It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
My last conversation with my father was an argument we'd had. When I came to know of his hospitalisation, I'd lost him… — Mouni Roy Copy Share Image
The fullest instruction, and the fullest enjoyment are never derived from books, till we have ventilated the ideas thus obtained in free… — William Matthews Copy Share Image
You might be talking to someone who relates a song to losing a friend and you end up talking in the most… — John Waite Copy Share Image
Nothing a man writes can please him as profoundly as something he does with his back, shoulders and hands. For writing is… — Brooks Atkinson Copy Share Image
My first conversation of the day is with my daughter, Nathalie. I call her every morning; it is a ritual. — Sonia Rykiel Copy Share Image
Is there anyone to whom you entrust a greater number of serious matters than your wife? And is there anyone with whom… — Socrates Copy Share Image
I think those of us on a spiritual journey can help create a new conversation, a new America, and a new world. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
A talk show is difficult because the formula is always the same: there's a host and there's guests. Really what you can… — Jenny McCarthy Copy Share Image
If I'm writing for a particular artist, I definitely think about their past records, pay attention to the type of tempos that… — Sevyn Streeter Copy Share Image
I hate everything that does not relate to literature, conversations bore me (even when they relate to literature), to visit people bores… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Owen meany who rarely wasted words and who had the conversation-stopping habit of dropping remarks like coins into a deep pool of… — John Irving Copy Share Image
We can talk about courage and love and compassion until we sound like a greeting card store, but unless we're willing to… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
Pretty much every weekend, my wife and I have the shall-we-live-in-the-country conversation. I suppose it's something to do with getting older and… — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
As a poet who has the tools for interpreting the poem differently, you can begin to deconstruct it. But the human being… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
“Are you mad?" I ask. "I was." He glances at the ceiling then back at me. "Or confused, anyway. The whole thing… — Jody Gehrman Copy Share Image
Britain deserves better than people who say they've got a quick fix but won't tell you what it actually means for Britain,… — Ruth Davidson Copy Share Image
I am so focused on the fact that the conversation doesn't address any of the things I think are important. I think… — Steve Wynn Copy Share Image
A lot of the girls my age were impressed by silly stuff like money and fame. I wanted to be able to… — Nick Cannon Copy Share Image
Conversation: A fair for the display of the minor mental commodities, each exhibitor being too intent upon the arrangement of his own… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I love talking to people, but what I really love is to feel you're doing something instead of sitting home and twiddling… — Barbara Bush Copy Share Image
I'm hearing here that this Muslim movement, well, for women, is what we have to focus on. And women have been doing,… — Dalia Mogahed Copy Share Image
Sometimes I'd like to have a conversation with a friend in a restaurant without feeling I'm being watched. At this rate I… — Fernando Torres Copy Share Image
It's always difficult to make conversation with a drunk, and there's no denying it, the sober are at a disadvantage with him. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Let's have an honest conversation about what's going on. A man and a man at a bar looks like mentoring. A man… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
Nebraska Republicans believe that Nebraska Democrats love their kids, and I believe we can have a constructive conversation with everybody. — Ben Sasse Copy Share Image
There is a certain type of conversation one hears only when one is drunk and it is like a dream, full of… — Joy Williams Copy Share Image
You know, photo conversations are replacing verbal conversations. I don't know if that's a bad thing. A photo is worth a thousand… — Ashton Kutcher Copy Share Image
The biggest mistake is believing there is one right way to listen, to talk, to have a conversation - or a relationship. — Deborah Tannen Copy Share Image
Every conversation I have almost always revolves around, you know, personnel and policy focused on producing results. — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
My hope in writing 'Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead' was to change the conversation from what women can't… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
If you start a conversation with the assumption that you are right or that you must win, obviously it is difficult to… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
As long as everyone's wearing their own pants." "I see I have come in on a fascinating moment in the conversation. — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“When you sincerely want to connect on deeper levels and encourage other people to talk about themselves, use open-ended questions to stimulate… — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
For most women, the language of conversation is primarily a language of rapport: a way of establishing connections and negotiating relationships. — Deborah Tannen Copy Share Image
When you tell a story in the kitchen to a friend, it's full of mistakes and repetitions. It's good to avoid that… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I possess the faculty of enjoying the company of those I - of my friends as well in silence as in conversation. — Anne Bronte Copy Share Image
My brain never turns off of songwriting. Every conversation, everything I see, I'm just kind of like a sponge and I soak… — Dustin Lynch Copy Share Image
My folks are economists and have taught economics and social science so I grew up with those kind of conversations around the… — Seth Gordon Copy Share Image
The single greatest invention man ever conceived in the dollar bill, because I don't want to know the conversion rate for coconuts. — John Smith Copy Share Image
