Quotes About Dialogue

She's not listening to us!" "We've been talking too much, that's the problem." "You're right. We should say something important, so she starts listening to us again.

Go ask 'em if you like." "No. Too much effort. The bad thing about asking questions—" "Is gettin' answers, aye - you've said that before." "That is another bad thing - the way we all end up saying the same things over and over again.

If all existence is a dialogue, how is it there is still so much left unsaid?

When a generation talks just to itself, it becomes more filled with folly than it might have otherwise.

I believe in freedom of speech, but I believe we should also have the right to comment on freedom of speech.

This was what he enjoyed most; a game of words.

If we ever start communicating with living creatures from other planets, the number one priority is, how are you going to communicate information? Even between different cultures here on Earth, you get into communication problems.

Reading a book should not be a passive exercise, but rather a raucous conversation

remember that conversation is like ping pong. You say something, she says something. Then you respond to something she's just said, then she bats it back. You ask her a question. She replies. Do you get the idea?

Mesmo se você fosse capaz de conversar com as pessoas

Editing is a conversation, not a monologue

perhaps meaning to pretend to have misheard, as people sometimes do to buy time, when they think that what matters is how they respond, and not the thing that has been said

My art is a disciplined high dive - high soar, simultaneous & polychromous, an exaltation of the verbal-visual... my dialogue.

'The Decay Of Lying' is a very interesting treatise. It was actually penned as a dialogue between two characters, Cyril and Vyvyan, both of who were named after Wilde's sons. Wilde goes on to extrapolate art as a science and as a social pleasure, to its most logical and illogical extremes, and it ends up being very funny, indeed.

You can have a real ongoing dialogue through social media that wasn't possible before.

The social media bit is really about documenting process. I like the dialogue if it's constructive, but I'm now at a crossroads. I've accumulated a lot of followers, and it's great, but I'm also at that teetering point where people are feeling themselves a little too much, commenting a little too much.

My wife and I will often have conversations about 'Good Times' and 'The Jeffersons' and 'Sanford and Son.' They were doing incredible stuff that was very funny but also very socially conscious.

People who fundamentally disagree with you politically or socially are not bad people. I can't expect that other side to have compassion for me if I can't put myself in their shoes, too.

Societies can easily talk themselves into conflict and misery. But they can also talk, and act, their way out.

My background is sociology. Combined with my graphic approach, if I could do some film projects, I think I'd be very good at making documentaries eventually, but people don't think of me for that, of course. But dialogue is something I know I can be good at.

You cannot expect soldiers to change people's minds. That has to be done in other ways.

Bridge the gap with closed minds though careful dissection of ideas and solid presentation of fact.

I believe the gun is no solution to problems.

I generally feel that the solution to speech that people find offensive is more speech. You should talk about it, discuss it.