And, as for what is called improving conversation, that is merely the foolish method by which the still more foolish philanthropist feebly… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Whenever my mother talks to me, she begins the conversation as if we were already in the middle of an argument. — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
If a person begins by telling you, 'Do not be offended at what I am going to say,' prepare yourself for something… — Eliza Leslie Copy Share Image
I want to be able to have a conversation with people. I don't want to be stupid. I'd like to have a… — Callan McAuliffe Copy Share Image
I've always felt that everything I've done has been a conversation, a continuation of the last conversation that I had with the… — Alexandra C. Pelosi Copy Share Image
With code, what it means is what it does. It doesn't express, not really. It's a very bounded conversation. And writing is… — Ellen Ullman Copy Share Image
... he trotted down the hallway on all fours and started in on his second favorite pastime, conversations with plumbing. Just what… — Devon Monk Copy Share Image
A large family party is rather too much like a flight of tomtits; everlasting twitter, but no conversation; gregariousness without companionship. — Charles Buxton Copy Share Image
I personally feel like the conversation around feminism has advanced a lot. People are starting to realize privileged white feminism isn't cutting… — Esme Creed-Miles Copy Share Image
As a black man, sometimes you can't tell if what you're seeing has underlying bigotry, or it's a normal conversation and you're… — Jordan Peele Copy Share Image
You could dress it up with a sequined headband,” Magnus suggested, offering his boyfriend something blue and sparkly. “Just a thought.” “Resist… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Life is sacred. Life is art. Life is sacred art. The art of sacred living means being a holy actor, acting from… — Gabrielle Roth Copy Share Image
Reading is good, hearing is good, conversation and meditation are good; but then, they are only good at times and occasions, in… — William Law Copy Share Image
When the mind is full of any one subject, that subject seems to recur with extraordinary frequency - it appears to pursue… — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
It is its own form of conversation -- you can learn a lot about people from the stories they tell, but you… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
There was very little about her face and figure that was in any way remarkable, but it was the sort of face… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
I find it is happening in different ways to every industry in the world, and positioning yourself for that, and trying to… — Ken Moelis Copy Share Image
“Reading to me has always been like having a conversation with people who wouldn’t ask me any personal questions. Instead, they open… — Marina Simcoe Copy Share Image
I won't change myself and compromise myself, but I will make my music to be in the conversation with everyone else's. — Fabolous Copy Share Image
I do believe there's a hunger in this country to have a civil conversation and to listen to each other again and… — Margaret Brennan Copy Share Image
I've played Beckett. I put on in the 1950s the first Australian production of 'Waiting for Godot.' I played Estragon. The most… — Barry Humphries Copy Share Image
In America journalism is apt to be regarded as an extension of history: in Britain, as an extension of conversation. — Anthony Sampson Copy Share Image
There's always been a quiet conversation and joke that if you're not hard, if you're not from impoverished neighborhoods, if you're not… — Chance The Rapper Copy Share Image
The act of nutrition is not a purely physiological event... The family meal is a formality that cultivates in us... a capacity… — Francine du Plessix Gray Copy Share Image
English tradition debars from dinner-table conversation almost all topics that might interest the conversers and insists upon strict adherence to banalities. — Elspeth Huxley Copy Share Image
I'm trying to make the readers feel as if he or she is right there in the conversation, and so I don't… — Susan Straight Copy Share Image
You talked to me, but you didn’t. I could see you having these two-sided conversations. The things you wanted to say to… — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
I think Twitter is best when it sparks conversations elsewhere. To use YouTube and Facebook and all the tools we have available… — Jack Dorsey Copy Share Image
“God say what He got to say and that’s it. He leaves it up to us to listen or not. End of… — Michelle Stimpson Copy Share Image
Sympathy wanting, all is wanting; its personal magnetism is the conductor of the sacred spark that lights our atoms, puts us m… — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
The conversation of those who like to lord it over us is very disagreeable. But we should always be ready to graciously… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
Why are people saying it's too soon? Like the people on that flight, we need to agree about what to do about… — Paul Greengrass Copy Share Image
One's own vanities and humiliations I find a delicious subject for conversation. Things said of me behind my back I don't enjoy,… — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
“But before she tells you anything." I glared at him suspiciously. "your seed..."Tsaeb winced. "What the hell are you talking about?" "your...well,… — J.A. Redmerski Copy Share Image
It's not all about looks. If someone can sustain a good intellectual 'conversation, I find that very 'attractive. — Georgia Toffolo Copy Share Image
“Protecting our kids from sexual abuse is not accomplished in a single conversation, but in ongoing conversations grounded in honesty and trust.” — Carolyn Byers Ruch Copy Share Image
Real-life discussions involve a great many bores and boors who have never learned that the art of conversation demands listening as well… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
Soul grows in communion. Word by word, story by story, for better or worse, we build our world. From true conversation -… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter. Take Eddie's blood. Take Belikov's blood. Take your own for all I care. But If she doesn't want to… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
I had a long conversation with the imam, the Grand Imam of the Al-Azhar University, and I know how they think... They… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
