However, James and Aamir did not discuss their astounding box office grosses or formulas for success.Instead, they exchanged notes on the process of film-making; how ideas, even seemingly crazy ones that require developing a unique camera, as James did for Avatar, become a reality; how stories and not special effects are the heartbeat of movies.

I wondered if having conversations with your dog was less crazy than babbling to yourself when no one else was around. I guess it depended on whether or not the dog answered.

What what what?” and I didn’t respond because I fell in love with her.

She said one thing and I said another and the next thing I knew I wanted to spend the rest of my life in the middle of that conversation.

The topic of weather isn’t small talk, when you’re conversing with a meteorologist.

[M]rs. Miniver was beginning to feel more than a little weary of exchanging ideas (especially political ones) and of hearing other people exchange theirs. It’s all very well, she reflected, when the ideas have had time to flower, or at least to bud, so that we can pick them judiciously, present them with a bow,...

Weird people don’t care if they’re weird. They are the most entertaining to converse with because nothing is off-limits.

We are here to celebrate Black Sabbath tonight a decade or so late, but that’s another conversation, another argument.

Past conversations were slowly realigning in Blue’s head, taking on new shades of meaning as they did.

The bulk of our conversation is at the dinner table.

I like people who can keep the conversation going no matter how random the topic gets.

Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for competitors.

Communication is the one class no one graduates from. Even the wisest man’s words will be misinterpreted by a fool.

Sometimes I hesitate to use the term sexual abuse. It conjures up worst-case scenarios in our minds, and we think, “That will never happen to my kids.” And we never begin the conversation regarding sexual abuse with our children. But one violation left in secret can cause significant pain.

I had a dream about you, You were peeing behind a house and when I approached you, you smiled and said to me “Your face makes me happy” I was so flattered by your words and impressed that you could pee and still talk to me.

Imagine going to work every day to do only and exactly what you love!! All the work gets done because of the abundant diversity of your team. Different skills, interests and talents are woven together into a whole that is much greater than the sum of the parts!

Good Morning!” said Bilbo, and he meant it. The sun was shining, and the grass was very green. But Gandalf looked at him from under long bushy eyebrows that stuck out further than the brim of his shady hat.”What do you mean?” he said. “Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it...

There’s always something to talk about, even if you talk about how there is nothing to talk about. Of course, I’m talking about love.

I had a dream about you. The lettuce in my sandwich was crunchier than your conversation, and all I could hear when you spoke was myself chewing. You made such a tasty conversation that I can’t even remember what you said.

You gotta run more than your mouth to escape the treadmill of mediocrity. A true hustler jogs during the day, and sleepwalks at night.

They were learning that New York had another life, too — subterranean, like almost everything that was human in the city — a life of writers meeting in restaurants at lunchtime or in coffee houses after business hours to talk of work just started or magazines unpublished, and even to lay modest plans for the...

A good conversation always involves a certain amount of complaining. I like to bond over mutual hatreds and petty grievances.

He was through with this conversation. As a rule, they tended to avoid questions like “How sane are we?” and “Do our lives have meaning?” The need for avoidance was acute and apparent to both of them.

I’ve been waiting to have this conversation for years.

I find that often simple words say all that needs to be said in less time, using less energy, with all the details wanted- fully in tact. Love it.

I’ll just miss talking to him. He was such a good teacher in everything. No matter what the conversation was about, he was always teaching me. I just loved talking to him. I can’t begin to think how hard that’s going to be without him. I know he left a mark on me, just like...

Thomas’s mistake, like most of the behavior he leaked into the world, had been avoidable: to join another human being in a situation that virtually demanded unscripted, spontaneous conversation, and thus to risk total moral and emotional dissolution. Death by conversation, and all that.

I like the way you secretly send me a direct message when we’re in the middle of a conversation.

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.

He strains his conversation through a cigar.

Dad.

This was the first conversation, we will hold further meetings.

I talked to him on Christmas, and again on March 5th. Neither one of us hung up the phone that whole time.

An artist’s work is one long conversation with life.

My last conversation was awhile back and was really about our heritage, trying to figure out where we came from and what we did,

I don’t believe that.” She seems like suck a force,this reasonable girl who kills with a turn of her fingers. She would have left all this behind, if she had the chance. “I honestly don’t remember,” she sighs “I don’t think I was strong in life. Now it seems like I loved every moment, that...

And just so you know for the future, I like my double-chocolate chipcookies warm and soft in the middle . . . and without magnets glued to them.

[Reunion] was so loud you couldn’t even speak. [Saturday], during free throws you didn’t want to have a conversation or chew your popcorn because everybody next to you could hear it. This is a beautiful arena, but it’s really big. … That got us as much as altitude or anything else in the first five...

Surely only boring people went in for conversations consisting of questions and answers. The art of true conversation consisted in the play of minds.

Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee and just as hard to sleep after.

A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech.

Can I get your cell phone number so we can text like normal antisocial human beings, since we are both too fucked up to have a conversation?

I fill my life with speech, but not with people who are truly listening.

I was eavesdropping, but I was so into what she was saying that when she said, I love you, I almost shouted it back from across the restaurant.

Have you been waiting in this line her whole life?

Talk helps shape one’s thoughts.

The topics which language limits us to aren’t much worth discussing in the first place.(attrib: F.L. Vanderson)

We had this conversation, and everybody in the room just disappeared. We were talking about our favorite old movies and all were the same ones. We just clicked in terms of our creative ideas. Edward and I really became good friends.

That’s stupid. All that is, is rationalization for [Heisman voters] manipulating the conversation to get the answer they had in mind, … That’s like saying old Heisman winners like Marcus Allen, they did it all themselves. … We have a system. What, they didn’t have a system everywhere else? They just drew stuff up in...

Bit by bit, I found myself relaxing into the conversation. Kitty had a natural talent for drawing people out of themselves, and it was easy to fall in with her, to feel comfortable in her presence. As Uncle Victor had once told me long ago, a conversation is like having a catch with someone. A...