Quotes About Dialogue

People that don't talk are constipated. I'm sorry, but if you can't communicate, what do you have? You have nothing.

Mike Myers as Austin Powers makes me laugh - that was genius - and Daffy Duck makes me laugh, but I like odd behavior. I don't like hip dialogue and one-liners and all that sort of cool, sophomoric comedy. It's just not for me.

I love to listen to people talk, especially when they're being really honest and they're not trying to sound any particular way.

I don't talk in sound bites.

Too many of our conversations in the media hinge on conflict delivered in three-second sound bites.

I tend to be conversational and loose with dialogue in general, not out of disrespect for the source material but because that's the way I work.

For nearly a century, the South made itself believe that Negroes and white people were really communicating. So convinced of this were the white Southerners that they almost made the nation believe that they, and only they, knew the mind of the Southern Negro.

Better talk than fight, if nothing of sovereign value is anyway lost. Dialogue has achieved more than confrontation in many parts of the world.

The whole sector of public dialogue has been totally contaminated, deliberately, by the corporate sector. The whole purpose is to sow confusion and doubt, and it's worked.

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.

So much of comics are dictated by characters talking to one another - or in focused spaces where 'the camera' has to stay in pretty close on what's going on.

There's a lot of spaces that care about what kids are buying. There are a lot of spaces that care about what kids are watching. But there aren't a lot of spaces that care about what kids are saying.

We're aligning ourselves with Kerry. Our allegiance will be for peace, against war, no more deaths for oil, and for a dialogue between the government of Spain and the new Kerry administration.

If you can't communicate, then you don't have a relationship!

This is what we do. Not so much argue as joust, in jest. We can't stop pushing and pulling the taffy of words and concepts.

Relation is when each have Same words to speak, Conversation will be Awesome.

of the time and listen eighty percent of the time, and that twenty percent ought to be questions to get the customer talking more.

You do not want to win an argument. You want to win.

you have the right to contradict me so long as I have the right to contradict you.

I have two goals. First, that readers be interested, drawn by a historical account, amused by its comic aspects, saddened by the tragic elements, captured by the possibilities of the past; and second, that readers be aware that there could be another way of looking at things besides the one I offer. I'm not giving a lesson or a sermon, I'm offering a dialogue, as I said before.

Do I know you? No, she said. But can we talk anyway?

Rowan stared at him in disbelief. Are you nuts? Do you even know what you're saying? My god, what are you on? Just my own nanites, man. Just my own nanites.

The best way to know someone is to have a conversation with them.

There's too much coldness in the world, I told her. If people would only talk things out together it would help.