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The true alchemist turns uncertainty into jewels, deftly wading through the fog of nuance and molding knowledge with yet-to-be-seen ideas, something incredible awaits when humility and critical thought entangle.
Author:
Cassia Marlowe
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Coral reefs are liminal symphonies amidst oceanic storms; every fracture mirrored solos renewing in forgotten keys of resilience.
Author:
Isla Marella
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In the quiet salons of thought, where echoes of experience gently seep through time, we discover that wiser truths often cloaked become splendid ordinary conversations.
Author:
Livia Kinsey
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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.
Author:
John Yoo
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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.
Author:
William Yeats
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Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.
Author:
William Wycherley
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Those who wish well to the State ought to choose to places of trust men of inward principle, justified by exemplary conversation.
Author:
John Witherspoon
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His daughter returned from her boarding school, improved in fashionable airs and expert in manufacturing fashionable toys; but, in her conversation, he sought in vain for that refined and fertile mind which he had fondly expected.
Author:
Emma Willard
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You can pick out actors by the glazed look that comes into their eyes when the conversation wanders away from themselves.
Author:
Michael Wilding
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Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
Author:
Oscar Wilde
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If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
Author:
James Whistler
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It is commonly agreed that children spend more hours per year watching television than in the classroom, and far less in actual conversation with their parents.
Author:
Paul Weyrich
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There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all.
Author:
Rebecca West
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My accent remained terrible. It was very hard for me to initiate any conversation with someone I didn't know.
Author:
Lawrence Welk
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Conversation didn't seem necessary when I put the accordion down and swung some young lady around the floor.
Author:
Lawrence Welk
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I always love being in the company of women. It's all about good conversation and great wine.
Author:
Naomi Watts
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Lettuce is like conversation; it must be fresh and crisp, so sparkling that you scarcely notice the bitter in it.
Author:
Charles Warner
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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.
Author:
Rick Wagoner
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There is no roles. No one is keeping any roles. The drummer is also answering everybody and everything. So it is a constant conversation and communication between musicians on an extremely high level with extremely valuable material, motifs, and melodies.
Author:
Miroslav Vitous
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It's like that with what sort of ideas people outside of the band have of HIM. They all see it through a different lens as well which is beautiful. Hopefully, it makes it an endless topic of conversation.
Author:
Ville Valo
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Sex is a conversation carried out by other means. If you get on well out of bed, half the problems of bed are solved.
Author:
Peter Ustinov
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Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.
Author:
Mark Twain
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A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.
Author:
Mark Twain
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There's times when you're having dinner with a good friend and you're in the middle of a conversation and somebody comes up and cuts you off. Can you sign this? Can I take a picture with you? I'm adjusting to all the attention.
Author:
Verne Troyer
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The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.
Author:
William Temple
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The most influential of all educational factors is the conversation in a child's home.
Author:
William Temple
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For most women, the language of conversation is primarily a language of rapport: a way of establishing connections and negotiating relationships.
Author:
Deborah Tannen
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The biggest mistake is believing there is one right way to listen, to talk, to have a conversation - or a relationship.
Author:
Deborah Tannen
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Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
Author:
Robert Stevenson
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Writing, when properly managed, (as you may be sure I think mine is) is but a different name for conversation.
Author:
Laurence Sterne
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The dialogue between client and architect is about as intimate as any conversation you can have, because when you're talking about building a house, you're talking about dreams.
Author:
Robert Stern
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You want people walking away from the conversation with some kernel of wisdom or some kind of impact.
Author:
Harry Stanton
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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.
Author:
Edwin Stanton
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To have God speak to the heart is a majestic experience, an experience that people may miss if they monopolize the conversation and never pause to hear God's responses.
Author:
Charles Stanley
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I'm attracted to guys who are really confident and make conversation.
Author:
Britney Spears
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And one of our points of continuing conversation with our trading partners is the urgency of their taking steps to remove barriers to their improved growth performance.
Author:
John Snow
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People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.
Author:
George Smith
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Nicole will come up in conversations where it's in a part of the conversation. Or we may be somewhere and I would tell some story about their mother and I. You know, we always honor her birthday.
Author:
O. Simpson
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I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
Author:
George Shaw
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She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.
Author:
George Shaw
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The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
Author:
George Shaw
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Conversation like television set on honeymoon... unnecessary.
