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Last updated on April 20, 2025.
Marriage is the permanent conversation between two people who talk over everything and everyone until death breaks the record.
I always describe race as the final taboo in American theatre. There's a real reluctance to have that conversation in an open, honest way on the stage.
Conversation is the fine art of mutual consideration and communication about matters of common interest that basically have some human importance.
Don't discount the power of your words. The thought that they might cause unnecessary hurt or discomfort should inform every conversation.
Any conversation including the mention of Roald Dahl, Ray Bradbury, or Emily Dickinson is one worth getting into or at least eavesdropping.
We owe to one another all the wit and good humour we can command; and nothing so clears our mental vistas as sympathetic and intelligent conversation.
The conversation of cultural appropriation versus appreciation is especially important for the NFL as it seeks to expand its fan base to London and all over the world.
For any country that has multiple cultures, food is an awesome way for people to acknowledge and respect each other and have an open conversation.
The cream of enjoyment in this life is always impromptu. The chance walk; the unexpected visit; the unpremeditated journey; the unsought conversation or acquaintance.
We're trying to create one holistic beauty experience where you can be inspired by other women, both the people we're interviewing and the community contributing to the conversation.
The blight of futility that lies in wait for men's speeches had fallen upon our conversation and made it a thing of empty sounds.
Since I'm not a journalist, I talk about issues that encourage an interchange of ideas through conversation while also being entertaining.
We should not see print and electronic literature as in competition, but rather in conversation. The more voices that join in, the richer the dialogue is likely to be.
Conversation is a beautiful thing. When I was a younger guy, just wandering around talking to people was what kept me connected to the world.
Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.
All the inane, meaningless noises people make that pass for intelligent conversation. They might as well be pigs grunting in the pen. (92)
I think it's been the topic of conversation for every one... If the U.S. is hit again, how are we going to handle it? Our troops are all over the place.
You have to wait together - for a week, for a year, for a lifetime, before the final intimate conversation may be attained ... and exhausted. So that ... That in effect was love.
Four out of five HSN corporate officers are women. I'm a believer that a diversity of mindset enables us to have an engaged conversation.
We have the capacity for about 1.6 human conversations, so if you're listening to one conversation particularly, you're only left with 0.6 for your inner voice that helps you write.
Our gazes met. It seemed an entire conversation took place in that one glance. Each of us saw what we needed to know.
Man Ray takes a lot of pressure off me. It's like having a third person in a conversation; one of you doesn't have to talk all the time.
What I can't do is have an intelligent conversation with [George Stephanopoulos] about a report in "The New York Times" that is unnamed, inconclusive, and based on something that isn't true.
I so wanted out of this conversation, but it was like a car accident: Once you started spinning, you could only wait and see what you hit.
I don't think I've ever seen a person having a serious conversation on a cellphone. It's like a kiddie thing, a complete time waster.
Today's evangelism is just as likely to take place via chat rooms and viral videos as it is in a personal conversation or a sermon.
Whether in conversation we generally agree or disagree with others is largely a matter of habit: the one tendency makes as much sense as the other.
I think it's important to find projects that evoke people into conversation. It's like reading a good book. You want to talk about it.
When I spoke, I was listened to; and I was at a loss to know how I had so easily acquired the art of commanding attention, and giving the tone to the conversation.
How can you read and talk at the same time?” I asked. “Well, I usually can’t, but neither the book nor the conversation is particularly intellectually challenging.
I feel like great TED Talks are ones that are a little bit subject to interpretation, that do provoke further conversation - and potentially controversy.
Thanksgiving, our eminent moral holiday, doesn't have much for children. At its heart are conversation, food, drink, and fellowship - all perks of adulthood.
There is a person whose acquaintance and conversation I do earnestly recommend unto you as thing of the greatest advantage: you will be surprised when I tell you it is yourself.
The call for diversity is about recognizing that in order to be in the conversation come awards season, it goes back to the content that is being produced.
Books are love letters (or apologies) passed between us, adding a layer of conversation beyond our spoken words.
I don't spend too much time attempting to defend myself against people who seem to have zero desire to have a substantive conversation.
Method is not less requisite in ordinary conversation than in writing, provided a man would talk to make himself understood.
I can once more carry on a conversation with myself, and don't stare so into complete emptiness. Only in this way is there any possibility of improvement for me.
I am much beholden to old age, which has increased my eagerness for conversation in proportion as it has lessened my appetites of hunger and thirst.
A baby changes your dinner party conversation from politics to poops [very pleasant thanks for that mental image Maurice!]
In my experience—and I admit I didn't anticipate this—most blacks are delighted to have a 100-percent honest conversation with a white man about race.
A good conversation always involves a certain amount of complaining. I like to bond over mutual hatreds and petty grievances.
The more you talk to cats ... the smarter they become. An occasional 'nice kitty' will have no measurable effect; intelligent conversation is required.
An hour's conversation on literature between two ardent minds with a common devotion to a neglected poet is a miraculous road to intimacy.
I've spent so much time with iambic pentameter that I can now recognize it when I hear it in conversation or a movie - it's like a weird, useless superpower.
The hardest thing about being famous is that ... in a conversation everybody's agreeing with what you're saying. ... You need people who can tell you what you don't want to hear.
Surely only boring people went in for conversations consisting of questions and answers. The art of true conversation consisted in the play of minds.
I'm a huge Coppola fan. But more of 'Apocalypse Now' and 'The Conversation.' 'The Godfather' for me is, like, number three or four on the list.
Never argue. In society nothing must be; give only results. If any person differs from you, bow, and turn the conversation.
Fools are in great demand, especially on social occasions. They embarrass everyone but provide material for conversation. In their positive form, they become diplomats.
If the word is not dead when it reaches the hearer, he murders it at once by a contradiction, a stipulation, a condition, a digression, an interruption, and all the thousand tricks of conversation.
Taught by actor parents never to leave an awkward gap in the conversation I gabble out unsolicited responses to fill the voids.
Do not speak of God much. After a very little conversation on the highest nature, thought deserts us and we run into formalism.
If you're in public and standing still, don't take a phone call. It's that simple. All you're doing is holding those around you hostage to a one-sided conversation.
A country gentleman should bring his lady to visit London as soon as he can, that they may have agreeable topicks for conversation when they are by themselves.
Well, my closest friends are still the ones that I went to school with, but it's nice to go to work, at the studios, and have people there that you're willing to talk to and have a good conversation with.
To get real diversity of thought, you need to find the people who genuinely hold different views and invite them into the conversation.
I never, with important air, In conversation overbear. . . . . My tongue within my lips I rein; For who talks much must talk in vain.
Shyness means you are in the hallway of a greater presence. You just don't know how to take the conversation another step. It's a lovely indication.
Alone-sex didn't count. It's like the difference between thinking to yourself or having a good conversation with someone--the pleasure is in the exchange.