Conversation Quotes
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Conversations consist for the most part of things one does not say.
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I want to steer the national conversation in the right direction, from my point of view. I want to get under Robert Gibbs' skin and Rahm Emanuel's skin and Barack Obama's skin.
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But a book suggests conversation: one person is speaking to another, and audible sound is, or should be, natural to that exchange. So I read aloud with myself as the audience, and gave voice to another's words.
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Laughter is the lightning rod of play, the eroticism of conversation.
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There are some issues where ministers should come and talk to the prime minister, if the prime minister hasn't already talked to them. Any issue which a minister thinks is going to be profoundly controversial, where we do not have a clear existing position, it is important that there be a conversation between the minister and the prime minister. I think they all understand that and I think it is working very well.
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All of this conversation about chat and assistance lays the groundwork for what I would look at as the future of commerce.
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I keep repeating the conversation with Taduesz in mind, reaching out to touch it to make sure it doesn't disappear.
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Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of conversation, as it is generally in books the worst sort of reading.
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Most of us have very clear memories of the self-critical internal conversation running on in our heads while we were playing poorly, and yet it often seems that we hardly remember noticing it at all while we were playing well.
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My father is incapable of showing much affection, or even of carrying on a conversation. I didn't want to have a relationship with him just because he's my blood relative. It would bore me.
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Good listeners have a huge advantage. For one, when they engage in conversation, they make people 'feel' heard. They 'feel' that someone really understands their wants, needs and desires. And for good reason; a good listener does care to understand.
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I have no special desire to go crawl around in caves, but I really like the word spelunking and want to use it in conversation. I do a lot of things just to use words I like.
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Bleep theory belongs in philosophy, not a science class. But I think it does have enough merit to be a topic of conversation somewhere other than the backwoods and closets.
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I've had that conversation! "You had a minute! Why didn't you do that?" So if husbands could read our minds that would be great.
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We had got as far as this, when who should walk in but the gentleman himself, who had been drinking his beer in the taproom and had heard the whole conversation. Who was I? What did I want? What did I mean by asking questions? He had a fine flow of language, and his adjectives were very vigorous.
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Em, I am trying to have an important conversation!" shouted Seylin. "I will not change into a cat!
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I like to be at a party and be a quiet observer, be in conversation. I wouldn't say I was a class clown growing up, but I would definitely sit back in class and take snipes at the teacher.
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Two people in a conversation amount to four people talking. The four are what one person says, what he really wanted to say, what his listener heard, and what he thought he heard.
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We have to be role models. We have to be curious. Above all, we have to pay attention and be part of the conversation while our kids are still listening to us.
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The words I’m sorry did not appear in the conversation, though it was what we ate for dinner.
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At some point you do not need to talk to have a conversation. The conversation exists whether you have it or not. It continues silently in a parallel dimension of the marriage. They both pause to let it run its course toward another stalemate.
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The voice will guide you-will tell you what to do. In order to do that, you must be quite sensitive with the instrument and accept this daily conversation with your voice.
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I love fantasizing about what my next meal is going to be; it's probably my favorite topic of conversation.
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Writing is a conversation, to me. The best kind. You can't get interrupted.
