Conversation didn't seem necessary when I put the accordion down and swung some young lady around the floor.
~By Lawrence Welk ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
By definition, gay is smart. I see plenty of macho heterosexual idiots, but nine times out of 10 you can have a great conversation if you find a gay guy.
~By Jason Bateman ~
There was a sense of all the things that go on on the street, particularly in New York, that you are just completely unaware of, that that conversation could be happening at any time. I loved the instability of the camera. It's just an unstable world.
~By Jennifer Beals ~
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 ~
Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well.
~By Mark Haddon ~
Kevin Smith is a very challenging conversationalist and Jay has many great stories.
~By Carrie Fisher ~
Although there exist many thousand subjects for elegant conversation, there are persons who cannot meet a cripple without talking about feet.
~By Ernest Bramah ~
I'm attracted to guys who are really confident and make conversation.
~By Britney Spears ~
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 ~
A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.
~By Andre Maurois ~
Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times because they had nobody to talk about.
~By Agnes Repplier ~
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 painted one dining room red and I must say, the conversation became very heated in that room.
~By Amanda Pays ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 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 ~
Sometimes poetry is inspired by the conversation entered into by reading other poems.
~By John Barton ~
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 ~
An artist carries on throughout his life a mysterious, uninterrupted conversation with his public.
~By Maurice Chevalier ~
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 ~
I can wear a hat or take it off, but either way it's a conversation piece.
~By Hedda Hopper ~
I have a contract but it's not a commitment in the ordinary sense. It's our ongoing conversation.
~By Diane Sawyer ~
In Washington, DC, politics dominate even the most casual conversations.
~By Armstrong Williams ~
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 ~
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 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 pick out actors by the glazed look that comes into their eyes when the conversation wanders away from themselves.
~By Michael Wilding ~
Anyone who thinks the art of conversation is dead ought to tell a child to go to bed.
~By Robert C. Gallagher ~
I tell my friends about my conversations with my father - conversations with an artist.
~By Ray Conniff ~
Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.
~By O. Henry ~
What students lack in school is an intellectual relationship or conversation with the teacher.
~By William Glasser ~
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 think that people are definitely interested in the idea that Joan has conversations with God.
~By Amber Tamblyn ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
I never had a single conversation about politics with Ross Perot in my life; still haven't.
~By James Stockdale ~
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 ~
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 ~
Love without conversation is impossible.
~By Mortimer Adler ~
Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
During the course of the seven years I played scenes with an oil slick, I played a scene with a grain of rice. Sometimes with indescribable creatures. I remember having a conversation with something which was simply a smell, that's all. It was part of our job.
~By Patrick Stewart ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 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 ~
I do expect that the President will say something at the beginning of his remarks today, at the conversation.
~By Scott McClellan ~
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
~By George Bernard Shaw ~
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 never initiated nor did the FBI ever initiate any conversation or correspondence with me.
~By John Sherman Cooper ~
It is critical that parents and other trusted adults initiate conversations with kids about underage drinking well in advance of the first time they are faced with a decision regarding alcohol.
~By Xavier Becerra ~
Debate is the death of conversation.
~By Kitty O'Neill Collins ~
I don't think of myself as giving interviews. I just have conversations. That gets me in trouble.
~By Charles Barkley ~
Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.
~By Bill Watterson ~
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 ~
And I find it very easy to memorize the scripts, which are so close to conversations my husband and I have.
~By Patricia Heaton ~
Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation.
~By Elizabeth Drew ~
I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know that each conversation with a psychiatrist, every morning at the time of his visit, made me want to hang myself, realizing that I would not be able to cut his throat.
~By Antonin Artaud ~
The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression.
~By Samuel Johnson ~
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 ~
What is reading, but silent conversation.
~By Charles Lamb ~
My own view is that taping of conversations for historical purposes was a bad decision on the part of all the presidents. I don't think Kennedy should have done it. I don't think Johnson should have done it, and I don't think we should have done it.
~By Richard M. Nixon ~
Some of the most important conversations I've ever had occurred at my family's dinner table.
~By Bob Ehrlich ~
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 ~
It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.
~By Yogi Berra ~
If you ever have to support a flagging conversation, introduce the topic of eating.
~By Leigh Hunt ~
Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius.
~By Edward Gibbon ~
In America journalism is apt to be regarded as an extension of history: in Britain, as an extension of conversation.
~By Anthony Sampson ~
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 ~
Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
~By Robert Louis Stevenson ~
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 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 ~
In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.
~By George Herbert ~
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 ~
Saying what we think gives a wider range of conversation than saying what we know.
~By Cullen Hightower ~
Prayer is simply a two-way conversation between you and God.
~By Billy Graham ~
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 ~
Lettuce is like conversation; it must be fresh and crisp, so sparkling that you scarcely notice the bitter in it.
~By Charles Dudley Warner ~
Not only do I sing to him, I sing entire conversations. You become Jerry Lewis.
~By Paul Reiser ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.
~By H. L. Mencken ~
If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
~By James Whistler ~
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 ~
Never had any mathematical conversations with anybody, because there was nobody else in my field.
~By Alonzo Church ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.
~By Christopher Morley ~
If you are ever at a loss to support a flagging conversation, introduce the subject of eating.
~By Leigh Hunt ~
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 ~
She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.
~By George Bernard Shaw ~
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 ~
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 ~
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