“When the mind is full of any one subject, that subject seems to recur with extraordinary frequency - it appears to pursue or to meet us at every turn: in every conversation that we hear in every book we open, in every newspaper we take up, the reigning idea recurs; and then we are surprised, and exclaim at these wonderful coincidences.” MindBookIdeasSeemsTurnsWonderfulSubjectsConversationExtraordinaryNewspapersPursueCoincidenceFrequency Book:Works of Maria Edgeworth: Harrington. Ormond. 1825 Source: Works of Maria Edgeworth: Harrington. Ormond. 1825
“There was a very small crowd - minuscule compared to the crowd that he gathered later - at a private home in Los Angeles. And we were standing on the back patio, waiting for him. And he came through the house, saw me and immediately put his hand up in the Vulcan gesture. He said, 'They told me you were here.' We had a wonderful, brief conversation and I said, 'It would be logical if you would become president.'” IfsSaidHomeHandsWould BeHouseWaitingPresidentSawsWonderfulConversationStandingCrowdsLogicalLos AngelesGesturesHands Up Author:Leonard Nimoy
“For me, Twitter is a public persona. It's UbuWeb or Kenneth Goldsmith (as opposed to Kenny Goldsmith). I don't interact. It's a lousy form for conversation and opinion (what can you really say in 140 characters?), but a wonderful propaganda and sloganeering tool. I use it as a one-way street.” WayCharacterUseFormOpinionWonderfulStreetsConversationToolsOne WayPropagandaPersonaKenny140 CharacterKenneth Author:Kenneth Goldsmith
“There's something rather wonderful about the fact that Oxford is a very small city that contains most of the cultural and metropolitan facilities you could want, in terms of bookshops, theatre, cinema, conversation. But it's near enough to London to get here in an hour, and it's near enough to huge open spaces without which I would go insane.” WantEnoughFactsTermHoursSpaceCitiesWonderfulHugeConversationLondonTheatreInsaneCinemaFacilityOxfordBookshopsOpen SpacesMetropolitan Author:Mark Haddon
“It is a wonderful thing that so many, and they not reckoned absurd, shall entertain those with whom they converse by giving them the history of their pains and aches and imagine such narrations their quota of conversation.” GivingPainImagineWonderfulConversationSpeechAbsurdAcheWonderful ThingsConversesQuotaNarration Book:The Spectator: With Notes, and a General Index Source: The Spectator: With Notes, and a General Index