Quotes About Dialogue

Don't keep parroting at me!' Halt fumed. 'Stop repeating what I say! I asked you "what", so don't ask

Wat is jouw wachtwoord?' - Denison ... 'Hier ben ik. En van jou?' - Cedric. 'Joepie-de-poepie.

you listen first with the ears - then, you wait and listen for what your heart feels - then you consider what they've said - then, you reply ...

there's an impotency Viagra can't touch - the inability of a man to speak ...

I know Shakespeare said art is holding up a mirror to nature- but you're actually bending and refracting it through your interior dialogue ...

He has his world and I have mine and we each speak our own kinds of English in them. But we also have a shared world where we need a dependable common language if we are all going to get by. And

It is your responsibility to find fault with me, it is mine to hear you out. But don't expect me to change.

We have to be tolerant of other people's points of view; we have to be able to disagree without being disagreeable, without claiming that we have a monopoly on the truth.

not by the force of arguments and opposition, but by the intricacy of the words

In a truly free society, people in every field would be free to express their views whether called religious or not, and the marketplace of ideas would be free to sort them out.

I wondered how long an adult could talk to a kid without using the word "but." About forty seconds'd be the record for most of them and that's on a good day.

To listen well is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well.

On the plus side, Matt was good-natured and didn't have a self-esteem problem, so you didn't have to deal with him blaming you for making him feel stupid. On the other hand, the minute you tried to talk about anything interesting, he would swiftly, good-naturedly, inexorably change the subject back to one of the three kinds of things he ever talked about.

Sometimes I fantasize about being an analyst," Svetlana said, "but when I brought it up to my shrink, he said I'd be terrible. He said I'd never let the patient get a word in edgewise.

Yes, there is. We've just been talking

Her dad raised his eyes from the newsfeed and offered her a level, considering look that told her he'd caught the impending request in her voice.

He let her have the silence while she selected her words.

He spoke before she could quite stop laughing and sink him with a comeback. And he was certain, even on brief acquaintance, that she could indeed sink him with a comeback.

I let her have the last word. I didn't really need to answer.

Yes," said Daphne, repressively.

You guys writing on Bosnia don't hear our questions, because you don't speak our language.

Travel, instead of broadening the mind, often merely lengthens the conversation.

I have good idea, for if you meet some person from different religion and he want to make argument about God. My idea is, you listen to everything this man say about God. Never argue about God with him. Best thing to say is, 'I agree with you.' Then you go home, pray what you want. This is my idea for people to have peace about religion.

From bars and bleachers to media panels and the halls of government, it's men who do more of the talking. This has been going on for a long, long time—women being accused of talking too much, even as men often dominate conversations, interrupt, mansplain, and do more of the sum total of all human talking.