As far as playing jazz, no other art form, other than conversation, can give the satisfaction of spontaneous interaction. – Stan Getz
I’ve noticed lately that it seems most intimate to not use any closing on your e-mail at all, because it seems to make it feel like you are engaged in an ongoing conversation – as if this one e-mail doesn’t represent the beginning and end of the interaction but is just part of a perpetual loop of friendly back-and-forth. – Susan Orlean
It’s hard to tell what is even mainstream anymore because there’s so many platforms now. And they’re all topics of conversation. – Scott Adsit
I never got into ‘MacGyver,’ but ‘All the President’s Men’ and ‘The Conversation’ were big for me. – Shane Carruth
Since I’m not a journalist, I talk about issues that encourage an interchange of ideas through conversation while also being entertaining. – Thalia
The conversation has become so divisive now on all types of immigration reform that it is really hard to move anything. – Suzan DelBene
It’s all about knowing when to listen to that conversation and – without sounding really hokey – when to tune it out and follow your heart. – Winona Ryder
I love people. Everybody. I love them, I think, as a stamp collector loves his collection. Every story, every incident, every bit of conversation is raw material for me. – Sylvia Plath
I don’t like going to the movies with people that talk a lot. They want to have a conversation or something. – Shameik Moore
I’m trying to make the readers feel as if he or she is right there in the conversation, and so I don’t try to manipulate it too much. – Susan Straight
E-mails, phone calls, Web sites, videos. They’re still all letters, basically, and they’ve come to outnumber old-fashioned conversations. They are the conversation now. – Walter Kirn
I went into a Beverly Hills shop to buy an attache case. They had 250 cases on their shelves. I asked an attractive saleswoman if they carried one made of belting leather. She said ‘no.’ That was the end of the conversation. She made no attempt to show me another case that would provide equal service. I didn’t buy an attache case. – Stanley Marcus
The best meeting I ever went to was a meeting in France where the talk slots were 60 minutes long, but you were told to prepare a five-minute talk. It was absolutely great because the entire talk was a conversation between the speaker and the audience. – Tim Hunt
Good listeners have a huge advantage. For one, when they engage in conversation, they make people ‘feel’ heard. They ‘feel’ that someone really understands their wants, needs and desires. And for good reason; a good listener does care to understand. – Simon Sinek
If I hear a conversation and somebody says something intriguing, my first thought is, ‘Is that a song?’ I write all year long, and at the end of the year I pull these forty or fifty things out and say which of these things do I want to record. – Toby Keith
It used to be that you commit to something, and then basically you spend your year doing that. Now there’s a constant conversation of how you have to keep working in order to remind people that you’re around. – Winona Ryder
‘Psychotherapy’ is a private, confidential conversation that has nothing to do with illness, medicine, or healing. – Thomas Szasz
Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em. – William Wycherley
Once in a while, I bump into a knitter, and we have a lovely conversation. But if you figure out the number of people who know me and the people who don’t, it’s really a small number. – Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That’s why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet. – Truman Capote
We have for too long been taught that the sight of a man speaking to himself is a sign of eccentricity or madness; we are no longer at all habituated to our own voices, except in conversation or from within the safety of a shouting crowd. – Teju Cole
A human body is a conversation going on, both within the cells and between the cells, and they’re telling each other to grow and to die; when you’re sick, something’s gone wrong with that conversation. – W. Daniel Hillis