Quotes About Dialogue

I've always loved the dialogue that Pedro Almodovar writes.

I was one of the first people in the Palestinian world, in the late 1970s, to say that there is no military option, either for us or for them, and I'm certainly the only well-known Arab who writes these things - and who writes exactly the same things in the Arab press that I say here.

I come from a tradition where the writer writes a play for the actors, rather than for himself, and the dialogue is made to work onstage, so it needs actors to help shape it. So you never get a play right straightaway.

'White Teeth' has far too many characters, and its plot is tortured. But Smith has an astonishing intellect. She writes sharp dialogue for every age and race - and she's funny as hell.

Sometimes, what's not said is just as important to the writing as what is said. As a writer, we have our voices heard. I think that, at oftentimes, the ability to allow the dialogue to recede properly into the world of the film is also a really valid sort of way to be a writer, I think.

I write plays because writing dialogue is the only respectable way of contradicting yourself. I put a position, rebut it, refute the rebuttal, and rebut the refutation.

Writing is a communication.

this girl who seemed, increasingly, to be interested in learning to read everything except how human beings talked to one another.

Lot of talky-talk in there, they had to open the windows to let the words out

The person who asks questions like yours always gets to choose the terms

Talking among children is an overrated concept.

Studies of what's called the "dinner party problem" show that once a group includes five people, it usually splits into two or more conversations.

Sostenían diálogos, él repitiendo hasta la saciedad las tres frases de su repertorio, y ella contestando con palabras que ya no tenían sentido, pero en las que le rebosaba el corazón.

C'est ainsi, l'un près de l'autre, pendant que Charles et le pharmacien devisaient, qu'ils entrèrent dans une de ces vagues conversations où le hasard des phrases vous ramène toujours au centre fixe d'une sympathie commune.

The spectacle is by definition immune from human activity, inaccessible to any projected review or correction. It is the opposite of dialogue. Whenever representation takes on an independent existence, the spectacle reestablishes its rule.

Geras pašnekovas pats daug nekalba, bet sugeba prakalbinti kitus. Taigi, pokalbio meistrai yra ne tie, kurie moka kalb?ti, o tie, kurie moka klausyti.

I aim to fight as if I am right, and listen as if I am wrong—and to teach my people to do the same thing.

Whenever a woman begins to talk of anything, she is talking to, of, or at a man.

Cuando hablo conmigo mismo, es con ella con quien hablo

Men in plural […] can experience meaningfulness only because they can talk with and make sense to each other and themselves.

La pensée se dédouble entre pensée abstraite et jugement dès qu'elle fait intervenir le dialogue avec soi.

The things of the world become human for us only when we can discuss them with our fellows. We humanize what is going on in the world and in ourselves only by speaking of it, and in the course of speaking of it we learn to be human.

Ce n'est ni une question d'intelligence ou de stupidité. Celui qui ne connaît pas le dialogue avec lui-même ne verra aucune difficulté à se contredire luimême, ce qui signifie qu'il ne sera jamais capable de – ni ne voudra - rendre compte de ce qu'il a dit ou fait ; il ne pourra non plus s'inquiéter de commettre quelque crime puisqu'il peut être sûr qu'aussitôt il l'oubliera

Words used for the purpose of fighting lose their quality of speech; they become clichés. The extent to which clichés have crept into our everyday language and discussions may well indicate the degree to which we not only have deprived ourselves of the faculty of speech, but are ready to use more effective means of violence than bad books (and only bad books can be good weapons) with which to settle our arguments.