Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius

If you love me, wait until you meet my clone!

Our words were a shaky ladder; all I could do was climb, uncertain if I was about to surmount a glorious peak or fall and smash myself on the rocks below.

Prayer at its highest is a two-way conversation-and for me the most important part is listening to God’s replies.

I figured I could get a job at a filling station somewhere, putting gas and oil in people’s cars. I didn’t care what kind of job it was, though. Just so people didn’t know me...

I was having a private conversation with (engineers in) the truck, like we do everyday, and evidently some words that aren’t air-able came out and through a technical difficulty, I may have offended some people....

Betsy liked to talk. Her father always said she got it from her mother, and her mother always said she got it from her father. But whomever she got it from she was certainly a...

what a sad pair we are,” she said. “Surely we can manage a conversation on a topic other than our respective terrible evenings.

It’s not just one conversation. We’ve talked an awful lot about what a leadoff hitter is all about, in my opinion, and the role he plays in setting a table.

But, we had a long conversation yesterday, and we’re back to normal again. Kids are wanting the ball hit to them — instead of not wanting it to them — and they want to make...

So they left the subject and played croquet, which is a very good game for people who are annoyed with one another, giving many opportunities for venting rancor.

Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine.

open and honest public conversation with the nominee…is an important part of this process.

one wonders how much real conversation there is when one party does not, in many districts, have to contend for the votes of minorities, and the other can only elevate minorities into positions of power...

I would hesitate to characterize the conversation beyond confirming that it took place.

It’s hard to hear over the racket of gunfire. Politicians want to talk about war, but the people want to talk about peace.

Ideal conversation must be an exchange of thought, and not, as many of those who worry most about their shortcomings believe, an eloquent exhibition of wit or oratory.

I’m Scissor Tongue when I’m with her, snipping out snippets of dialogue before I even speak them. Being in love is best when you’re silent.

All the inane, meaningless noises people make that pass for intelligent conversation. They might as well be pigs grunting in the pen. (92)

There is nothing like desire for obstructing any resemblance between what one says and what one has on one’s mind.

Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.

Sí. And when I get out of here, I’m gonna fix the door to your car.

The first conversation began awkwardly, although Espinoza had been expecting Pelletier’s call, as if both men found it difficult to say what sooner or later the would have to say. The first twenty minutes were...

Tell me something. Do you believe in God?’Snow darted an apprehensive glance in my direction. ‘What? Who still believes nowadays?”It isn’t that simple. I don’t mean the traditional God of Earth religion. I’m no expert...