Quotes of: Good-conversation Keyword

To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations - such is pleasure beyond compare.

Essays in Idleness: The Tsurezuregusa of Kenko

She kept forcing herself to remember the entire conversation, playing it back and playing it back, all the way through, forcing a finger down her memory's throat.

Fangirl

I thought, possibly, that what I really needed was to go where nobody knew me and start over again, with none of my previous decisions, conversations, or expectations coming with me.

Forever

Conversing with children is a fine art.... An art form that demands large amounts of both honesty and misdirection. Or maybe discretion is a better word.

The Flying Troutmans

By reading older books we get a taste of the conversation of Heaven.

The Great Books Reader: Excerpts and Essays on the Most Influential Books in Western Civilization

In conversation we are sometimes confused by the tone of our own voice, and mislead to make assertions that do not at all correspond to our opinions.

Human, All Too Human

It never took her long to darken any conversation, as from birth she was inclined to see misery in each and every story, and to fabricate some when there was none.

The Bastard of Istanbul

You think everyone pervs you."... "That's cos they do, and you're just jealous, cos I'm gorgeous and you're not." ~ conversation between Dante &Ash

Behind the Lens

But there's not enough time in life to go sit at a party, have a drink, and make idle conversation. There's too many important things to do. Just being together with my husband, spending time alone, which I have very little of.

Pia Zadora

Our experience of any painting is always the latest line in a long conversation we've been having with painting. There's no way of looking at art as though you hadn't seen art before.

Brian Eno

I had a conversation with a biologist in an art gallery, and he persuaded me that it was possible to grow a dress from microbes. It was the craziest thing I had ever heard, but I'm a bit of a science fiction fan and I thought it sounded like an inter...

Suzanne Lee

What freedom to be tied up, and still have the capability of ignoring ridiculous, silly conversations.

Aventuras in Spain: A memoir of Spain in the 70's and 80's

The clearest way to see through a culture is to attend to its tools for conversation.

Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

We had the kind of conversations that only great friends can ever share. They were touched with magic.

In Arabian Nights: A Caravan of Moroccan Dreams

When scientific conversations cease, then dogma rather than knowledge begins to rule the day.

The Archaeology of Mind: Neuroevolutionary Origins of Human Emotions

Can I get your cell phone number so we can text like normal antisocial human beings, since we are both too fucked up to have a conversation?

Aaron

Do you ever think if people heard our conversations they'd lock us up?" All the time.

Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life

Some websites are completely optimized for simple conversion, and it’s easy to tell. The design centers on one clear call to action, a vivid lozenge labeled with a verb.

Just Enough Research

A great book allows me to leap over that wall: in a deep, significant conversation with another consciousness, I feel human and unalone.

Reality Hunger: A Manifesto

Display politeness and frankness always both in action and conversation. Don’t keep engaging in useless arguments. It scares your dreams away. Talk sensibly.

Shaping the dream

Everything that happens now in the online world is part of a conversation.

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