“And better still to be alone with one’s books. They tell their incredible stories at the time when you want to hear… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My colleagues and I were always having the same conversation in the teachers lunchroom about books we wanted our students to read,… — Charles Best Copy Share Image
“I hear so many excuses that I’ve pretty much become numb to his endless tales of woes. Communication is a major problem… — Melissa Orlov Copy Share Image
“So is this a habit of yours, leaving your bag behind in order te strike up a conversation?" He grinned and nodded… — Amy Plum Copy Share Image
So thirsty," Jack groaned. "So worried,"said the frog. I hope we don't starve to death." "Yes,"said Jill, "not starving to death would… — Adam Gidwitz Copy Share Image
The problem with movies and books is they make evil look glamorous, exciting, when it's no such thing. It's boring and it's… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
I know that in writer's rooms across North America, there are still conversations about how much is too much when it comes… — Dan Levy Copy Share Image
The conversation that the Senate and the House are having with the President [Barack Obama] was very similar to the conversation that… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
You're always in a rush, or else you're too exhausted to have a proper conversation. Soon enough, the long hours, the traveling,… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
Playing is just about feeling. Playing isn't necessarily about misery. Playing isn't necessarily about happiness. But it's just about letting yourself feel… — Janis Joplin Copy Share Image
I had two brilliant children and one genius. Elon could figure out things when he was very young and was always advanced… — Maye Musk Copy Share Image
When they told me I had cancer - a very rare form called appendiceal cancer - I was shocked. But I went… — Stuart Scott Copy Share Image
“We continue to eat, the conversation easy and flowing. I listen to everything everyone says, an urgency to pay attention, to not… — Kaui Hart Hemmings Copy Share Image
There is a sort of knowledge beyond the power of learning to bestow, and this is to be had in conversation; so… — Henry Fielding 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
To be the windowpane - this is basically a bastardization of what Orwell said about good writing - so you can get… — John Dickerson Copy Share Image
If you're studying from a book and trying to listen in on a conversation at the same time, those are two separate… — Daniel Levitin Copy Share Image
The Internet is a very intimate entertainment experience. I'm in my own apartment talking to people, and I want them to feel… — Grace Helbig Copy Share Image
“Mirabelle knows, and she lets this be unspoken, that all free things require conversation. Sitting in a darkened movie theatre requires absolutely… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
Excellent." As soon as Bergman left earshot Vayl said, "I am going to buy you some pom-poms and a short pleated skirt-"… — Jennifer Rardin Copy Share Image
“I wonder at my incapacity for easy banter, smooth conversation, empty words to fill awkward moments. I don't have a closet filled… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
It's refreshing, honestly, to be able to have more intellectual conversations about sex and the meaning of sex, and intimacy and what… — Lizzy Caplan Copy Share Image
When we seek daily spiritual guidance, we are guided toward the next step forward for our art. Sometimes the step is very… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
I am a partisan for conversation. To make room for it, I see some first, deliberate steps. At home, we can create… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
I remember once asking Grandma about a book she was reading, a biography of Abraham Lincoln, and how she answered me: this… — Joyce Carol Oates 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
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
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
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
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
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
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