Human relationships are rich and they're messy and they're demanding. And we clean them up with technology. We sacrifice conversation for mere… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
When elderly invalids meet with fellow-victims of their own ailments, then at last real conversation begins, and life is delicious. — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
Even an idle phone conversation when driving takes a 40 percent bite out of your focus and, surprisingly, can have the same… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Is there anything more terrible than a "call"? It affords an occasion for the exchange of the most threadbare commonplaces. Calls and… — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image
“I know of no other practise which will make one more attractive in conversation than to be well-read in a variety of… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
Because I'm a white Latina, I hold a lot of privilege, and if that's the conversation people want to have, about my… — Rachel Zegler Copy Share Image
Perpetual aiming at wit is a very bad part of conversation. It is done to support a character: it generally fails; it… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Conversation is the fine art of mutual consideration and communication about matters of common interest that basically have some human importance. — Ordway Tead Copy Share Image
The goal of a marketing interaction isn't to close the sale, any more than the goal of a first date is to… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Do not be irritated either with those who sin or those who offend; do not have a passion for noticing every sin… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The National Security Agency’s capability at any time could be turned around on the American people, and no American would have any… — Frank Church Copy Share Image
As Dutch elm disease spread across Britain in the 1970s, the country fell into mourning. When the sentinel trees that framed our… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
The work is different in the sense that I haven't had to travel round the world raising money, or work from the… — Tilda Swinton Copy Share Image
Whenever an encounter between a writer of good will and a regular person of good will happens to touch on the subject… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“Do you think,” she says, the words emerging thickly, “we might have used up all our conversation last night?” “Not possible,” says… — Jennifer E. Smith Copy Share Image
He was telling the students about the hypnotic technique of using quotes in a conversation. An idea is more palatable ... if… — Neil Strauss Copy Share Image
The conversations about a film are an example of success because then you know whatever you've done has resonated. — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
The most important conversations, briefings, meeting, and lectures you will ever have will be those you hold with yourself in the privacy… — Denis Waitley Copy Share Image
I like hearing myself talk. It is one of my greatest pleasures. I often have long conversations all by myself. Sometimes I… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Conversation succeeds conversation, Until there's nothing left to talk about Except truth, the perennial monologue, And no talker to dispute it but… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
Listening to your own sets and listening to the audience as you perform. It's a conversation of sorts. There is an exchange. — Ted Alexandro Copy Share Image
And I find it very easy to memorize the scripts, which are so close to conversations my husband and I have. — Patricia Heaton Copy Share Image
He learned to communicate with birds and discovered their conversation was fantastically boring. It was all to do with windspeed, wingspans, power-to-weight… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“I just want somebody I can have a decent conversation with over dinner.” —Tom Hanks, Sleepless in Seattle (1993)” — Jenn Bennett Copy Share Image
I can talk through anything. I even talked while I was having my tonsils removed in Ardentinny when I was in the… — June Brown Copy Share Image
“Nothing could kill a conversation quite like fighting back tears after you're asked a simple question.” — Katherine Pine Copy Share Image
For the past few years I have engaged in several inappropriate conversations conducted over Twitter, Facebook, e-mail and occasionally on the phone… — Anthony Weiner Copy Share Image
Our rule is: If it makes the parent laugh, and the kid asks why, that can't be an uncomfortable conversation. — Dan Povenmire Copy Share Image
The consequences of being un-cool feel so big that a lot of times you end of not finding ways to have open… — John Green Copy Share Image
I'm glad to say I'm experiencing more of a conversation in my artistic workforce world than I ever have before. But it's… — Jessie Mueller Copy Share Image
“Get over here. We're having intimate bed conversation and I won't do it with a foot of mattress between us.” — Jane Seville Copy Share Image
All she heard next of the strange conversation behind the sofa was Mrs. Pendragon saying something about sending Twinkle (or was his… — Diana Wynne Jones Copy Share Image
Many of my books are written from a female perspective. I rather enjoy the take that women have on the world, and… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
When I'm singing I feel like I'm talking to someone. I'm in conversation when I perform - either with myself or with… — Laura Marling Copy Share Image
As a writer one is allowed to have conversations with oneself. What is considered sane in writers is made for the rest… — Alan Ayckbourn Copy Share Image
A delicacy of taste is favorable to love and friendship, by confining our choice to few people, and making us indifferent to… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Society was nothing but a long, dull dinner party conversation in which one was forced to speak to one's partner on both… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
I believe the term "blog" means more than an online journal. I believe a blog is a conversation. People go to blogs… — Michael Arrington Copy Share Image
Burning logs can carry on quite a conversation! ... Have you ever heard apple wood talking? It's the most loquacious of all.… — Agnes Sligh Turnbull Copy Share Image
The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
