Quotes of: Conversation Keyword

There is a universal respect and even admiration for those who are humble and simple by nature, and who have absolute confidence in all human beings irrespective of their social status.

Conversations With Myself

Literature sustains life because it captures death in its forward march. Clickety-clickety-clack, the wheels go round and round ...

In Conversation

Well I won't back down No I won't back down You can stand me up at the gates of hell But I won't back down

Conversations with Tom Petty

A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.

Conversations with William Styron

And they would go not with an eye to gaining converts but with an eye to meeting need. The conversions would take care of themselves.

The Cross and the Switchblade

Seated at table - no need for the fracture of the room's silence; noiselessly they conversed.

Collected Poems: 1945-1990 R.S.Thomas: Collected Poems : R S Thomas

The duke understood the danger in having an important conversation too often in one's head before having it with the intended party.

The Duke's Tattoo

I tried to groan, Help! Help! But the tone that came out was that of polite conversation.

First Love and Other Novellas

Conversions were easy, but making full-time disciples was hard.

God's Forever Family: The Jesus People Movement in America

A raintree bent towards a window in one side of the bungalow, eavesdropping on the conversations that had taken place inside over years.

The Garden of Evening Mists

I read the tea leaves as if they were words left over from a conversation between two cups.

The Honicknowle Book of the Dead

I am beginning to feel the need of a glass of wine to fortify myself against this conversation.

His Majesty's Dragon

A brick could be used to aid the lonely. Carry it with you, converse with it, and if you drink enough, you can even make love to it. 

Brick and Blanket

Past conversations were slowly realigning in Blue's head, taking on new shades of meaning as they did.

Blue Lily, Lily Blue

It was as if my whole life revolved around trying to judge the appropriate point in a conversation to say goodbye

Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

You only are free when you realize you belong no place — you belong every place — no place at all.

Conversations with Maya Angelou

As long as everyone's wearing their own pants." "I see I have come in on a fascinating moment in the conversation.

City of Fallen Angels

Sitting around our kitchen table from a very early age on, we talked politics, and we talked policy. Never once can I ever remember my dad saying, 'Go away, this is an adult conversation.'

Cheri Bustos

I just had that conversation this morning with my doctor. I just got back from the hospital a half-hour ago, and nothing will make me happier than to replicate the DNA of my amazing husband. I'm optimistic.

Karen Duffy

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.

Adelbert von Chamisso

Art to me is not precious enough that I feel territorial about what the word gets applied to. Conversations about what counts as art and what doesn't doesn't captivate my attention very much.

Maggie Nelson