Author:
Peter Sellers
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I just use my muscles as a conversation piece, like someone walking a cheetah down 42nd Street.
Author:
Arnold Schwarzenegger
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A conversation goes sometimes into personal things and that's nicer. You look to each other and you have a different picture, you get into a relationship.
Author:
Maximilian Schell
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I have a contract but it's not a commitment in the ordinary sense. It's our ongoing conversation.
Author:
Diane Sawyer
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The primary use of conversation is to satisfy the impulse to talk.
Author:
George Santayana
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My perfect girl would be pretty mad, but one you can have a conversation with. No one can be too mad for me, the madder the better. I love a crazy chick!
Author:
Lee Ryan
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I never knew any painter worthy of the name who paid the smallest attention to what a critic says, even in conversation.
Author:
Robert Ross
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On our watch, the conversation with a would-be suicide bomber will not begin with the words, 'You have the right to remain silent.'
Author:
Mitt Romney
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You're in the public eye and you just hope that people don't come up and interrupt you while your in the middle of a meal or a conversation or something like that.
Author:
Wayne Rogers
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Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.
Author:
Francois Rochefoucauld
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Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
Author:
Francois Rochefoucauld
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The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying.
Author:
Francois Rochefoucauld
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A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.
Author:
Rainer Rilke
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If you spend any time in Los Angeles, there's only one topic of conversation.
Author:
Alan Rickman
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It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought.
Author:
Agnes Repplier
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Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times because they had nobody to talk about.
Author:
Agnes Repplier
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I've been in a serious conversation with one of my children, and a fan has come up. I've been in a public bathroom and had the hand come under the stall with a paper and pen. That sort of thing anybody can live without.
Author:
Helen Reddy
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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.
Author:
Emily Post
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You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.
Author:
Plato
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Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good plays, good company, good conversation - what are they? They are the happiest people in the world.
Author:
William Phelps
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I painted one dining room red and I must say, the conversation became very heated in that room.
Author:
Amanda Pays
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I spend a good portion of my dinner-party conversation defending America because no matter what the political agenda, it's still a fantastic, amazing place.
Author:
Gwyneth Paltrow
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A pas de deux is a dialogue of love. How can there be conversation if one partner is dumb?
Author:
Rudolf Nureyev
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People say conversation is a lost art; how often I have wished it were.
Author:
Edward Murrow
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It's my responsibility, and entirely my fault, Of course I regret it. It's the kind of locker-room conversation we all use, but as prime minister I shouldn't have used it.
Author:
Brian Mulroney
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No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.
Author:
Christopher Morley
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There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
Author:
Michel Montaigne
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In England only uneducated people show off their knowledge; nobody quotes Latin or Greek authors in the course of conversation, unless he has never read them.
Author:
George Mikes
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Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.
Author:
H. Mencken
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He who is silent must be agreed with, for what shall the wings of opposition thresh upon, without the winds of conversation to shoulder them.
Author:
Bryant McGill
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I do expect that the President will say something at the beginning of his remarks today, at the conversation.
Author:
Scott McClellan
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Sometimes I wish that I was the weather, you'd bring me up in conversation forever. And when it rained, I'd be the talk of the day.
Author:
John Mayer
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A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.
Author:
Andre Maurois
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Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.
Author:
Andre Maurois
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It's like breathing in and out to me. It's like having a conversation with someone who isn't there. Because it has to be addressed to somebody - not a particular person, or very rarely.
Author:
Norman MacCaig
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The dining room in my old house was truly magnificent, but by far the worst room for conversation. I'd get up from the table, a very long table, and somebody would always say, Paul, I never got to talk to you.
Author:
Paul Lynde
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My table seats eight, so that's my maximum. Having a small number of guests is the only way to generate good conversation. Besides, your whole house doesn't get wrecked that way.
Author:
Paul Lynde
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Food was a constant topic of conversation in our household.
Author:
Paul Lynde
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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.
Author:
Henry Longfellow
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You know what? It's a great conversation starter, right? You meet friends that way. Sometimes it's a good thing. And then other times, I guess, the person is just a little too... then you kind of like want to back away. It depends on the person, you know?
Author:
Alison Lohman
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No one will ever shine in conversation, who thinks of saying fine things: to please, one must say many things indifferent, and many very bad.
Author:
Francis Lockier
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I wanted when we began this to have a conversation, the kind that you're able to have, and the only way I knew how to do it was not to have a pre-interview.
