Down through the years certain fads of slang had come and gone, and their vestiges could be found in Janie's and Mabel's conversation, like mastodon bones in a swamp.
I vividly remember a conversation I had many years ago in 1974, which marked a turning point in my leadership journey. I was sitting at a Holiday Inn with my friend, Kurt Campmeyer, when he asked me if I had a personal growth plan. I didn't. In fact, I didn't even know you were supposed to have one.
I like when you can have a conversation with people and it's not just stock questions.
Good conversational debate is an end in itself, and talking for the love of conversation is what makes us human.
"Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation. " -If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than it was because he was he and I was I.
The elites - or managers in companies - no longer control the conversation. This is how insurrections start.
I believe that the American people ought to be part of the conversation about what's happening in our economy, and what's happening in Washington and what's happening on Wall Street.
Bill Shorten should - either knows that or at least he should know it and for him to change the conversation by proposing - by suggesting a proposal significantly more adventurous than where the conversation has been up until now was a very unhelpful intervention.
I don't want to get into extended conversations with people on MySpace, because there are friends I have extended conversations with every day.
I would challenge anybody in their darkest moment to write what they're grateful for, even stupid little things like the green grass that made them feel good, the friendly conversation they had with somebody on an alevator. You start to realize how rich you are.
He talked and talked because he didn't know what to say.
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.
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.
Sighs and silences and avoided conversations are just as important as the things you do talk about.
My idea of a good night has always been having a lovely meal and a proper conversation.
In conversation, everyone sits in confident judgment on the world.
Great conversation. . . requires an absolute running of two souls into one.
Whoever takes just plain ginger ale soon gets drowned out of the conversation.
. . . An honest conversation with anyone is a form of praying.
At most, the greatest persons are but great wens, and excrescences; men of wit and delightful conversation, but as morals for ornament, except they be so incorporated into the body of the world that they contribute something to the sustentation of the whole.