“I'll tell you what's funny about it [NSA wiretapping]: They tell us we got to cut the budget; we have to have budget rollback. We're going to cut the budget on air traffic control, and every once in a while your plane is going to be delayed for three hours. But we do have the money laying around to hire people to read your emails and listen to your phone conversations. That just doesn't make any friggin' sense at all.” PeopleThreeHoursCuttingAirConversationPhonesPlanesBudgetsTrafficEmailNsaDelayedAir Traffic ControlTraffic Control Author:Michael Shannon
“Congress suffers a great deal of criticism for its partisan acrimony. But while we may disagree politically, and air our opposition in this chamber, it is the conversation behind the scenes that cements and defines our relationships.” MaySufferingDealsBehindsAirSceneConversationCriticismCongressOppositionDisagreeOur RelationshipChamberPartisansCementBehind The ScenesAcrimony Author:Kay Bailey Hutchison
“When I love, I love: wholly, thoroughly, completely, drowning in everything. Every glance can be a conversation, eyes just playing and saying what needs to be said. Silence is loud, and the air becomes heavy. I want you. I want all of you.” WantNeedsSaidEyeSilenceAirConversationHeavyLoudI Want YouGlancesSilence IsDrowning Author:Warsan Shire
“I never, with important air, In conversation overbear. . . . . My tongue within my lips I rein; For who talks much must talk in vain.” ImportantAirConversationLipsTongueVainReins Book:Gay's Fables: In One Volume Complete Source: Gay's Fables: In One Volume Complete
“But in order to survive in this foreign world, I had to teach myself that love was very much like a painting. The negative space between people was just as important as the positive space we occupy. The air between our resting bodies, and the breath in our conversations, were all like the white of the canvas, and the rest our relationship- the laughter and the memories- were the brushstroke applied over time.” PeopleWorldImportantBodyOrderMemoriesSpaceWhiteTeachAirPaintingConversationLaughterNegativeBreathsOur RelationshipCanvasSpace BetweenNegative Space Book:The Lost Wife Source: The Lost Wife
“On the air, it's as if somebody draws a heavy drape to block any bias. I don't even feel it inside. It's the same curtain that keeps you from swearing. I've known broadcasters who can't get one sentence out in normal conversation without being profane, and yet, they can go on the air and talk for three hours and never slip once.” IfsFeelsThreeHoursKnownAirGoes OnConversationNormalDrawsHeavySentencesBlockSlipsBiasCurtainsSwearingProfaneOne SentenceBroadcastersDrapes Author:Dick Enberg
“My mother and I definitely got to a point where we had to have a real conversation and talk woman to woman, or daughter to mother, friend to friend - just off the record, clear the air and communicate. I didn't want to drive my mama crazy, but at the same time, I had to do, I had to learn, I had to grow and she understood that. She knows me better than anyone else on the planet so I tried to think about that.” ThinkingKnowsWantRealMotherGrowsClearRecordsAirCrazyPlanetsConversationDaughterUnderstoodCommunicateKnow MeMamaMother DaughterReal ConversationWoman To Woman Author:Queen Latifah