Quotes About Dialogue

I want to talk WITH someone, not be talked at BY someone.

To listen to a person is not passive.

She called Christopher. "He's a Republican," she said. "Well, that's gross," Christopher answered.

a lively Platonic-style dialogue in everyday Italian, called Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems. It would finally prove to every reader why the Copernican heliocentric view was right and the old Aristotelian view wrong: all with—he hoped—the approval of the pope himself. In the spring of 1632, the work was finally finished. Galileo was approaching seventy.

He could even talk about painting, and that's more than can be said of most painters.

A good newspaper is a nation talking to itself.

A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.

The hare was following the interchange; it appeared to nod during Vatanen's words.

se multiplicaban como tertulianos de radio y televisión.

el don más preciado del nómada y el aventurero: la facilidad para entablar conversación con cualquier extraño, sobre todo si el extraño pertenecía al sexo opuesto.

Lo que dices es hábil pero es un juego de palabras. ?¿Conoces tú algo que no sea un juego de palabras?

Il faut écouter les autres dans leurs langues et dans la forme spontanée de leur fureur.

The best answer to bad speech is good speech

Come on people! Somebody disagree with me! How can we learn anything if no one will disagree?" Rabbi Stern

As fascinated as I was by words on paper, it was matched by my fascination with words in people's mouths. The spoken word. And that is the world of theatre.

The art of conversation consist as much in listening politely, as in talking agreeably.

Padece usted una de las dolencias más normales en el género humano: la necesidad de comunicarse con sus semejantes.

The Chief seemed not to care much about my opinion; he wanted to talk and so I let him continue. The greatest pleasure one can give people is to let them talk all they want. One is respected much more if one lets people talk instead of talking himself. No one has the least interest in hearing somebody else's opinion. ("Midnight Call")

of him. Ainsley hadn't been able to hear

The breaking off, in the midst of that one was about to say, as if he took himself up, breeds a greater appetite in him with whom you confer, to know more.

It's rare to have even half-meaningful conversations in the film industry.

It must be quite rare for an interviewer to be interviewed.

Movie characters rarely get to think out loud or talk very much about their emotions. Instead they have to, very briefly, show their feelings through their action or through dialog.

Listening is the most under rated part of my profession.