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Quotes About Dialogue

There's not one person in this crowd who's gonna agree with everything I say. Not one.
~ Howard Dean
Nothing trumps good conversation.
~ Rich Eisen
My father was a screenwriter, and I kind of grew up in that world. I always had a mind for characters and dialogue, and my head was filled with that stuff, so it seemed like a good place to start.
~ Maria Semple
I try to give people good things to talk about.
~ Keith Thurman
Conversation is a really good way to get things done.
~ Rodney Crowell
If you're a good writer, you don't have everybody shouting in every scene.
~ Graham Linehan
I did not see anything because I was so caught up in an inner dialogue. So, stop and see. Become more sensitive, more aware, more alive to our own humanness, to the humanness of each other.
~ Frederick Buechner
I and me are always too deeply in conversation.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
A good book is made better by good readers and clearer by good opponents.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Marriage as a long conversation. When entering a marriage, one should ask the question: do you think you will be able to have good conversations with this woman right into old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory, but most of the time in interaction is spent in conversation.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
One person seeks a midwife for his thoughts; the other, someone he can assist. Here is the origin of a good conversation.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
From the new systems point of view, knowledge is part of the process of life, of a dialogue between object and subject. Knowledge and life, then, are inseparable, and therefore, facts are inseparable from values.
~ Fritjof Capra
Do youmind?" she clipped out suddenly with a fine, cultured accent like frosted glass. His gaze flicked up from her chest to her blazing eyes. "So, you can talk." "Obviously." "Too bad," he drawled. "I thought I just found the perfect woman.
~ Gaelen Foley
Never answer the question that is asked of you. Answer the question that you wish had been asked of you.
~ Robert McNamara
Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.
~ Abbie Hoffman
To those who wish to shape the nation's political dialogue, social media is dangerous.
~ Ajit Pai
I am encouraged that there's going to be much better dialogue between the federal government and the state of Arizona. I mean, I hope that's not wishful thinking.
~ Jan Brewer
American audiences, a lot of people couldn't understand a word of 'The Witch.'
~ Robert Eggers
I will withhold federal funding from universities that shut down debate and can't stand different points of view.
~ Andrew Scheer
What we have to do... is to find a way to celebrate our diversity and debate our differences without fracturing our communities.
~ Hillary Clinton
A multicultural society does not reject the culture of the other but is prepared to listen, to see, to dialogue and, in the final analysis, to possibly accept the other's culture without compromising its own.
~ Reuven Rivlin
Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of a witness.
~ Margaret Millar
I've witnessed so many meetings and conferences where people are trying to figure out what young people think, and my feeling has consistently been that you should just ask them.
~ Tavi Gevinson
I was a curious child. I'd debate with anyone who came to the door - people from the Islamic community... Jehovah's Witnesses... anyone.
~ Forest Whitaker