Conversations With Quotes

#1. I think the advice, regardless of gender, is always be open to conversations with people who do things differently than you do. If you're starting to work in tech, talk to the artists, talk to the lawyers, talk to the people who are interested in other things.

Beth Simone Noveck

#2. People think computers are different from people because they don't have minds, even though, in the Turing test, computers can have conversations with people about the weather and wine and what Italy is like, and they can even tell jokes.

Mark Haddon

#3. I'd have given ten conversations with Einstein for a first meeting with a pretty chorus girl.

Albert Camus

#4. With self-awareness we can change our inner conversation about what we are feeling and create different outcomes in conversations with others. To create conversations for change we must be able to process ourselves and others through emotions.

Shawn Kent Hayashi

#5. I feel the theatre is the most unique one of all [the arts] for collaboration. I feel very fortunate to be in a field where I really do get to have long conversations with the visual artists, the actors, the musicians. It's all art forms rolled into one and I feel very fortunate to be a part of it.

Susan Stroman

#6. What we do at the end of every season - which is why it's probably not the greatest idea to talk about things in the visitor's locker room after the final game - we sit down and have real serious conversations with all of the senior people.

Jeffrey Lurie

#7. Everyone should have a form of a diary it's a great release Most people's Diaries are called "My Diary" Mines called "Conversations with Me".

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#8. TALIBAN-ESQUE Any behavior that imposes the beliefs of one person on everyone else. Conversations with the Taliban-esque are impossible. They aren't even conversations. WIth them, it's my way or no way.

Whoopi Goldberg

#9. If you are socially isolated, you are more vulnerable to stereotypes and myths; you won't have the opportunity to have conversations with someone who has a different social background than you.

Randall Kennedy

#10. Birth mothers choose life, and a family, for their child. But this choice is rarely celebrated. Women routinely face family, friends and even health-care providers who think that adoption equals abandonment, according to researchers and conversations with birth mothers.

Nina Easton

#11. Sitting behind a glass wall and having people do things on a computer - how realistic is that? We should be having conversations with people.

Cindy Alvarez

#12. A picture is worth a thousand words, but conversations with them generally end in dissapointment.

Dov Davidoff

#13. Most don't live inside their heads as a writer does, having conversations with her own ideas.

Lynn Coady

#14. And I always read the English translation and always have conversations with my translator, for example about the names. I always have to approve it.

Cornelia Funke

#15. I had a lot of conversations with my family, my close friends, with my pastor, with God, and kind of came to a revelation that maybe I should be honest with myself about who I am and let that person - this woman who has lived inside me for my entire life - finally have an opportunity to live.

Caitlyn Jenner

#16. My love of storytelling comes from oral tradition, the stories from my grandmother and conversations with [my] mother. The world is full of discussions of condensation, drifts, misunderstanding, repetition. These are the materials I work with. My debt is to these women.

Lucrecia Martel

#17. It's a neighborhood where every dad has at least one job and where parents often end conversations with the words: no guts, no glory.

Michael Jay

#18. From my conversations with Lance Armstrong and experiences with Lance and the team I am aware that Lance used blood transfusions from 2001 through 2005.

George Hincapie

#19. You're screening your calls?"
"Why not? It saves me from conversations with idiots."
"Is that an insult?" His voice dropped into a deep growl.
"You're not an idiot," I told him. "You're just a deadly psychopath with a god complex.( ... )

Ilona Andrews

#20. But I'm not superstitious. I don't really eat dinner before I go on stage, because digesting a lot of food kind of shuts you down. And I try not to get involved in emotional conversations with anyone beforehand either, so I've got a clear head.

Michael Bolton

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

Alonzo Church

#22. Life is never boring when everyday I have weird, silly conversations with my husband that only us understand.

Ika Natassa Twivortiare

#23. And to my dog, without whom I would not be reminded daily that I am essentially little more than a ridiculous human being who has somehow swindled somebody into paying me to write down conversations with my imaginary friends.

Jim Butcher

#24. I descended into solitude so thick that conversations with repairmen became anxious social occasions.

Louisa Hall

#25. The proof of Fermat's Last Theorem underscores how stable mathematics is through the centuries - how mathematics is one of humanity's long continuous conversations with itself.

