Conversation Quotations | Page 5

I was having a private conversation with (engineers in) the truck, like we do everyday, and evidently some words that aren't air-able came out and through a technical difficulty, I may have offended some people. If that's the case, I apologize and I will face any consequences.

I was having a conversation with my father and he was talking about this thing - strangeness and charm. It's actually the name of the two smallest particles that there are when you split the atom, so I wrote a song around it. I even managed to fit the word 'hydrogen' in there. Isn't that a nice thing for scientists to call them though?

I think one of the themes that he emphasized in many ways ... was that we need to spend time reflecting ethical implications of our work, and bring the traditions and wisdom of the Church into greater conversation with the advances in knowledge and understanding. He was saying that Notre Dame has a very distinct role and its voice needs to be heard.

It doesn't mean any more than it did last year or the year before. It's interesting cocktail conversation.

I thought it would be interesting to hear a conversation between filmmakers instead of just a filmmaker gassing on about his own movie. Steven is so literate about this stuff and a great film journalist in his own right and a good friend, so it worked out. He also loved the movie and volunteered to do it.

Juggling is a conversation with the stick, the body, the brain.

I might be working with someone on a research question and the cell phone would ring. They'd begin a conversation as if I wasn't standing there helping them.

I'm hoping we don't have to have another conversation like this for four or five years.

We've talked. You can assume that I had a good feeling during that conversation. I have a feeling for myself and I know what I want.

Sighs and silences and avoided conversations are just as important as the things you do talk about.

Never seem wiser or more learned than the people you are with.

The American people and our brave troops deserve better than a photo-op for the president and a pep-rally about Iraq. They deserve a plan. Unfortunately, today's event only served to highlight the fact that the president refuses to engage in a frank conversation about the realities on the ground,

That was the most congenial conversation I think I've ever had with anybody. What I was saying to him there was, 'I think you can help the football team' - that's when my finger came out. I said, 'Look, you can help this football team. You can rush the punter.' But I was also telling him, 'Now, this is what you need to do in order to do that.

I was now alone with a strange people, in a strange land. Our conversation so far as we had any was carried on by signs.

I would hesitate to characterize the conversation beyond confirming that it took place.

I would not characterize the conversation as a verbal deal. It was more an exchange of thoughts and ideas, and looking for information. We didn't make any arrangements contrary to what's in writing in the letter.

Most of the conversation was about Gaza. What happens in Gaza is, to their mind, what will dictate the future of the peace process,

Most of the conversation focused on Gaza and they (the Americans) believe that events in Gaza will dictate the future of the peace process,

Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom.

You'll hear people season their conversation with it, ... They won't just have a whole conversation in Cherokee - though some of our elders will - but other times, people will just throw in phrases in order to be able to express themselves the way they're thinking.

You can be playing a line some way and the director wants you to change that, or you can disagree. But I always think that the creative conversation between director and actor is what leads to good work.

We'd share a conversation, make sure he's OK. What with Tony being in Indianapolis, if he needed someone to talk to or just hang around, he had my phone number.

We're all very anxious to have more of a conversation with readers, and that's way overdue. But no one has quite figured out how to handle the waves of obscene, nasty and intensely personal attacks that seem to be an element in this new era of Web feedback.

We exist in this weirdly schizo culture, where sex is everywhere in the media, and yet, at the same time, you don't sit down and have a conversation about what you did in bed last night with your friends. Despite the ubiquity of sex, it's still a taboo when it comes to day-to-day conversation.

When you're making something big, whether it's long-form fiction or a big piece of software, whatever that is, you're having a very intimate and extended conversation with the work materials themselves.

Usually when reporting on powerful public figures, the press advisor and I would have had a conversation that established what journalists call 'ground rules,' placing restrictions on what can and cannot be reported.

