The pleasures of relaxed chat, of casual conversation, encourage the ethnographer in everyone

The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.

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

For people to be able to sit down together and have a conversation, that's the power of love.

I don't like when there's too much conversation because I'm shy and it makes me uncomfortable.

Using someone's name during a conversation was like a casual caress, like stroking their hair.

If you are ever at a loss to support a flagging conversation, introduce the subject of eating.

Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.

I learned firsthand that there would simply be no wars if people engaged in real conversation.

We need to have a more thoughtful, two-sided conversation about racial issues in this country.

In God's intention, a meet and happy conversation is the chiefest and noblest end of marriage.

What students lack in school is an intellectual relationship or conversation with the teacher.

A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.

I just use my muscles as a conversation piece, like someone walking a cheetah down 42nd Street.

Twitter has become a group conversation of that type that used to take place on trading floors.

I painted one dining room red and I must say, the conversation became very heated in that room.

A girl who is interesting and educated and can spark conversation - I find that extremely sexy.

I know how to have a conversation, but I've never done improv. I've never taken improv classes.

LOL has turned into something you type when you have nothing better to add into a conversation.

I've always liked the idea of improvised music. Improvised anything. It's what conversation is.

American scripts are usually non-stop conversation. People talking over each other. I like that.

I didn't get into film to win Academy Awards. I wanted to have a conversation with the audience.

I can't imagine having a conversation about 'Celebrity Big Brother' in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

I think laughter and stimulating conversation are the things that truly make a romantic evening.

Conversation takes practice; the more we do it, the better we get, and the more easily we do it.

A picture is worth a thousand words, but conversations with them generally end in dissapointment.

Very strong personalities must confine themselves in mutual conversation to very gentle subjects.

Never had any mathematical conversations with anybody, because there was nobody else in my field.

No one is qualified to converse in public except those contented to do without such conversation.

There is one way to have a short but exciting conversation with me, and that is to move too slow.

It was terrible when a single conversation with someone determined your whole future relationship.

nobody is such a fool as to moider away his time in the slip-slop conversation of a pack of women.

I never got into 'MacGyver,' but 'All the President's Men' and 'The Conversation' were big for me.

Although I'm not fluent in sign language by a long way, I could have a fairly decent conversation.

There are two things in ordinary conversation which ordinary people dislike - information and wit.

An artist carries on throughout his life a mysterious, uninterrupted conversation with his public.

What was it that drew you back? My marvellous personality, I suppose? Or my sparkling conversation?

The most powerful force when changing people's hearts and minds is a person-to-person conversation.

I could sit right here and have a 15-minute conversation with somebody and change their whole life.

Sighs and silences and avoided conversations are just as important as the things you do talk about.

Society is frivolous, and shreds its day into scraps, its conversation into ceremonies and escapes.

Almost every time we get together with family or friends, the conversation ends up being about food.

As soon as you bring up money, I notice, conversation gets sociological, then political, then moral.

A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.

The point of philosophy, as I see it, is to change thinking, and thereby to change the conversation.

Most good essays are conversations with yourself - not just your decided thoughts but your dilemmas.

I do lots of crowd work in my set, because I enjoy writing material through riffing and conversation.

You've got to dig in [and learn about things you don't know] if you want to stay in the conversation.

Facebook has focused on the conversation, but not really on absorbing the Web into its walled garden.

...and once again Dexter is struck by how easy conversation can be when no-one is in their right mind

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