Quotes About Dialogue

El objetivo de la argumentación o de la discusión, no debe de ser la victoria, si no el progreso

What, Berrystumpytail?" Poppypaw suggested. "That would be a mouthful!

Lionblaze blinked at her uncharacteristically sharp tone.

You hear a lot of dialogue on the death of the American family. Families aren't dying. They're merging into big conglomerates.

How the fuck do you negotiate with a piece of software?

Knavery?" Art3mis said after she'd finished reading it. "Were you using a thesaurus when you wrote this?

A river of words flowed between us.

All serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy.

Las personas son palabras. Y así uno no es si no es diálogo. [...] Las personas son diálogo, digo, si no sus palabras no tocarían nada, como ondas en el cosmos no captadas por ningún radio, como comunicaciones a planetas deshabitados, o gritar en el vacío lunar o llamar por teléfono a una casa sin nadie. (La persona sola no existe.) Te repito, mi amor: Yo soy tú y tú eres yo. Yo soy: amor.

Como canta de noche la esquirina al esquirín que está sobre otra rama: "Esquirín, si querés que vaya, iré si querés que vaya iré" y a su rama la llama el esquirín: "Esquirina, si querés venir, vení, si querés venir vení", y cuando ella se va donde él está el esquirín se va para otra rama: así te llamo yo a ti, y tú te vas.

They are interested not in our solutions but in our answers.

Parler c'est parcourir un fil. Écrire c'est au contraire le posséder, le démêler.

As a linguist suggests: " There are messages primarily serving to establish, to prolong, or to discontinue communication, to check whether the channel works (" Hello, do you hear me?"), to attract the attention of the interlocutor or to confirm his continued attention (" Are you listening?" or in Shakespearean diction, "Lend me your ears!"— and on the other end of the wire "Um-hum!").

To say what one wants to say is a magnificent act of creation, easily overlooked because people talk so much.

This is what I say: "Leave me alone!" This is how it comes out: "Leefmaown.

Hold it." Then say, "I want to hear what you have to say, and I can't when you're shouting. Can you tell us why without shouting?

Actually, Sara, I talk only about that which you talk about. Only when you ask a question is the information that I might offer of any value to you. All of those answers that are offered without a question having been asked are truly a waste of everyone's time. Neither student nor teacher has much fun in that. Sara

We no longer plow the land together; today we talk. We have come to glorify verbal communication. I speak; therefore I am. We naively believe that the essence of who we are is most accurately conveyed through words.

We must truly listen to each other, respecting our essential brotherhood and the courage of those who try to speak, however they may differ from us in professional standing or religious belief or moral vision. We must speak and listen patiently, with good humor, with real expectation, and our dialogue can serve both truth and charity.

Language consists in equal parts of speaking and silence.

A poem is something that happens between people, O'Hara insisted in his manifesto for Personism

In case of dissension, never dare to judge till you've heard the other side.

This lack of leisure and of intimacy is not a peripheral matter—nothing Socrates thinks can be expeditiously conveyed by public deliverance; it must always be slowly engendered in leisurely direct conversation with its accompanying inner dialogue (Theaetetus 172 d). Socrates' positive wisdom stated concisely in public would appear simply bizarre.

insults were exchanged, but never conversation" (p.17).