conversation

Fresh from the rarefied environments of Harvard, the author says he purposefully took journalism jobs in small southern towns so that he could learn the art of conversation with ordinary people. Is this gift for listening and for conversation, it seems, that allowed him to produce textured historical narratives of grand impact.

Frasier (Responding to the suggestion that he undertake the difficult work of closure in a relationship): "What you just said about my success made a lot of sense. I tuned you out after that.

Richard Nixon's conversation was "loaded with so many stories of all the foreign dignitaries he'd called upon in his career that he sounded like a guy who had pinioned his neighbors into watching his vacation slides.

Reading a book makes a conversation with the author (Robin Sharma on The Cure For Fear - Robin Sharma)

Finally! You're here!"Uh....Do I know you?"Well, no....But you're here, all the same...

I should have been bolder and kissed her at the end. I should have been more cautious. I had talked too much. I had said too little.

The only reason why we ask other people how their weekend was is so we can tell them about our own weekend.

If a conversation is not working, then you need to make a different choice. Stop what you are doing & do something different.

Most people he knew, his wife included, wouldn't make it through an hour on the promise of four sentences. But Frankie Bard was like a camel. She could hold her words for days--as long as she could watch the goings-on.

Some people like to hear themselves talk, but I like to hear myself silent.

Mr Rycroft said nothing. It was so difficult not to say the wrong thing to Captain Wyatt that it was usually safer not to reply at all.

Like a good Indian, he knew when to talk and when to remain silent. Like a good Indian, he knew there was never a good time to talk.

Silence is also a form of speaking.

We fall back into silence. I look around XO Café and notice that chatter happens mostly at tables where the diners are young and hip. The older couples, the ones sporting wedding bands that wink with their silverware, eat without the pepper of conversation. Is it because they are so comfortable, they already know what the other is thinking? Or is it because after a certain point, there is simply nothing left to say?

There is something hugely civilised about allowing long pauses in a conversation. Very few people can stand that kind of silence.

It was mortifying to find how strong the habit of idle speech may become in one__ self. One need not always be saying something in this noisy world.

Dallas, is it remotely possible for you to carry on a conversation that's not loaded down with manure?

Speaking with her always felt like sitting on a seashore. Hearing the waves and feeling them crashing into my feet, While gazing the setting sun and the way he colours the whole sky. I never got tired of it.