#conversation

Forget all the bars and schmoozing and everybody checking out everybody else. My ideal date would be to park in a dark place, check out the stars, and have a great conversation. When all else fails, you can just make out. ↗

— Brooke Burke

#check #checking #conversation #dark #dark place

No one has to learn to spell to talk, right? You see a little kid holding a conversation with an adult. He probably doesn't know the words he's saying, but he knows where to fit them to make what he's thinking logical to what you're saying. ↗

— Ornette Coleman

#conversation #fit #holding #kid #know

Whenever Percy stopped by to see [Annabeth], she was so lost in thought that the conversation went something like this: Percy: 'Hey, how's it going?' Annabeth: 'Uh, no thanks.' Percy: 'Okay...have you eaten anything today?' Annabeth: 'I think Leo is on duty. Ask him.' Percy: 'So, my hair is on fire.' Annabeth: 'Okay, in a while. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#cute #distracted #hair-on-fire #mark-of-athena #not-listening

Whenever I saw her, I felt like I had been living in another country, doing moderately well in another language, and then she showed up speaking English and suddenly I could speak with all the complexity and nuance that I hadn't realized was gone. With Lucy I was a native speaker. ↗

— Ann Patchett

#conversation #friendship #beauty

There's times when you're having dinner with a good friend and you're in the middle of a conversation and somebody comes up and cuts you off. Can you sign this? Can I take a picture with you? I'm adjusting to all the attention. ↗

— Verne Troyer

#attention #comes #conversation #cuts #dinner

I like to talk to people. I've got one assistant, one Blackberry. That's my overhead. I don't text that much or email. I like to sit down face-to-face and have a conversation with you. I'm old-fashioned. ↗

— Mark Wahlberg

#blackberry #conversation #down #email #face-to-face

Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience. ↗

— Bill Watterson

#conversational #equivalent #experience #out #sort

I always love being in the company of women. It's all about good conversation and great wine. ↗

— Naomi Watts

#always #being #company #conversation #good

I get really starstruck and tongue tied when I'm around other writers and the conversation tends not to go well. ↗

— Jennifer Weiner

#conversation #get #go #i #other

There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all. ↗

— Rebecca West

#illusion #monologues #such #thing