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
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
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
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
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
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 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
He told me that one of the reasons people are so unhappy is they don't talk to themselves. He said you have… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
The conversation between Fletcher and Jonathan Livingston Seagull is centered on why some have achieved more than others . . . are… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
There are plus-size women who've paved the way - Rebel Wilson, Gabby Sidibe, Melissa McCarthy. I can't wait for the day when… — Chrissy Metz Copy Share Image
I really do think inspiration comes from day-to-day life. I think there's things that pique our interest - not necessarily aha! moments… — Phil Kay Copy Share Image
“To write a genuine familiar or truly English style, is to write as any one would speak in common conversation who had… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
I don’t worry anymore about writing. There are times that I go through dry periods. I never go through a block. I’m… — Dorianne Laux Copy Share Image
People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
The conversation people need to have is no longer about women assuming positions of leadership within the existing power structure, it's about… — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
Perhaps the easiest people to fall in love with are those about whom we know nothing. Romances are never as pure as… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
I'm a compulsive note-taker, and I used to feel self-conscious about pulling out my little notebook and taking notes during a casual… — Gretchen Rubin 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
A lot of times, when you don't have to deal with some of the circumstances that affect minority culture, you just don't… — Lecrae Copy Share Image
I often notice how students can gain the capacity to use certain critical methodologies through engaging with very different texts - how… — Dean Spade Copy Share Image
“don't think that women ought to sit down at table with men. It ruins conversation and I'm sure it's very bad for… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
First of all, I should preface this by the observation that artists are not the best judges of what they've done and… — Nicholas Meyer Copy Share Image
Nothing in this world is more powerful, or more dangerous, than the truth. That's why some people go to such lengths to… — Jonathan Cainer Copy Share Image
The law of nature is alternation for evermore. Each electrical state superinduces the opposite. The soul environs itself with friends, that it… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
