Intimate Conversation Quotes

• If art doesn't require an audience, can an intimate conversation be a work of art? Can a thought be a work of art? Maybe. I don't know. These questions are completely hypothetical for me, because I love interacting with audiences. I want my poems to be heard.

  James Arthur

  Art, Want, Heard

  "Poetry As a Way of Thinking: An Interview with James Arthur". Interview with Emilia Phillips, www.32poems.com.

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• I'm much more into old-world, intimate conversations on the phone. I like to write letters.

  Kimora Lee Simmons

  Writing, Phones, World

  "Couple of the Moment: Kimora & Djimon" by Marshall Heyman, www.harpersbazaar.com. January 14, 2008.

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• The intimate conversations have its moments, because you have to sell the characters, because there is so much going on. It's so easy to get lost in the special effects and forget about the performances. The dialogue scenes have been great. It's been great working with Bryan and the writers to find where we're going and what's the story. Yeah, it's been really, really interesting.

  Eleanor Tomlinson

  Character, Interesting, Special

  Source: collider.com

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• In personal conversations between director and actor, the male directors that I've worked with are just as emotional. Maybe it's because I had to start having very intimate conversations with adult men at a very young age in order to get the work, but I'm really comfortable with dudes. I mean, we push boundaries in this business in terms of getting to know people.

  Kristen Stewart

  Mean, Men, Emotional

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Everybody knows that really intimate conversation is only possible between two or three. As soon as there are six or seven, collective language begins to dominate. That is why it is a complete misinterpretation to apply to the Church the words 'Wheresoever two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.' Christ did not say two hundred, or fifty, or ten. He said two or three.

  Simone Weil

  Names, Two, Church

  Simone Weil (2009). “Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)”, p.19, Routledge

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• In our land of opportunities and distractions, it's hard to devote our attention to the quiet pleasures of reading. It's as if we live our lives in a noisy restaurant and can't have the intimate conversation we most yearn for.

  Steve Leveen

  Reading, Opportunity, Land

  Steve Leveen (2005). “The Little Guide to Your Well-read Life”

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• I found myself declaiming, full flower, for an hour on the "utmost importance and urgency" of Blogging, telling him in no uncertain terms that, especially in a high-end niche business, Blogging is "the premier way" to have "intimate conversations" with his Clients. Funny thing, I believe it!

  Tom Peters

  Funny, Believe, Flower

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• People seem to see no difference between an intimate conversation and a conversation at the water cooler.

  Mike Farrell

  Differences, People, Water

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• Poetry is halfway between prose and music: it is sometimes like an intimate conversation, in words and phrases which need not be fully uttered, and sometimes like dancing and wordless music.

  Gilbert Highet

  Dancing, Needs, Phrases

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• The advent of the mobile phone was a disaster. We are forced to listen, open-mouthed, to other people's intimate conversations. Increasingly, we are all in our virtual bubbles when we are out in public, whether we are texting, listening to iPods, reading or just staring dangerously at other people.

  Lynne Truss

  Reading, Ipods, America

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• You have to wait together - for a week, for a year, for a lifetime, before the final intimate conversation may be attained ... and exhausted. So that ... That in effect was love.

  Ford Madox Ford

  Years, Waiting, Together

  Ford Madox Ford (1964). “Parade's End: A man could stand up”

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• In recent years my understanding of God had evolved into increasingly remote abstractions. I'd come to think of God in terms like Divine Reality, the Absolute, or the One who holds us in being. I do believe that God is beyond any form and image, but it has grown clear to me that I need an image in order to relate. I need an image in order to carry on an intimate conversation with what is so vast, amorphous, mysterious, and holy that it becomes ungraspable. I mean, really, how to you become intimate with Divine Reality? Or the Absolute?

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Believe, Mean, Reality

  Sue Monk Kidd, Ann Kidd Taylor (2009). “Traveling with Pomegranates: A Mother and Daughter Journey to the Sacred Places of Greece, Turkey, and France”, p.38, Penguin

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• It was like everything that supported the relationship was coming from the outside. Judging by all the signs, we were a perfectly successful couple and John was an ideal husband for me - rich, blond, tall, sensitive, ad nauseam. But even worse, it seemed as if our most intimate conversations were based on what we were supposed to be saying, and what we were supposed to be. Nothing seemed to come directly from us.

  Mary Gaitskill

  Couple, Husband, Successful

  Mary Gaitskill (2012). “Bad Behavior: Stories”, p.95, Simon and Schuster

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