Can we have a conversation about the substance? That's what I welcome. We're happy to have those conversations if there are places… — Sylvia Mathews Burwell Copy Share Image
Here's how I became myself: mess, failure, mistakes, disappointments, and extensive reading; limbo, indecision, setbacks, addiction, public embarrassment, and endless conversations with… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
On the broad spectrum of solitude, I lean toward the extreme end: I work alone, as well as live alone, so I… — Caroline Knapp Copy Share Image
Greet everyone you meet with a warm smile. No matter how busy you are, don't rush encounters with coworkers, family, and friends.… — Sarah Ban Breathnach Copy Share Image
I'm really aware of the conversations that surround young actresses in Hollywood. I always get myself into a hole with these conversations,… — Mackenzie Davis Copy Share Image
We don't really listen to what the other person is saying. We have gotten used to information being in such a concentrated… — John Gimlette Copy Share Image
If you choose as a woman to work in cinema, the roles are smaller, not as diverse, and sometimes not as exciting.… — Stacy Martin Copy Share Image
They stared at her curiously, and she caught snatches of conversation in two or three languages. It wasn't hard to guess their… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
“They should." "Should be like a wood bee," she said. It was a private joke, a mocking appreciation of the slipperiness of… — Stewart O'Nan Copy Share Image
“Tell me about yourself” is one of the best icebreakers and conversation openers you can have. Learn to ask questions using this… — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
One minute you're closer to someone than anyone in the whole world, next minute they need only to say the words 'time… — Helen Fielding Copy Share Image
“Conversation starters. Icebreakers. Openers. However you choose to label them, that moment when the first words come out of your mouth can… — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
There are certain things that I know I don't want to do anymore. Playing out-and-out terrorists who terrorise people and don't actually… — Art Malik Copy Share Image
MySpace is a great way to keep in touch with friends who you don't care enough about to actually have a conversation… — David Spade Copy Share Image
When I was 14, a camp counselor explained what "eating out" was and I vowed to never have it done to me.… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
In Victor's life, monotony and boredom had nothing to do with one another. He repeated his repertoire so often that even from… — Luisa Valenzuela Copy Share Image
It's very difficult to have a conversation about yourself when you're the granddaughter of Audrey Hepburn, as it was difficult for me… — Sean Hepburn Ferrer Copy Share Image
There aren't really many compliments flying around with me and my friends. It's a lot of tough love. But you know, that… — Mark Wahlberg Copy Share Image
Nourishment is not just “nutrition.” Nourishment is the nutrients in the food, the taste, the aroma, the ambiance of the room, the… — Marc David Copy Share Image
I do object to the assumption that anything that might be outside of nature is ruled out of the conversation. That's an… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Journeys are the midwives of thought. Few places are more conducive to internal conversations than a moving plane, ship or train. There… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Presidential power was overruled by the high bench in July 1974, when President Nixon was ordered to turn over some audio tapes… — Helen Thomas Copy Share Image
Mom said, "His spirit is there," and that made me really angry. I told her, "Dad didn't have a spirit! He had… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
One of the greatest experiences I ever had was listening to a conversation with Joni Mitchell and Wayne Shorter. Just to hear… — Herbie Hancock Copy Share Image
“You need hope to form a thought. It takes—I don’t know—optimism to speak, to engage in conversation. Because, really, what’s the point… — Noah Hawley Copy Share Image
“...when women have a conversation, they're communicating on five levels. They follow the conversation that they're actually having, the conversation that is… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
To stutter through it with you or even stop stuttering and say nothing, was so lucky and soft, better talk than mile-a-minute… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
I feel that one of the roles of the artist, in the way I define it, is that I need to be… — Dario Robleto Copy Share Image
There is no music more powerful than hip-hop. No other music so purely demands an instant affirmative on such a global scale.… — Saul Williams Copy Share Image
I've had this conversation with Chrissie Hynde and Courtney Love. If they'd dated the men they dated before they picked up their… — Bebe Buell Copy Share Image
I feel that the term "new age" is used by basically hostile media to diminish and marginalize a conversation that is very… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Not to be to be a vulgar materialist or be too reductive, but all of that was completely absent from the conversation.… — Astra Taylor Copy Share Image
When I love, I love: wholly, thoroughly, completely, drowning in everything. Every glance can be a conversation, eyes just playing and saying… — Warsan Shire Copy Share Image
This conversation with the audience has been going on since, what, '72, '73... Sometimes it's like a conversation after dinner with friends.… — Steven Van Zandt Copy Share Image
The chronically ill and those toward the end of their lives are accounting for potentially 80% of the total health care bill… — Donald Berwick Copy Share Image
We exist in this weirdly schizo culture, where sex is everywhere in the media, and yet, at the same time, you don't… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
If you find common subjects or interests with a prospect, you can establish a business friendship. Ask about a diploma or picture.… — Jeffrey Gitomer Copy Share Image
“I try to think of things to say but nothing comes, and if something did come I probably couldn’t say it. This… — Isaac Marion Copy Share Image
You never know when it is going to happen, when you will experience a moment that dramatically transforms your life. When you… — Gay Hendricks Copy Share Image
“If you said you didn’t have children, it sounded like a choice, and what kind of craziness would that be? If you… — Eowyn Ivey Copy Share Image
