Quotes About Conversation

Y qué va usted a hacer? ––pregunté. ––Fumar ––respondió––. Es un problema de tres pipas, así que le ruego que no me dirija la palabra durante cincuenta minutos.

eavesdropping

In any case, this simple process of first draining the Chairman's mind and then relaxing him with playful conversation had the same effect water has on a towel that has dried stiffly in the sun.

ANN: Nobody was dressed so he drove over to the depot to pick up my brother. SUE: Oh, your brother's in? ANN: Yeah, they ought to be here any minute now. Will you have a cold drink? SUE: I will, thanks. Ann goes to table and pours. My husband. Too hot to drive me to beach.—Men are like little boys; for the neighbors they'll always cut the grass.

VON BERG: No, no, I never had any interest in that direction. Slight pause. Of course, there is this resentment toward the nobility. That might explain it. LEDUC: In the Nazis? Resentment? VON BERG, surprised: Yes, certainly.

Sometimes I speak to men and women just as a little girl speaks to her doll. She knows, of course, that the doll does not understand her, but she creates for herself the joy of communication through a pleasant and conscious self-deception.

Wer klug ist, wird im Gespräch weniger an das denken, worüber er spricht, als an den, mit dem er spricht.

Neither question nor answer was meant as anything more than a polite preamble to conversation.

that our most cruel failure in how we treat the sick and the aged is the failure to recognize that they have priorities beyond merely being safe and living longer; that the chance to shape one's story is essential to sustaining meaning in life; that we have the opportunity to refashion our institutions, our culture, and our conversations in ways that transform the possibilities for the last chapters of everyone's lives.

even on the shuttle bus to and from the convention center.

I called Segal and filled him in.

But Arnold had also recommended a strategy palliative care physicians use when they have to talk about bad news with people—they "ask, tell, ask." They ask what you want to hear, then they tell you, and then they ask what you understood. So I asked.

When things go wrong, it's almost impossible for a physician to talk to a patient honestly about mistakes.

she and Felix had their own, private, decades-long conversation that had never stopped.

our most cruel failure in how we treat the sick and the aged is the failure to recognize that they have priorities beyond merely being safe and living longer; that the chance to shape one's story is essential to sustaining meaning in life; that we have the opportunity to refashion our institutions, our culture, and our conversations in ways that transform the possibilities for the last chapters of everyone's lives.

I asked Vince how his business was going. Not well, he said.

and I called him to see how he was doing.

Studdert and I both turned to her father to see what he might have to say.

Goodman and I went out for a meal together in town and then for a drive.

called him at home to hear how he had weathered the aftermath.

I soon discovered that if you keep your mouth shut, people are apt to believe you know everything, and they begin to feel freer and freer to tell you anything, anxious to show that they know something, too.

In the plane coming to Tashkent, I sat with the three other African women and we exchanged chitchat for 5 1/2 hours about out respective children, about our ex-old men, all very, very heterocetera.

we exchanged chitchat for 5 1/2 hours about our respective children, about our ex-old men, all very, very heterocetera.

In my journals I have a lot of conversations that I'm having with you in my head. I'll be having a conversation with you and I'll put it in my journal because stereotypically or symbolically these conversations occur in a space of Black woman/white woman where it's beyond Adrienne and Audre, almost as if we're two voices.