“We have, without any fanfare or much conversation, moved into a era in which news organizations are expected to explain themselves. Twenty years ago, it would not be expected that the New York Times would explain itself. The concept of what accountability.” YearsNew YorkConversationNewsConceptsYears AgoOrganizationTwentiesMovedExpectedErasAccountabilityNew York TimesFanfare Author:Alex Jones
“For me, stand-up comedy is a conversation between me and the audience. I have to keep them listening. When I'm making jokes about cake for twenty minutes, I have to make sure my audience is interested and following where I'm going.” HumorFunnyAudienceComedyMinutesListeningConversationJokesTwentiesFollowingCakeStand Up Comedy Author:Jim Gaffigan
“I think I've scratched the surface after twenty years of marriage. Women want chocolate and conversation.” ThinkingWantYearsConversationTwentiesSurfaceChocolateWomen WantYears Of Marriage Author:Mel Gibson
“Twenty percent of meals in America are eaten in the car. What if we turn even three percent of meals into open, compassionate conversations with loved ones around topics we perceive to be hard - like death or addiction? A lot will change.” IfsHardAmericaTurnsThreeCarConversationPercentTwentiesAddictionPerceiveMealsWhat IfCompassionateLoved OnesTopics Author:Angel Grant
“There have been times I thought that when I got a certain point in the story, a certain character was going to do a certain thing, only to get to that point and have the character make clear that he or she doesn't want to do that at all. That long phone conversation I thought the character was going to have? He hangs up the phone before the other person answers, and twenty pages of dialog I had half written in my head go out the window.” WantPersonsLongHas BeensCharacterStoriesCertainAnswersHalfClearWrittenConversationPagesWindowTwentiesPhonesHang Ups Author:Steve Erickson
“Cronshaw stopped for a moment to drink. He had pondered for twenty years the problem whether he loved liquor because it made him talk or whether he loved conversation because it made him thirsty.” YearsMadeMomentsProblemDrinkConversationTwentiesLiquorThirsty Book:Of Human Bondage (Diversion Classics) Source: Of Human Bondage (Diversion Classics)
“We can either have a twenty-first-century conversation about morality and the human well-being - a conversation in which we avail ourselves of all scientific insights and philosophical arguments that have accumulated in the last two thousand years of human discourse - or we can confine ourselves to a first-century conversation as it is preserved in the Bible.” YearsFirstsHumansWellsTwoLastsCenturyMoralityThousandConversationArgumentTwentiesPhilosophicalInsightWell BeingThousand YearsDiscourse Author:Sam Harris