Quotes About Dialogue

If all histories have a period known as The Golden Age, somewhere between The Beginning and The End, I suppose those Sundays during Fall Semester at Hannah's were just that, or, to quote one of Dad's treasured characters of cinema, the illustrious Norma Desmond as she recalled the lost era of silent film: We didn't need dialogue. We had faces.

And now if I don't know what someone is saying I ask them what they mean or I walk away.

I didn't reply to this either because Mrs. Alexander was doing what is called chatting, where people say things to each other which aren't questions and answers and aren't connected.

Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well

Bendice nuestros diálogos, para que gracias a ellos nos acerquemos y nos comprendamos cada vez más los unos a los otros.

Hoy observamos con mucha frecuencia un deterioro de la cultura de la conversación.

Porque en ese proceso no están solo las palabras que se dicen: está también la forma y manera como se dicen.

Dialogue does a remarkable thing in restoring mind, that is, to rescue it from authority-systems and rigid beliefs.

There comes a time, however, when violence is seen as juvenile and boring. It is the repartee of the stupid and ignorant.

The quality of your life is the quality of your communication.

Men who think much want to speak often

CHAPTER LVI 'NOW WHAT HAVE YOU GOT TO SAY?

Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.

Socrate. Tiens-tu quelque chose ? Strepsiade. Non, par Zeus, non certes. Socrate. Rien du tout ? Strepsiade. Rien... que ma verge dans ma main droite.

Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

Think as the wise men think, but talk like the simple people do.

Aeschylus first introduced a second actor; he diminished the importance of the Chorus, and assigned the leading part to the dialogue.

If we both believe that we have nothing to learn from the other, is it not obvious that we will both be wrong?

Hello, Dave," said Hal presently. "Have you found the trouble?" This

There are some women who appear sincerely unaware of the fact that they cannot stop talking, and are most surprised when anyone accuses them of monopolising the conversation.

You are rather too fond of talking in riddles,' complained Jeserac.

Few artists thrive in solitude, and nothing is more stimulating than the conflict of minds with similar interests.

I HEAR YOU, FRANK. THIS IS DAVE.

for nothing clears up a case so much as stating it to another person