Pastoral Resources

Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good plays, good company, good conversation - what are they? They are the happiest people in the world.

You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.

Ideal conversation must be an exchange of thought, and not, as many of those who worry most about their shortcomings believe, an eloquent exhibition of wit or oratory.

I've been in a serious conversation with one of my children, and a fan has come up. I've been in a public bathroom and had the hand come under the stall with a paper and pen. That sort of thing anybody can live without.

Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times because they had nobody to talk about.

It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought.

If you spend any time in Los Angeles, there's only one topic of conversation.

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.

The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying.

Conceit causes more conversation than wit.

Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.

You're in the public eye and you just hope that people don't come up and interrupt you while your in the middle of a meal or a conversation or something like that.

Part of the joy of dancing is conversation. Trouble is, some men can't talk and dance at the same time.

On our watch, the conversation with a would-be suicide bomber will not begin with the words, 'You have the right to remain silent.'

I never knew any painter worthy of the name who paid the smallest attention to what a critic says, even in conversation.

My perfect girl would be pretty mad, but one you can have a conversation with. No one can be too mad for me, the madder the better. I love a crazy chick!

In America journalism is apt to be regarded as an extension of history: in Britain, as an extension of conversation.

The primary use of conversation is to satisfy the impulse to talk.

I have a contract but it's not a commitment in the ordinary sense. It's our ongoing conversation.

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.