conversations with some of the greatest thinkers and artists and performers. It's a huge privilege for me to be a journalist.
~By James Daly ~
There are two things in ordinary conversation which ordinary people dislike - information and wit.
~By Stephen Leacock ~
I have a contract but it's not a commitment in the ordinary sense. It's our ongoing conversation.
~By Diane Sawyer ~
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 ~
My mother was a personal friend of God's. They had ongoing conversations.
~By Della Reese ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius.
~By Edward Gibbon ~
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 ~
Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.
~By Mark Twain ~
Debate is the death of conversation.
~By Kitty O'Neill Collins ~
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