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 ~
My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.
~By Jane Austen ~
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 ~
The conversational overachiever is someone whose grasp exceeds his reach. This is possible but not attractive.
~By Fran Lebowitz ~
Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
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 ~
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 ~
You can pick out actors by the glazed look that comes into their eyes when the conversation wanders away from themselves.
~By Michael Wilding ~
Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.
~By Mark Twain ~
Never had any mathematical conversations with anybody, because there was nobody else in my field.
~By Alonzo Church ~
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 ~
There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all.
~By Rebecca West ~
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 ~
It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.
~By Yogi Berra ~
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 ~
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 ~
Kevin Smith is a very challenging conversationalist and Jay has many great stories.
~By Carrie Fisher ~
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 ~
His struggle for a bare living left him no time to take advantage of the public evening school. In time he learned to read, to follow a conversation or lecture; but he never learned to write correctly; and his pronunciation remains extremely foreign to this day.
~By Mary Antin ~
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 ~
You want people walking away from the conversation with some kernel of wisdom or some kind of impact.
~By Harry Dean Stanton ~
I wish you would read a little poetry sometimes. Your ignorance cramps my conversation.
~By Anthony Hope ~
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 ~
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 ~
An artist carries on throughout his life a mysterious, uninterrupted conversation with his public.
~By Maurice Chevalier ~
A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.
~By Andre Maurois ~
I do expect that the President will say something at the beginning of his remarks today, at the conversation.
~By Scott McClellan ~
A number of us had conversations with the Kerry campaign about what he was going to say about CAFE. What he told us was that he did not want to sacrifice jobs and that he wanted to work with the auto industry to achieve that goal.
~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 ~
The primary use of conversation is to satisfy the impulse to talk.
~By George Santayana ~
A baby changes your dinner party conversation from politics to poops.
~By Maurice Johnstone ~
The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.
~By Rene Descartes ~
It's like that with what sort of ideas people outside of the band have of HIM. They all see it through a different lens as well which is beautiful. Hopefully, it makes it an endless topic of conversation.
~By Ville Valo ~
There is no roles. No one is keeping any roles. The drummer is also answering everybody and everything. So it is a constant conversation and communication between musicians on an extremely high level with extremely valuable material, motifs, and melodies.
~By Miroslav Vitous ~
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 ~
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 ~
A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech.
~By Emile M. Cioran ~
'What is the use of a book', thought Alice, 'without pictures or conversations?'
~By Lewis Carroll ~
One of Brando's problems is that he can't have a conversation with anyone.
~By Peter Bart ~
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 ~
When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.
~By Samuel Johnson ~
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 don't think of myself as giving interviews. I just have conversations. That gets me in trouble.
~By Charles Barkley ~
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 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 ~
El Salvador is a democracy so it's not surprising that there are many voices to be heard here. Yet in my conversations with Salvadorans... I have heard a single voice.
~By Dan Quayle ~
I've been in a serious conversation with one of my children, and a fan has come up. I've been in a public bathroom and had the hand come under the stall with a paper and pen. That sort of thing anybody can live without.
~By Helen Reddy ~
And I find it very easy to memorize the scripts, which are so close to conversations my husband and I have.
~By Patricia Heaton ~
A pas de deux is a dialogue of love. How can there be conversation if one partner is dumb?
~By Rudolf Nureyev ~
Food was a constant topic of conversation in our household.
~By Paul Lynde ~
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 ~
Not only do I sing to him, I sing entire conversations. You become Jerry Lewis.
~By Paul Reiser ~
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 ~
Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
~By William Hazlitt ~
Saying what we think gives a wider range of conversation than saying what we know.
~By Cullen Hightower ~
My mother was a personal friend of God's. They had ongoing conversations.
~By Della Reese ~
What frightens us most in a madman is his sane conversation.
~By Anatole France ~
Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.
~By Margaret Lee Runbeck ~
A good quartet is like a good conversation among friends interacting to each other's ideas.
~By Stan Getz ~
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 ~
In America journalism is apt to be regarded as an extension of history: in Britain, as an extension of conversation.
~By Anthony Sampson ~
Congress's definition of torture in those laws - the infliction of severe mental or physical pain - leaves room for interrogation methods that go beyond polite conversation.
~By John Yoo ~
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 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 ~
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 ~
The biggest mistake is believing there is one right way to listen, to talk, to have a conversation - or a relationship.
~By Deborah Tannen ~
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 ~
Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords - philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather.
~By Anna Jameson ~
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 ~
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 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 ~
A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.
~By Mark Twain ~
Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation.
~By Elizabeth Drew ~
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 ~
I try to write conversationally; I try to write like people speak and put the emphasis on the right syllable.
~By Don Henley ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Travel, instead of broadening the mind, often merely lengthens the conversation.
~By Elizabeth Drew ~
If you spend any time in Los Angeles, there's only one topic of conversation.
~By Alan Rickman ~
The most influential of all educational factors is the conversation in a child's home.
~By William Temple ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 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 ~
I can wear a hat or take it off, but either way it's a conversation piece.
~By Hedda Hopper ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
When I spoke, I was listened to; and I was at a loss to know how I had so easily acquired the art of commanding attention, and giving the tone to the conversation.
~By Adelbert von Chamisso ~
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 ~
Sometimes poetry is inspired by the conversation entered into by reading other poems.
~By John Barton ~
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
~By Winston Churchill ~
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 ~
All serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy.
~By Ernest Dimnet ~
Polite conversation is rarely either.
~By Fran Lebowitz ~
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 ~
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 ~
No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.
~By Christopher Morley ~
Nothing dates one so dreadfully as to think someplace is uptown. At our age one must be watchful of these conversational gray hairs.
~By Ruth Gordon ~
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