Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eliot Spitzer

We were hoping to initiate a conversation with them that would lead to an agreed-upon schedule,

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.

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.

Ben Brantley

I personally read criticism - at least by writers I enjoy - to stimulate a conversation in my own mind, and I like to think that's the function I serve for others.

Brian Cashman

Nothing official. Just a good conversation letting him know where we're at.

Mel Stottlemyre

Nothing I would like more than (to) sit down 30 minutes for a conversation with him. He'd probably understand how I feel. That won't happen.

information to patients so they can go in and have a more informed conversation with their physician about new cures and new treatments.

Royce Clayton

I liked what was said. They were straight shooters -- from Bowden's conversation with us to the things Frank said. It wasn't sugarcoated.

Gary Ross

I left the conversation pretty much up to him. That way I would be fresher, and he's so good at this. I didn't want to prepare or spin anything. I just jumped in and let him take it wherever it went.

Oil would need to move a lot higher before it really starts to have the impact on the economy that people worry about. But the fact that it is always part of the daily conversation about stocks gives it this big impact.

Norv Turner

It was a good conversation. Ultimately, we weren't headed in the direction (Davis) wanted to be headed, and he wanted to make a switch.

It was pretty sensitive stuff. We wouldn't have even had the conversation had there not been an expectation of privacy.

It was a difficult conversation -- but we had it. We hope results will follow from this meeting. He listened to us.

It took me 10 years before I would say in a conversation that I actually swam in the Olympics, ... I would have never done that earlier.

Dick Cheney

They can do whatever they want to do. I know what I want to do. What I want to do is have a conversation with the American people. I would like to have people who watch the debate come away with an understanding of what our proposals are.

They are isolated. They have to hike three or four hours just to have a conversation with another person.

Christine Quinn

There's not a lot of conversation going on in my world about softening my image. I'm pretty much who I am.

Whoopi Goldberg

There's no better place in the world for meat, conversation and good old-fashioned friendship.

There's not too much intellectual conversation around the dinner table. So, I do miss the sciences, but I really enjoy what I'm doing right now.

Jonathan Safran Foer

What the world does not need is a Haggadah that pats itself on the back. It needs a Haggadah that gets out of the way, that starts a conversation and gets out of the way.

We talked, ... We just talked about all the situations that happened in the game and everything that was going on. That's a conversation I'm going to actually keep and not really talk about.

Ron Rivera

I really enjoyed the conversation with Mr. (John) Shaw and Mr. (Jay) Zygmunt. I'm just really happy for the opportunity, and if anything else comes about, it'd be great. ... I guess the only thing I can do is just wait and see what happens.

I had a great conversation with him. It was a private conversation, but he was very happy for me.

Mike Holmgren

I had a conversation with the league, and there were mistakes that were made, which we felt at the time.

Billy Beane

I had a nice little conversation with him. He seems happy to be here, quick to smile.

Dan Gillmor

If you create a sufficient level of informed conversation about a very narrow subject, that's a business. You better really love it, though, because you'll get bored.

Rick Carlisle

I don't know; it's not really a conversation until it's a reality. We'll see. A lot can happen between now and when (Tinsley) comes back. It's a situation that we'll resolve when it comes time to resolve it.

I didn't hear the conversation but Mr. Stephens explained to Mr. Roberts that he had plans for me and I'd be all right.

Gwyneth Paltrow

You're not learning anything unless you're having the difficult conversations,

I'm sorry we're having this conversation now and not earlier,

Susanne Bier

If my daughter's going to go out in the winter with summer clothes, I'm gonna question it. And at some point, I assume, if the conversation goes on long enough, if I can convince her, she will put on some warm clothes. And I think that sort of exchange is pretty valid.