You want people walking away from the conversation with some kernel of wisdom or some kind of impact.

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

My interactions with Sorkin were agonisingly weird. He is by far the weirdest person I have ever met. I had dinner with him and a few hours before I got an e-mail from his assistant saying 'Sean this does not need to be a long conversation. Aaron is only going to use it to win your trust.'

Too often travel instead of broadening the mind merely lengthens the conversation.

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

We have had a chance to travel to all 56 counties in this state and I have had the chance to sit around with cups of coffee and having conversations about what matters to Montanans.

Prior to being allowed to enter the profession prospective teachers should be asked to talk with a group of friendly students for at least half an hour and be able to engage them in an interesting conversation about any subject the prospective teacher wants to talk about.

The water cooler conversation in every job I've had is sports it's what did you do this weekend it's 'How are your parents doing?'

We sat around on a hotel balcony with a bottle of wine and tried to figure out how you would go about blowing up a planet. That's the kind of conversations science fiction writers have when they get together. We don't talk about football or anything like that.

It was a long time in the making my divorce. One day became less special than the next and pretty soon we ceased all conversation. It is a sad day when you have nothing left to say.

The sad thing is that I feel so boring because 'Twilight' is literally how every conversation I have these days begins - whether it's someone I'm meeting for the first time or someone I just haven't seen in a while. The first thing I want to say to them is 'It's insane! And as a person I can't do anything!'

The telephone which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations has a romance of its own.

We are more thoroughly an enlightened people with respect to our political interests than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.

A conversation goes sometimes into personal things and that's nicer. You look to each other and you have a different picture you get into a relationship.

Since the beginning of the 21st century thanks to the concerted efforts of both sides China-U.S. relationship has on the whole enjoyed steady growth. Since President Obama took office we have maintained close contact through exchange of visits meetings telephone conversations and letters.

The biggest mistake is believing there is one right way to listen to talk to have a conversation - or a relationship.

If you're doing an interview you need conversational tension. After you talk to them you're not going to have a relationship with them they're not going to like you they're not going to be your friend.

What students lack in school is an intellectual relationship or conversation with the teacher.

Individual psychotherapy - that is engaging a distressed fellow human in a disciplined conversation and human relationship - requires that the therapist have the proper temperament and philosophy of life for such work. By that I mean that the therapist must be patient modest and a perceptive listener rather than a talker and advice-giver.

When I play live it's a conversation that we're all having with the song and the audience... their response and relationship with the songs is as valid as my relationship with the songs.

A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.

Over the last half century the television interview has given us some of TV's most heart-stopping and memorable moments. On the surface it is a simple format - two people sitting across from one another having a conversation. But underneath it is often a power struggle - a battle for the psychological advantage.

The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.

In Washington DC politics dominate even the most casual conversations.