“Unless you're fond of hollering you don't make great conversations on a running cycle. Instead you spend your time being aware of things and meditating on them. On sights and sounds, on the mood of the weather and things remembered, on the machine and the countryside you're in, thinking about things at great leisure and length without being hurried and without feeling you're losing time.” ThinkingFeelingsRunningSoundConversationLosingMachinesSightMoodWeatherRememberedCyclesLengthLeisureCountrysideMeditatingSight And SoundLosing Time Book:Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values Source: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
“There is speaking well, speaking easily, speaking justly and speaking seasonably: It is offending against the last, to speak of entertainments before the indigent; of sound limbs and health before the infirm; of houses and lands before one who has not so much as a dwelling; in a word, to speak of your prosperity before the miserable; this conversation is cruel, and the comparison which naturally arises in them betwixt their condition and yours is excruciating.” WellsLastsHouseSpeakSoundLandConditionsConversationProsperityEntertainmentAriseMiserableComparisonLimbsDwellingOffendingSpeaking Well Author:Jean de la Bruyere
“There's something unnatural about a woman finding babies or, more specifically, conversation about babies, boring. They'll think she's bitter, jealous, lonely. But she's also bored of everybody telling her how lucky she is, what with all that sleep and all that freedom and spare time, the ability to go on dates or head off to Paris at a moments notice. It sounds like they're consoling her, and she resents this and feels patronized by it.” ThinkingFeelsMomentsSoundSleepAbilityBabyGoes OnLuckyConversationFindingsLonelyBoringBitterBoredParisJealousSparesUnnaturalResentSpare TimeConsoling Author:David Nicholls
“If you happen to find it hard to have sustained conversations, try keeping your voice up at the end of the sentence. There is a charming graciousness in doing so, for it seems to say that you do not think your remarks are the last words to be said on the subject. It prevents you from seeming opinionated. How men dislike an opinionated woman! No one really likes her! To keep your voice up sounds as though you are interested in other people's ideas. The subject is still open!” PeopleIfsThinkingMenTryingSaidStillsIdeasEndsHardSeemsHappensLastsSoundVoiceSubjectsConversationSentencesLikesDislikeCharmingLast WordsRemarksSeemingOpinionatedGraciousness Author:Margery Wilson
“Grand telegraphic discovery today … Transmitted vocal sounds for the first time ... With some further modification I hope we may be enabled to distinguish … the “timbre” of the sound. Should this be so, conversation viva voce by telegraph will be a fait accompli.” ShouldFirstsMayTodaySoundConversationDiscoveryFirst TimeVocalModificationTelegraphTimbreViva Author:Alexander Graham Bell
“Sometimes in conversation the sound of our own voice distracts us and misleads us into making assertions that in no way express our true opinions.” WaySometimesSoundVoiceOpinionConversationMisleadAssertionMislead Us Author:Friedrich Nietzsche
“The Pavlovian view of women voters - plug the words in, and they will respond - sends a chill down my spine because it sounds like an adaptation of something I have written about communication between the sexes: When a woman tells a man about a problem, she doesn't want him to fix it; she just wants him to listen and let her know he understands. But there's a difference between a private conversation and a presidential election, between what we want from our leaders.” KnowsMenWantProblemSexSoundWomenDifferencesViewsLeaderDemocracyWrittenCommunicationConversationElectionPresidentialVotersAdaptationChillSpineWant HimPlugsPresidential Election Author:Deborah Tannen
“Hip hop started in NY so it's important that New Yorkers realise that to talk about NY music and its sound should not be a small-minded conversation. Music is supposed to evolve. It's supposed to be going through changes, it's not supposed to sound exactly the same as what it did when it started. NY hip hop has to be allowed to move on and grow and expand.” ShouldImportantMovingGrowsSoundConversationMusic IsHip HopHipsSupposed To BeEvolveHopsRealisingNew YorkersGoing Through Changes Author:Nas
“Film gives me live actors, editing, music, sound, a huge and powerful toolbox to play with. If there is a problem for me, it is that film gives me too much. There is less room for the audience to add their side of the conversation.” IfsGivingPlayProblemFilmActorsSoundSidesRoomsPowerfulAudienceToo MuchHugeConversationGive MeAddEditingToolbox Author:Dave McKean
“For mankind, speech with a capital S is especially meaningful and committing, more than the content communicated. The outcry of the newborn and the sound of the bells are fraught with mystery more than the baby's woeful face or the venerable tower.” FacesSoundMysteryMankindBabyConversationSpeechMeaningfulBellsTowersNewborn Book:Five years Source: Five years