“Allow me to fulfill my duties without having to suffer through trivial attempts at conversation and we will get along well enough.” — Elizabeth Carlton Copy Share Image
Reading is, at its best, not an escape; it is genuine experience. A novel is not a monologue, but a conversation, a… — Jonathan Evison Copy Share Image
Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food, and few things in the world are more wearying than a sarcastic attitude… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
We have always wanted to make sure that we start the conversation by saying that all people are of value and their… — Blase J. Cupich Copy Share Image
Every girls' night needs a funny movie and a good conversation about guys! My friends and I also love picking outfits out… — Jennette McCurdy Copy Share Image
The best things about womanhood might possibly even be the conversations. The chatting. The gabbing. The whispering. The hands-on-hips eye-rolling. The yukking-it… — Katherine Center Copy Share Image
A normal conversation between my uncles about whether or not the lamb is done will come across as a shouting match between… — Chris Morocco Copy Share Image
I feel like great TED Talks are ones that are a little bit subject to interpretation, that do provoke further conversation -… — Damon Lindelof Copy Share Image
I tend to be a loner I think a lot of social theorists are like that. On one level, the majority… — George Ritzer Copy Share Image
When you look at some faces, you can see the turbulence of the infinite beginning to gather to the surface. This moment… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
I feel the theatre is the most unique one of all [the arts] for collaboration. I feel very fortunate to be in… — Susan Stroman Copy Share Image
“Where did you come from?" she asked impulsively. "The same place you did." It took her a minute, then she chuckled. "I… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
The whole movie thing has never been a source of great pride for me, in that Burt Reynolds, who starred in the… — Brock Yates Copy Share Image
With grown children, we can look back at both our mistakes and what we did well in our parenting, having conversations with… — Wendy Lustbader Copy Share Image
“one wonders how much real conversation there is when one party does not, in many districts, have to contend for the votes… — Garrance Franke-Ruta Copy Share Image
I'd love to have a program like 'Dr. Laura.' I studied psychology at the University of Miami, and when I rode the… — Gloria Estefan Copy Share Image
Food sovereignty... is most of all characterized by it’s conversations around how to end hunger and poverty. — Raj Patel Copy Share Image
We need the word proclaimed so that we hear the gospel clearly, but then it's also very natural to have people talk… — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
The difficulty with this conversation is that it's very different from most of the ones I've had of late. Which, as I… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Normally writers do not talk much,because they are saving their conversations for the readers of their book- those invisible listeners with whom… — Ruskin Bond Copy Share Image
I feel such a tenderness for these vulnerable nighttime conversations, the way words take a different shape in the air when there's… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
“This is the most insane conversation I’ve ever had. Are you just trying to brag about your massive penis in a roundabout… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
At work, conversation increases productivity. And yet people go into work, put on their headphones. In one interview, somebody called it -… — Judy Woodruff Copy Share Image
Everything was a song. Every conversation, every personal hurt, every observance of people in stress, happiness and love... if you could feel… — Curtis Mayfield Copy Share Image
I want to be able to function and that's the conversation that I'm having now more than ever - playing vs. functioning… — Jermaine O'Neal Copy Share Image
. . . our lives are shaped by our interactions with others. Whether we have a long conversation with a friend or… — Donald O. Clifton Copy Share Image
Blogging and the Internet allow us to engage in a lot more real time conversations as opposed to a one-way dump of… — Indra Nooyi Copy Share Image
The best joke-tellers are those who have the patience to wait for conversation to come around to the point where the jokes… — Joseph Epstein Copy Share Image
A film is not a vehicle to accuse, or to relay a specific message. If we reduce a film to this, we… — Hirokazu Kore-eda Copy Share Image
“R.E.A.L. conversation: Recognize judgments. Express thoughts neutrally. Ask questions. Listen for verbal & non-verbal messages.” — John Stoker Copy Share Image
When I say that I love you, I don't say it out of habit or to make conversation. I say it to… — Kaitlyn Copy Share Image
I knew I didn't want to come out in the 'New Yorker'; it just felt wrong. It needed an African conversation. — Binyavanga Wainaina Copy Share Image
The youngest child in any family is always a jokemaker, because a joke is the only way he can enter into an… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Was he going to ask me to go with him? Maybe I was getting ahead of myself and he was just making… — Donna Freitas Copy Share Image
I've always been impulsive. My thinking is usually pretty good, but I always seem to do it after I do my talking… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
Fake your way through a conversation, tell her all the things you wish were true. Maybe you're the voice of a generation… — Mike Posner Copy Share Image
Reserve some hours daily to examine yourself and fortune; for if you embark yourself in perpetual conversation or recreation, you will certainly… — Anne of Austria Copy Share Image
A novel is a conversation starter, and if the author isn't there for the after-party, both the writer and the reader are… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
I love people. Everybody. I love them, I think, as a stamp collector loves his collection. Every story, every incident, every bit… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image