“Everything is 'colossalized' - events, fortunes, accidents, climate, conversation, ambitions - everything is in the extreme ... They can't even have a tram run off a line, which in England or France might kill one or two people, without its making a holocaust of half a street full. ... The thing which surprises me is they should still employ animals of normal size; one would expect to see elephants and mammoths drawing the hansoms and carts!” PeopleShouldStillsTwoMightRunningLinesAnimalHalfUnited StatesStreetsEventsConversationNormalAmbitionEnglandFortuneSurpriseClimateSizeExtremesAccidentsDrawingFranceHolocaustElephantsExaggerationCartsSurprise MeTrams Author:Elinor Glyn
“I've been around politics a long time. I've seen it at its best and its worst, been at so many events, listened to private conversations versus public speaking, understood the game of it, and in many ways the theatrics.” WayLongGamesWorstEventsConversationLong TimeUnderstoodVersusPublic SpeakingTheatrics Author:Kevin Spacey
“When I was 20, I was contemplating quitting. I was at the first event of the season and I overhead a conversation between two girls. One told the other, "God still loves you," and that caught my attention. Later that day, I caught up with the girl and asked her what she meant. Before then, I'd never really thought about God. But there was an undeniable stirring in me and I couldn't ignore it.” FirstsStillsTwoGirlAttentionLove YouEventsConversationSeasonsCaughtQuittingContemplatingCaught UpStirringOverheadStill Love You Author:Kelly Clark
“My creative is curiosity conversations...All conversations reveal some inner truth, and the information we get from a computer is different than something that becomes a biochemical event, like a real conversation.” DifferentRealCreativeEventsInformationConversationComputerCuriosityReal Conversation Author:Brian Grazer
“Dinner 'conversation' at the Cohens' meant my sister, mom, and I relaying in brutal detail the day's events in a state of amplified hysteria, while my father listened to his own smooth jazz station in his head.” StatesFatherEventsMomConversationJazzDetailsDinnerStationsMy SisterBrutalSmoothHysteriaSmooth JazzDinner Conversation Book:Most Talkative: Stories from the Front Lines of Pop Culture Source: Most Talkative: Stories from the Front Lines of Pop Culture