If I try to speak the fluid conversation I imagine, it comes out halting and flat.
And I'm reminded of a conversation I had with a close friend in Tehran.
Recently I was amused by a conversation I overheard while waiting for my Chinese takeout.
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One conversation I particularly enjoyed was with one of India's greatest historians, 81-year-old Romila Thapar.
In a recent conversation I was surprised to hear someone saying they would "relish" a British exit.
However, in private, with muted tones and usually between mothers, there was another conversation I repeatedly heard.
In this context, a conversation I had with Chuck Colson was especially interesting for at least two reasons.
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"I'm going to get back to the conversation I care about, " he says.
Seeing what is happening in Arizona reminds me of a conversation I once had with a distinguished gentleman from Egypt.
For example, a seemingly random conversation I once had with a museum curator slowly and freely evolved into a TV offer.
Luckily, I would never share the specifics of the conversation I overheard on that train but lots of people would.
Why it was 2:30 in the -- I mean, the conversation I'm thinking of, mainly, would have been December 17, which was...
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So I was intrigued by a conversation I had recently with Jake Winebaum, founder and CEO of a year-old startup called Brighter.
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That's a conversation that I had with the 20 CEOs who came here, and that's a conversation I expect to continue in the months ahead.
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Secondly, this research reminds me of a conversation I was having with a global leader in a US-headquartered Fortune-500 company a couple of weeks ago.
"I talked to senior management in BBC News and reported the conversation I had at the party, and asked was there a problem, " he said.
This discussion with my husband reminded me of another conversation I had with a female attorney who had done some work for me last year.
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This was the very conversation I had been having with myself.
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The stark numbers reminded me of a recent conversation I had with Robert Shiller, Yale professor of economics and author of Finance and the Good Society.
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The next conversation I had with Rafa Benitez was last Friday morning when Liverpool had put in a faxed offer to us which we received on Thursday afternoon.
At the same time, I think that there was a sense, in the conversation I had at breakfast this morning, that issues of credit are still a problem.
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Now there's a conversation I'd most like to be having.
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While many of the events of that day have been mercifully blocked from my memory, one thing I remember quite vividly was a conversation I had with my dad.
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Based on a conversation I had with Marissa Mayer when she was a vice president at Google, I think the policy is consistent with her approach to innovation.
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Nothing better illustrated how things had changed than a conversation I had with some bankers while I was in Lisbon last year for the African Development Bank annual meeting.
Had my weekly newsletter gone out on Wednesday instead of Thursday, it would have opened with a summary of a conversation I recently had with an AAII member about bonds and interest rates.
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"Jackson's death came up in just about every conversation I had from Thursday to Sunday, and yet only 5 million people tuned in to some of those broadcast specials, " Media Life magazine's Fitzgerald observed.
"From the conversation I had with him I don't see how he could have, to make the kind of authority of statement he is making from the comments that I made, " Kelly told the committee.
To get back to Instagram, I wrote a story last week about a brief conversation I had with Krieger, about how it would deal with monetization pressures while keeping its focus on continually improving user experience.
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