First, let me finish. Then interrupt.

Take lightly what you hear about individuals. We need not distort trust for our paltry little political agendas. We tend to trust soulless, carried information more than we trust soulful human beings; but really most...

We are more advanced technologically than ever before. However, technology, in many respects, is leading to the decline of conversation.

The art of civil conversation begins at birth. Then goes from the dinner table to the schoolroom, to interaction among friends, to the work place, and on to other places where all manner of social...

Smartphones are tools which fools fiddle with when they are around people that they don’t have the courage, or, the intellect, to converse with.

The most animated talks we have are about…things

All of the conversation is how he’s going to write it.

Everybody talks, but there is no conversation.

They were going to have a conversation, he realized. Archie didn’t know a lot about women, but he had been married and he knew when a conversation was coming, and he knew when a woman...

If they’re together long enough, every couple has one conversation over and over. This was ours.

The pinnacle of every conversation is coming to the point.

I don’t see that conversation going that way at this point.

How do we know we’re not people in a movie?’ she asked.I looked at her not knowing how to reply.Mama, […] how do we know that things are real?’Great. Now we have a junior existentialist...

She felt that her speech was voicing the incoherency her thoughts, and stopped abruptly.

Conversationally, we were Fred and Ginger — spin, slide, shuffle, bend.

He knew very well that the great majority of human conversation is meaningless. A man can get through most of his days on stock answers to stock questions, he thought. Once he catches onto the...

Meetings are at the heart of an effective organization, and each meeting is an opportunity to clarify issues, set new directions, sharpen focus, create alignment, and move objectives forward.

To make it a BCS issue devalues the conversation. It is not a BCS subject but an issue for the Division I commissioners to address. It has clearly moved from the back burner to the...

I think good conversation is really the best form of sex.

Build a bridge over shame by teaching kids about sexual abuse. Give them a chance to run to us should they encounter it. Be their hero.

There is a conversation going among many of the same diverse organizations and individuals that worked hard on lobbying reform about improving the legislative process and opening up government more.

I would rather take hellebore than spend a conversation with a good, little man.

I love you” the whole way, but you couldn’t hear me, probably because that man you were with was talking the whole time.

The only woman I’d want to go on a blind date with is Helen Keller. Maybe we could meet for coffee and I could listen while she doesn’t all the talking.

Any conversation including the mention of Roald Dahl, Ray Bradbury, or Emily Dickinson is one worth getting into or at least eavesdropping.

Steinbrenner spoke to Johnny Damon today for about 15 minutes and he indicated it was a good conversation.

The art of conversation lies in listening

She’s a girl after my own heart. Food first, conversation later.

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

Are you really going back there with me?” I ask.”Hell yes I am. Your wish is finally coming true. I will see your vagina. Plus, I really want to see the look on that woman’s...

But it got so personal that we couldn’t even have that conversation – she wouldn’t even respond to me.

Things are embarrassing, best to avoid them. But since your death I prefer a naturalist style of conversation. Let’s strip it down to what matters. Let’s have emotions and beliefs on show without the modest...

I’ve given guys blow jobs just because I’ve run out of things to talk about.’Oh, Rae. Who hasn’t

Be mindful of your self-talk. It is a conversation with the universe. You are a being, full of infinite possibilities! Focus your mind with positivity and you will have dictated the direction of your journey,...

Everyone has their own ways of expression. I believe we all have a lot to say, but finding ways to say it is more than half the battle.

I had a very good conversation with Jon Daniels and I will be talking with him soon to follow up on that. In the meantime, the Rangers remain of tremendous interest to us.

Our hearts bear a similarity with storerooms. We hold in them our trampled convictions, our fears, suppressed acts of valor, disappointments, enmity, anguish, secrets, things we wish we should have done, things we wish we...

I like how cats’ ears can flip inside out. It’s as if they’re saying, Keep talking, human, but I’m not even listening.

A book called Life of Silence would get everyone talking. I should write it, using invisible ink. Or to really make it see-through, I should hire a ghostwriter.

He began to prefer talking on the phone to actually getting together with someone, preferred the bodilessness of it, and started to turn down social engagements. He didn’t want to actually sit across from someone...

This was just a conversation about would I be interested or not,

He’s right there on the doorstep and I think he’s had a long conversation with Jimmy (Corsi) about that. The way he fills the net is very Miller and Biron-like. We point to the level...

Yeah.” When his daughter kisses me, my ego flies out the window.

Even his conversation was, as it were, a spoken part.

The world is full of unrequited love,’ I said finally.’You and Patrick having problems?’ Dad said, reaching around to get the butter out of the fridge.’No, I was just wondering what you would say if...

An American cannot converse, but he can discuss, and his talk falls into a dissertation. He speaks to you as if he was addressing a meeting; and if he should chance to become warm in...

I want a future abortion conversation known for its openness, respect and empathy, so instead of generating more heat, anger and conflict, I practice pro-voice.

Your narrative may fail to grip if you haven’t taken any care to find out how well or badly your audience member is faring (or feeling).

The only reason why we ask other people how their weekend was is so we can tell them about our own weekend.

She just smiled, said that she loved books more than anything, and started telling him excitedly what each of the ones in her lap was about. And Ove realised that he wanted to hear her...