Conversation Quotes - Page 32

• A great dinner must include not only yummy food, but good conversation.

  Laurie David

  Yummy, Dinner, Good Conversation

  Source: www.goodhousekeeping.com

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• Music is like having a conversation. All musicians inspire each other, and they're all geared to play something that matters.

  Vince Gill

  Play, Inspire, Musician

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• With grown children, we can look back at both our mistakes and what we did well in our parenting, having conversations with a greater degree of honesty than was possible before. In getting older themselves, our adult children may begin to comprehend the burdens and strengths we carried from our own parents.

  Wendy Lustbader

  Children, Honesty, Mistake

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• Obviously I have a bit of an awareness because I go to the internet like everybody else but I don't get too involved in the details of those conversations just because it can hurt you if you stumble on something that's not nice.

  Alice Eve

  Hurt, Nice, Details

  Source: screenrant.com

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• In the black community when we think of a couselor or sitting down with a therapist there is that taboo attached to people of being psychotic and crazy. Really it's not it's just sitting down having a conversation.

  Gabrielle Dennis

  Crazy, Thinking, People

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• (I want to) make good stories that have a redemptive message and allow people to dig into their own lives and personal struggles and go "Am I like this? Do I have these flaws too?" and open up a conversation.

  Drew Waters

  Struggle, People, Stories

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• The tantrums of cloth-headed celluloid idols are deemed fit for grown-up conversation, while silence settles over such a truly important matter as food.

  Clifton Fadiman

  Idols, Silence, Important

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• Human understanding is marvellously enlightened by daily conversation with men, for we are, otherwise, compressed and heaped up in ourselves, and have our sight limited to the length of our own noses.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Men, Sight, Understanding

  Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays”, p.176, 谷月社

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• Great conversation ... requires an absolute running of two souls into one.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Running, Two, Soul

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• Neither in thy actions be sluggish nor in thy conversation without method, nor wandering in thy thoughts, nor let there be in thy soul inward contention nor external effusion, nor in life be so busy as to have no leisure.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Soul, Leisure, Inward

  Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2016). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.93, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• Novel-writing is a highly skilled and laborious trade. One does not just sit behind a screen jotting down other people's conversation. One has for one's raw material every single thing one has ever seen or heard or felt, and one has to go over that vast, smoldering rubbish-heap of experience, half stifled by fumes and dust, scraping and delving until one finds a few discarded valuables. Then one has to assemble these tarnished and dented fragments, polish them, set them in order, and try to make a coherent and significant arrangement of them.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Writing, Dust, Order

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• Our debt to tradition through reading and conversation is so massive, our protest so rare and insignificant-and this commonly on the ground of other reading and hearing-that in large sense, one would say there is no pure originality. All minds quote. Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no thread that is not a twist of these two strands. By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. It is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Reading, Two, Mind

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1876). “Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson ...”, p.144

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• No man comes out of his own memorandum of conversation looking second best.

  Dean Acheson

  Men, Second Best, Memorandum

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• Someone has said that conversation is sex for the soul.

  Isabel Allende

  Sex, Soul, Said

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• Never say anything in writing that you wouldn't comfortably say in conversation. Be yourself when you write. If you're not a person who says 'indeed' or 'moreover,' or who calls someone an individual ('he's a fine individual'), please don't write it.

  William Zinsser

  Being Yourself, Writing, Say Anything

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• I had often joked in my speeches that I had imaginary conversations with Mrs. Roosevelt to solicit her advice on a range of subjects. It's actually a useful mental exercise to help analyze problems, provided you choose the right person to visualize. Eleanor Roosevelt was ideal.

  Hillary Clinton

  Exercise, Advice, Speech

  Hillary Rodham Clinton (2004). “Living History”, p.258, Simon and Schuster

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• We have had a chance to travel to all 56 counties in this state, and I have had the chance to sit around with cups of coffee and having conversations about what matters to Montanans.

  Steve Daines

  Coffee, What Matters, Cups

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• We grew up creating this whole world view for ourselves because it's not there in the culture. What am I? And I have to build this world view in the absence of books, radio and television, anything, even conversation, Mom or Dad or brother or sister or friends. I have to build a world view of who I am or I go stark, raving mad. Every transsexual in the past has had to do this.

  Kate Bornstein

  Mom, Brother, Dad

  "Gender Outlaws". Interview with Nancy Reynolds Nangeroni and Mariette Pathy Allen, www.gendertalk.com.

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• I feel bad [about Lil Wayne going to jail], because I don't think anything like this has happened in music since Elvis got drafted into the Army. Let's just keep it real - Lil Wayne is not just the biggest rapper, Lil Wayne is the biggest pop star right now. Maybe Susan Boyle is on his level. But when you talk about music, nice times out of ten, Lil Wayne's name is gonna come into the conversation.

  Bun B

  Stars, Real, Nice

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• When Prince Charles speaks, everybody pretends to be fascinated, even though he has never said anything interesting except in that intercepted telephone conversation wherein he expressed the desire to be a feminine hygeine product.

  Dave Barry

  Interesting, Desire, Telephones

  Dave Barry (2009). “Dave Barry Is from Mars and Venus”, p.103, Ballantine Books

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• Writing is a conversation with reading; a dialogue with thinking. All conversations with older people contain repetition. Some of the ideas mean a lot to me, just interesting, so I both embrace and attack the ideas because I found them, well, delightful.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Reading, Writing, Mean

  Nikki Giovanni (1994). “Racism 101”, William Morrow & Co

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• Only social patterns can control biological patterns, and the instrument of conversation between society and biology is not words. The instrument of conversation between society and biology has always been a policeman or a soldier and his gun.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Gun, Soldier, Patterns

  Robert M. Pirsig (1991). “LILA An Inquriry into Morals”

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• It does not take long to tell where a man's treasure is. In fifteen minutes' conversation with most men, you can tell whether their treasures are on the earth or in Heaven.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Men, Long, Heaven

  Dwight L Moody (1995). “Heaven”, p.88, Moody Publishers

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• First of all, I should preface this by the observation that artists are not the best judges of what they've done and the word definitive does not belong, in my opinion, in any conversation about art. When somebody says it's the "definitive" something, I'm always recoiling.

  Nicholas Meyer

  Art, Judging, Doe

  Source: collider.com

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• I do find that if I go out for a meal I can be listening to a few conversations at once all around me. It can drive my partner bonkers a little bit. But it's about being able to tell a lot of very different stories as well as you can and I do genuinely love what I do.

  Christine Bottomley

  Listening, Meals, Different

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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