When scientific conversations cease, then dogma rather than knowledge begins to rule the day.
The point of philosophy, as I see it, is to change thinking, and thereby to change the conversation.
You can't just hope things away. All of us have to care, to really focus on our cities, because that's where most people live, and they're crumbling. And along with them are the futures of a lot of people. So it's a wake-up call, but no one film can do all that; we're just trying to be a part of the conversation.
In their presence, there's no need for continuous conversation, but you find you're quite content in just having them nearby.
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 dining room in my old house was truly magnificent, but by far the worst room for conversation. I'd get up from the table, a very long table, and somebody would always say, Paul, I never got to talk to you.
Conversation is our account of ourselves. . . Conversation is the vent of character as well as thoughts. . . It is the laboratory of the student.
A good friendship is a conversation that never ends.
I'm a huge Coppola fan. But more of 'Apocalypse Now' and 'The Conversation. ' 'The Godfather' for me is, like, number three or four on the list.
Where do most go to complain about a companybrand? TWITTER. Conversations are happening whether you are there or not.
I am much beholden to old age, which has increased my eagerness for conversation in proportion as it has lessened my appetites of hunger and thirst.
Overheard today in restaurant: Can you stop listening to our conversation?
. . . and once again Dexter is struck by how easy conversation can be when no-one is in their right mind
They would sort of keep you on your toes that way - that kind of Italian allergic reaction to eagerness. It's very bruta figura, bad form, to be eager. You sort of glide in and have a conversation and work things out, then it takes two days to get up and running.
I often wonder whether real conversation in real time may eventually give way to these sanitized and easier screen dialogues, in much the same way as killing, skinning and butchering an animal to eat has been replaced by the convenience of packages of meat on the supermarket shelf… Perhaps future generations will recoil with similar horror at the messiness, unpredictability and immediate personal involvement of a three-dimensional, real-time interaction.
All serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy.
If you start a conversation with the assumption that you are right or that you must win, obviously it is difficult to talk.
Great talkers are trying to fill the gap between themselves and others, but only widen it.
The perfection of conversation is not to play a regular sonata, but, like the AEolian harp, to await the inspiration of the passing breeze.
That's probably the most boring conversation you could hear - an actor talk about politics. I won't go there.