Top 11 Conversationis Quotes
#1. Conversationis like the table of contents of a dull book ... All the greatest subjects of human thought are proudly displayedin it. Listen to it for three minutes, and you ask yourself which is more striking, the emphasis of the speaker or his shocking ignorance.
Stendhal
#3. Tis easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it.
Benjamin Franklin
#4. The sunlight, penetrating the gaps in the tall trees, plays chess on the gravestones, shifting slowly and thoughtfully across the worn old stones. The wind, like a hundred violins, plays perpetually in the topmost branches of the deodars.
Ruskin Bond
#5. Why is everyone trying to tell me that when you get older it gets better?
Mindy Kaling
#6. We're still dancing to tunes created by men who thought that a thunderstorm was a sig of God's anger.
Raymond Khoury
#7. I've reprised roles in the theatre, which is somehow more accepted, and where one can automatically go deeper and further into the role.
Cate Blanchett
#8. In later life, people will be impressed that you can quote Shakespeare, and you will sound very intelligent. It's harder to quote trigonometry, or quadratic equations, and not half as romantic.
John Connolly
#9. Come, there's no use in crying like that!' said Alice to herself, rather sharply; 'I advise you to leave off this minute!' She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it), and
Lewis Carroll
#10. No matter what happens to us in life, we tend to think of it as 'good' or 'bad.' And most of us tend to use the 'bad' label three to 10 times as often as the 'good' label. And when we say something is bad, the odds grow overwhelming that we will experience it as such.
Srikumar Rao
#11. How different the new order would be if we could consult the veteran instead of the politician.
Henry Miller