“I don't really talk about my personal life. It's a strange and funny and weird thing. Sometimes you have a conversation with someone and the paparazzi snaps a picture of you and people decide you're dating. If I try to answer everything people say, I would be up all night.” PeopleIfsTryingSometimesWould BeNightAnswersStrangeConversationDatingPersonal LifeAll NightSnapsPaparazziWeird ThingsUp All Night Author:Tracee Ellis Ross
“Eloquence may be found in conversations and in all kinds of writings; it is rarely found when looked for, and sometimes discovered where it is least expected.” WritingKindMaySometimesFoundConversationExpectedAll KindsEloquence Author:Jean de la Bruyere
“Cross-pollination and "contamination" is really important to the health of fiction, and sometimes it's a literal conversation, too, in that writers who might never otherwise meet and talk do so because of our anthologies.” ImportantSometimesMightFictionConversationCrossesLiteralAnthologyContaminationPollination Author:Jeff VanderMeer
“History is a conversation and sometimes a shouting match between present and past, though often the voices we most want to hear are barely audible.” WantSometimesPastVoiceListeningConversationShouting Book:Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History Source: Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History
“All really frank people are amusing, and would remain so if they could remember that other people may sometimes want to be frank and amusing too.” PeopleIfsWantMaySometimesRememberTalkingConversationFrankAmusing Author:Ada Leverson
“Sometimes, I genuinely enjoy having conversations with journalists; enjoying the few moments of intimacy with a stranger is fascinating to me. But once in a while that backfires and you're suddenly reading something that has a bent on it that you didn't feel was in the least bit a part of the conversation that you thought you were having. Then you get overly protective and say very little and then you come out of the hole again.” FeelsLittlesSometimesMomentsReadingBitsEnjoyConversationStrangerHolesIntimacyJournalistFascinatingBentProtectiveBackfire Author:Gillian Anderson
“But, as potentially the first African American first lady, I was also the focus of another set of questions and speculations; conversations sometimes rooted in the fears and misperceptions of others. Was I too loud, or too angry, or too emasculating? Or was I too soft, too much of a mom, not enough of a career woman?” FirstsSometimesEnoughCareersToo MuchFocusMomConversationAngryAfrican AmericanLoudRootedSpeculationFirst LadyCareer WomenMisperception Author:Michelle Obama
“There's a certain kind of conversation you have from time to time at parties in New York about a new book. The word "banal" sometimes rears its by-now banal head; you say "underedited," I say "derivative." The conversation goes around and around various literary criticisms, and by the time it moves on one thing is clear: No one read the book; we just read the reviews.” KindBookSometimesMovingCertainPartyClearOne ThingNew YorkConversationCriticismVariousReviewsNew BooksLiterary CriticismDerivatives Author:Anna Quindlen
“Conversation augments pleasure and diminishes pain by our having shares in either; for silent woes are greatest, as silent satisfaction leas; since sometimes our pleasure would be none but for telling of it, and our grief insupportable but for participation.” SometimesWould BePainPleasureGriefShareConversationSilentSatisfactionSympathyParticipationWoeDiminish Author:William Wycherley