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Travel, instead of broadening the mind, often merely lengthens the conversation.

If you go out to dinner with someone, you find out what they prefer in food. We ought to be able to have a conversation to find out what people prefer when it comes to sex.

Betty Dodson

This is a time for a national conversation. A conversation about the document that binds us as a nation and a people. That document, of course, is the Constitution.

The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.

What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming.

Edgar Degas

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Romance like a ghost escapes touching; it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory.

George William Curtis

I never initiated nor did the FBI ever initiate any conversation or correspondence with me.

John Sherman Cooper

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I'm having this conversation with you now. I'm talking, but I'm thinking, feeling, smelling, and moving. Yet I'm concentrating on what you're saying. So that means there's more things going on in the body than just the present thing that the person's got you doing.

No one has to learn to spell to talk, right? You see a little kid holding a conversation with an adult. He probably doesn't know the words he's saying, but he knows where to fit them to make what he's thinking logical to what you're saying.

A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech.

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

An artist carries on throughout his life a mysterious, uninterrupted conversation with his public.

When I spoke, I was listened to; and I was at a loss to know how I had so easily acquired the art of commanding attention, and giving the tone to the conversation.

Adelbert von Chamisso

I consider myself a religious person. God is something very personal with me and I don't flaunt religion in conversation with others.

I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar.