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Poetry is subconscious conversation, it is as much the work of those who understand it and those who make it.

Polite Conversation Why, everyone one as they like; as the good woman said when she kissed her cow.

politics ... is the hottest, most dangerous subject in the land. It's not only a conversation-wrecker, it's a friendship-wrecker, a family-wrecker, a job-wrecker, a future-wrecker.

Prayer is a friendly conversation with the One we know loves us.

Prayer is both conversation and encounter with God.

Prayer is continuing a conversation that God has started through his Word and his grace, which eventually becomes a full encounter with him.

Prayer is a conversation with God, but prayer is no substitute for work.

Prayer is - loving conversation with the One who has invited us into His embrace.

Pretty much everyone on my iPod, I'd like to be friends with. But I'd say that the main two that I'd love to get into a conversation with, are Werner Herzog and Graham Hancock.

'Psychotherapy' is a private, confidential conversation that has nothing to do with illness, medicine, or healing.

Probably one of the reasons why gushing is so unattractive is that it leaves nothing for the listener to do.

Silence can be defined as conversation with an Englishman

Put down the weight of your aloneness and ease into the conversation.

Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen.

Race always comes up in the conversation of Detroit.

Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well.

Real speech can only come from complete silence. Incomplete silence is as fussy as deliberate conversation.

Reasonable men are the best dictionaries of conversation.

Repose is as necessary in conversation as in a picture.

Saying that cultural objects have value is like saying that telephones have conversations.

Science is like literature, a continuing dialog among diverse and conflicting voices, no one ever wholly right or wholly wrong, but a steady conversation forever provisional and personal and living.

Sexuality is, of course, a great way of having a conversation between people.

She was not often invited to join in the conversation of the others, nor did she desire it. Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions.

Sighs and silences and avoided conversations are just as important as the things you do talk about.

Show me the man who isn't interested in discussing himself.

Society is frivolous, and shreds its day into scraps, its conversation into ceremonies and escapes.

So many of our conversations (about affirmative action) have been dishonest

Reading is, at its best, not an escape; it is genuine experience. A novel is not a monologue, but a conversation, a collaboration between writer and reader, an invaluable exchange of human conditions.

She always carried a book, though, in case she needed to read a few pages to avoid unwanted conversation.

Silence and modesty are very valuable qualities in conversation.

Silence is also conversation.

Someday, someday, but certainly not now, I'd like to learn how to have a conversation.

Talkin bout money we could have a conversation Top five tax bracket in the population

Talking is good. Conversations have to be forever.

Talk often, but never long: in that case, if you do not please, at least you are sure not to tire your hearers.

Sometimes I'll start a sentence and I don't know where it's going. I just hope to find it somewhere along the way. Like an improv conversation. An improversation.

Talk shows are proof that conversation is dead.

That conversation... was as dirty as a sewer! It is not enough for you to take no part in it. You must show your repugnance for it strongly!

That amenity which the French have developed into a great art . . . conversation.

That," he said, "is so not the point of this conversation.

That silence is one of the great arts of conversation is allowed by Cicero himself, who says, there is not only an art, but even an eloquence in it

that's it - hundreds of texts and conversations, thousands upon thousands of words spoken and sent, all boiled down into a single line. is that what relationships become?

That's probably the most boring conversation you could hear - an actor talk about politics. I won't go there.

That's the nice thing about collaborating with someone: Your work becomes a conversation.

The action of the soul is oftener in that which is felt and left unsaid than in that which is said in any conversation. It broods over every society, and men unconsciously seek for it in each other.

The art of conversation consists far less in displaying much wit oneself than in helping others to be witty: the man who leaves your company pleased with himself and his own wit is very well pleased with you.

The Buddha over and over again spoke clearly and definitely on post-mortem states - as in his conversation with Vasetta.

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

Theater is perhaps one of the few places left where we are in a dialogue right now. Everything has become so partisan, and the rhetoric has become so heated, that conversation is almost impossible.

The best joke-tellers are those who have the patience to wait for conversation to come around to the point where the jokes in their repertoire have application.