Quotes of: Conversation Keyword

In New York and L.A., there is sort of that silent competition to be on the cutting edge of something. You end up having a conversation with how the world receives your work, especially if you are writing narrative, not fiction. Sometimes it is an aw...

Sloane Crosley

If you wish to know what most occupies a man's thoughts, you have only to listen to his conversation.

Chinese

To make good conversation there are a thousand subjects, but there are still those who cannot meet a cripple without talking about feet.

Chinese

Sometimes being happy will require some difficult conversations. Some of those conversations will be with yourself.

The Happiness Code: Ten keys to being the best you can be

There is no avoiding the fact that we live at the mercy of our ideas This is never more true than with our ideas about God.

Hearing God: Developing a Conversational Relationship with God

Only after seeing the winter, do you comprehend the richness of summer. This was a big theme, and one I could confidently do: the infinite variety of nature.

A Bigger Message: Conversations with David Hockney

There is something about the South that accepts the supernatural. If you don't accept it and you're having a conversation with someone who does, it's just one of those polite things where you don't question their belief in ghosts. You just go, 'Oh, y...

Alice Englert

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.

Abbott Awaits

If I never got to make a living doing what I loved, I'd still do it--for fun and for free.

Angry Conversations with God: A Snarky but Authentic Spiritual Memoir

There are two ways to wash dishes: One is to wash them in order to make them clean; the other is to wash them in order to wash them.

Awakening: Conversations with the Masters

There's a very simple reason why quality relationships are scarce: we live in a fallen world, and it sucks.

Angry Conversations with God: A Snarky but Authentic Spiritual Memoir

The devil does some of his best work behind stained glass.

The Jesus Way: A Conversation on the Ways That Jesus Is the Way

We have a very precise image - an image at times shameless - of what we have lost, but we are ignorant of what may follow or replace it.

Seven Conversations with Jorge Luis Borges

Fantasy is storytelling with the beguiling power to transform the impossible into the imaginable, and to reveal our own “real” world in a fresh and truth-bearing light.

The Wand in the Word: Conversations with Writers of Fantasy

I'm a great admirer of secularism. At its best, I think it's one of the best things that we have. I don't believe in insinuating religion into conversation. I don't believe in excluding it from conversation. I enjoy the fact that people's innermost t...

Marilynne Robinson

Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation, and conversation must have a common basis, and between two people of widely different culture the only common basis possible is the lowest level.

Oscar Wilde

When you're having conversations about actors, you realize these same conversations have happened about you. If you want to make a film for $5m, then you cast A, B and C, but if you want $20m, you won't be able to cast them, you need X, Y and Z.

Paddy Considine

A person with 'oppositional conversational style' is a person who, in conversation, disagrees with and corrects whatever you say. He or she may do this in a friendly way, or a belligerent way, but this person frames remarks in opposition to whatever ...

Gretchen Rubin

Being black, Latino, or Asian is not a genre. Romantic comedies, thrillers, action - those are genres. I think there's a lot of people who want to have the conversation. I don't think people are afraid of it, I just think it's the time to have that c...

Mara Brock Akil

I re-mastered 'The Conversation' a few years ago for DVD. 'The Conversation' was the first film I edited on a flatbed machine - a KEM editing machine. I've been using Final Cut or the AVID for 12 years now, so I was interested in looking at this film...

Walter Murch

To approach the Other in conversation is to welcome his expression, in which at each instant he overflows the idea a thought would carry away from it. It is therefore to receive from the Other beyond the capacity of the I, which means exactly: to hav...

Totality and Infinity: An Essay on Exteriority