Barry Mazur

#26. Coaches can't limit their coaching to those who they feel comfortable or friendly with. Instead, they must actively create coaching conversations with all teachers.

Diane R. Sweeney

#27. If you can give people happiness, you're in their hearts. Now you can just start having conversations with people that you would not have had under other circumstances.

June Millington

#28. I have very intense conversations with friends, people I really interconnect with. We talk about politics, important things. I like to talk about ideas and get people to be specific.

Jacqueline Bisset

#29. All my mom's side speaks Spanish. I speak to my grandparents in Spanish. Slowly. And they're patient with me! But I do speak with them in Spanish and carry on conversations with them.

David Archuleta

#30. I write all the time, I've got a big, thick, old ledger book that I write stuff down in. I used to watch TV and write things that people would say and now I tend to get it more out of books and from conversations with people I meet.

Thighpaulsandra

#31. Conversations with adults other than a person's parents had more of an outcome.

Richard Ford

#32. In the day school she went to in New York she had long intimate conversations with them all in her imagination, but never in reality.

Madeleine L'Engle

#33. intended to repel Evil, which are the constant Accompaniment to their Conversations with myself.

Diana Gabaldon

#34. I got to sit down with people who I admired, and have conversations with some of the greatest thinkers and artists and performers. It's a huge privilege for me to be a journalist.

James Daly

#35. I've had a few conversations with people who are horrified: who tell me my work is demeaning, is sexist, is negative.

Cameron Russell

#36. When interviews are good, the conversation can be amazing. Sometimes I've had conversations with journalists that I've never had with anybody else.

Tori Amos

#37. Some of us may just, in one-on-one conversations with our family, with our friends, over the back fence with our neighbors, talk about the reality of our lives and realize that we're not alone, that we have a right to be physically safe and emotionally safe in our own homes.

Patricia Ireland

#38. Conversations with people we don't usually talk to lead to ideas we wouldn't think of on our own.

David Sturt

#39. Children don't expect words to be used to create false trails. Words to Esme are plain and simple with no hidden codes, no duplicitous underlife. He thinks of the conversations with his wife and how little of what they said was without encryption.

Glenn Haybittle

#40. Like most Lebanese, Joumana speaks rapidly, one sentence dovetailing into another, producing guttural words and phrases as if gargling with mouthwash. I prefer slow conversations where words are counted like pearls, conversations with many pauses, pauses replacing words.

Rabih Alameddine

#41. The monologue of an isolated person who allows the threads of private thoughts to surface in letters and conversations, even in conversations with strangers.

Julia Blackburn

#42. At times I have long conversations with God. Sometimes I ask questions. I admit that there are also times when I let out my frustrations, fears, and anxieties in less than honorable ways. No matter what I pray about or how I pray about it, the result I always get is comfort.

Iyanla Vanzant

#43. I had often joked in my speeches that I had imaginary conversations with Mrs. Roosevelt to solicit her advice on a range of subjects. It's actually a useful mental exercise to help analyze problems, provided you choose the right person to visualize. Eleanor Roosevelt was ideal.

Hillary Clinton

#44. I wish Barry Lopez would write novels.
from Conversations with Jim Harrison

Jim Harrison

#45. ...it seemed they spent their entire lives locked in solitary conversations with lumps of plastic.

-Emilio Neri, Mob Thug

DAVID NEWSON

#46. Great. She shook her head. Not only am I having conversations with myself, but now I'm refusing to talk to me. This has got to be the first sign of madness.

Trudi Canavan

#47. The best presenters have conversations with their audiences.

Robert Bly

#48. I disapprove of lots of decisions made by George Bush: the war, the meddling in the affairs of other countries, the conversations with dictators; it was a dark time.

Tommy Hilfiger

#49. In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.

Linus Torvalds

#50. Conversations with some people remind me of a broken sword. Sharp as hell, but lacking a point.

Brandon Sanderson

#51. Growing up a lonely only child prepared me for the years of solitude spent as a writer; years spent in the company of people who don't exist, imaginary people you have conversations with. It's a paid form of madness, this writing stuff.

