#conversation

Criticism is, for me, like essay writing, a wonderful way of relaxation; it doesn't require a heightened and mediated voice, like prose fiction, but rather a calm, rational, even conversational voice. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#conversational #criticism #essay #even #fiction

I spend a good portion of my dinner-party conversation defending America because no matter what the political agenda, it's still a fantastic, amazing place. ↗

— Gwyneth Paltrow

#amazing #america #because #conversation #defending

The desert has its holiness of silence, the crowd its holiness of conversation. ↗

— Walter Elliot

#crowd #desert #holiness #silence

You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. ↗

— Plato

#conversation #discover #hour #more #person

I have this horrific thing where I'm really bad with names and faces. I have an appalling memory. Someone will come up to me in the street and go, 'Eddie!', and I'll try and give myself time by going into overdrive, 'Hey, hi! Nice to see you!' and start a whole conversation because I can't distinguish between who I know and who I don't. ↗

— Eddie Redmayne

#bad #because #between #come #conversation

My mother was a personal friend of God's. They had ongoing conversations. ↗

— Della Reese

#conversations #friend #god #had #mother

In America journalism is apt to be regarded as an extension of history: in Britain, as an extension of conversation. ↗

— Anthony Sampson

#apt #britain #conversation #extension #history

And one of our points of continuing conversation with our trading partners is the urgency of their taking steps to remove barriers to their improved growth performance. ↗

— John W. Snow

#continuing #conversation #growth #improved #our

If you're interested in how people behave, if you're interested in the way they talk about themselves, the way the conceive of themselves, it's very hard to ignore drugs nowadays, because that is so much part of the conversation. ↗

— Jonathan Franzen

#because #behave #conceive #conversation #hard

Species conversation is beyond a doubt an issue that truly matters to the American public. ↗

— Ian Somerhalder

#american public #beyond #conversation #doubt #issue