“Conversation is the wall we build between ourselves and other people, too often with tired words like used and broken bottles which, catching the sunlight as they lie embedded in the wall, are mistaken for jewels.” PeopleUsedLyingBrokenWallConversationTiredBottlesSunlightMistakenJewelsCatchingEmbedded Book:Faces in the water Source: Faces in the water
“Even a friendly conversation which cannot be at any given moment be broken off voluntarily with complete arbitrariness has something illiberal about it. An artist, however, who is able and wants to express himself completely, who keeps nothing to himself and would wish to say everything he knows, is very much to be pitied.” KnowsWantMomentsAbleArtistGivenWishBrokenConversationFriendly Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
“If the lift is broken, I'll just sit and wait for them to sort it out. I don't believe in friendly conversation or chit-chat.” IfsBelieveWaitingBrokenConversationDon't BelieveLiftsFriendlyChit Chat Author:Marco Pierre White
“MAD FREE is simply described as "Liberating Conversations with Revolutionary Women about Beauty, Image and Power". It began as a Salon series in NY loft in Brooklyn as a salve to my broken heart after Honey Magazine folded. It was not because of the readership or because the market wasn't there; the company that held it collapsed, which I was the last editor in chief of.” HeartLastsCompanyBrokenConversationMadSeriesMagazinesChiefsRevolutionaryEditorsHoneyLiberatingBrooklynReadershipSalons Author:Michaela Angela Davis
“What we were most hoping to achieve with Shots Fired: empathy for all of the characters and conversations about our criminal justice system, which is broken on every level, from the street all the way up to the highest level of government.” WayCharacterGovernmentJusticeLevelsStreetsAchieveBrokenConversationHighestEmpathyShotsCriminalsJustice SystemCriminal JusticeCriminal Justice System Author:Gina Prince-Bythewood
“You're always in a rush, or else you're too exhausted to have a proper conversation. Soon enough, the long hours, the traveling, the broken sleep have all crept into your being and become part of you, so everyone can see it, in your posture, your gaze, the way you move and talk.” WayLongEnoughMovingHoursSleepBrokenConversationExhaustedPostureLet Me GoLong HoursSoon EnoughNever Let Me Go Author:Kazuo Ishiguro