Quotes About Conversation

El saber común se ampliaba, un saber despreocupado y sin consecuencia del que, a diferencia de la escuela, solo teníamos que rendir cuentas en la conversación

De taal zal de wereld in woorden blijven vatten. In de gesprekken rond een feesttafel zul je alleen nog een voornaam zijn, een steeds gezichtlozer voornaam, totdat je verdwijnt in de anonieme massa van een verre generatie.

Hier, on se disputait à reconstituer le séjour de Leningrad, l'emploi du temps des deux jours. Il voulait lire mon journal. On a encore parlé de Staline, de la guerre. Son père a été « décoré » par Staline...

I grew up with my mom always talking to everyone everywhere, whether it was professionally or in a coffee shop. And my dad was the same way. So I love being able to talk to people, hear their stories and be inspired.

In the barbershop, there's democracy. You're a professor; you're an engineer; you're a garbage man, have at it. You got something to say, get down with it.

The first step is really getting our generation to talk to our parents about cancer. Because our research has shown that parents are much more likely to get that diagnostic test or stay on top of their risk profile if it comes from a child.

We wanted to do our own programme. It's cooking, chatting to people and writing books. Like brothers, we never run out of anything to say.

When I was small, I would sit next to my dad and watch the round-up highlights programme with him, and we would talk about the games. I loved it.

Since I began presenting programmes about black history my life has become a constant impromptu focus group. I am stopped in the street by people who want to talk about the histories those documentaries explore.

When women vote, Progressives can win. When women organize and bring some common sense to the conversation, it becomes more authentic.

There's just a proliferation of blogs and the chattering classes and people talking. More avenues for people to make their feelings known, which is good.

I think great movies do promote conversation, great movies are honest, and great movies are sometimes polarizing.

I have some guests who get angry when they don't get to talk about sports and have to talk about the project they are promoting.

I have had people that I was doing some promotion stuff with go, 'You know, we had an idea. We should have, like, a legends fight.' It's always that. That conversation always comes up when we're talking about doing some promotion for a company or helping them promote their league.

I just want to start conversations. I want to do films that prompt conversations - whether that is positive, negative, indifferent - just ones that you leave the theater wanting to know more, wanting to watch the film over and over again.

Every Easter, at one household or another, I find a battle begins and the conversation of how to 'properly eat' a chocolate bunny.

I'm not against profanity. It's an important part of the language when used properly.

Me at parties: 'Like, do you want to know the historical context of the prophet Jeremiah?'

I read some older books when I worked at Barnes And Noble, like some of the American classics. I read a lot of Hemingway. I fell in love with Hemingway's prose and with the way he wrote. I feel like he's talking to me, like we're in a bar and he's not trying to jazz it up and sound smart, he's just being him.

The way we speak is very different from the way we write - especially from the way we write continuous prose.

I'm not a prosecutor at home. I don't talk about my day, because nobody's interested. I might do something frivolous, like bead.

I like animal sidekicks. They seem to be a pretty cool trope of post-apocalyptic fiction - just because if you're going to have this lone protagonist, they're going to need someone to talk to. Dogs are overused, and cats are dumb. So that leaves monkeys.

We have to have a national conversation about how police forces should interact with the African-American community, who happens to be paying their salary, who want to be served and protected, who these officers are take an oath to do so.

It's really obvious that we have very serious inequality in this country across many different spectrums. Yes, we can talk about the form of protest or the way it's done or this or that. But it's still not really the conversation that I think we desperately need to have more of in this country.