Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation.
I feel like every conversation with my father is like an M. Night Shyamalan movie; 90 minutes of build-up to no payoff.
Comedy should be a source of positivity. I don't want to bully people, and I don't want people to come to my show to feel terrible about something. So I'm actually very open to having a conversation about what I should or shouldn't say.
We all lose when bullying and personal attacks become a substitute for genuine conversation and principled disagreement.
You remember driving your kids to Little League, and they're nervous about making the team, and you're encouraging them. Forty years down the road, we're having the same conversation. Only it's about the Ravens and Steelers, or Stanford and Cal.
What Richard and Mildred Loving did was, by their nature, not by any calculus, they separated themselves from the political conversation. They did not have an agenda. They did not want to be martyrs. They did not want to be symbols of a movement.
One child must never be set above another, even in casual conversation, not to mention in speeches that circle the globe.
The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.
Perhaps if there were less certitude about our climate future, more Americans would be interested in having a reasoned conversation about it.
I knew that if I could put a table in a room with not much light and a couple of chairs, I could have a real conversation. And I know that people... like to eavesdrop on a conversation.
I demand for the unmarried mother, as a sacred channel of life, the same reverence and respect as for the married mother; for Maternity is a cosmic thing and once it has come to pass, our conversation must not be permitted to blaspheme it.
There's a not a single doubt in my mind that the car that changed the conversation about Chrysler was the Grand Cherokee of 2010.
My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.
My first audition for 'The Magicians' came up in conversation with a close friend who, right then, handed me the first book.
Anyone who's had a casual conversation with his neighbors or is cognizant of reality TV should already be petrified of democracy.
Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.
Polite conversation is rarely either.
In the past, great communicators were great orators, but great communicators today sound conversational, and interrupting is common in conversation. And public discourse is now more about entertainment than enlightenment.
Usually, when Nirvana made music, there wasn't a lot of conversation. We wanted everything to be surreal. We didn't want to have some contrived composition.
I'm a compulsive note-taker, and I used to feel self-conscious about pulling out my little notebook and taking notes during a casual conversation. Then I noticed that people really seemed to enjoy it; the fact that I was taking notes made their remarks seem particularly insightful or valuable. Now I don't hold myself back.