Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mohsin Hamid

My grandparents used to pray five times a day, but they were quiet about their own thing. Completely liberal day by day; my grandmother was a social worker and my grandfather was an engineer, but they never talked about religion. My entire life I couldn't remember one conversation I had with them about religion.

We are at a point where the major issues are moot. Those formerly unhappy now, from what we understand in conversations, support our current efforts. The politics is such where we feel it's an important conversation with the full board.

Terry Pendleton

We struck up a conversation right then like we'd known each other for years. Since then, it'd been that way.

Agnes Repplier

Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times because they had nobody to talk about.

We're making light of the subject itself. And they look pretty funny. They're good conversation pieces.

Baltasar Gracian

If to talk to oneself when alone is folly, it must be doubly unwise to listen to oneself in the presence of others.

Throughout the conversation, he (Angle) threatened to come out of the house with a firearm, despite pleas by the negotiator for him to come out unarmed.

Kate Forsyth

As an adult, I have often been deep in serious conversation with someone I've highly respected and seen them roll an eye as my mouth has mangled yet another magnificently conceived, clumsily articulated sentence. In my mind, the words are mellifluous as honey. In my mouth, they are shards of glass.

Lewis Carroll

Make a remark,' said the Red Queen; 'it's ridiculous to leave all the conversation to the pudding!

Stephen Amell

I would love to be nominated for an award at some point or do something that at least engenders the type of cultural conversation that a role like Giancarlo Esposito on 'Breaking Bad,' or actually any of the people on 'Breaking Bad.' I would love to have a role in a feature film that was a cultural talking point.

I have a magpie mind, by which I mean I see and hear little things - photos, fragments of conversation - and store them away for future use.

Laila Ali

I love engaging in conversation with other moms because we can relate to one another, and we swap valuable insight and information.

Keyshawn Johnson

When I'm on television, I'm talking to millions of people, so the conversation is totally different. My words are different. My diction is different because now I'm really talking American English and not homeboy English.

Tom Renney

We had a very professional conversation. It was not any kind of confrontation, it was just sharing thoughts.

Andy Cole

When I have a conversation with anybody, I do look deep into them,

Daniel Portman

I'm a point of conversation for my friends.

She would really get on her teammates to win that drill, and after that, her and Renee would have a conversation on whose team won. That was one of my earliest recollections of Tamara. I just loved that about her.

Tom Rath

Simply try to turn your next conversation with someone who is negative into a more positive moment. See what happens. In most cases, they will turn around and be more positive in their next interaction.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Shall we never, never get rid of this Past? cried he, keeping up the earnest tone of his preceding conversation. "It lies upon the Present like a giant's dead body.

Maybe it's impossible to spend time with Patrick Stewart and not have the conversation move to the extraterrestrial.

There is conversation that over the next ten years, hedge funds would become like mutual funds, ... There is some merit to that conversation, but I think there might be some lag time.

Laura Marling

When I'm singing I feel like I'm talking to someone. I'm in conversation when I perform - either with myself or with whomever is listening.

When I was 17, I met many artists, and it started to become this conversation with artists out of which all of my exhibitions grew.

Karen Hughes

What I did is open a door for conversation. That's how conversation starts.

Phil Klay

Less than 1 percent of American have served in 12 years of war, and serious public conversation about military policy is sorely lacking.

Bruce Feiler

It turns out there's only 10 minutes of productive conversation in any family dinner. The rest is taken up with 'take your elbows off the table' and 'pass the ketchup.' And what researchers have found is you can take that 10 minutes and put it in any time of the day and get the benefit. So, if you can't have family dinner, have family breakfast!

Ray Charles

I don't know about other writers, but for myself, to write I must be relatively quiet - it's very difficult to write with the telephone and the doorbell ringing and conversation going on; I'm not that good a writer to write through all that!

Yves Behar

An ideal day for me is a combination of a fun-exciting creative moment with work partners, some laughs and games with my kids, a good surf session, and great conversation with friends around a meal.

William Lacy Clay, Jr.

We have to have a national conversation about how police forces should interact with the African-American community, who happens to be paying their salary, who want to be served and protected, who these officers are take an oath to do so.

Donna Brazile

We are not post-racial. And in many ways we don't even know how to have a conversation about being post-racial. Until we get out of that old-school way of thinking about race and opportunity and the ability to transcend some of the past of this country, then we're going to be stuck in the 20th-century conversation about race.

We had a private conversation about a month ago. She told me that I could use her in key moments down the stretch, and she's proven that.

Kenneth Burke

Where does the drama get its materials? From the "unending conversation" that is going on at the point in history when we are born.

Nancy Gibbs

There's a smartphone gait: the slow sidewalk weave that comes from being lost in conversation rather than looking where you're going.