Conversation Quotes

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I dress like an old woman in my real life. If you're having conversations with people, you don't want them to remember you as the… — Jennifer Lawrence
Cooking is a caring and nurturing act. It's kind of the ultimate gift for someone, to cook for them. It creates all this beautiful stuff,… — Curtis Stone
I wanted to start a website for teenaged girls that was not kind of this one-dimensional strong character empowerment thing, because one thing that can… — Tavi Gevinson
Writing a first draft is like groping one's way into a dark room, or overhearing a faint conversation, or telling a joke whose punchline you've… — Ted Solotaroff
Polite Conversation 'Tis happy for him, that his father was before him. — Jonathan Swift
Polite Conversation Why, everyone one as they like; as the good woman said when she kissed her cow. — Jonathan Swift
In the middle of a conversation, she'll frequently say something like, "Young people are heartless, they don't have any respect anymore." I nod agreement in… — Susanna Tamaro
I didn't write my speech until the night before, and even then I refused to write it out like I would say it, preferring to… — Corey Taylor
I do not mind having imaginary conversations with animals who are part of my life. The comfort of talking to one at a time of… — Derek Tangye
Dialogue must appear realistic without being so. Actual realism-the lifting, as it were, of passages from a stenographer's take-down of a 'real life' conversation-would be… — Elizabeth Bowen
In conversation you can use timing, a look, an inflection. But on the page all you have is commas, dashes, the amount of syllables in… — Fran Lebowitz
Capablanca used to talk calmly and moderately about everything. However, when our conversation turned to the problems of the battle for the world championship, in… — Unknown Author
Producing a photographic document involves preparation in excess. There is first the examination of the idea of the project. Then the visits to the scene,… — Aaron Siskind
Wine is a part of society because it provides a basis not only for a morality but also for an environment; it is an ornament… — Roland Barthes
If you fall out of favor, you quickly stop being part of the conversation. But it can take one great project to turn things around.… — Chris O'Donnell
So many of our conversations (about affirmative action) have been dishonest — Clarence Thomas
If the minds of women were enlightened and improved, the domestic work would be more frequently refreshed by intelligent conversation, a means of edification now… — Sarah Moore Grimke
In heaven I'll wish with all my heart that I could reclaim a thousandth part of the time I've let slip through my fingers, that… — Billy Graham
After the conversations about Indian philosophy, some of the ideas of Quantum Physics that had seemed so crazy suddenly made much more sense. — Werner Heisenberg
...the circumstances and the atmosphere always have so much to do in directing a conversation, especially a German conversation, which is only a kind of… — Mark Twain

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