When I’m writing, I need to amplify my thoughts and feelings on just a conversation that I might have had with somebody – somebody close to me. It’s often the case that the people closest to me are the people on my mind the most.
At the end of the day, I want to be part of the same conversation as Chris Rock, Eddie Murphy, Dave Chappelle, Bill Cosby and Richard Pryor.
Having L.G.B.T. people sitting in the room while decisions are being made, and sitting there as peers, will shift the conversation.
My grandparents used to pray five times a day, but they were quiet about their own thing. Completely liberal day by day; my grandmother was a social worker and my grandfather was an engineer, but they never talked about religion. My entire life I couldn’t remember one conversation I had with them about religion.
Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.
I have so much fun because I love to meet the women who wear my shoes and meet the clients. That, to me, is the best part – getting to know the faces of the people who actually wear my shoes and getting to have a conversation with them.
I’ve been reading poetry publicly for 20 years, and this is what you do – you express, you sometimes dig a bit to get a conversation started. That’s the point of poetry. You’re supposed to go, ‘Hmmmm,’ and ‘Woooh!’
In this experiment, made on the 9th of October, 1876, actual conversation, backwards and forwards, upon the same line, and by the same instruments reciprocally used, was successfully carried on for the first time upon a real line of miles in length.
As British people, we don’t often face what our role in history is. We’re only just beginning to do that. Storytellers have an incredibly important role in confronting that and continuing the conversation.
Paul Ryan and Mr. Trump have had a conversation, and they continue to develop that relationship. They had a great meeting in Washington, D.C., where they talk about what was important to both of them. They agree on many issues.
My compositions are, I would say, like pages ripped from a diary that I don’t really want to share, but that I almost feel the need to share. It’s a way for me to get things out that I can’t get out in life, you know, in real regular conversation with people.
In the conversation about women in leadership, male voices are noticeably absent.
Someone said to me at a party once, ‘Oh, yeah, you’re a comedian? Then how come you’re not funny now?’ And I just wanted to say, ‘Well, I’m just going to take this conversation we’re having and then repeat that to strangers, and then that’s the joke. You’re the joke later.’
Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought – asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.
Even now I will go to, like, an industry event, and all the ladies will be over here and all the guys over here, and I will go to the guys’ table and sit because I just feel I can have a much better conversation over there. And that’s automatic; it’s not prejudice.
My least favorite thing or my pet peeve would be people who literally ignore the other people you’re with, or the situation, and they just dive right in and cut off the conversation.
Travel, instead of broadening the mind, often merely lengthens the conversation.
I listen like mad to any conversation taking place next to me just trying to hear why this is funny. Women’s restrooms are especially great. I wash my hands twice waiting for people to come in and start talking.
Unless you work in HR, it’s not your responsibility to necessarily police and monitor workplace conversation.
I love somebody that can hold a great conversation.
Juggling is a conversation with the stick, the body, the brain.
Usually when reporting on powerful public figures, the press advisor and I would have had a conversation that established what journalists call ‘ground rules,’ placing restrictions on what can and cannot be reported.
I remember I was walking through a store, and I saw clothes a 25-year-old would wear. And the conversation in my head was, ‘I’m not young and fabulous anymore.’ But, immediately, there was a voice that said, ‘No, you can be older and fabulous.’ In other words, still just as fabulous, but in a different way.
I gain strength from postive thought and from the daily conversation with God.
A man can get my attention by smiling at me and then coming over and talking to me. The best way to get a girl’s attention is to start a conversation.
What students lack in school is an intellectual relationship or conversation with the teacher.
Every girls’ night needs a funny movie and a good conversation about guys! My friends and I also love picking outfits out for each other to try on at slumber parties. It’s so fun.
Most of the conversation about how geopolitics is changing in the 21st century focuses on the shift from west to east and on how we’re moving from the bipolar power equation of the Cold War to a new bipolar relationship, that of the U.S. and China, that determines the mood music for everyone else.
To make riot grrrl move into the future in a new way with a bunch of new names and a bunch of new energy, younger people have to learn about it and apply it to their own lives and own modern conversation. And they are.
I consider each performance to be an intimate conversation between me and the audience members.
We should reserve the notion of ‘morality’ for the ways in which we can affect one another’s experience for better or worse. Some people use the term ‘morality’ differently, of course, but I think we have a scientific responsibility to focus the conversation so as to make it most useful.
No collection of people who are all waiting for the same thing are capable of holding a natural conversation. Even if the thing they are waiting for is only a taxi.
I do not wish to hide my origins, nor do I seek to make it a subject of conversation. I am what I am.
I wish my artwork could persuade millions of people to join a global conversation about sustainability.
We’ve seen computers play chess and beat grand masters. We’ve seen computers drive a car across a desert. But interestingly, playing chess is easy, but having a conversation about nothing is really difficult for a computer.
Why don’t men like to stop and ask directions? This question, which I first addressed in my 1990 book ‘You Just Don’t Understand: Women and Men in Conversation’, garnered perhaps the most attention of any issue or insight in that book.
The prisoners for better security against conversation shall have a canvas bag put over the head of each and tied around the neck, with a holes for proper breathing and eating, but not seeing.
At least in Russia, you cannot just go and tap into someone’s phone conversation without a warrant issued by court. That’s more or less the way a civilized society should go about fighting terrorism.
With social media, you don’t just publish a book and figure you’ve done your part; your fans want to talk to you, have a conversation. It means, though, that you can connect with your readers like never before, so you don’t have to guess what they like – you can ask.
I love to cook. But I’m a bit rubbish. I tend to start something and then dip into a book or have a conversation and come back and everything’s burnt.
This thing happened where I noticed anytime I got together with four friends or more, the conversation goes to food.
Congress’s definition of torture in those laws – the infliction of severe mental or physical pain – leaves room for interrogation methods that go beyond polite conversation.
You put choice on the table, you change the whole game. Everything is about control. If an ad is interesting to you, you’ll have the conversation with the brand. If it’s not, it’s a waste of time.
I remember very clearly at the first budget review having a pretty direct conversation with the head of manufacturing… We began to get huge improvements in productivity and responsiveness. I got a chance to see that firsthand.
The future of communicating with customers rests in engaging with them through every possible channel: phone, e-mail, chat, Web, and social networks. Customers are discussing a company’s products and brand in real time. Companies need to join the conversation.
In America journalism is apt to be regarded as an extension of history: in Britain, as an extension of conversation.
People are hurting out there, perhaps they are ready to start a conversation about whether an AR-15 belongs in the hands of a citizen, whether a citizen should be able 6,000 rounds on the internet.
Violence in film and television is an ongoing conversation, and I like eavesdropping on it, but I’m never sure what my opinion is. I like watching creative violence, but I don’t know.
The conversation has become so divisive now on all types of immigration reform that it is really hard to move anything.
Ideal conversation must be an exchange of thought, and not, as many of those who worry most about their shortcomings believe, an eloquent exhibition of wit or oratory.
When you’re in a conversation, genuinely be in it. Stare people in their eyes. Know what you’re talking about. Enjoy that moment.
