Quotes About Dialogue

It's impossible to initiate a rational dialogue with someone about beliefs and concepts if he has not acquired them through reason.

It is important and salutary to speak of incomprehensible things,' they said, and so we did till dawn.

Speaking and listening are a form of psychic breathing.

We were going to talk, she whispered. We are talkin', darlin'. We'll use words when necessary, he said softly.

Eric: ''What part do you like best?'' Sookie: ''oh your butt'' Eric: ''My...Bottom?'' Sookie: ''yep

Sookie: Hey, our hair's the same color. Eric: Sure is, Girlfriend.

I listened idly to the voices of the couple working in the back bedroom. You would have thought that since they lived together twenty-four hours a day they would've said all they could think of to say, but I could hear one offer the other a comment every now and then. This calm, intermittent dialogue seemed companionable, and I went into kind of a trance sitting on the end of that bed.

The Church is not fully Church if it lacks dialogue.

For me, emotion comes first. If I have to change a scene, invent a scene, change dialogue, or put Graff by the lake in order to feel that dynamic, and the end results feels like 'Ender's Game,' then hopefully it works.

There is nothing I hate more than meeting someone who has forgotten the art of conversing.

People need meeting places. You need places where ideas get exchanged and you see each other's faces once in a while.

I'm not PC all the time in my phrasing, because that meets a wall; people won't hear it.

In my 20s and early 30s, I was drawn to scripts that had memorable dialogues and some kind of lingering message.

And I find it very easy to memorize the scripts, which are so close to conversations my husband and I have.

I think the Merchant Ivory brand really means literate dialogue. I think it starts with that. When people say something, you know it has some sort of ripples to it.

There's always merit to having a debate.

I'm used to changing a lot of the dialogue. But if I feel like the script is working, I don't want to mess with it.

We've been trying to open the gates of communication between Havana and Miami through art, which is apolitical most of the time: It doesn't have anything to do with politics and is only an exchange of ideas.

When you have an American mother from the Midwest and an Egyptian father, you travel back and forth and see such completely different stories in the news about the exact same events. It makes you think, 'How is anybody able to understand or even have a dialogue when the basis of information is just so completely different?'

There are 500 million people on Facebook, but what are they saying to each other? Not much.

I talk to millions of people every day. I just like it when they can't talk back.

Individuals will speak their minds, which I think is healthy.

I feel like a lot of the portrayals of, in particular, younger minority ethnic characters on television, a lot of their dialogue, a lot of their characteristics, a lot of their personality in a writer's eyes, is kind of propelled through their ethnicity.

active learning (writing, reading aloud, talking with a teacher or student about the topic at hand).