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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.

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.

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

The character of a man is known from his conversations.

The best presenters have conversations with their audiences.

The best things cannot be told, the second best are misunderstood. After that comes civilized conversation; after that, mass indoctrination; after that, intercultural exchange.

The conversation of kisses. Subtle, engrossing, fearless, transforming.

The conversation of human beings seldom interested him, but it crossed his mind that the males and females always got along best when neither actually listened fully to what the other one was saying.

...the circumstances and the atmosphere always have so much to do in directing a conversation, especially a German conversation, which is only a kind of an insurrection, anyway.

The conversation about race is inevitable. It's one that people know that we have to have and continue to have.

The conversation of bullets.

The conversations about a film are an example of success because then you know whatever you've done has resonated.

The conversations you are most resisting are the conversations you most need to be having.

The conversion of Paul was no conversion at all; it was Paul who converted the religion that has raised one man above sin and death.

the delicacy that respects a friend's silence is one of the charms of life.

The conversation ran as fluidly as the tea out of the samovar’s crooked nose.

the conversation whipped gaily around the table like rags in a high wind.

The courageous conversation is the one you don't want to have.

The elites - or managers in companies - no longer control the conversation. This is how insurrections start.

The exchange by e-mail is more intimate than conversation - you allow yourself to say things you otherwise wouldn't.

The Devil often places himself upon the tongues of creatures, causing them to chatter nonsensically.

The first person I came out to was God. And the first conversation I ever had with anybody was in prayer.

The French have made conversation their claim to civilisation.

The free conversation of a friend is what I would prefer to any environment.

The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression.

The difficulty with this conversation,' said Arthur after a sort of pondering look had crawled slowly across his face like a mountaineer negotiating a tricky outcrop, 'is that it's very different from most of the ones I've had of late. Which, as I explained, have mostly been with trees.

The great charm of conversation consists less in the display of one's own wit and intelligence than in the power to draw forth the resources of others.

The great gift of conversation lies less in displaying it ourselves than in drawing it out of others. He who leaves your company pleased with himself and his own cleverness is perfectly well pleased with you.

the modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence.

The material comes from whenever you realize that you and someone else have something in common. So any conversation you've had more than once, anything you see happening to you that you see happening to a friend, you go, Hmmm, that's a situation I can make funny.

The key is to become aware of how you are signaling your presence in meetings, conversations, speeches - everywhere you show up. Then you can take charge of them.

The more you perform, the more adept you get at the nuances of navigating that communal conversation.

The more one listens to ordinary conversations the more apparent it becomes that the reasoning faculties of the brain take little part in the direction of the vocal organs.

The most difficult thing to understand during conversation is silence.

The more you get into conversations with people, you find out they've been brainwashed by the news and they don't actually know any better.

The newspaper is a lecture. The Web is a conversation.

The necessity of labor and conversation with many men and things to the scholar is rarely well remembered.

The one seeks a midwife to deliver his thoughts, the other, someone to assist: thus a good conversation comes into being.

The one prediction that never comes true is, 'You'll thank me for telling you this.

The most radical thing we can do is connect people to one another. That starts conversations toward a vision for change.

The photograph is to a great degree evidence of the conversation I had with the person. It's a part of my visual diary.

The racial conversation in the States is so multifaceted and multilayered. Obviously it's not always a positive conversation, but it's just so much more detailed than it was when I was growing up in South Africa.

There are certain things that are obviously problems and should be topics of conversation that aren't.

The only proper intoxication is conversation.

The primary use of conversation is to satisfy the impulse to talk.

There are many who talk on from ignorance rather than from knowledge, and who find the former an inexhaustible fund of conversation.

There are many who would much prefer that the word 'climate' never be mentioned and that the issue be eliminated from our national conversation.

There is an underlying timelessness in the basic conversation that is mathematics.