But there's not enough time in life to go sit at a party, have a drink, and make idle conversation. There's too many important things to do. Just being together with my husband, spending time alone, which I have very little of.

Congress's definition of torture in those laws - the infliction of severe mental or physical pain - leaves room for interrogation methods that go beyond polite conversation.

Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.

Those who wish well to the State ought to choose to places of trust men of inward principle, justified by exemplary conversation.

The critical importance of honest journalism and a free flowing, respectful national conversation needs to be had in our country. But it is being buried as collateral damage in a war whose battles include political correctness and ideological orthodoxy.

His daughter returned from her boarding school, improved in fashionable airs and expert in manufacturing fashionable toys; but, in her conversation, he sought in vain for that refined and fertile mind which he had fondly expected.

Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.

It is commonly agreed that children spend more hours per year watching television than in the classroom, and far less in actual conversation with their parents.

There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all.

My accent remained terrible. It was very hard for me to initiate any conversation with someone I didn't know.

Conversation didn't seem necessary when I put the accordion down and swung some young lady around the floor.

I always love being in the company of women. It's all about good conversation and great wine.

Lettuce is like conversation; it must be fresh and crisp, so sparkling that you scarcely notice the bitter in it.

I remember very clearly at the first budget review having a pretty direct conversation with the head of manufacturing... We began to get huge improvements in productivity and responsiveness. I got a chance to see that firsthand.