the wasting of time is the most personal, most private, most intimate form of conversation with oneself, as well as with another. — Mary Ruefle Copy Share Image
All the inane, meaningless noises people make that pass for intelligent conversation. They might as well be pigs grunting in the pen. (92) — Norma Fox Mazer Copy Share Image
Music is like having a conversation. All musicians inspire each other, and they're all geared to play something that matters. — Vince Gill Copy Share Image
I'm one of those guys that is still a bit afraid of the telephone, its implications for conversation. I still wonder if… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
Conversation didn't seem necessary when I put the accordion down and swung some young lady around the floor. — Lawrence Welk Copy Share Image
I get readings, I sometimes get five a week. You'll feel like a schizophrenic by the end of that week. I don't… — Josh Holloway 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
“If his conversation is more about your physical qualities than your goals in life, he’s not thinking long-term.” — James Wilson Copy Share Image
The stage, the screen, the novel, casual conversation, the street discussion, and too often the fireside intimacies are punctuated with blasphemy, to… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
With Black Lives Matter, we knew from the very beginning that it wasn't just going to live online. We were like, 'We're… — Patrisse Cullors Copy Share Image
Deafness produces bizarre effects, reversing the natural order of things; the interchange of letters is the conversation of the deaf, and the… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
I was starting to play the ukulele at the same time I was having all these conversations with [the late Ramones guitarist]… — Eddie Vedder Copy Share Image
(I want to) make good stories that have a redemptive message and allow people to dig into their own lives and personal… — Drew Waters Copy Share Image
If you're trying to make someone happy, you gotta try and make them happy. If you're trying to have a normal conversation,… — Jonah Hill Copy Share Image
I really don't know what happened in reference to 'The Butler.' Mr. Daniels and I had a conversation. I had the script,… — Mo'Nique Copy Share Image
“You're going to kill me." "It'd be a hell of a way to go though." "Was that makeup sex? We didn't even… — Jana Aston Copy Share Image
The first conversation I ever had about the Internet was in 1993 with Robert Wright, who was then a colleague at the… — Jacob Weisberg Copy Share Image
In their presence, there's no need for continuous conversation, but you find you're quite content in just having them nearby. — Bob Marley Copy Share Image
No discussion between two persons can be of any use, until each knows clearly what it is that the other asserts. — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
I believe man is stripped naked when he's in conversation with God. Your deepest fears, strongest desires, highest hopes - they're all… — Kay Kay Menon Copy Share Image
There is something about the alchemy of a keyboard and a public platform that taps into a side of human nature that… — Richard Bacon Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all. — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
The elites - or managers in companies - no longer control the conversation. This is how insurrections start. — Marc Benioff Copy Share Image
The whole being-in-a-room interview thing, at a junket or a film festival, is very inhuman. You meet the person, have five or… — Paul Dano Copy Share Image
There's no conversation more boring than talking about what it's really like to live in Newport and how the show compares to… — Adam Brody Copy Share Image
I went to University in 1991, and I remember, nobody thought of India. I remember conversations where people would laugh and say,… — Rahul Gandhi Copy Share Image
Jokes do finish themselves. I really do see them as ongoing conversations about personal themes that I ruminate on. — Marc Maron Copy Share Image
Whenever I go to L.A., the make-up artist or hairdresser will end up having a conversation about how fat they think they… — Kate Winslet Copy Share Image
It is a happy art to know when one has said enough. I would leave my hearers wishing me to say more… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
In my experience—and I admit I didn't anticipate this—most blacks are delighted to have a 100-percent honest conversation with a white man… — Jared Taylor Copy Share Image
What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming. — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
I'd have conversations with the camera crew about what was going on in the scene, so that they were prepared to shoot… — Susan Sarandon Copy Share Image
“The more you concentration on God, the longer your conversation with him lasts and the holier his consacration will be on you.… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“She began the conversation with Tom by acknowledging his work and then focused on the problem at hand, sticking strictly to the… — William Ury Copy Share Image
It's a lovely answer and takes me entirely by surprise. I hadn't realized we were having a serious conversation, or I think… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
There was a time when my siblings could have walked up to me and we could have had a conversation and I… — Anthony Johnson Copy Share Image
A beautifully constructed borshch, such as you are going to experience presently, ought not only to banish conversation but almost to annihilate… — Hector Hugh Munro Copy Share Image
He'll never be Jordan. This clearly takes him out of the conversation. He can win as much as he wants to. — Charles Barkley Copy Share Image
“I am wonderful fun to talk to. I’m a consummate professional. People leave my parlor in states. You are here. It’s conversation-time.… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Twitter is basically just you having a conversation with yourself hoping that someone else will join in. — Anonymous Copy Share Image