“Conversation consists of developing and playing with ideas by juxtaposing the accumulated conclusions of two or more people and then improvising on… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
“I love this time of day,' Josh says-talking to me, he's talking to me!-and I try to think of the right thing… — Elizabeth Scott Copy Share Image
“You haven’t told him yet, have you?” “Hell, no. I’d rather eat ground glass. Not exactly the conversation I want to be… — J.T. Ellison Copy Share Image
That's what it is-it's jazz. It's just jazz. That's what the whole thing is about to me. It's about what's happening right… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
One of the central challenges for global conversation today is to find ways of getting to understand very different views about gender… — Kwame Anthony Appiah Copy Share Image
My misfortune is doubly painful to me because it will result in my being misunderstood. For me there can be no recreation… — Ludwig van Beethoven Copy Share Image
“I’ve enjoyed our conversation, knight. It’s been nice talking to someone who can—” “Create full and complete sentences?” That grin returned and,… — G.A. Aiken Copy Share Image
Content isn't king. If I sent you to a desert island and gave you the choice of taking your friends or your… — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
Right now, however, we're in the middle of a jobs crisis, a border crisis and a terrorism crisis like never before. All… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Do you think it's easy to just walk up to Joe DiMaggio and start up a conversation? I've been around him at… — Tom Seaver Copy Share Image
Like a cross between Paul Auster's The Book of Illusions and Janice Lee's Damnation, The Absolution of Roberto Acestes Laing is at… — Brian Evenson Copy Share Image
If you worry less about what people think of you, you can pick up an astonishing amount of information about them. You… — Pamela Druckerman Copy Share Image
There's a thing that creeps into this conversation ... that if you complain about the depiction of women [in comics], it becomes,… — Kelly Sue DeConnick Copy Share Image
A woman well bred and well taught, furnished with the additional accomplishments of knowledge and behaviour, is a creature without comparison. Her… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
The most holy and necessary practice in our spiritual life is the presence of God. That means finding constant pleasure in His… — Brother Lawrence Copy Share Image
I had a conversation with John Cena, and I told him, 'If only I could be a giant with abs,' and he… — Big Show Copy Share Image
Strange, when one thinks of all the other boys, infinite experimental kisses, test tube infatuations, crushes, pseudo-loves. All through this physical separation,… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“No one likes sarcasm, Miss Cain. I’ve merely delayed my exit to promise you something. You took my straight razor, li’l darlin’.… — Derek Landy Copy Share Image
I always found it bizarre or strange that there was this unwritten set of rules around how a woman could interact with… — Whitney Wolfe Herd Copy Share Image
Cross-pollination and "contamination" is really important to the health of fiction, and sometimes it's a literal conversation, too, in that writers who… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
“I had the worst feeling, when I hung up, that I had missed the purpose of our conversation, that we both had.… — Jennifer Gilmore Copy Share Image
The universe is one being. Everything and everyone is interconnected through an invisible web of stories. Whether we are aware of it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Personally, until Mike Trout came into the league I thought I would be in the conversation for best player in the game.… — Joey Votto Copy Share Image
...conversation can be as mutually incomprehensible as foreign languages. We need the different and complementary perspectives of the various yogas - and… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
As I've gotten older, I've felt I have more authority on that subject. I think the conversation needs to be reframed. What… — Meghan Daum Copy Share Image
Religiously, we longed for the lively life in Christ, but we did not fully see that we were equally longing for the… — Sheldon Vanauken Copy Share Image
People avoid the telephone because it's easier to text. Calls can be awkward - you interrupt each other; you can't quite hear… — Joanna Coles Copy Share Image
If the Trump White House and their allies in the media want to have this conversation about decency, I welcome them to… — Jake Tapper Copy Share Image
The answer to our prayer of how to meet our children’s needs may be to more often technologically disconnect. Precious moments of… — Rosemary M. Wixom Copy Share Image
There's times when you're having dinner with a good friend and you're in the middle of a conversation and somebody comes up… — Verne Troyer Copy Share Image
...he went into the sitting room, put on a Duke Ellington record he had bought after seeing Gene Hackman sitting on the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“[M]rs. Miniver was beginning to feel more than a little weary of exchanging ideas (especially political ones) and of hearing other people… — Jan Struther Copy Share Image
Andrew Luck, if he gets to his first Super Bowl and he wins that Super Bowl, that means he won on the… — Charles Woodson Copy Share Image
Useless pursuits and conversations always about the same things absorb the better part of one's time, the better part of one's strength,… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Female directors really do need to support each other. Too many times I've been led to believe that my direct competition was… — Jennifer Phang Copy Share Image
All I can say is Bishop Jakes would not currently accept the designation of Prosperity Preacher or Word of Faith Preacher as… — James MacDonald Copy Share Image
Our kiss was niticlimactic. It wasn't that the kiss was bad, but it was just a note of punctuation in our long… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
I feel a lot of personal responsibility to undo the negative stereotypes. I know that it's not coming from a bad place.… — Zach Anner Copy Share Image
People started conceiving of their friends as networking tools, like, 'Friend me so you can be friends with someone else,' or, 'The… — Evan Spiegel Copy Share Image
In our land of opportunities and distractions, it's hard to devote our attention to the quiet pleasures of reading. It's as if… — Steve Leveen Copy Share Image