If I hear a conversation and somebody says something intriguing, my first thought is, 'Is that a song?' I write all year… — Toby Keith Copy Share Image
The game is just one long conversation, and I'm anticipating that, and I will say things like 'Did you know that?' or… — Vin Scully Copy Share Image
I tend to be a loner I think a lot of social theorists are like that. On one level, the majority… — George Ritzer Copy Share Image
Whenever Percy stopped by to see [Annabeth], she was so lost in thought that the conversation went something like this: Percy: 'Hey,… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“The most important thing in human relationship is conversation.but people don't talk anymore,they don't sit down to talk and listen.They go to… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“Emily squared her shoulders and said simply, “I’m fine, I’m not really loving your social skills though. Don’t you know this is… — Nicole Rae Copy Share Image
I borrowed this from Kyle. My other shirt was pretty filthy." "Wow, you're wearing each other's clothes now. That's, like, best friend… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Once I was in a cafe in Portland and the woman at the next table and I began chatting and in the… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
In general, in America, every discourse in literature in 15 minutes degenerates into a conversation about ethics, morality and this and that.… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
Don't hang a dismal picture on the wall, and do not daub with sables and glooms in your conversation. Don't be a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I think it could be argued that I am not heard, in the broadest sense. That is not my concern. My concern,… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
Well working by yourself, especially when no one knows about it, is totally liberating because it's very impulse-driven. You work when you… — Caroline Polachek Copy Share Image
“With some people there is easy conversation and not enough time in one meal to get out everything you want to tell… — Rachel Bertsche Copy Share Image
Language matters because whoever controls the words controls the conversation, because whoever controls the conversation controls its outcome, because whoever frames the… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
It is true that despite occasional gleams of Churchillian eloquence he [Gen. Douglas MacArthur] usually spoke poorly. He was far more effective… — William Manchester Copy Share Image
When love flies it is remembered not as love but as something else. Blessed are the uneducated, who forget it entirely, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Things are embarrassing, best to avoid them. But since your death I prefer a naturalist style of conversation. Let's strip it down… — Rosamund Lupton Copy Share Image
I want to make sure that people understand that, behind this national conversation around transgender rights, there are real people who hurt… — Sarah McBride Copy Share Image
It's interesting that whenever I meet some of the other Bond girls, I always have something in common, and it is an… — Jane Seymour Copy Share Image
I believe that if you go and see a film you should have to sort of invest something yourself and you have… — Michael Fassbender Copy Share Image
“They do not learn, fixed in their ways as they are. You are naïve to think otherwise. It’s an illness, Assassin, for… — Oliver Bowden Copy Share Image
Understanding that capacity of knowing when to be charming, when to shut the hell up, when to be humble and when to… — Rob Morgan Copy Share Image
The fact is that this conversation is going on at every level at every age, we're all going, "God, what a jerk… — Bonnie Raitt Copy Share Image
We are talking only to ourselves. We are not talking to the rivers, we are not listening to the wind and stars.… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
“Quantitatively speaking, 'conversation' is inversely proportional to economic standing. If you are traveling in a bus, your fellow passengers will get into… — Sudha Murty Copy Share Image
Congress suffers a great deal of criticism for its partisan acrimony. But while we may disagree politically, and air our opposition in… — Kay Bailey Hutchison Copy Share Image
If you're interested in how people behave, if you're interested in the way they talk about themselves, the way the conceive of… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
Boredom forces you to ring people you haven’t seen for eighteen years and halfway through the conversation you remember why you left… — Jeremy Clarkson Copy Share Image
If God is the mystery of the universe, these mysteries, we're tackling these mysteries one by one. If you're going to stay… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I remember a conversation with my parents about who the people on the TV were, and learning they were actors and they… — David Tennant Copy Share Image
Among the arts of conversation no one pleases more than mutual deference or civility, which leads us to resign our own inclinations… — David Hume Copy Share Image
If the minds of women were enlightened and improved, the domestic work would be more frequently refreshed by intelligent conversation, a means… — Sarah Moore Grimke Copy Share Image
While the high-level climate talks pursue their stately progress towards some ill-defined destination, down in the trenches there is an undercurrent of… — Gwynne Dyer Copy Share Image
The Internet may fairly be regarded as a never-ending worldwide conversation. The government may not, through the C.D.A., interrupt that conversation. As… — Stewart Dalzell Copy Share Image
“She just smiled, said that she loved books more than anything, and started telling him excitedly what each of the ones in… — Fredrik Backman Copy Share Image
Jordan Peele is famous, in part, for imitations - of rappers and dingbats and the 44th president of the United States. But… — Wesley Morris Copy Share Image
How do we make hockey more affordable? How do we get it into more households? How do we keep it part of… — Hilary Knight Copy Share Image
The other night I went out to have dinner in a London pub and the barmaid had this whole conversation saying, 'You… — Robert Pattinson Copy Share Image
In today's world of blogging and tweeting, conversation has become a bit more staccato. In many ways we're more efficient, but I… — Indra Nooyi Copy Share Image
We have to have a national conversation about how police forces should interact with the African-American community, who happens to be paying… — William Lacy Clay, Jr Copy Share Image