Conversation Quotes - Page 29

• There is a person whose acquaintance and conversation I do earnestly recommend unto you as thing of the greatest advantage: you will be surprised when I tell you it is yourself.

  David Berman

  Self, Advantage, Acquaintance

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• For mankind, speech with a capital S is especially meaningful and committing, more than the content communicated. The outcry of the newborn and the sound of the bells are fraught with mystery more than the baby's woeful face or the venerable tower.

  Paul Goodman

  Meaningful, Baby, Sound

  Paul Goodman (1966). “Five years”

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• The world is waiting for you to wake up to the person you are called to be. Stop listening to the negative inner conversation that's causing you to play small. Focus your mind on positive thoughts, possibilities and solutions that can move you forward. Tap into your creativity and determination and stay busy. Stay focused.

  Les Brown

  Motivational, Encouragement, Determination

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• I never, with important air, In conversation overbear. . . . . My tongue within my lips I rein; For who talks much must talk in vain.

  John Gay

  Air, Important, Tongue

  John Gay (1808). “Gay's Fables: In One Volume Complete”, p.8

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• Man and wife are equally concerned, to avoid all offence of each other, in the beginning of their conversation. Every little thing can blast an infant blossom.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Men, Wife, Littles

  Thomas Smart Hughes, Thomas Sherlock, Jeremy Taylor (1837). “Summaries of the sermons and discourses of Sherlock and Jeremy Taylor”, p.309

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• Shyness means you are in the hallway of a greater presence. You just don't know how to take the conversation another step. It's a lovely indication.

  David Whyte

  Mean, Lovely, Steps

  "Courageous Conversations: An Interview with David Whyte". Interview with Kim Rosen, spiritualityhealth.com. December 8, 2014.

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• I do not say this, that I think there should be no difference of opinions in conversation, nor opposition in men's discourses... 'Tis not the owning one's dissent from another, that I speak against, but the manner of doing it.

  John Locke

  Men, Thinking, Differences

  John Locke, George Berkeley (2010). “Locke, Berkely & Hume”, p.134, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Religious faith is the only area of discourse where immunity through conversation is considered noble . It's the only area of our lives where someone can win points for saying, "There's nothing that you can do to change my mind and I'm taking no state of the world ultimately into account in believing what I believe. There's nothing to change about the world that would cause me to revise my beliefs.

  Sam Harris

  Religious, Believe, Winning

  "The View From The End Of The World" by Sam Harris, December 9, 2005.

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• Dialogue saves me. I love writing the conversations between my paper people. For some reason, that is the easiest thing for me. It's like I am a transcriptionist for the voices in my head. I can hear them talking (mentally) and have a gift for getting it on the page.

  Kim Smith

  Writing, Talking, Voice

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• When I sit down to interview people, I don't hold questions and I don't know the answers. They're more like conversations that become lessons.

  Dave Grohl

  People, Answers, Lessons

  "Dave Grohl: The ‘Sonic Highways’ Exit Interview". Interview with Jason Newman, www.rollingstone.com. December 8, 2014.

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• I'm more likely to strike up a conversation with a stranger than to try any antic or pickup lines.

  Clayton Snyder

  Trying, Lines, Stranger

  Source: www.mtv.com

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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 believe that if you go and see a film you should have to sort of invest something yourself and you have to do a little bit of the work as an audience member, so when you leave the cinema you should be having those conversations either with yourself - if you're crazy like me- or with friends afterwards.

  Michael Fassbender

  Crazy, Believe, Should Have

  "X-Men: First Class - Michael Fassbender interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I love sitting down and having actual conversations. But I don't do that sound-bite, be-candidly-funny thing.

  Kristen Stewart

  Funny Things, Sitting Down, Sound

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• You're always fighting the contradiction between the supposed intimacy of a two-person conversation and the blunt reality that you're trying to sell the play to people who are sitting maybe too far away from you.

  Wallace Shawn

  Fighting, Reality, Play

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. April 1, 2009.

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• There's songs that could either be taken as a conversation between two people, like "The Privateers," or "Why," from a much earlier record. Or "Glass Figurine." That's my version of a relationship song.

  Andrew Bird

  Song, Taken, Glasses

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• When I start asking my friends, "What do you think this means?" And it leads to way more interesting conversations than what it actually ends up meaning in the dictionary. Like "apocryphal," for instance.

  Andrew Bird

  Mean, Thinking, Interesting Conversation

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• It's hard to say conversation has become a minimal thing, because look at the rise of mobile communications in the last 10 years. It used to be only the President had a mobile phone. Now everyone on earth, even if they have nothing else, they have a cell phone. It's a larger anthropological shift in my mind than even the tattoo age in the United States.

  Padgett Powell

  Tattoo, Communication, Phones

  Interview with Royal Young, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 30, 2012.

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• It's often said that I choose subjects that are sensational! I choose to film subjects that spark difficult conversations and make people uncomfortable. Change only comes about when people are forced to discuss an issue, and that's what I hope my films do.

  Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

  Issues, People, Sparks

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I love the art history ones because it's so little work for me. There's so many paintings that when I look at them, the look on the lady's face is like so clear and her body language and her posture or their physical situation is so immediately recognizable. Anyone who's been in a conversation they didn't want to have, or been getting harangued by a little kid they didn't want to pay attention to or been tired and wanted to go to bed is just like, "Yes, of course."

  Mallory Ortberg

  Art, Kids, Tired

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I've learned I don't like being around people too much. It's hard to stand around and make conversation with people I've learned. But I do want to be the guy that can do it easily.

  Aesop Rock

  People, Guy, Want

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• From the Rabbis of the early Talmudic age I learned that there is never a last word on God. There's, you always continue to question. Even God himself could be questioned and you can keep arguing with one another and there will be no end to this conversation about the divine because no human expression of God can be ultimate.

  Karen Armstrong

  Expression, Age, Lasts

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. November 16, 2009.

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• I feel like in a conversation if things get said and then repeated, it sort of becomes inherently part of the narrative whether you want it to be or not.

  Panda Bear

  Want, Narrative, Said

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• This is not a movie about smelling the urine! It's another kind of movie." Volker Schlöndorff got Billy Wilder to agree to these conversations - you can buy it - because Volker spoke German at times. And he said to Billy Wilder: "What is in your mind?" And he said: "If you're going to try to tell the truth to the audience, you'd better be funny or they'll kill you." And I haven't forgotten that.

  Dustin Hoffman

  Mind, Trying, Kind

  "Quartet - Dustin Hoffman interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• And so out of the blue the call did come and said, you know, "Would you be - would you consider turning this [The Starter Wife] now into a series?" And so obviously that was a shock. And all the conversations began. And, you know, and now we're here. Now we're finishing up our last episode right now.

  Debra Messing

  Blue, Finishing, Lasts

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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