“Rehvenge, I’m talking to you more than I speak with my mahmen.” “I thought your mother was dead.” “She is.” “You have… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it… — Dennis Potter Copy Share Image
“If an organization wants innovation to flourish, the conversation needs to change from severance packages to retention bonuses.” — Chris Farrell Copy Share Image
Writers are born, not made. We can hone the craft. We need to try to encourage someone and make a dialogue, suggesting… — Alan Zweibel Copy Share Image
I think the Merchant Ivory brand really means literate dialogue. I think it starts with that. When people say something, you know… — James Ivory Copy Share Image
Going to bed can cause imaginary conversations you should have had with certain people or real conversations with your brother who is… — W. Bruce Cameron Copy Share Image
Leaders who want to show sensitivity should listen often and long and talk short and seldom. Many so-called leaders are too busy… — J. Oswald Sanders Copy Share Image
The whole information and communication technologies (ICT) infrastructure must be regarded as an 'ecosystem' in which everything is interconnected. It functions as… — Toomas Hendrik Ilves Copy Share Image
As I walked back to civilization, I realized that for the first time in the six months I had known Curran, we… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
One must search diligently to find laudatory comments on education (other than those pious platitudes which are fodder for commencement speeches). It… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“They don't care about hearing the other side. They don't even think there is another side.” … “Right! The country has retreated… — Alisyn Camerota Copy Share Image
When a language begins to teem with books, it is tending to refinement; as those who undertake to teach others must have… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
A good debater is not necessarily an effective vote-getter: you can find a hole in your opponent's argument through which you could… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The only way to free yourself from all the anxiety you’re feeling about the difficult conversation you know you need to have… — Scott Stabile Copy Share Image
There's something nice about the silence of a car ride in the dark, going home. When you were tired of the radio… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Change does not come on thoughts alone; because we have a revolutionary ideology and give speeches on it. It comes because you… — Chokwe Lumumba Copy Share Image
I'm not afraid of silence. You know, I'm not afraid to sit in a room and have the conversation drop into silence.… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
My appetite for public policy and changing it, and not only being a part of the conversation, but affecting it in a… — Harold Ford, Jr Copy Share Image
Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of conversation, as in books it is generally the worst sort of reading. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Not to be born surpasses thought and speech. The second best is to have seen the light and then go back quickly… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
If you have to make an unpopular speech, give it all the sincerity you can muster; that's the only way to sweeten… — Jean Francois Paul de Gondi Copy Share Image
“It is a lovely oddity of human nature that a person is more inclined to interrupt two people in conversation than one… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
This sounds crazy, but my goal is to be nominated for an Oscar. I was the kid who was practicing my acceptance… — Ashley Benson Copy Share Image
I don't know if I'd call myself a prodigy, but I was a big forensics competitor in high school, and then during… — Josh Gad Copy Share Image
If you watch 'SNL,' any time there's this thing with everyone singing, I'm, like, the one person who just has a straight… — Bill Hader Copy Share Image
Don't think of the Internet as a broadcast medium...think of it as a conversational space. Conversation is the opposite of marketing. It's… — David Weinberger Copy Share Image
No, you have to talk first. You wanted to talk. It means you say something and I respond and you talk back… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
By far the most important form of attention we can give our loved ones is listening... True listening is love in action. — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
I had an eye opening conversation about friendship. If I'm not worth your time, you are certainly not worth mine. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Actually, I am asking myself if conversations with friends always feel like this--two minds bound together by their focus on the same… — Francisco X. Stork Copy Share Image
Any man who makes a speech more than six times a year is bound to repeat himself, not because he has little… — William Feather Copy Share Image
I've learned that leadership requires a number of qualities. It's behavioural, tactical, technical, about communication... everyone has these to varying degrees. I… — Tite Copy Share Image
“."We're going to need more alcohol," Char whispered under her breath to Jake. "And a roofie," Jake added. "I don't want to… — Rachel Van Dyken Copy Share Image
Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts. — Margaret Lee Runbeck Copy Share Image
A lot of the fake news conversation came right after the 2016 election, but it's something that had been discussed before Donald… — Jimmy Gomez Copy Share Image
Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never be released into the world until they have… — Garry Trudeau Copy Share Image
“I didn’t list listening as one of my skills, probably because I didn’t hear what the interviewer asked.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
We are a nation in which freedom is alive in the squares and streets, in the daily work of the communications media,… — Vicente Fox Copy Share Image
“Are you learning to listen to God before you speak, or are you saying things and then trying to make God’s Word… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Until you can say what is most difficult for you to say, you cannot speak from your heart, live unafraid, create health,… — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
