Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marc Benioff

The elites - or managers in companies - no longer control the conversation. This is how insurrections start.

Shameik Moore

I don't like going to the movies with people that talk a lot. They want to have a conversation or something.

People tend to treat e-mail like conversation. They don't give it the kind of thought that something in writing should have. If you're trying to be funny and you forget to put in the little smiley face, people could take it the wrong way.

No sports entrepreneur would ever let me talk about investing in an NHL franchise for at least the last five years. Now it's taking place in conversation again, really for the first time in nearly a decade.

Cochise County has never had a conversation with the ACC about abating taxes. And not once has Algonquin requested that the taxes be abated. Apparently, the only people who want to see the taxes reduced are some of the commissioners on the ACC.

Spike Jonze

Any conversation I have with anybody that's real is always revealing and inspiring.

Thanks to good parenting, none of them have engaged him in conversation.

Sometimes you don't really know what to say because conversation sometimes makes it worse. You just have to give a person a hug and tell him you love him, you support him and be there for them.

Sooner or later we need to have an intelligent conversation about infrastructure. Imagine the economy today if, 50 years ago, we didn't invest in the interstate freeway system.

Sometimes poetry is inspired by the conversation entered into by reading other poems.

Susan Orlean

I've noticed lately that it seems most intimate to not use any closing on your e-mail at all, because it seems to make it feel like you are engaged in an ongoing conversation - as if this one e-mail doesn't represent the beginning and end of the interaction but is just part of a perpetual loop of friendly back-and-forth.

That type of conversation is so premature. If we ever get to that bridge, we'll cross it went we get there. Really, at this point, our interest is not really in settling out Mike's contract. Our interest is that he gets well and at some point we discuss his status for next year.

That turned a two-way conversation into a one-way discussion.

Paul Tagliabue

That's going to be our focus. We started some conversation with the owners about what kind of structure, what kind of commitments it would take from all the teams to institutionalize that so the obligation of playing a game every now and then, a regular-season game, outside of the United States would become a part of the normal team participation in the National Football League.

You set the tone of the conversation in a positive mode, and that is really what counts.

This is an important time. The president is looking forward to having just a conversation with you.

Barry Gibb

Anything can inspire me - a conversation, something strikes you about words which can end up being a title.

The boy's only 14. He was probably scared out of his mind. He didn't want to see what was going on, ... We don't know what the conversation was about.

Rob Portman

This past year has been very turbulent for the Middle East, and my conversation with Prime Minister Netanyahu strengthened my belief that we need to remain vigilant in our support of our critical ally.

Florence Welch

In a conversation, the words can get stuck, I don't know what to say, I get very anxious.

Fiona Apple

I've never been to the websites. It's a lot healthier for me to keep out of the conversations about me.

George Herbert

Conversation makes one what he is.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I and me are always too deeply in conversation.

Atom Egoyan

If I knew how restrictive (the MPAA was), I would have had an entirely different conversation with the actors.

Trey Gowdy

I don't think the president had anything to do with Fast and Furious. I'm not sure Eric Holder did, which leads to a conversation about whether he should have known about it.

Derek Jeter

I don't think he's done pitching. That has nothing to do with any conversation I had with him. He loves to compete, and he pitched well.

I don't see that conversation going that way at this point.

William Shakespeare

Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affection, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood.

CONVERSATION, n. A fair to the display of the minor mental commodities, each exhibitor being too intent upon the arrangement of his own wares to observe those of his neighbor.

Brad Childress

As I mentioned, I never had a conversation with him about this football team. It was always about what he needed financially and money. I never heard team, I always heard me and I and 'I need 10 million dollars. I'm a 10 million-dollar-a-year quarterback.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

And when you stick on conversation's burrs, don't strew your pathway with those dreadful urs.

I've been waiting to have this conversation for years.

It would drive me insane to overhear the conversation of the guy in the next seat.