#conversations

'The Tree of Life' is a collection of conversations that lost souls and true believers have with themselves while keeping their heads to the sky. But the movie is church via the planetarium. ↗

— Wesley Morris

#church #collection #conversations #heads #keeping

I certainly have not the talent which some people possess,' said Darcy, "of conversing easily with those I have never seen before. I cannot catch their tone of conversation, or appear interested in their concerns, as I often see done. ↗

— Jane Austen

#mr-darcy #social #talent

I miss talking to you.' 'I can't imagine why. We haven't talked about anything particularly interesting in years.' 'I thought it was interesting. Perhaps I like talking about boring things with you. ↗

— Eloisa James

#imagination

However, when the privilege depends solely on the broad, undifferentiated claim of public interest in the confidentiality of such conversations, a confrontation with other values arises. ↗

— Warren E. Burger

#broad #claim #confidentiality #confrontation #conversations

Was it possible that perhaps the most plausible explanation was being offered by someone who anyone with an ounce of sanity would have long ago consigned to the realm of the insane? ↗

— Tim Horvath

#insanity #intelligence #intelligence

Americans cannot realize how many chances for mental improvement they lose by their inveterate habit of keeping six conversations when there are twelve in the room. ↗

— Ernest Dimnet

#chances #conversations #habit #how #improvement

My folks are economists and have taught economics and social science so I grew up with those kind of conversations around the dinner table. ↗

— Seth Gordon

#conversations #dinner #dinner table #economics #economists

I grew up in a house full of women: my mother, grandmother, three sisters, and two female cats. And I still have the buzz of their conversations in my head. As an adult, I have more female friends than male ones: I just love the way that women talk. ↗

— James Patterson

#buzz #cats #conversations #female #friends

I'm liking that I can throw any kind of sentence at her without worrying it's too out there. ↗

— Rachel Cohn

#crazy #friendship #love #nick-o-leary #norah-silverberg

But my Arabic is pretty good. It's good enough to have conversations with people, to understand what they say, to understand what they're feeling. ↗

— John Abizaid

#conversations #enough #feeling #good #people