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.

Protecting our kids from sexual abuse is not accomplished in a single conversation, but in ongoing conversations grounded in honesty and trust.

Like many human beings, he took the least sign of conversation as his cue to make noise.

During relaxation we drop our guard. Particularly in conversation. Relaxed conversation leads to openness. And in openness we often reveal what should never be revealed.

I can’t remember what I said to her, and she can’t remember what she heard. I must have said I love you.

I’m never lonelier than when I’m in a crowded room, talking to nobody, awkward and isolated, trying to decide how to stand so I don’t appear as if I want to start Roger Bannistering a...

I had a dream about you. When our talks ended, we left off with leftovers. I stuffed our conversation in Tupperware, but you just left it out to rot and decompose.

When at a networking event, there’s usually a guy alone in the corner talking to himself. That guy is me. Stop by and say hi. My nametag will say Bob, because even if you’re dyslexic...

Genuine people never seems to be in rush. In their conversation they make the other person feel special.

My phone buzzes. It’s from Karou: a list of conversation openers that I won’t be needing. —a) Hi. I’m Zuzana. I’m actually a marionette brought to life by the Blue Fairy, and the only way...

Shocked my old friend from China, Deja Vu, when I turned up at his door without notice.

Women prefer speaking to talking.

Talking with three people deeply is better than talking with thirty people superficially.

You know you’re about as forthcoming as a mime.

I believe that words are strong, that they can overwhelm what we fear when fear seems more awful than life is good.

Anything can inspire me – a conversation, something strikes you about words which can end up being a title.

Frasier (Responding to the suggestion that he undertake the difficult work of closure in a relationship): “What you just said about my success made a lot of sense. I tuned you out after that.

Go sip on gossip, and leave the coffee talk for me to chug. I’ll be in the kitchen, giggling like a schoolgirl if you need me.

A funny person is funny only for so long, but a wit can sit down and go on being spellbinding forever. One is not meant to laugh. One stays quiet and marvels. Spontaneously witty talk...

I’m hoping that we’ve had enough conversation with the other airlines that they’re going to keep their fares in line or even reduce them.

Silence is expansive, filling up a whole room in seconds, like a balloon filled with awkwardness. It’s amazing how saying nothing can be so different from having nothing to say.

Wherever freedom is being discussed, we’re all part of the conversation.

They do not learn, fixed in their ways as they are. You are naïve tothink otherwise. It’s an illness, Assassin, for which there is but one cure.’‘You’re wrong. And that’s why you must be put...

Yanked out of the present, Adam discovered the richness of the past in people’s stories.

She hardly ever began conversations with strangers just to talk. It was not a matter of shyness. For her, a conversation had a straightforward function. How do I get to the pharmacy? or How much...

Things said for conversation are chalk eggs. Don’t say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.

Jack Kennedy brought an “intense concentration” and a “gently teasing humor” to the dinner table, along with what Katherine Graham called his habit of “vacuum cleaning your brain.

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.