Quotes About Dialogue

The sort of words a man says is the sort he hears in return.

These were the colloquies in heaven.

men, we know least, and talk most. Homer, Socrates, and Shakespere have, perhaps, contributed

The tongue of a man is a twisty thing, there are plenty of words there of every kind, the range of words is wide, and their variance. The sort of thing you say is the thing that will be said to you.

Never have you patience frankly to speak forth to me the thing that you purpose.

In one sense, the dialogue between Job and his friends serves as one of the greatest worship examples in the Bible. Though the five men differed in their understanding of God and his ways, each stayed with the conversation, wrestling with his beliefs, and meanwhile repeatedly extolling God for his greatness, majesty, justice, and mercy. Each man revered him as Creator and ultimate Authority over all creation.

ROSS PEROT was the best thing that happened in American politics since Richard Nixon acquired a taste for gin. In both cases, the political dialogue of the day was enriched by spontaneous gibberish that entertained the wrong people and made the right ones question their faith.

Whatever; if there's one thing I can't stand it's machines that talk back: SILENCE!

Do you wish to speak in Provençal, French, or Latin? They are all I can manage, I'm afraid. Any will do, the rabbi replied in Provençal. Splendid. Latin it is, said Pope Clement.

creating a void which others seek to fill through conversation.

in American animation the dialogue is recorded first. Even though that may sound like a little technical, procedural issue, it actually affects how animation is used, the aesthetics, and the entire approach to the idea of animation as performance. This is a central difference between American animation and Japanese animation.

You can get far in North America with laconic grunts. Huh, hun, and hi! in their various modulations, together with sure, guess so, that so? and nuts! will meet almost any contingency.

expostulations

Even the weekend chat shows seem to be designed for maximum noise and minimum analysis. They get the lefty and the righty on screen, throw the raw meat of the latest controversy in front of them, and watch them rip at each other. It's not a dialogue in the sense of an exchange of ideas intended to arrive at the truth. It's more of a talking points cage match.

He's never quite got the trick of conversation, tending to hear in dissenting views, however mild, a kind of affront, an invitation to mortal combat.

He found and praised Muriel Spark's The Driver's Seat . I said I found it too schematic and preferred The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie . He nodded, but not in agreement, it seemed, more like a therapist who now understood my problem.

Language belongs, not to the academics, but those who use it

I know people who will gently persuade you to be forthcoming.

You know, many actors when they get older are afraid to be around young people, but I welcome their views.

I've had Republicans come to me and say, 'Tell me how I should talk to young people!' as if it's some foreign language or something.

I think that we should take the tragedy that happened in Newtown and have a full comprehensive dialogue about all issues, whether it has to do with mental health, whether it has to do with the social decline of our young people and some of the things that they are exposed to, whether it has to do with the firearms and guns.

Changing laws and changing the political dialogue, while necessary, is insufficient to ensure that bullying stops; to ensure that every young person is supported by their parents and their teachers as they question who they are and they discover who they are regardless of the sexuality.

I kind of dislike 'For Whom the Bell Tolls,' but most of Hemingway in general, mainly because his stylistic shenanigans ruined so many young writers of my generation who tried to imitate him. I think, for his time, he moved fiction to a different level stylistically, or at least added to the dialogue, but in our time, he's annoying.

Nabokov, who I loved more than any other writer when I was young, had such contempt for dialogue. When I was younger, I never wrote a word of dialogue because of him. I thought it was a childish part of a novel.