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.

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...