Author:
James Lipton
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It's finding those nonsensical pieces of conversation that we all do all the time. We do all the time. When we're talking on the telephone, there are arguments with people who agree when they both think that they disagree.
Author:
Barry Levinson
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No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation.
Author:
Fran Lebowitz
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Polite conversation is rarely either.
Author:
Fran Lebowitz
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There are two things in ordinary conversation which ordinary people dislike - information and wit.
Author:
Stephen Leacock
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What is reading, but silent conversation.
Author:
Charles Lamb
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The planned sit-down reception is an artificial forum where one is presented with a limited number of persons with whom he can hold a conversation.
Author:
Jerzy Kosinski
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These charges that have been made against me, that Prof. Prescott has made, has charged against me, that I denied the atonement in conversation with him, are absolutely false.
Author:
John Kellogg
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I mean, the trouble with some of the kind of relationship movies I've done, is there's only so many ways you can shoot a conversation. I was really tired of talking heads.
Author:
Lawrence Kasdan
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Shortly after we arrived in Baghdad, we had another conversation with the ambassador. He said that he wanted us to give him the timeline, because we had 90 days to get these prisons operational and transfer responsibility back to the Iraqis.
Author:
Janis Karpinski
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And when I'm writing, I write a lot anyway. I might write pages and pages of conversation between characters that don't necessarily end up in the book, or in the story I'm working on, because they're simply my way of getting to know the characters.
Author:
Norton Juster
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A baby changes your dinner party conversation from politics to poops.
Author:
Maurice Johnstone
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When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.
Author:
Samuel Johnson
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The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression.
Author:
Samuel Johnson
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I had a long conversation with Steve Carlton. He told me that on the days he pitched, he felt it was his responsibility to make everyone around him better, to lift his teammates. That's what I try to do.
Author:
Randy Johnson
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I think it's been the topic of conversation for every one... If the U.S. is hit again, how are we going to handle it? Our troops are all over the place.
Author:
Holly Johnson
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Tonight was a great opportunity to take on the political status quo that has given us trillion dollar deficits and put millions out of work. Our objective was to inject some common sense into the conversation among Republicans at a time when business-as-usual simply won't work.
Author:
Gary Johnson
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I cannot forget a conversation that I had with an elderly couple from the tribe. They asked me whether I would kill them after I had finished. When I asked them why they asked that, they replied, Because you white men always do!
Author:
Roland Joffe
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Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords - philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather.
Author:
Anna Jameson
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So here we are today with a new conversation. When University of Georgia plays Georgia Tech, it's uniform color versus skin color. We have - we've overcome that level of racial fear.
Author:
Jesse Jackson
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It means that no matter what you write, be it a biography, an autobiography, a detective novel, or a conversation on the street, it all becomes fiction as soon as you write it down.
Author:
Guillermo Infante
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If you ever have to support a flagging conversation, introduce the topic of eating.
Author:
Leigh Hunt
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If you are ever at a loss to support a flagging conversation, introduce the subject of eating.
Author:
Leigh Hunt
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Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while.
Author:
Kin Hubbard
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I can wear a hat or take it off, but either way it's a conversation piece.
Author:
Hedda Hopper
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I wish you would read a little poetry sometimes. Your ignorance cramps my conversation.
Author:
Anthony Hope
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I get readings, I sometimes get five a week. You'll feel like a schizophrenic by the end of that week. I don't know who I am any more. You'll be in conversation with a friend and start spitting out dialogue.
Author:
Josh Holloway
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Faculty met, and after the usual business, some conversation was had about certain students being addicted to drinking, and it was reported that a citizen of the village had informed a member of the Faculty that there was a good deal of drinking this term among the students.
Author:
Daniel Hill
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Saying what we think gives a wider range of conversation than saying what we know.
Author:
Cullen Hightower
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In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.
Author:
George Herbert
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Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.
Author:
O. Henry
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Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
Author:
William Hazlitt
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Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well.
Author:
Mark Haddon
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Ten years ago, it was really difficult for a young actress to walk onto a set and disagree with the director and having that be OK and have a conversation about it and everyone be cool with it.
Author:
Maggie Gyllenhaal
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Why are people saying it's too soon? Like the people on that flight, we need to agree about what to do about terrorism. And I think we need to have that conversation now.
