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Using someone's name during a conversation was like a casual caress, like stroking their hair.

Usually, when Nirvana made music, there wasn't a lot of conversation. We wanted everything to be surreal. We didn't want to have some contrived composition.

Very strong personalities must confine themselves in mutual conversation to very gentle subjects.

Very great change starts from very small conversations, held among people who care.

Virtually anything is more stimulating than conversations with strangers at social gatherings.

We change people through conversation, not through censorship.

We never say so much as when we do not quite know what we want to say. We need few words when we have something to say, but all the words in all the dictionaries will not suffice when we have nothing to say and want desperately to say it.

We don't often have the luxury of time [in Steve Jobs movie ]to have these conversations where you just literally get to sit around for day and days and analyze every line of dialogue.

We never could clearly understand how it is that egotism, so unpopular in conversation, should be so popular in writing.

We owe to one another all the wit and good humour we can command; and nothing so clears our mental vistas as sympathetic and intelligent conversation.

We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men.

We should have a conversation when we hang up.

We've all had those phone conversations. Things are heated, you're in a position where you're gonna say something nasty. Instead, you say, "Oh, I've got that thing in the oven." Lie. Get off the phone. Don't perpetuate a bad situation.

We should not see print and electronic literature as in competition, but rather in conversation. The more voices that join in, the richer the dialogue is likely to be.

What frightens us most in a madman is his sane conversation.

What an odd, ruminating, noisy, self-interrupting conversation we conduct with ourselves from birth to death.

What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming.

What great delight it is to see the ones we love and then to have speech with them.

What I can't do is have an intelligent conversation with [George Stephanopoulos] about a report in "The New York Times" that is unnamed, inconclusive, and based on something that isn't true.

What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor, more unashamed conversation.

What you gotta understand is, in this conversation and in our fight, you're not in control.

What will support any relationship is clear, complete and conscious conversations when upsets or breakdowns occur.

What was the point of even having a conversation when words couldn't be trusted?

What was it that drew you back? My marvellous personality, I suppose? Or my sparkling conversation?

When scientific conversations cease, then dogma rather than knowledge begins to rule the day.

When interviews are good, the conversation can be amazing. Sometimes I've had conversations with journalists that I've never had with anybody else.

Whenever people ask you where you're from and you say New Orleans, it's always going to create a conversation.

When friends ask for a second cup they are open to conversation.

When you get to 60, the word "retirement" comes in on every conversation.

Who ARE You?" This was not an encouraging opening for a conversation. Alice replied, rather shyly, I--I hardly know, sir, just at present-- at least I know who I WAS when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then.

When you get an idea, go and write. Don't waste it in conversation.

Where do most go to complain about a company/brand? TWITTER. Conversations are happening whether you are there or not.

Whether in conversation we generally agree or disagree with others is largely a matter of habit: the one tendency makes as much sense as the other.

While a truncheon may be used in lieu of conversation, words will always retain their power.

When you have a nonverbal conversation with a total stranger, then he cant cover himself with words, he cant create a wall.

When you start putting pen to paper, you see a side of your personal truth that doesn't otherwise reveal itself in conversation or thought.

Whoever interrupts the conversation of others to make a display of his fund of knowledge, makes notorious his own stock of ignorance.

Wit in conversation is only a readiness of thought and a facility of expression, or a quick conception and an easy delivery.

Why is there even a conversation about feminism?

Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.

Writing a check separates a commitment from a conversation.

You don't have conversations with microprocessors. You tell them what to do, then helplessly watch the disaster when they take you literally!

You can't have a conversation with someone who's intimidated by you all the time.

Writing is a conversation, to me. The best kind. You can't get interrupted.

Writing in a journal reminds you of your goals and of your learning in life. It offers a place where you can hold a deliberate, thoughtful conversation with yourself.

You can have a poem like "B-Movie" and sum up thirty conversations that people have had on the subject, but I wrote it down, and other people didn't.

You must originate, and you must sympathize; yon must possess, at the same time, the habit of communicating and the habit of listening. The union is rather rare, but irresistible.

You know, photo conversations are replacing verbal conversations. I don't know if that's a bad thing. A photo is worth a thousand words.

You're not learning anything unless you're having the difficult conversations.

Your ignorance cramps my conversation