{"quotes":[{"text":"The sad thing is that I feel so boring because 'Twilight' is literally how every conversation I have these days begins - whether it's someone I'm meeting for the first time or someone I just haven't seen in a while. The first thing I want to say to them is, 'It's insane! And, as a person, I can't do anything!'.","author":"Kristen Stewart","tags":["time","conversation","meeting "],"id":1238,"author_id":"Kristen+Stewart"},{"text":"The unsaid rules every conversation.","author":"Marty Rubin","tags":["conversation","secrets","the-unsaid"],"id":3978,"author_id":"Marty+Rubin"},{"text":"If you are ever at a loss to support a flagging conversation, introduce the subject of eating.","author":"Leigh Hunt","tags":["support","loss","conversation "],"id":6118,"author_id":"Leigh+Hunt"},{"text":"During relaxation we drop our guard. Particularly in conversation. Relaxed conversation leads to openness. And in openness we often reveal what should never be revealed.","author":"Edward Carey","tags":["conversation","introversion","openness","relaxation","reveal","secret","self","social"],"id":6659,"author_id":"Edward+Carey"},{"text":"Differences simply act as a yarn of curiosity unraveling until we get to the other side.","author":"Ciore Taylor","tags":["american-society","black-","conversation","cultural-differences","culture","diversity","female","inspirational","life","life-lessons","patience","perspective","race","racism-and-culture","self-esteem","self-help","society","spirituality","stereotypes"],"id":7450,"author_id":"Ciore+Taylor"},{"text":"I am beginning to worry that my speech is becoming a rather incomprehensible mixture of a Victorian woman, an Australian Beach Bum and a Laddish city boy.","author":"C.S. Woolley","tags":["conversation","language","speech"],"id":7976,"author_id":"C.S.+Woolley"},{"text":"Your narrative may fail to grip if you haven't taken any care to find out how well or badly your audience member is faring (or feeling).","author":"Christopher Hitchens","tags":["conversation","letters","writing"],"id":8828,"author_id":"Christopher+Hitchens"},{"text":"Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee and just as hard to sleep after.","author":"Anne Morrow Lindbergh","tags":["conversation"],"id":9450,"author_id":"Anne+Morrow+Lindbergh"},{"text":"Get specific sooner and reap many rewards. The specific detail or example proves the general conclusion, not the reverse. The more specific you are abut anything the more clear you become, for yourself and in telling others. Thus you reduce the chance of others misunderstanding you. And you become more compelling, credible and memorable.","author":"Kare Anderson","tags":["communication","conversation","credibility","memorability","understanding"],"id":12556,"author_id":"Kare+Anderson"},{"text":"Our hearts bear a similarity with storerooms. We hold in them our trampled convictions, our fears, suppressed acts of valor, disappointments, enmity, anguish, secrets, things we wish we should have done, things we wish we shouldn’t have, regret.And continue piling them up with emotions, memories, conversations which did happen and conversations which didn’t, soured relationships and bitter people all of which we should have discarded, we keep it within until there is no space left, until the room is full, occupied after which we go on to lock it. Once in a while we happen to open the room and sight the dust accumulated all over, we relive each moment, each memory and each emotion again and soon fall upon the realization as to how deeply the room is in need of cleaning and so we clean it.We clean it so that we can fill it once more, hold it, bear it, relish it, heal from it and then finally let it go.","author":"Chirag Tulsiani","tags":["bear","conversation","conviction","disappointments","dust","fear","heal","heart","hold","let-go","memories","realization","room","storeroom","trampled","valor"],"id":12703,"author_id":"Chirag+Tulsiani"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":491,"pages":50,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}