Debi Gliori

#52. Conversations with my mother, father, my grandparents, as I've grown up have obviously driven me towards wanting to try and make a difference as much as possible.

Prince Harry

#53. You don't have conversations with microprocessors. You tell them what to do, then helplessly watch the disaster when they take you literally!

David Brin

#54. Sometimes I'm having conversations with my friends, and I feel like they can't relate to me anymore. I'm like, 'Oh, my God, let me tell you about my experience on 'Fallon'!' And they'll be like, 'Oh, my God, let me tell you about my trip to the mall!' It sometimes feels lonely.

Lilly Singh

#55. I found myself declaiming, full flower, for an hour on the "utmost importance and urgency" of Blogging, telling him in no uncertain terms that, especially in a high-end niche business, Blogging is "the premier way" to have "intimate conversations" with his Clients. Funny thing, I believe it!

Tom Peters

#56. It is critical that parents and other trusted adults initiate conversations with kids about underage drinking well in advance of the first time they are faced with a decision regarding alcohol.

Xavier Becerra

#57. I had three long conversations with Marusya over a cup of coffee. She told me her whole rather silly story. To some degree we became friends. I like people like that
doomed, dying, helpless, and brazen. I always say, if you're in trouble, you're not sinning.

Sergei Dovlatov

#58. Very few conversations with Charles Dickens did not include a laugh from him. I had never met a man so given to laughter. Almost no moment or context was too serious for this author not to find some levity in it, as some of us had discovered to our embarrassment at funerals.

Dan Simmons

#59. Before I was published, I thought men read car manuals or books about football. But once I started having really serious conversations with male lovers of literature, I let go of that prejudice.

Michel Faber

#60. They're pretty particular about what they show. They certainly edit the scripts and have conversations with the writers about what they are and aren't willing to portray. But the writers and the network are pretty much on the same page.

James Denton

#61. A lot of the girls my age were impressed by silly stuff like money and fame. I wanted to be able to have intellectual and spiritual conversations with someone who was on the same page as me.

Nick Cannon

#62. 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.

Don King

#63. I was painfully shy for a long time. I mean, that's something I really had to work my way out of. And I really think it was because, after the 2008 Olympics, I spent a whole year bartending. It was the one thing that really forced me to be just not so scared to start conversations with strangers.

Ronda Rousey

#64. Conversations with my counterparts in Europe have made clear that many of them recognize NATO's limitations and understand the need for reform.

Sergei Lavrov

#65. I was forever having internal conversations with myself; a result, no doubt, of living alone for so many years.

Anonymous

#66. We'd had a hundred conversations with our eyes, with our senses, with our hands and movements, with not a word spoken.

Shelly Crane

#67. Nothing at all would be a step up from my conversations with Anna. God, she's dull! You get the feeling that she probably had something to say for herself once upon a time, but now everything is about the child: Is she warm enough? Is she too warm? How much milk did she take?

Paula Hawkins

#68. I suspect that he was a child who thought differently than his peers, who may have had serious conversations with grown-ups, who as a young person, like me, accepted being alone quite a lot. I think that this sort of person often becomes either a writer or a career criminal.

Anne Lamott

#69. In a one-woman show, there must be compelling material that you adore. In both of these there are conversations with you and another character. My Second City (improvisation) background comes in very handy for accent and body posture.

Valerie Harper

#70. I wondered if having conversations with your dog was less crazy than babbling to yourself when no one else was around. I guess it depended on whether or not the dog answered.

Deb Baker

#71. Virtually anything is more stimulating than conversations with strangers at social gatherings.

James Cook

#72. Once I got over the fear of writing female characters, it actually came quite easily and I was really happy with it. I just thought about girls I knew really, really well and I'd just have conversations with them and tried to relay how they talk about certain things.

Eli Roth

#73. Living alone, you can do so many fantastic things I've learned. You can like, walk around and have so many conversations with yourself and sing your thoughts. I think I'm the only one that does that ...

Taylor Swift

#74. Writing is a conversation with reading; a dialogue with thinking. All conversations with older people contain repetition. Some of the ideas mean a lot to me, just interesting, so I both embrace and attack the ideas because I found them, well, delightful.

