What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it’s charming.

Conversation in real life is full of half-finished sentences and overlapping talk. Why shouldn’t painting be too?

I think someone’s conversation, whether in e-mail or in person, should be private.

It costs something to be a real Christian, according to the standard of the Bible. There are enemies to be overcome, battles to be fought, sacrifices to be made, an Egypt to be forsaken, a wilderness to be passed through, a cross to be carried, a race to be run. Conversion is not putting a person in an arm-chair and taking them easily to heaven. It is the beginning of a mighty conflict, in which it costs much to win the victory.

I’m always for constructive conversation, meaningful conversation, not just words, but conversation.

If you’re stuck in hell, you might as well roast some marshmallows. Conversation.

We never could clearly understand how it is that egotism, so unpopular in conversation, should be so popular in writing

Men of great conversational powers almost universally practise a sort of lively sophistry and exaggeration which deceives for the moment both themselves and their auditors

A person isn’t who they are during the last conversation you had with them – they’re who they’ve been throughout your whole relationship.

Music is a conversation between the artist and the listener. Don’t limit yourself to one genre, explore different styles and techniques.

According to me a diary should always be in actual a salient or a proper account or detail of any one particular episode you can say of just like a walk or just like that of a conversation

I’m a very consistent leader, and people won’t find me different day to day. You won’t have to have the sort of conversation that says, ‘How is she today? Is this a good day to have this conversation?’ You won’t find that situation with me. I treat people with respect.

It turned out that if you saw the same person with some degree of regularity, then the conversation was immediately pleasant and comfortable—you could pick up where you left off, as it were, rather than having to start afresh each time.

This is the first time I have heard ‘ethics’ in the mouth of a man. You and I are the only men on this ship that know its meaning. At one time in my life, I dreamed that I might someday talk with men who used such language, that I might lift myself out of the place in life in which I had been born, and hold conversation and mingle with men who talked about just such things as ethics.

Martin heaved a sigh of relief when the door closed behind the laundryman. He was becoming anti-social. Daily he found it a severer strain to be decent with people. Their presence perturbed him, and the effort of conversation irritated him. They made him restless, and no sooner was he in contact with them than he was casting about for excuses to get rid of them.

All His glory and beauty come from within, and there He delights to dwell, His visits there are frequent, His conversation sweet, His comforts refreshing; and His peace passing all understanding

Drying up in conversation, You will be the one who cannot talk, All your insides fall to pieces, You just sit there wishing you could still make love

People in bands don’t have the kind of conversations people might think they have. The best things about being in a band are the things that are unsaid.

He is clearly bookish. I did not follow a single word of their conversation at dinner last night, not one jot of it. He must be bookish.

This is what happens when somebody validates that conversation, that discourse, that’s how genocide begins, that’s how civil wars start, by validating that ignorant, repulsive, bigoted discourse.

I have seldom heard people engaging in deep intellectual conversations. Most chats are either about mundane life decisions […] or juicy gossip.

Baseball is a conversation between generations, a link to the past, and a bridge to the future

It’s very nice to have someone that you can have a completely abstract conversation with and leave the room, feel like everything’s fine, and then realize that if you pick it apart, you have absolutely no idea what either of you said

A novel is a conversation between the writer and the reader, a meeting of minds across time and space

Death lends everything a metaphoric imperative. Mundane objects become fetishes when the departed no longer need them, and breakfast conversations grow runic and wise from behind the shadows

The conservation of natural resources is the fundamental problem. Unless we solve that problem it will avail us little to solve all others

You can’t eat hope,? the woman said. You can’t eat it, but it sustains you,? the colonel replied.

I am strongly convinced that not only too much consciousness but even any consciousness at all is a sickness.

I read a lot on the subject and had many conversations, and I have come to the conclusion that the Catholic Church is a force for evil.

I attended the bedside of a friend who was dying in a Dublin hospital. She lived her last hours in a public ward with a television blaring out a football match, all but drowning our final conversation.

People that know me and played with me know that I was pretty intense, i didn’t talk much. … Teammates learned pretty quickly that a conversation with me on a game day, that would be a pretty short conversation.

I’ve always said the one advantage an actor has of converting to a director is that he’s been in front of the camera. He doesn’t have to get in front of the camera again, subliminally or otherwise.

Silence is also conversation.

Take the risk of thinking for yourself, much more happiness, truth, beauty, and wisdom will come to you that way.

If I convert, it’s because it’s better that a believer dies than that an atheist does.

Among the Igbo the art of conversation is regarded very highly, and proverbs are the palm-oil with which words are eaten.

I think that just sitting down and having casual conversation is the hardest stuff to do. But the extremes? I know what it feels like to come racing around the corner at 90 miles an hour, sliding the car sideways. I know what gear I’m hitting it in when I’m coming around the corner and where I need to downshift. So to me, that’s the fun stuff.

The difficulty with this conversation is that it’s very different from most of the ones I’ve had of late. Which, as I explained, have mostly been with trees.

I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.

For the human species to evolve, the conversation must deepen.

I just use my muscles as a conversation piece, like someone walking a cheetah down 42nd Street.

The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has a sense that a catastrophe has occurred in the psychic landscape.

Hello heaven, you are a tunnel lined with yellow lights on a dark night.