Author:
Paul Greengrass
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I think there's a natural chemistry between us as friends; and there's really no separation between the rapport that we feel when we're in conversation and when we're playing music, it's one in the same.
Author:
Benny Green
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I have not made any suggestions about climate change. This is more about blending or shifting the conversation about the environment versus the economy. It's just such an old, outdated conversation.
Author:
Jennifer Granholm
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Prayer is simply a two-way conversation between you and God.
Author:
Billy Graham
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Prior to being allowed to enter the profession, prospective teachers should be asked to talk with a group of friendly students for at least half an hour and be able to engage them in an interesting conversation about any subject the prospective teacher wants to talk about.
Author:
William Glasser
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What students lack in school is an intellectual relationship or conversation with the teacher.
Author:
William Glasser
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I've found that if I say what I'm really thinking and feeling, people are more likely to say what they really think and feel. The conversation becomes a real conversation.
Author:
Carol Gilligan
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I do not wish to hide my origins, nor do I seek to make it a subject of conversation. I am what I am.
Author:
Ryan Giggs
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After about 20 years of marriage, I'm finally starting to scratch the surface of what women want. And I think the answer lies somewhere between conversation and chocolate.
Author:
Mel Gibson
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Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius.
Author:
Edward Gibbon
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As far as playing jazz, no other art form, other than conversation, can give the satisfaction of spontaneous interaction.
Author:
Stan Getz
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A good quartet is like a good conversation among friends interacting to each other's ideas.
Author:
Stan Getz
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Anyone who thinks the art of conversation is dead ought to tell a child to go to bed.
Author:
Robert Gallagher
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I found it very difficult to explain to someone why you did a film. It's not like having a conversation.
Author:
Charlotte Gainsbourg
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I've got to go. That's one of the penalties of being a doctor. I never seem to finish a conversation.
Author:
Robert Fresco
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If you're interested in how people behave, if you're interested in the way they talk about themselves, the way the conceive of themselves, it's very hard to ignore drugs nowadays, because that is so much part of the conversation.
Author:
Jonathan Franzen
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What frightens us most in a madman is his sane conversation.
Author:
Anatole France
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I'm smart and I can be really funny and interesting and I can go toe-to-toe with anybody in a conversation.
Author:
Megan Fox
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What I think we need to do to engage the American people in a conversation about entitlement reform is to have a bipartisan group of people who come together and put every solution on the table, every alternative on the table. And then we ought to engage in a long conversation with the American people so they understand the choices.
Author:
Carly Fiorina
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There are those moments when you shake someone's hand, have a conversation with someone, and suddenly your all bound together because you share your humanity in one simple moment.
Author:
Ralph Fiennes
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Well, my closest friends are still the ones that I went to school with, but it's nice to go to work, at the studios, and have people there that you're willing to talk to and have a good conversation with.
Author:
Tom Felton
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People seem to see no difference between an intimate conversation and a conversation at the water cooler.
Author:
Mike Farrell
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I tried to use the questions and answers as an armature on which to build a sculpture of genuine conversation.
Author:
Clifton Fadiman
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Beware of the man who will not engage in idle conversation; he is planning to steal your walking stick or water your stock.
Author:
William Emerson
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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.
Author:
Ben Elton
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The desert has its holiness of silence, the crowd its holiness of conversation.
Author:
Walter Elliot
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Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation.
Author:
Elizabeth Drew
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Travel, instead of broadening the mind, often merely lengthens the conversation.
Author:
Elizabeth Drew
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If you go out to dinner with someone, you find out what they prefer in food. We ought to be able to have a conversation to find out what people prefer when it comes to sex.
Author:
Betty Dodson
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This is a time for a national conversation. A conversation about the document that binds us as a nation and a people. That document, of course, is the Constitution.
Author:
Mike DeWine
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The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.
Author:
Rene Descartes
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What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming.
Author:
Edgar Degas
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Romance like a ghost escapes touching; it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory.
Author:
George Curtis
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Eating without conversation is only stoking.
Author:
Marcelene Cox
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I never initiated nor did the FBI ever initiate any conversation or correspondence with me.
Author:
John Cooper
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Logic and fact keep interfering with the easy flow of conversation.
Author:
Mason Cooley
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Debate is the death of conversation.
