This is my new hobby. I watch my life depart minute by minute. I anticipate the end of everything and anything --… — Megan McCafferty Copy Share Image
We've seen computers play chess and beat grand masters. We've seen computers drive a car across a desert. But interestingly, playing chess… — Hod Lipson Copy Share Image
You ask me a question. I have a blank mind. You ask me a question, and the question is informed, and you're… — Melissa Leo Copy Share Image
In my opinion, the most fruitful and natural play of the mind is in conversation. I find it sweeter than any other… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The things a man believes most profoundly are rarely on the surface of his mind or tongue. Newly acquired notions, decisions based… — Eric Johnston Copy Share Image
Eden is a conversation. It is the conversation of the human with the Divine. And it is the reverberations of that conversation… — Barry Lopez Copy Share Image
We need a better way to talk about eating animals, a way that doesn't ignore, or even just shruggingly accept things like… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I hate solitude, but I'm afraid of intimacy. The substance of my life is a private conversation with myself which to turn… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
I got to watch Frank Capra, in his eighties, in action. You read all the stories about Frank Capra fighting with the… — David Copperfield Copy Share Image
For a long time, I couldn't just sit and have a conversation with people at a table without showing them a trick.… — Derren Brown Copy Share Image
I do have friends that are Republicans, and we have very spirited conversations on a whole range of issues. I am often… — Barbra Streisand Copy Share Image
Because the rhythm of conversation makes no allowance for dead periods, because the presence of others calls for continuous responses, we are… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
I Have often thought if the minds of men were laid open, we should see but little difference between that of the… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
This great Mughal Emperor [Akbar] was illiterate; he could neither read nor write. However, that had not stopped Akbar from cultivating the… — Indu Sundaresan Copy Share Image
Yes, I, well, when I write, as often as I can, I try to write as if I'm talking to people. It… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Elon Musk wins you over with his elegant mastery of engineering, be it for the rocket or the car. But what blew… — Steve Jurvetson Copy Share Image
What should be driving the conversation is: What's the story? What's the movie about? Is it a compelling story? And if it… — Rick Famuyiwa Copy Share Image
There's no reason why I can't be a mogul. When I step into a room and I'm there to have a conversation,… — Kevin Hart Copy Share Image
A journalist is basically a chronicler, not an interpreter of events. Where else in society do you have the license to eavesdrop… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
Mickalene [Thomas] is an artist that I have admired for a long time. So much of her work inspires me - I… — Morgan Parker Copy Share Image
Solitude and company may be allowed to take their turns: the one creates in us the love of mankind, the other that… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
As a writer I'm committed to exploring what I call "The invisible things" - the things that people aren't talking about. I… — Steven C. Harper Copy Share Image
If you can laugh with somebody and relate to somebody, it becomes harder to dehumanize them. I think that most of what… — Jehane Noujaim Copy Share Image
“Conversation is how values get ordered, how passion is made contagious. If a parent talks about it, it's important. If a child… — Robin R. Meyers Copy Share Image
In the first 20 seconds of talking, your light is green: your listener is liking you as long as your statement is… — Mark Goulston Copy Share Image
A man of sense and education should meet a suitable companion in a wife. It is a miserable thing when the conversation… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I search his eyes for the slightest sign of anything, fear, remorse, anger. But there's only the same look of amusement that… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
I can enjoy an Arsenal-Chelsea match without having to worry about getting exclusive quotes afterwards from one of the participants as he… — Steve Rushin Copy Share Image
It is safer to quote what is written than what is spoken. What a man writes it is fair to presume he… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
I'm definitely not the kind of person who wants to push anything down anyone's throat, so I don't really mind what the… — Samira Wiley Copy Share Image
We have two boys. After George Zimmerman was found not guilty of killing Trayvon Martin, we had to explain to our older… — Gina Prince-Bythewood Copy Share Image
Our objective is to begin a national conversation to better support individuals and families living with ASD in Canada. The Summit will… — Cynthia Carroll Copy Share Image
Conversation is much like a tennis game except that in tennis you try to put the ball in the most difficult position… — Margery Wilson Copy Share Image
The secret of success in society is a certain heartiness and sympathy. A man who is not happy in company, cannot find… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
So I switch to my MacBook and make my rounds: news sites, blogs, tweets. I scroll back to find the conversations that… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
“I wasn't feeling that social, though I was painfully alone at the time. I do things like that. I'll moan to myself… — Fred Stoller Copy Share Image
“It is not necessary or advantageous to give your opinion about everything to everyone. It is not your job to be a… — Bohdi Sanders Copy Share Image
“We humans always seem to take a manipulative posture. No matter what the particulars of the situation, or the subject matter, we… — James Redfield Copy Share Image
The battle with Men Who Explain Things has trampled down many women - of my generation, of the up-and-coming generation we need… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Wasting people's time must be the attractive thing to do now an days. I mean why bother trying to get to know… — Anonymous Copy Share Image