“I rather think the cinema will die. Look at the energy being exerted to revive it - yesterday it was color, today three dimensions. I don't give it forty years more. Witness the decline of conversation. Only the Irish have remained incomparable conversationalists, maybe because technical progress has passed them by.” ThinkingGivingYearsLooksTodayFilmDiesThreeEnergyProgressColorConversationYesterdayWitnessCinemaDimensionsFortyDeclineReviveIncomparableThree Dimensions Author:Orson Welles
“The only reason why we wish to exchange thoughts is that we are different. If we were all the same, we would die dumb. No thought would be expressed after we found that our thoughts were precisely alike. We differ-our thoughts are different. Therefore the commerse that we call conversation.” IfsDifferentReasonWould BeDiesFoundWishConversationDumbReason WhyOpennessOur Thoughts Book:The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll
“My idea of everything going smoothly on an airplane is (a) that I not die in a slow-motion fiery crash or get stabbed to death by terrorists and (b) that none of the other passengers try to talk to me. All conversation should end at the moment the wheels leave the ground.” ShouldTryingIdeasEndsMomentsDiesConversationTerroristFlyingWheelsAirplaneCrashPassengersTalk To MeFierySlow MotionSociability Book:Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith Source: Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith
“When I have conversations with people, for some strange reason they think I'm gonna die and they're not. But you know what? Death means nothing to me.” PeopleThinkingKnowsMeanReasonDiesStrangeConversation Author:Curtis Jackson