Conversation. What is it? A Mystery! It's the art of never seeming bored, of touching everything with interest, of pleasing with trifles,… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
Criticism is fine and conversation is fine, but the person who's criticizing should know what they're saying and whom they're criticizing. — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
“You have something important to add, so you interrupt an exciting conversation already in progress just to let us know you have… — Troy Ragland Copy Share Image
Usually, when Nirvana made music, there wasn't a lot of conversation. We wanted everything to be surreal. We didn't want to have… — Dave Grohl Copy Share Image
I really hated being the Norwegian girl in every single conversation in Australia, so I tried to make my Norwegian-ness invisible, speaking… — Jenny Hval Copy Share Image
The more you get into conversations with people, you find out they've been brainwashed by the news and they don't actually know… — Lissie Copy Share Image
My mother raised three girls, really, pretty much on her own, and she didn't have time for play or conversation or whatever.… — Angie Dickinson Copy Share Image
“It was the talk that mattered supremely: the impassioned exchange of talk. Love was only a minor accompaniment.” — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Gossip, public, private, social - to fight against it either by word or pen seems, after all, like fighting with shadows. Everybody… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
My partner, Jeff Ullrich, and I always thought Earwolf was going to be big. There were a couple of studies before we… — Scott Aukerman Copy Share Image
When you play a smaller, more intimate venue, you can have real conversations with your audience, take risks, and stay current. You… — Jason Mraz Copy Share Image
I was taken aback by the amount of interest, due to my colour, that exploded when we got engaged. It has developed… — Emma Weymouth Copy Share Image
I always liked popping up in a place, inviting my fans out, and then having a discourse with them in person. That's… — Anthony Fantano Copy Share Image
“If I were alone with my clone, and we were enjoying each others' solitude, I'd have finally have met a man with… — Jarod Kintz 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
If we can't come together, and have conversations and understand our biases and understand that hate, none of us are really the… — LeCrae Copy Share Image
“Are you joining a conversation or taking it over? Stay aware of how you join a conversation and of your effect on… — Loren Weisman Copy Share Image
As a member of the often maligned fourth estate, it is so refreshing to have a conversation instead of a buttoned up… — Margaret Brennan Copy Share Image
A political conversation is a conversation in which people with different views come to agreements about how they're going to inhabit this… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
I work very closely with my co-writer, Efthimis Filippou. Ideas either start from him or me, and then the other one develops… — Yorgos Lanthimos Copy Share Image
A real conversation always contains an invitation. You are inviting another person to reveal herself or himself to you, to tell you… — David Whyte Copy Share Image
To be able to work with Bun B and be able to have a conversation, and the insights the OG has, and… — Big K.R.I.T Copy Share Image
I've felt since I was a kid this desperate longing to be closer to - I don't know what. Just to something… — Adrianne Lenker Copy Share Image
“We've been making love these past two days by talking and I want for our bodies to join the conversation.” — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
The stage is the place I feel comfortable - it's almost as if real life is where I feel most nervous. Conversations… — Florence Welch Copy Share Image
“The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing in the right place but, far more difficult still,… — Dorothy Nevill Copy Share Image
“Ever notice how those who start a conversation with the phrase, "Needless to say", always seem to have a lot to say?” — Mark W Boyer Copy Share Image
The pains and pleasures of the body, howsoever important to ourselves, are an indelicate subject of conversation — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“In many a case, the phrase ‘I’d like to get to know you better’ is a euphemism for ‘I want us to… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
My sister, brother, and I are 180 degrees different. Having a conversation with them, you have to tread lightly. — Josie Totah Copy Share Image
But my Arabic is pretty good. It's good enough to have conversations with people, to understand what they say, to understand what… — John Abizaid Copy Share Image
The more uniform a man's voice, step, manner of conversation, handwriting--the more quiet, uniform, settled, his actions, his character. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
Though I carry enough electronics to get nervous in a lightning storm, I love paper and I always have a Moleskine journal… — Paul Saffo Copy Share Image
Musicians like to converse. There's always interesting conversation with musicians - with classical musicians, with jazz musicians, musicians in general. — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
I don't mind when our conversations get a little bit boring and we run out of things to say, just having you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A good conversation always involves a certain amount of complaining. I like to bond over mutual hatreds and petty grievances. — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
Of course a magazine is usually more interesting than a conversation, because so much more time and preparation has gone into it. — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
I feel that all the messages in the Conversations with God dialogues came from God. And many of them have been considered… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
The idea that you make an experience that requires a conversation in a public place is training for the fact that culture… — Edwin Schlossberg Copy Share Image