We're really inviting people into this as a conversation,

We were having a conversation at our home, and every time he said something where one might gesture, use a hand gesture, his finger was popping up, and we both started to notice it,

We were stuffing papers and during the conversation with another woman, Sacha said she was making a decision on whether or not to allow Gabe to see Caleb

To make it a BCS issue devalues the conversation. It is not a BCS subject but an issue for the Division I commissioners to address. It has clearly moved from the back burner to the front.

Today's real estate industry is very competitive and includes several different models, from full service down to limited service. The consumer needs to ask the right questions in order to engage in a healthy and informative conversation with potential sales associates.

You know what? It's a great conversation starter, right? You meet friends that way. Sometimes it's a good thing. And then other times, I guess, the person is just a little too... then you kind of like want to back away. It depends on the person, you know?

You know what he did first tonight was get his teammates involved. I had a conversation with him before the game and I told him I wanted him to play with passion. You have to be who you are.

You know, Amway people are all about Amway, and when they didn't -- when they didn't try any conversation further about it, that's when I pretty much thought, well, they're not with Amway.

We need to find a way of having a conversation across the parties on how you fund local government.

We never had a conversation about which candidate Rick Greenspan liked. I gave him my opinion. I said, 'Steve Alford would be a great candidate.' I gave him my opinions. But it wasn't until recently that we had conversations about who was out there, who was available, who was interested, what our options were, that sort of thing. It hasn't been a very long time.

We came up into the gym with about 10 seconds left before the start of the second half. Um, you can say we had a little conversation at halftime.

We are in conversation with the other title sponsors and that's all I can say. I don't want to get into it any more than that.

Unfortunately, today's event only served to highlight the fact that the president refuses to engage in a frank conversation about the realities on the ground.

We are ... actually shocked. We always thought she would pick out someone who at least had a conversation with her or paid her.

We are satisfied with the meeting with the mufti. We were able to exchange constructive opinions. The conversation was positive on all sides.

The police received a call from a pay phone in the high school that a student heard a conversation in the bathroom about a bomb, ... But someone may not have overheard anything.

We are not post-racial. And in many ways we don't even know how to have a conversation about being post-racial. Until we get out of that old-school way of thinking about race and opportunity and the ability to transcend some of the past of this country, then we're going to be stuck in the 20th-century conversation about race.

We had a private conversation about a month ago. She told me that I could use her in key moments down the stretch, and she's proven that.

We are concerned about the same kind of people. The only conversation we are having is about giving all workers in this city the right to decent health care.

When you're on set all day, and you don't look people in the eye, it's really relaxing. Normally when you talk to someone, a lot of the conversation is in the body language and in the eye contact and stuff. And if you don't do that, if you just listen to the words, it's quite relaxing, because there's just one thing to focus on.

Where does the drama get its materials? From the "unending conversation" that is going on at the point in history when we are born.

We were all wearing FEMA shirts. I struck up a conversation with one of the marshals, and halfway through the 40-second conversation, he stopped me and said, 'Get rid of the T-shirt. You will die with that T-shirt on.' There were 50 shirts coming off.

It is my experience that no one, in the course of conversation, can fail to give themselves away sooner or later. Everyone has an irresistible urge to talk about themselves.

There is nothing so dangerous for anyone who has something to hide as conversation!... A human being, Hastings, cannot resist theopportunity to reveal himself and express his personality which conversation gives him. Every time he will give himself away.

There's nothing so dangerous for anyone who has something to hide as conversation.

In conversation, points arise! If a human being converses much, it is impossible for him to avoid the truth! (Hercule Poirot)

Britney Spears can't hold a conversation. (mind controlled) The ultimate meltdown was Britney Spears. But she (Spears) can't hold a conversation. No. They have someone who feeds her what she is supposed to say. Like she can't hold a conversation.

Markets are conversations.

Not a sentence or a word is independent of the circumstances under which it is uttered.

Food is a subject of conversation more spiritually refreshing even than the weather, for the number of possible remarks about the weather is limited, whereas of food you can talk on and on and on.

