#versa

Girls are so often pitted against each other as enemies or adversaries. We even see it in 'Us' magazine: Who wore it better? ↗

— Elizabeth Berkley

#against #better #each #even #magazine

It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much. ↗

— Yogi Berra

#everybody #get #going #impossible #much

There are even many huts built entirely of the universal aloe. ↗

— Edward Burnett Tylor

#entirely #even #huts #many #universal

The great gift of conversation lies less in displaying it ourselves than in drawing it out of others. He who leaves your company pleased with himself and his own cleverness is perfectly well pleased with you. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#company #conversation #displaying #drawing #gift

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

The art of conversation is the art of hearing as well as of being heard. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#conversation #hearing #listening #respect #art

Chivalry, stimulating conversations, everything is said to be a lost art nowadays. But nothing is a lost art, unless it’s a sunken statue—in a river of lava. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#chivalry #conversations #stimulation #art

A gossip is one who talks to you about others, a bore is one who talks to you about himself, and a brilliant conversationalist is one who talks to you about yourself. ↗

— Lisa Kirk

#etiquette-and-attitude #manners #attitude

They were learning that New York had another life, too — subterranean, like almost everything that was human in the city — a life of writers meeting in restaurants at lunchtime or in coffee houses after business hours to talk of work just started or magazines unpublished, and even to lay modest plans for the future. Modestly they were beginning to write poems worth the trouble of reading to their friends over coffee cups. Modestly they were rebelling once more. ↗

— Malcolm Cowley

#conversation #future-plans #lost-generation #modest #new-york

CONVERSATION is the vehicle for change. ↗

— Terry Tempest Williams

#conversation #change