Conversation Quotes - Page 21

• I think I've scratched the surface after twenty years of marriage. Women want chocolate and conversation.

  Mel Gibson

  Thinking, Years, Chocolate

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The cell phone has transformed public places into giant phone-a-thons in which callers exist within narcissistic cocoons of private conversations. Like faxes, computer modems and other modern gadgets that have clogged out lives with phony urgency, cell phones represent the 20th Century's escalation of imaginary need. We didn't need cell phones until we had them. Clearly, cell phones cause not only a breakdown of courtesy, but the atrophy of basic skills.

  Mary Schmich

  Phones, Cells, Skills

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• People learn more from observation that they do from conversation.

  Will Rogers

  People, Observation

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• Shaped a little like a loaf of French country bread, our brain is a crowded chemistry lab, bustling with nonstop neural conversations.

  Diane Ackerman

  Country, Brain, Neurons

  Diane Ackerman (2004). “An Alchemy of Mind: The Marvel and Mystery of the Brain”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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• Whenever you read a book or have a conversation, the experience causes physical changes in your brain.

  George Johnson

  Book, Brain, Causes

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• When the Vent begins, you might confuse [it] for a conversation. It's not. It's a Vent. It's a mental release valve and your job is to listen for as long as it takes. Don't problem solve. Don't redirect. Don't comfort. Yet. Your employee is doing mental house cleaning and interrupting this cleaning is missing the point. They don't want a solution, they want to be heard.

  Rands

  Jobs, Long, House

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• Conversation, fastidious goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the human will.

  Virginia Woolf

  Blood, Bricks, Goddess

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.918, Delphi Classics

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• The pains and pleasures of the body, howsoever important to ourselves, are an indelicate subject of conversation

  Edward Gibbon

  Pain, Important, Body

  Edward Gibbon (1961). “Autobiography”

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• A good rule of conversation is never answer a foolish question.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Answers, Foolish

  "What I've Learned: John Kenneth Galbraith" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• Markets are conversations.

  Adam Levine

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• Be not so set upon poetry, as to be always poring on the passionate and measured pages. Let not what should be sauce, rather than food for you, engross all your application. Beware of a boundless and sickly appetite for the reading of poems which the nation now swarms withal; and let not the Circaen cup intoxicate you. But especially preserve the chastity of your soul from the dangers you may incur, by a conversation with muses no better than harlots.

  Cotton Mather

  Reading, Soul, Cups

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• All my friends are rock critics, so we talk about rock criticism a lot. Because of that, in order to be part of the conversation, you have to have an awareness of what the discussion is.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Rocks, Order, Criticism

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. November 15, 2006.

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• Theater is all about foyers and conversation and digesting what you've seen.

  Cate Blanchett

  Foyers, Theater

  Interview with Jack White, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 23, 2008.

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• I like a book to be full of the memory of what it is, a voice in an endless conversation, and yet at the same time to be new.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Memories, Book, Voice

  "Marilynne Robinson: A Good Inheritance". Interview with Michele Filgate, www.barnesandnoble.com. October 21, 2014.

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• When I read a story or see something play out in front of me I say, how come nobody's made a movie or a television show out of this? This is something that belongs in the conversation. Certainly that's what interests me about a project.

  John Sayles

  Play, Stories, Television

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I feel like this is a feminist issue and is going to be a part of a feminist conversation, and I wanted images of women of color in that conversation - feminism historically has left us out.

  Tatyana Fazlalizadeh

  Color, Issues, Feminist

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• We're not living in a society that science actually dominates the conversation. We're living in a situation where some science is allowed and a lot of it's about policy.

  Josh Fox

  Situation, Policy

  "Gasland Part II": The Fracking Empire Strikes Back". Interview with Brett Brownell, www.motherjones.com. July 8, 2013.

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• My partner, Jeff Ullrich, and I always thought Earwolf was going to be big. There were a couple of studies before we launched saying podcasts were going to really grow. But I remember so many conversations at the beginning where people would say, 'How are you going to make money with this?'

  Scott Aukerman

  Couple, People, Study

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• Nothing in this world is more powerful, or more dangerous, than the truth. That's why some people go to such lengths to avoid hearing it. It may also be why others strive so hard to keep their conversations empty. They wouldn't want to find themselves accidentally saying something meaningful that might bring about a change.

  Jonathan Cainer

  Meaningful, Powerful, People

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• If a man is often the subject of conversation he soon becomes the subject of criticism.

  Immanuel Kant

  Men, Criticism, Subjects

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• The real amateur of wine can only enjoy it along with friends, sharing with them the art of conversation and the art of drinking. Wine is indeed essentially a sign of civilization, a factor of sociability, friendship.

  Jean Drapeau

  Art, Real, Drinking

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• The hardest thing about being famous is that ... in a conversation everybody's agreeing with what you're saying. ... You need people who can tell you what you don't want to hear.

  Robert De Niro

  People, Needs, Want

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• I love Europe, but we are still struggling with that kind of development. First of all, we don't have a smart conversation about the difference between an immigrant and a refugee. A refugee can't go back. An immigrant is someone - I chose to move to America. And I also have the option of saying hey, didn't work out, I can move back. That's a completely different story than someone who is locked in.

  Marcus Samuelsson

  Smart, Moving, Struggle

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• You take a picture of yourself in some exceptional situation - skydiving or whatever. People always post those photos because it works - you're saying something about yourself that begs a conversation and that's what the users are there for.

  Christian Rudder

  People, Pictures Of Yourself, Skydiving

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I think women should support each other's work, encourage each other's work, help develop each other's voices and I think, ultimately, when we can stop having the conversation about 'women filmmakers', and just talk about 'filmmakers', then we'll know we've really gotten somewhere.

  Jennifer Westfeldt

  Thinking, Voice, Support

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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