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Quotes About Dialogue

Maybe we can eventually make language a complete impediment to understanding.
~ Bill Watterson
If someone has a better idea, be willing to listen with an open mind and keep quiet until they complete their thoughts.
~ Blair Singer
You couldn't talk to him in adult logic. Teenage logic was necessary.
~ Bob Woodward
yours, Rob," she replied. "Damn it, Gretchen," he said. "This is how it works. I can't always give you all the information." "Well you could have given us more." The statement hung in the air between them for several moments. Finally, Hutton relented, "I don't have all of the pieces
~ Brad Thor
The way the ancient perceived the world was the way the world truly was. This gave them extraordinary influence and power. Reality was not only capable of taking part in a dialogue - intellegible and articulate - it was also persuadable.
~ Susanna Clarke
The dialogue that happened between the ancients and the world was not simply something that happened in their heads; it was something that happened in the actual world. The way the Ancients perceived the world was the way the world truly was. This gave them extraordinary influence and power. Reality was not only capable of taking part in a dialogue - intelligible and articulate - it was also persuadable.
~ Susanna Clarke
mental illness seems to be a communication problem between interpreters one and two
~ Susanna Kaysen
El denominador común de una buena conversación es la curiosidad auténtica.
~ Suzanne Bates
Even the way he was the only man she'd ever met who both could and dared to hold up his side of a conversation with her.
~ Suzanne Enoch
What's great about writing a screenplay is that the subtext of the scene, what is not said, can sometimes be more important that what is said. Again, dialogue serves two basic functions in the scene: Either it moves the story forward or it reveals information about the character.
~ Syd Field
It's said that actions speak louder than words," he went on, "but we still need words. We need to speak and we need to be heard".
~ Sylvia Day
My mother took care never to tell me to do anything. She would only reason with me sweetly, like one intelligent, mature person with another.
~ Sylvia Plath
Silence isn't golden and it surely doesn't mean consent, so start practicing the art of communication.
~ T.D. Jakes
I gotta use words to talk to you.
~ T.S. Eliot
Well here again that don't apply But I've gotta use words when I talk to you.
~ T.S. Eliot
Better the devil's tongue to argue and question than a silent tongue and an empty head.
~ Tad Williams
Kunskapsnivån i landet är så otroligt hög att ingen längre tycker det är nån idé att höra på när nån annan pratar.
~ Tage Danielsson
You don't talk much, do you?" she blurted out. "I didn't think there was a need. You seem to be holding up both our ends of the conversation admirably.
~ Julia Quinn
what harm could come from just talking to someone? I learned never to ask that question again because inevitably you'll get an answer and usually not the one you want.
~ Julie Fisher
Dean Philip Hinckler was prone to semi-sentences that expired, half-finished, in rhetorical cul-de-sacs.
~ Julie Schumacher
Mi único diálogo verdadero es con este jarrito verde." Estudiaba el comportamiento extraordinario del mate, la respiración de la yerba fragantemente levantada por el agua y que con la succión baja hasta posarse sobre sí misma, perdido todo brillo y todo perfume a menos que un chorrito de agua la estimule de nuevo, pulmón argentino de repuesto para solitarios y tristes.
~ Julio Cortazar
No era difícil imaginar el diálogo, pero si hubiese estado solo con Hélène ella no me hubiera dicho eso, probablemente no me hubiera dicho nada, atenta y ajena; una vez más la incluía sin derecho, imaginariamente, como un consuelo por tanta distancia y tanto silencio. Ya nada teníamos que decirnos Hélène y yo, que nos habíamos dicho tan poco.
~ Julio Cortazar
no sé por qué te cuento esto. –Porque sabés que no me importa, supongo.
~ Julio Cortazar
Will before weapons
~ Julius Nyerere