I never knew any painter worthy of the name who paid the smallest attention to what a critic says, even in conversation.
No one had to worry about Peter after his conversion. Your investigators can be that converted.
While some of my closest friends were jocks, it seemed that they spoke a different language with each other. Joining in their conversation was fraught with risk.
A king is always a king - and a woman always a woman: his authority and her sex ever stand between them and rational converse.
Any conversation which does not include the context of the journey of the heart is by definition untrue to who we are as human beings.
It used to be thought that our genes were historically immutable and that it was not possible to imagine a conversation between culture and genetics.
I can't imagine having a conversation about 'Celebrity Big Brother' in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
There's a smartphone gait: the slow sidewalk weave that comes from being lost in conversation rather than looking where you're going.
Twitter is like overhearing people's conversations, which is exactly what dictionary editors have been wishing we could do for years.
My whole drive is to make sure that music is a common space where we search for beauty and share it. It needs to be louder than any conversation. That's where we have to go as a human race.
If God is the mystery of the universe, these mysteries, we're tackling these mysteries one by one. If you're going to stay religious at the end of the conversation, God has to mean more to you than just where science has yet to tread.
I read Freud's Introductory Lectures in Psychoanalysis in basically one sitting. I decided to enroll in medical school. It was almost like a conversion experience.
When my father died, I had a real experience with Christ, a real conversion with Christ and I had it in a Oneness church.
We need to be more conversant with it because science is in our lives. It's in everything. It's in the food we eat. It's in the air we breathe. It's everywhere.
To address our current food system problems, I propose a series of local, regional, national and global conversations - starting around the dinner table - to rethink the food we produce, buy and eat.
I come from an Italian family. One of the greatest and most profound expressions we would ever use in conversations or arguments was a slamming door. The slamming door was our punctuation mark.
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...
I could never muster the courage to speak to girls in my college in Pune. Most of them were Parsis and spoke English. I came from a village and could barely converse in English.
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.
We have had a chance to travel to all 56 counties in this state, and I have had the chance to sit around with cups of coffee and having conversations about what matters to Montanans.
You used to be able to just call people. You didn't have to be on someone's calendar to have a phone conversation. The telephone was an important and valuable domain of communication, both for casual, friendly chats and for professional exchanges of ...