The conversation went well. As a coach, you always listen. Obviously, it would take a very special situation to leave.

The conversation was more about the message and how to talk about the issues. I think that everyone in that room was committed to us on the issues.

The conversation was, 'Look, we're taking him. We're taking a good football player. We don't know what we're going to do with him exactly, but we figure we'll find something.

The conversation of race is something that is not only relevant to the situation in New Orleans but our everyday life.

The conversation had a first-date type of vibe.

The conversation between the president and Ms. Lewinsky on December 17 was a critical turning point. The evidence suggests that the president chose to engage in a criminal act -- to reach an understanding with Ms. Lewinsky that they would both make false statements under oath. At that moment, the president's intimate relationship with a subordinate employee was transformed. It was transformed into an unlawful effort to thwart the judicial process. This was no longer an issue of private conduct.

The fact that all of a sudden, we've increased the Sun sales force by well over 1,000 storage-savvy salespeople combined with the breadth of the product line allows us to have a fundamentally different conversation with a customer than we were able to have before.

Never have a long conversation with anyone who says "between you and I.

Conversation: The slowest form of human communication.

I can't believe what I said about myself. What I said in my own private conversations with myself to an ESPN producer are my business, and I had no business saying them to someone else.

Religion is by no means a proper subject of conversation in a mixed company.

Why write stories? To join the conversation.

One thing my dad once said to me, "You either want to be right, or you want to be happy. To be happy, there's gotta be a conversation."

The best shows succeed because they tap into a national conversation,

Conversation is king. Content is just something to talk about.

% of what you understand in a conversation is read through the body, not the words.

I feel very open with people, and I'm good at disarming them and having conversations.

Never had any mathematical conversations with anybody, because there was nobody else in my field.

In a conversation, keep in mind that you're more interested in what you have to say than anyone else is.

One is always wrong to open a conversation with the devil, for, however he goes about it, he always insists upon having the last word.

[Winston Churchill] never spares himself in conversation. He gives himself so generously that hardly anyone else is permitted to give anything in his presence.

I possess the faculty of enjoying the company of those I - of my friends as well in silence as in conversation.

If I can enjoy a joke at the expense of another; if I can in any way slight another in conversation, or even in thought, then I know nothing of Calvary love.

Egotists cannot converse, they talk to themselves only.

Debate is angular, conversation circular and radiant of the underlying unity.

Good discourse sinks differences and seeks agreements.

Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine.

Interviewing is a lot like talking, but you have to guide the conversation. You have to know what you want and go about getting it.

The first person I came out to was God. And the first conversation I ever had with anybody was in prayer.

Personally, I'd rather have pins stuck in my eyes than endure a conversation with John Kerry, but I'd love to hang with Bush.

When you start putting pen to paper, you see a side of your personal truth that doesn't otherwise reveal itself in conversation or thought.

The conversation of kisses. Subtle, engrossing, fearless, transforming.

That's probably the most boring conversation you could hear - an actor talk about politics. I won't go there.

I've always liked the idea of improvised music. Improvised anything. It's what conversation is.

that's it - hundreds of texts and conversations, thousands upon thousands of words spoken and sent, all boiled down into a single line. is that what relationships become?

Be mindful of your self-talk. It's a conversation with the universe.

Put down the weight of your aloneness and ease into the conversation.

The courageous conversation is the one you don't want to have.

So many of our conversations (about affirmative action) have been dishonest

I am a diffident man. I find it hard to carry on a conversation.

That amenity which the French have developed into a great art . . . conversation.

We should stop having a conversation about cutting Social Security a little bit or a lot.

Firequencher raised his hand. "I've been staying out of family conversations. Do I get credit for that?

We were scoring so fast a lot of the times, there wasn't a lot of time on the sidelines for the coaches to get enough conversation to know what the problem was, before they were back on the field.