Just because I didn't do what you told me, doesn't mean I wasn't listening to you! — Hank Ketcham Copy Share Image
Two people cannot be alone together for upwards of half an hour without one emerging as the superior. — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
“Do you think you could stop crying for a minute? It makes conversation a bit difficult.” — Vivien Alcock Copy Share Image
Polite Conversation Why, everyone one as they like; as the good woman said when she kissed her cow. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
We had an exercise in speech class in school, impromptu speaking, that I was always real good at. — John Mellencamp Copy Share Image
The proof of Fermat's Last Theorem underscores how stable mathematics is through the centuries - how mathematics is one of humanity's long… — Barry Mazur Copy Share Image
When you enchant people, your goal is not to make money from them or to get them to do what you want,… — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share Image
To communicate, put your words in order; give them a purpose; use them to persuade, to instruct, to discover, to seduce. — William Safire Copy Share Image
There is an interesting resemblance in the speeches of dictators, no matter what country they may hail from or what language they… — Edna Ferber Copy Share Image
It's not always easy to make polite, lunchtime conversation with a mother who for decades has had international leaders and statesmen to… — Carol Thatcher Copy Share Image
You can't avoid the conversation of diversity and remembering that diversity goes beyond race and culture. It goes into gender and sexual… — Phillipa Soo Copy Share Image
I was also going to give a graduation speech in Arizona this weekend. But with my accent, I was afraid they would… — Arnold Schwarzenegger Copy Share Image
Helping to open up the conversation about inclusion and diversity in casting has been a dream come true. — Michael Arden Copy Share Image
“It was only in South Africa that I got over this shyness, though I never completely overcame it. It was impossible for… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
With any mannerisms or dialogue, you have to be careful you're not just serving yourself. What happens with improving is a lot… — Ray Liotta Copy Share Image
When I play with people, one of the first rules is to listen. Just by the near fact that you listen and… — Hamid Drake Copy Share Image
I suppose even when I was growing up, I noticed I was most happy when I was absorbed in something, lost in… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
Christlike communications are expressions of affection and not anger, truth and not fabrication, compassion and not contention, respect and not ridicule, counsel… — L. Lionel Kendrick Copy Share Image
Writing is a conversation with reading; a dialogue with thinking. All conversations with older people contain repetition. Some of the ideas mean… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
“Lest he provide a target for his critics, Obama avoided all variations of the word “mandate” in his 2009 speech. Under his… — Jack Cashill Copy Share Image
If you want to "get in touch with your feelings," fine, talk to yourself. We all do. But if you want to… — William Safire Copy Share Image
A happy marriage is only going to happen if you sit and talk about things. — Kumar Anupam Copy Share Image
Listening is something as elected officials, as leaders, we forget to do. — Ayanna Pressley Copy Share Image
The church needs a pope who can call us to conversion and lead us to take seriously what Jesus did. — Greg Boyle Copy Share Image
O, Great Spirit, open my eyes, open heart's wings, open my ears to your voice in all things. — Rumi Copy Share Image
“based on conversations that took place over a period of eighteen months with the president,” — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“How easily an innocent remark could be misconstrued when every conversation was loaded with history.” — Jojo Moyes Copy Share Image
“Listen' he whispered ferociously, like a ferocious breeze or a very gentle hurricane.” — The Harvard Lampoon Copy Share Image
It is not set speeches at the moment of battle that render soldiers brave. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Wherever conversation's flowing, / Why must I feel it falls on me / To keep things going? — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
If you text me first, you are legally obligated to continue the conversation! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A great novel is a kind of conversion experience. We come away from it changed. — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
“Thus freedom of thought, in any valuable sense, includes freedom of speech.” — John Bagnell Bury Copy Share Image
The conscious utterance of thought, by speech or action, to any end, is art. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
