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
A good mixtape didn't just gather together a bunch of love songs, but instead created an emotional narrative specific to your affection.… — Anthony Marra Copy Share Image
I'm very aware that when my friends and I sit around over dinner these days, the conversation invariably turns to how crass… — Tom Ford Copy Share Image
What is literature, really? Boiled down to a single sentence, I'd say it's this: an endless conversation about what it means to… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
What I would give, I thought, to have been present as Elizabeth Keckley measured Mary Lincoln for a new gown, to overhear… — Jennifer Chiaverini Copy Share Image
In Spain, if you don't follow football, you're dead. You don't have conversation. — Garbine Muguruza Copy Share Image
There is not in the world a kind of life more sweet and delightful, than that of a continual conversation with God;… — Brother Lawrence Copy Share Image
In Hawaii, if you're invited to dinner, it's assumed that the children are invited as well. On the islands, no one treats… — Gabrielle Reece Copy Share Image
Other than conversation, no other art form can give the satisfaction of spontaneous interaction like Jazz. — Stan Getz Copy Share Image
Is there anyone to whom you entrust a greater number of serious matters than your wife? And is there anyone with whom… — Socrates Copy Share Image
Our ability to offer empathy can allow us to stay vulnerable, defuse potential violence, help us hear the word 'no' without taking… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
There are hundreds and hundreds of followers of Islamic State around Europe and the U.S. The Saudis are showing this. And all… — Dalia Mogahed Copy Share Image
It's a hard thing to hold a civil conversation after recalling that one party has used a Taser on the other, so… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
One thing that really bothers me is when a young black person speaks or leads a conversation, and afterward a white person… — Maverick Carter Copy Share Image
Conversation with a friend will only bear good fruit of knowledge when both think only of the matter under consideration and forget… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I actually met Deadmau5 for the first time on the red carpet in Hollywood for the Grammys. I was there with my… — Paul Shaffer Copy Share Image
I always found it bizarre or strange that there was this unwritten set of rules around how a woman could interact with… — Whitney Wolfe Herd Copy Share Image
Shyness means you are in the hallway of a greater presence. You just don't know how to take the conversation another step.… — David Whyte Copy Share Image
You can't answer a kid's question. A kid never accepts any answer. A kid never says, 'Oh, thanks. I get it.'... They… — Louis C. K Copy Share Image
That which chiefly causes the failure of a dinner-party, is the running short--not of meat, nor yet of drink, but of conversation. — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
Palindromes are the number one conversation stopper, like party killer, I think I've ever seen. — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
A film is not a vehicle to accuse, or to relay a specific message. If we reduce a film to this, we… — Hirokazu Kore-eda Copy Share Image
I have been further enlightened by the conversation and correspondence of some illustrious Italians, whom I would gladly name, were I not… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We lament, too, the destruction of purity among women and young girls as is evidenced by the increasing immodesty of their dress… — Pope Pius XI Copy Share Image