Whatever may be the talents of the persons who meet together in [American] society, the very shape, form, and arrangement of the… — Frances Trollope Copy Share Image
“Literacy is in our veins like blood. It enters every other phrase. It is next to impossible to hold a real conversation,… — Ruth Rendell Copy Share Image
The liar at any rate recognizes that recreation, not instruction, is the aim of conversation, and is a far more civilized being… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
As Walt Whitman correctly surmised, we are large and we harbour multitudes within us. And those multitudes are locked in chronic battle.… — Damian Thompson Copy Share Image
This immediate dependence of language upon nature, this conversion of an outward phenomenon into a type of somewhat in human life,never loses… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Art is something someone made. It's a product of human endeavor. As such, it's not that different from having a conversation with… — David Salle Copy Share Image
Lilacs, False Blue, White, Purple, Colour of lilac, Your great puffs of flowers Are everywhere in this my New England ... Lilacs… — Amy Lowell Copy Share Image
“Talking to himself was, depressingly, the only way to achieve an intelligent and engaging conversation these days. Carnac tried to ration himself,… — Manna Francis Copy Share Image
I guess what really forms you as a person is what you do within your family to receive love or attention. In… — Emma Watson Copy Share Image
The future of communicating with customers rests in engaging with them through every possible channel: phone, e-mail, chat, Web, and social networks.… — Marc Benioff Copy Share Image
There is nothing so dangerous for anyone who has something to hide as conversation!... A human being, Hastings, cannot resist theopportunity to… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
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
Like Frankenweenie is a story about a boy and his dog, Big Fish is the story of a father and his son,… — John August Copy Share Image
“The least you could do is offer a little conversation.” Beckett dodged a pothole, keeping his eyes on the road. “You want… — Jenny B. Jones 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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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