Jem spoke with enormous care; talking to Will about anything personal was like trying not to startle away a wild animal.
When your child comes home to talk about life, what could be more important?
We didn't talk much, and the silence hung like a silk curtain, light and lovely.
Mathematics effectively began when a few Greek friends got together to talk about numbers and lines and angles.
All this talk about writing is a little bit moot, because it is almost an unthinking process. It is actually a paradox because you are constantly making choices.
We do not talk - we bludgeon one another with facts and theories gleaned from cursory readings of newspapers, magazines and digests.
On average, Australians watch more than three hours of television a day, compared with 12 minutes a day spent by the average couple talking to each other.
I was not allowed to talk about being adopted when growing up. I walked around feeling like I was going to explode.
I believed early and still believe that everybody who can act can do it already, just they don't know how and don't want to talk about it.
I'm gonna play this game the way I want to. It might be serious, it might be a comedy, it might be a dramedy, it might be variety, it might be a talk show, whatever. There's no box.
In Russia, writers with serious grievances are arrested, while in America they are merely featured on television talk shows, where all that is arrested is their development.
As an undergraduate, I did maths and physics. That doesn't make me a scientist. So I try to read and understand and talk to scientists.
I am not a man of my party. I do not talk only to socialists and union leaders.
I don't want to interview people. I want to have a conversation. I want to talk to Paul McCartney about the bass sound on 'The White Album.'
When you write, you don't have the social constraints of having people in front of you, so you talk about abstract matters.
I see all this talk about jobs going overseas as a symptom of the absence of innovation. And the absence of innovation is a symptom of there being no major national priority to advance a frontier.
We spend the first year of a child's life teaching it to walk and talk and the rest of its life to shut up and sit down. There's something wrong there.
Entrepreneur, you are your brand. Your website, business card, speech and how you walk and talk is your brand.
Watch how you communicate with a woman. Because you're always communicating, even when you're not talking - with your body language, your facial expressions, your eyes.
It never cost a disciple anything to follow Jesus; to talk about cost when you are in love with anyone is an insult.
A woman never forgets her sex. She would rather talk with a man than an angel, any day.