Author:
Kitty Collins
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I'm having this conversation with you now. I'm talking, but I'm thinking, feeling, smelling, and moving. Yet I'm concentrating on what you're saying. So that means there's more things going on in the body than just the present thing that the person's got you doing.
Author:
Ornette Coleman
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No one has to learn to spell to talk, right? You see a little kid holding a conversation with an adult. He probably doesn't know the words he's saying, but he knows where to fit them to make what he's thinking logical to what you're saying.
Author:
Ornette Coleman
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A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech.
Author:
Emile Cioran
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Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.
Author:
Marcus Cicero
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The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
Author:
Winston Churchill
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When I spoke, I was listened to; and I was at a loss to know how I had so easily acquired the art of commanding attention, and giving the tone to the conversation.
Author:
Adelbert Chamisso
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I consider myself a religious person. God is something very personal with me and I don't flaunt religion in conversation with others.
Author:
Richard Chamberlain
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I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar.
Author:
Miguel Cervantes
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Say this for big league baseball - it is beyond any question the greatest conversation piece ever invented in America.
Author:
Bruce Catton
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A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.
Author:
Truman Capote
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It's fun having songs about parties and gigolos, but I really wanted to use my music as a form of art. Art is supposed to spark conversation and make people think, and I wanted to do that with this song.
Author:
Nick Cannon
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Forget all the bars and schmoozing and everybody checking out everybody else. My ideal date would be to park in a dark place, check out the stars, and have a great conversation. When all else fails, you can just make out.
Author:
Brooke Burke
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The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it.
Author:
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
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Body language is a very powerful tool. We had body language before we had speech, and apparently, 80% of what you understand in a conversation is read through the body, not the words.
Author:
Deborah Bull
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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.
Author:
William Bryant
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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.
Author:
Jean Bruyere
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There's no conversation more boring than talking about what it's really like to live in Newport and how the show compares to the real thing. I just don't care.
Author:
Adam Brody
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Although there exist many thousand subjects for elegant conversation, there are persons who cannot meet a cripple without talking about feet.
Author:
Ernest Bramah
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The way I write is that I'll actually have a conversation out loud with myself. In a weird way, I just kind of get schizophrenic and play two characters.
Author:
Zach Braff
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For my own part I think no innocent species of wit or pleasantry should be suppressed: and that a good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation.
Author:
James Boswell
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A good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation.
Author:
James Boswell
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I haven't heard from Bobby since May when we had our conversation, but then this thing broke last week, where they arrested him, and we were watching what was going on on the whole deal, and I was actually flabbergasted, at what the then police chief Parks was saying.
Author:
Tommy Bond
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It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.
Author:
Yogi Berra
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A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.
Author:
Henry Beecher
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There was a sense of all the things that go on on the street, particularly in New York, that you are just completely unaware of, that that conversation could be happening at any time. I loved the instability of the camera. It's just an unstable world.
Author:
Jennifer Beals
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Sometimes poetry is inspired by the conversation entered into by reading other poems.
Author:
John Barton
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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.
Author:
Cecilia Bartoli
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One of Brando's problems is that he can't have a conversation with anyone.
Author:
Peter Bart
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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.
Author:
Lynda Barry
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My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.
Author:
Jane Austen
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Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds and business. Hence come those frequent absences, so observable in conversation; for whilst the body is confined to present company, the mind is flown to that which it delights in.
Author:
Mary Astell
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He actually came up to me and we started speaking. And from that conversation we were able to come to a meeting of the minds and it seemed as if it was clear to me that he wanted to do similar things to what I wanted to do.
Author:
Maurice Ashley
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It is all right to hold a conversation but you should let go of it now and then.
Author:
Richard Armour
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His struggle for a bare living left him no time to take advantage of the public evening school. In time he learned to read, to follow a conversation or lecture; but he never learned to write correctly; and his pronunciation remains extremely foreign to this day.
Author:
Mary Antin
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My mom has a good way of engaging me in a conversation about the choices I make, listening, being objective and open-minded, and respecting those choices so long as they don't put me in danger.
Author:
Casey Affleck
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Love without conversation is impossible.
Author:
Mortimer Adler
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The difficulty with this conversation 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.
Author:
Douglas Adams
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I have been further enlightened by the conversation and correspondence of some illustrious Italians, whom I would gladly name, were I not afraid of exposing them to danger.
Author:
Edmond About
