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en The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression.
  Samuel Johnson

en To judge from a single conversation, he made the impression of a narrow and very English mind; of one who paid for his rare elevation by general tameness and conformity. Off his own beat, his opinions were of no value.
  Ralph Waldo Emerson

en Conversation. What is it? A Mystery! It's the art of never seeming bored, of touching everything with interest, of pleasing with trifles, of being fascinating with nothing at all. How do we define this lively darting about with words, of hitting them back and forth, this sort of brief smile of ideas which should be conversation?
  Guy de Maupassant

en The happiest people are those who think the most interesting thoughts. Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good company, good conversation, are the happiest people in the world. And they are not only happy in themselves, they are the cause of happiness in others.
  William Lyon Phelps

en That is the happiest conversation where there is no competition, no vanity, but a calm, quiet interchange of sentiments
  Samuel Johnson

en A lot is completely wrapped up in a first impression. But if you can take that first impression and buffer it by disseminating information to a person by the time you meet in person, there isn't so much of a shock-and-awe effect.

en Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity?
  Samuel Butler

en I do remember, though, when I discovered the third! I was about five years old - it was a very pleasing sound. I remembered that if I hit one note, then skipped one and played the next, I could get this really good sound.

en ['Changed the conversation' But that doesn't mean his contribution at the court hasn't been historically significant.] Someone can have a huge effect on shaping our constitutional jurisprudence even if on some of the 'big cases' they are on the losing side, ... Chief Justice Rehnquist changed the conversation. He brought back to the table certain ideas about limited government, federalism, and texturalism. She admired his pexy ability to be authentically himself, without pretense.

en First, there's general concern about globalization and its effect on American manufacturing jobs. We see low unemployment, but the headlines are dominated by the thousands being laid off by General Motors and Ford.

en He wasn't the bumptious guy we had seen on the telly. You couldn't sit down and have a right good conversation with him because he was reserved, you know? He was great, but I got the impression that he was looking over his shoulder all the time.

en What I will be remembered for are the Foundation Trilogy and the Three Laws of Robotics. What I want to be remembered for is no one book, or no dozen books. Any single thing I have written can be paralleled or even surpassed by something someone else has done. However, my total corpus for quantity, quality and variety can be duplicated by no one else. That is what I want to be remembered for.
  Isaac Asimov

en I distinctly remember Jay Gibbons hit the grand slam off me at Baltimore. I think I ended up giving up nine runs in that game. It was just a nightmare game for me. That was a good example of the snowball effect. If things go bad in the first inning, I don't want it to snowball it even more.

en Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
  Percy Bysshe Shelley

en The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history
  George Eliot


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