[On Thomas Babington Macaulay:] He was a most disagreeable companion to my fancy ... His conversation was a procession of one. — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
The silent thing onstage allows for a kind of intimacy that no conversation can have. If I just shut up, we're forced… — Teller Copy Share Image
We know that passion, prejudice, party, and even good-will, tempt many who preserve a fair character with the world to deviate from… — Laurence Fishburne Copy Share Image
What manner of men should ministers be? They should thunder in preaching, and lighten in conversation; they should be flaming in prayer,… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Even five minute meaningful conversations with other people not only fuel us in the moment but also build up a reserve of… — Michelle Gielan Copy Share Image
“I am choosing the bear every time unless we can explicitly state that it is in a man's true nature to do… — Niedria D. Kenny Copy Share Image
The eyes of men converse as much as their tongues, with the advantage that the ocular dialect needs no dictionary, but is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I think it's been the topic of conversation for every one... If the U.S. is hit again, how are we going to… — Holly Johnson Copy Share Image
The future of communicating with customers rests in engaging with them through every possible channel: phone, e-mail, chat, Web, and social networks.… — Marc Benioff Copy Share Image
There is nothing so dangerous for anyone who has something to hide as conversation!... A human being, Hastings, cannot resist theopportunity to… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
I guess what really forms you as a person is what you do within your family to receive love or attention. In… — Emma Watson Copy Share Image
Whatever may be the talents of the persons who meet together in [American] society, the very shape, form, and arrangement of the… — Frances Trollope Copy Share Image
Every performance is different. There are so many factors involved... the people I've met that day, the weather, the city I'm in,… — Dia Frampton Copy Share Image
Often, as an interviewer, particularly when you're talking to highly visible people, celebrities, and it's known that negative things have happened, they… — Dave Itzkoff Copy Share Image
This immediate dependence of language upon nature, this conversion of an outward phenomenon into a type of somewhat in human life,never loses… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
As Walt Whitman correctly surmised, we are large and we harbour multitudes within us. And those multitudes are locked in chronic battle.… — Damian Thompson Copy Share Image
But it is impossible to enjoy a tennis game, a book, or a conversation unless attention is fully concentrated on the activity. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Part of the role of a thought leader is not to necessarily have all the answers - I certainly don't - but… — Michael Hyatt Copy Share Image
Pretending that you're very busy talking over phone when you see someone you want to avoid or don't want to talk to. — Raghav Singh Copy Share Image
“But . . . I want to remember this conversation! I want to understand! I don’t want to be a toy! I… — Frances Hardinge Copy Share Image
But being is making; not only large things, a family, a book, a business; but the shape we give this afternoon, a… — Frank Bidart Copy Share Image
We don't often have the luxury of time [in Steve Jobs movie ]to have these conversations where you just literally get to… — Seth Rogen Copy Share Image
I learned that a long walk and calm conversation are an incredible combination if you want to build a bridge. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
I'm wearing clothes in my thoughts and dreams though. What am I wearing in yours?" she asked. "Me." Conversation between Mary Rose… — Julie Garwood Copy Share Image
My peers at the time: you know, young black kids from off the streets of Harlem, having these conversations with me in… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
Equal partnerships are not made in heaven-they are made on earth, one choice at a time, one conversation at a time, one… — Bruce C. Hafen Copy Share Image
Conversation, fastidious goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the human will. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
It's so easy to be polarised and yell from different sides of the room about certain subjects, but I think it's so… — Courtney Act Copy Share Image
I have listened to much dull and heavy conversation in America, but rarely to any that I could strictly call silly (if… — Frances Trollope Copy Share Image
It is by speech that many of our best gains are made. A large part of the good we receive comes to… — Washington Gladden Copy Share Image
Most people are much better at saying things in letters than in conversation, and some people can write artistic, inventive letters, but… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Writing, when properly managed, (as you may be sure I think mine is) is but a different name for conversation. — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
A child needs to be listened to and talked to at 3 and 4 and 5 years of age. Parents should not… — Bob Keeshan Copy Share Image
I think certain people would be moved to be nostalgic about America's glory days, when the music set the tone for the… — David Longstreth Copy Share Image
The 'Rule of Three' is simply getting the other guy to agree to the same thing three times in the same conversation,… — Christopher Voss Copy Share Image
I would much rather engage people in a conversation about deregulation and reversals of women's rights and civil rights and LGBT rights… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
Today's evangelism is just as likely to take place via chat rooms and viral videos as it is in a personal conversation… — Martin Lindstrom Copy Share Image
Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I'm somebody who values anonymity - not just in terms of not wanting people to recognize me or wanting my privacy, but… — Chris Carmack Copy Share Image
I'm very aware that when my friends and I sit around over dinner these days, the conversation invariably turns to how crass… — Tom Ford Copy Share Image