A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.

In England only uneducated people show off their knowledge nobody quotes Latin or Greek authors in the course of conversation unless he has never read them.

Sometimes a character is really based on research that you do. Other times it's just based on your imagination or perhaps your conversation with the director. Or sometimes all of the above. It depends on the movie and character.

The first ingredient in conversation is truth the next good sense the third good humor and the fourth wit.

In conversation humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.

But yeah I'm really happy when I'm writing. When I'm being creative and when I have something that I can put down. You know if you go out and you overhear a conversation or you have a thought you have a receptacle to go home and say 'Oh this would be great in this script.' Your antenna's out in a different way and I love that time.

I usually write away from home in coffee shops on trains on planes in friends' houses. I like places where there's stuff going on that you can lift your eyes see something interesting overhear a conversation.

The most influential of all educational factors is the conversation in a child's home.

Here in Silicon Valley I have taken part in hundreds of conversations trying to convince people to dive in and become entrepreneurs. All too often innovators with good safe jobs are unwilling to put their family's access to health care at risk by walking away from company-backed medical insurance.

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

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

A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction but pursues you never.

A conversation is a dialogue not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity two intelligent talkers seldom meet.

My idea of good company is the company of clever well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation that is what I call good company.

I still have a spiritual base and a spiritual foundation. And my conversation with God is very open-ended. I pray for humility honestly because it's very easy to be caught up in this world.

Prayer is simply a two-way conversation between you and God.

It's interesting that whenever I meet some of the other Bond girls I always have something in common and it is an interesting sorority. We all share about our Bonds. 'Did your Bond do that?' 'Yes mine did!' So it is quite funny conversations. We may as well be in high school.

I listen like mad to any conversation taking place next to me just trying to hear why this is funny. Women's restrooms are especially great. I wash my hands twice waiting for people to come in and start talking.

I'm smart and I can be really funny and interesting and I can go toe-to-toe with anybody in a conversation.

Polite conversation is rarely either.

I think romance is friendship and attraction sort of meeting together and that does influence what I'm writing a lot. I try to establish the attraction obviously but I also think it's important to show the characters having actual conversations about things other than their feelings for each other - and to develop their friendship on the page.

True happiness arises in the first place from the enjoyment of one's self and in the next from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.

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.