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 ~
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 ~
Polite conversation is rarely either.
~By Fran Lebowitz ~
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 ~
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 ~
Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
I found it very difficult to explain to someone why you did a film. It's not like having a conversation.
~By Charlotte Gainsbourg ~
You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.
~By Plato ~
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 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 ~
All serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy.
~By Ernest Dimnet ~
The United States is a strong and ardent ally of Israel. The fact of the matter is that friends can disagree. I think what's important is that world leaders are able to sit down with one another, have frank conversations and move forward.
~By Valerie Jarrett ~
I tried to use the questions and answers as an armature on which to build a sculpture of genuine conversation.
~By Clifton Fadiman ~
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 ~
Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine.
~By Amos Bronson Alcott ~
Eating without conversation is only stoking.
~By Marcelene Cox ~
I think there's a natural chemistry between us as friends; and there's really no separation between the rapport that we feel when we're in conversation and when we're playing music, it's one in the same.
~By Benny Green ~
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 ~
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 ~
Beware of the man who will not engage in idle conversation; he is planning to steal your walking stick or water your stock.
~By William Emerson ~
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 ~
Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times because they had nobody to talk about.
~By Agnes Repplier ~
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 ~
The biggest mistake is believing there is one right way to listen, to talk, to have a conversation - or a relationship.
~By Deborah Tannen ~
A pas de deux is a dialogue of love. How can there be conversation if one partner is dumb?
~By Rudolf Nureyev ~
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 ~
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 ~
If you spend any time in Los Angeles, there's only one topic of conversation.
~By Alan Rickman ~
Sex is a conversation carried out by other means. If you get on well out of bed, half the problems of bed are solved.
~By Peter Ustinov ~
To conclude: good journalism is one of the models of good conversation and communication in the wider social context.
~By Rowan D. Williams ~
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 ~
A good quartet is like a good conversation among friends interacting to each other's ideas.
~By Stan Getz ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.
~By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ~
I have a contract but it's not a commitment in the ordinary sense. It's our ongoing conversation.
~By Diane Sawyer ~
Travel, instead of broadening the mind, often merely lengthens the conversation.
~By Elizabeth Drew ~
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 ~
The most influential of all educational factors is the conversation in a child's home.
~By William Temple ~
It is all right to hold a conversation but you should let go of it now and then.
~By Richard Armour ~
Writing, when properly managed, (as you may be sure I think mine is) is but a different name for conversation.
~By Laurence Sterne ~
Sometimes I wish that I was the weather, you'd bring me up in conversation forever. And when it rained, I'd be the talk of the day.
~By John Mayer ~
I don't come to tournaments to make friends, to go to parties, to hold conversations. I come to be the best, and I'm not mean and cruel and dirty.
~By Venus Williams ~
I painted one dining room red and I must say, the conversation became very heated in that room.
~By Amanda Pays ~
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 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 about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
~By William Hazlitt ~
We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.
~By Benjamin Franklin ~
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 ~
Prayer is simply a two-way conversation between you and God.
~By Billy Graham ~
I just had that conversation this morning with my doctor. I just got back from the hospital a half-hour ago, and nothing will make me happier than to replicate the DNA of my amazing husband. I'm optimistic.
~By Karen Duffy ~
Kevin Smith is a very challenging conversationalist and Jay has many great stories.
~By Carrie Fisher ~
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 ~
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 ~
My knowledge of the state of President Roosevelt's health was derived entirely from conversations, from newspaper articles and from photographs.
~By David Bruce ~
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 ~
I remember very clearly at the first budget review having a pretty direct conversation with the head of manufacturing... We began to get huge improvements in productivity and responsiveness. I got a chance to see that firsthand.
~By Rick Wagoner ~
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 ~
Sometimes poetry is inspired by the conversation entered into by reading other poems.
~By John Barton ~
As far as playing jazz, no other art form, other than conversation, can give the satisfaction of spontaneous interaction.
~By Stan Getz ~
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 ~
It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.
~By Yogi Berra ~
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 ~
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 ~
No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.
~By Christopher Morley ~
Love without conversation is impossible.
~By Mortimer Adler ~
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 ~
If you are ever at a loss to support a flagging conversation, introduce the subject of eating.
~By Leigh Hunt ~
Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords - philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather.
~By Anna Jameson ~
Although there exist many thousand subjects for elegant conversation, there are persons who cannot meet a cripple without talking about feet.
~By Ernest Bramah ~
Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius.
~By Edward Gibbon ~
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 ~
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 ~
You can pick out actors by the glazed look that comes into their eyes when the conversation wanders away from themselves.
~By Michael Wilding ~
I try to write conversationally; I try to write like people speak and put the emphasis on the right syllable.
~By Don Henley ~
Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of a witness.
~By Margaret Millar ~
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 first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.
~By William Temple ~
Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
~By Michel de Montaigne ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
What frightens us most in a madman is his sane conversation.
~By Anatole France ~
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 ~
She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.
~By George Bernard Shaw ~
I wish you would read a little poetry sometimes. Your ignorance cramps my conversation.
~By Anthony Hope ~
There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all.
~By Rebecca West ~
The desert has its holiness of silence, the crowd its holiness of conversation.
~By Walter Elliot ~
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 never initiated nor did the FBI ever initiate any conversation or correspondence with me.
~By John Sherman Cooper ~
Conversation like television set on honeymoon... unnecessary.
~By Peter Sellers ~
The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.
~By Rene Descartes ~
What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming.
~By Edgar Degas ~
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 ~
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 ~
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