I remember my first cell phone number still. I may call it and ask to speak to myself from eight years ago. If they say I have the wrong number I’ll tell them, No, right...

It’s not polite to talk with your mouth full of food.

It comes down to this: If you want to be seen, heard and understood in the most genuine way possible, be open to the possiblity of vulnerability. Allow yourself to be open. I know it’s...

If a conversation is not working, then you need to make a different choice. Stop what you are doing & do something different.

At some point in my early forties I realized that my primary goal in just about any verbal exchange is to lighten the mood.

So you have something important to say, so you interrupt an exciting conversation already in progress just to let us know you have nothing to contribute to the discussion. Umm….

We are prepared to have a conversation with Iran in which we would explain and make clear our concerns about … Iranian activity in Iraq.

Most people he knew, his wife included, wouldn’t make it through an hour on the promise of four sentences. But Frankie Bard was like a camel. She could hold her words for days–as long as...

Every person has something meaningful to say in the conversation of life.

There is conversation that over the next ten years, hedge funds would become like mutual funds, … There is some merit to that conversation, but I think there might be some lag time.

He’s never quite got the trick of conversation, tending to hear in dissenting views, however mild, a kind of affront, an invitation to mortal combat.

The conversation was one-sided. She was doing all the talking, and every time I opened my mouth it wasn’t to reply—it was to yawn.

Madam: Are you lucky, Debora?Debora: What do you mean?Madam: Well, you don’t look that happy today…Debora: Is it that clear?

No, it was nice to finally meet someone whose arrogance isonly rivaled by the arrogance of the gods.

Give me a half hour’s conversation. I will know more than I will reading 20 magazines.

The conversation was more about the message and how to talk about the issues. I think that everyone in that room was committed to us on the issues.

I don’t know what he means by that, but I nod and smile at him. You’d be surprised at how far that response can get you in a conversation where you are completely confused.

Slowly, even though I thought it would never happen, New York lost its charm for me. I remember arriving in the city for the first time, passing with my parents through the First World’s Club...

He seemed like the sort to have a vast arsenal of smirks, shaped over a decade of nonverbal conversation.

The best kind of conversation is that which may be called thinking aloud.

There is nothing more entertaining then leaving someone speechless. Yet, there is nothing sadder than realizing that person was incapable of retaining half of what you said, and will repeat the story all wrong to...

We’re trying to figure out how to monetize these things. It’s definitely a piece of the conversation.

she wasn’t veryinterestingbut few peopleare.

I don’t want clever conversationI never want to work that hard.

I tried telling him without telling him, through body language, and I observed he was unobservant.

My belief is that during conversations, it’s not so much what you say, it’s how you say it that matters. What’s being heard is secondary to what’s being seen, as body language leads the discussion...

I talked to David yesterday, but since it is a statue, it didn’t talk back. I have to say, it was a better conversationalist than my last date.

If your breath smells like coffee, I might try to drink our conversation. Wake me up with the words you’re speaking.

Conversation. What is it? A Mystery! It’s the art of never seeming bored, of touching everything with interest, of pleasing with trifles, of being fascinating with nothing at all.

There is nothing that makes me happier than sitting around the dinner table and talking until the candles are burned down.

[When Jim Nicholson was ambassador to the Holy See last year, he had a memorable conversation with a Polish archbishop, introduced to him as] Secretary of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints. … So...

It only needs a desire, not words; to start a conversation.

If they were all worked out, we’d be having a different conversation today,

Plato worried that philosophical writing would take the place of living conversations for which, in philosophy, there is no substitute.

The middle path makes me wary. . . . But in the middle of my life, I am coming to see the middle path as a walk with wisdom where conversations of complexity can be...

…And tonight—Geryon? You okay?Yes fine, I’m listening. Tonight—?Why do you have your jacket over your head?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Can’t hear...

Where are you?” he asked. “I’m right here” she said. “I know, but it feels like one percent of you is somewhere else, where is that one percent?” he said. “I don’t know….I think I’m...

Drunken men give some of the best pep talks.

Talking about one’s feelings defeats the purpose of having those feelings. Once you try to put the human experience into words, it becomes little more than a spectator sport. Everything must have a cause, and...

very constructive and even a friendly conversation.

Dinner was good. The conversation was great, but the food was bad, so it averaged out. I wish I were as good in bed as I am in the kitchen.

We live in the moment and they think about what’s coming. If they didn’t keep us in check, we’d fuck up the planet”.

He just ran out in the middle of the conversation. I thought it was a fight,

Awareness is about improving social intelligence. If you can’t see, hear, or feel the dynamics of a conversation, you can’t manage them.

Americans no longer talk to each other, they entertain each other. They do not exchange ideas, they exchange images. They do not argue with propositions; they argue with good looks, celebrities and comercials.

When bodies talk, a hand brushing across a face declares love the tongue never speaks. When bodies talk, eyes make promises and lips keep them in the silent transfer of vows of the heart. When...

Sorrow spoken lends a little courage to the speaker.

I cannot say your worships have delivered the matter well when I find the ass in compound with the major part of your syllables […] our very priests must become mockers if they shall encounter...

The prudent man always studies seriously and earnestly to understand whatever he professes to understand, and not merely to persuade other people that he understands it; and though his talents may not always be very...

We define our identity always in dialogue with, sometimes in struggle against, the things our significant others want to see in us. Even after we outgrow some of these others—our parents, for instance—and they disappear...