Nikki Giovanni

#75. Striking up conversations with strangers is something like extreme sports for autistic people.

Kamran Nazeer

#76. He trotted down the hallway on all fours and started in on his second favorite pastime, conversations with plumbing. Just what I needed: Stone, the Toilet Whisperer.

Devon Monk

#77. We're in conversations with brands worldwide for a variety of artists every day.

Patrick Whitesell

#78. El Salvador is a democracy so it's not surprising that there are many voices to be heard here. Yet in my conversations with Salvadorans ... I have heard a single voice.

Dan Quayle

#79. I can't tell you how many times I've had conversations with politicians who've done something morally reprehensible but not indictable, yet still think they should be able to stay in office. The office isn't a 'right.' It's a kind of loan.

Gail Collins

#80. We have transformational conversations with people we value!

Marilyn W. Atkinson

#81. I thought about him everyday until then. I started having these conversations with him in my head that you have when you meet someone you sense is going to be important in your life.

Deb Caletti

#82. We need people in our lives with whom we can be as open as possible. To have real conversations with people may seem like such a simple, obvious suggestion, but it involves courage and risk.

Thomas Moore

#83. Be real and authentic. Learn to have a sales conversations with your prospects that are a natural fit for you!

Timi Nadela

#84. Why am I so weird all the time? Then again, having conversations with myself in my head doesn't help.

Kia Carrington-Russell

#85. A different path of self-reflection is required if we are interested in the borders rather than the beliefs of Christianity. In my experience - in my conversations with "unbelieving neighbours" - I have learned that Christianity appears quite differently from the borders. Take,

Anthony Ledonne

#86. Merrin began buttoning up the cassock. "Especially important is the warning to avoid conversations with the demon." The demon!

William Peter Blatty

#87. I dress like an old woman in my real life. If you're having conversations with people, you don't want them to remember you as the girl with the tits, You want them to pay attention to what you're saying

Jennifer Lawrence

#88. She would make facial expressions as though she were having conversations with people in her head.They seemed to turn into debates more often than not,judging by the activity on her forehead ... It was almost the conversations in her head were loud enough to fill her silence.

Cecelia Ahern

#89. Actually, I am asking myself if conversations with friends always feel like this
two minds bound together by their focus on the same subject.

Francisco X Stork

#90. San Francisco leads the world in the category of Most People On The Sidewalk Holding Conversations With Purely Imaginary Companions.

Dave Barry

#91. Having the privilege of sitting down and having 3 hour long uninterrupted conversations with hundreds of brilliant people is an awesome perspective enhancer.

Joe Rogan

#92. I find it difficult to imagine an afterlife, such as Christians, or at any rate many religious people, conceive it, believing that the conversations with relatives and friends interrupted here on earth will be continued in the hereafter.

Edvard Munch

#93. She's spoken with Parkaboy twice before, and both times it's been odd, in the way that initial telephone conversations with people you've gotten to know well on the Net, yet have never met, are odd. She

William Gibson

#94. Courtney was a doctor herself. She diagnosed herself with Schizophrenia years ago, but didn't take any medication. The point of her barely leaving her home or having limited conversations with people, was to keep her mood swings under control.

Nako

#95. I think that people are definitely interested in the idea that Joan has conversations with God.

Amber Tamblyn

#96. When I think about my great conversations with Marlon Brando on the set of 'Morituri,' I think there's a story there, just as I do with my experience working with James Cameron on 'Titanic.' And then there are all my years on 'Y&R' and all that has happened there.

Eric Braeden

#97. The idea is to find some bit of holiness in everything-food, sex, earning and spending money, having children, conversations with friends. Everything can be seen as a miracle, as part of God's plan. When we can truly see this, we nourish our souls.

Harold S. Kushner

#98. Learning is best achieved through relationships - having the right conversations with the right people in the right context - and collaborative action.

Keith Ferrazzi

#99. I never actually got around to taping conversations with my guests, but there are a lot of things you can learn from a man like Nixon.

Pierre Trudeau

#100. Notes from his conversations with the boys who had been at the pool last night. Their accounts basically matched up, and one word had turned up frequently: angel. Oskar Eriksson had been rescued by an angel.

John Ajvide Lindqvist