Some people like to hear themselves talk, but I like to hear myself silent.

Though blue sky and the road’s yellow dust and the green of the nearing oasis were all snuffed out, he (newly converted Saul) did not miss them. Light suffused his blinded eyes, his mind.

He was one of that class of men who, apart from a scientific career in which they may well have proved brilliantly successful, have acquired an entirely different kind of culture, literary or artistic, for...

A pas de deux is a dialogue of love. How can there be conversation if one partner is dumb?

The day drags along, you make thousands of plans, you imagine every possible conversation, you promise to change your behavior in certain ways–and you feel more and more anxious until your loved one arrives. But...

The conversation was mesmerizing, not for its content but for the cadences of the talk, the rhythm we fell into when we were alone, now as before. Every conversation between friends or lovers creates its...

I appricated that Nell was talking to me like a grown-up, but I had no idea what she meant. Still, I could see that the words flowed together like water over a riverbed.

CONVERSATION, n. A fair to the display of the minor mental commodities, each exhibitor being too intent upon the arrangement of his own wares to observe those of his neighbor.

I often look to men to model behavior,” she goes on after a pause. “Not because I want to squelch what’s feminine about me, but because sometimes I want a little more action, a little...

A man once asked me … how I managed in my books to write such natural conversation between men when they were by themselves. Was I, by any chance, a member of a large, mixed...

I sat next to a salmon on the sofa. After ten minutes of bear-like conversation, it was dead. Oh well, at least surrealism is still alive.

I was in the shower the other day and I noticed on the back of the shampoo bottle it said, “Avoid contact with eyes. In case of eye contact, flush with water.” and I thought,...

Is talking to your clone like talking to yourself, talking to someone else, both, or in the middle?

I spoke to him early the week following the pardon, and we had a relatively brief conversation in which he affirmed to me that he had made this decision on the merits and expressed a...

If we make that field goal, we wouldn’t be having this conversation.

This, I believe, is the appropriate image of human intercourse — appropriate because it recognizes the qualities, the diversities, and the proper relationships of human utterances. As civilized human beings, we are the inheritors, neither...

The difference between educated people and uneducated people is that educated people have been opened up to the notion that you can disagree without fighting; whereas uneducated people, in conversation, seek to always agree–everybody agrees...

That which is worth telling is not worth having.

I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.

I’m not a guru people, and I happen to have a very well developed sense of humor. Why else would I still be talking to you?

Friendship is an obstetric art; it draws out our richest and deepest resources; it unfolds the wings of our dreams and hidden indeterminate thoughts; it serves as a check on our judgements, tries out our...

You know what he did first tonight was get his teammates involved. I had a conversation with him before the game and I told him I wanted him to play with passion. You have to...

Because there are hundreds of different ways to say one thing, I, being a writer, songwriter, and poet, speak childishly and incoherently. In speech there is so much to decide in so little time.

I’m not good at talking. Can’t I just nod my way through a conversation? It’s better than nodding off.

I’m listening.

A conversation in which the two parties have different beliefs should never begin with the intention of converting the other party to your own beliefs. Every worthwhile conversation’s goal should be to understand the other...

I have a recognition dance, to acknowledge that I heard and understood you. So when Savannah says she loves me, and I reply by doing the Charleston, I’m just trying to show my love for...

I don’t know the guy and I don’t think I’ve ever had a conversation with him. But I know he’s a great coach. The film is his resume. He has a great resume.

(That) can only be brought about by a lot of conversation and getting to know someone. I don’t know this particular player well enough to make that determination right now, but it’s something we might...

He’s kind of quiet. We probably dominate the conversation. We’ve got more stories.

They should.””Should be like a wood bee,” she said.It was a private joke, a mocking appreciation of the slipperiness of even the simplest hope, a nonce catchphrase like so many others lifted from favorite movies...

Romance begins upstairs, then culminates downstairs.

It was a difficult conversation — but we had it. We hope results will follow from this meeting. He listened to us.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...