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Quotes About Dialogue

I get readings, I sometimes get five a week. You'll feel like a schizophrenic by the end of that week. I don't know who I am any more. You'll be in conversation with a friend and start spitting out dialogue.
~ Josh Holloway
I'd much rather have 15 people arguing about something than 15 people splitting into two camps, each side convinced it's right and not talking to the other.
~ Linus Torvalds
The pressure isn't on my brain, but on my mouth. I realized Sam Malone said very little, he spoke in little sentences. Which is much more comfortable for me for some reason.
~ Ted Danson
The first time I spoke to Avram Grant, my first question was about his conception of football. He gave me his answer and it was a good point.
~ Demba Ba
Indeed if we Christians so tell our story that Judaism is silenced, then we have not spoken rightly of Christ.
~ Timothy Radcliffe
I have spoken to Chinese leaders occasionally on human rights, but I've always done it in private.
~ Henry Kissinger
I have been - I have spoken in Bir Zeit a number of times.
~ Noam Chomsky
I have spoken to refs after games, just to ask about something that had occurred during a game. It's always been off the record and I've never had a ref not answer.
~ Neil Warnock
Obama has spoken out a few times since on race, but without much effect.
~ Neil Macdonald
In every house of marriage there's room for an interpreter.
~ Stanley Kunitz
Yes, the marriage proposal was shot. Michael excluded the dialogue from the final edit.
~ Madeleine Stowe
There are two kinds of marriages, Benny — where the husband quotes the wife, or where the wife quotes the husband.
~ Clifford Odets
Maybe being married is talking to oneself with one's other self listening.
~ Ruth Rendell
Screwy," I said. "Is that a medical term?" "Of course.
~ Ilona Andrews
Man's inability to communicate is a result of his failure to listen effectively.
~ Carl Rogers
Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.
~ William Shakespeare
Men in plural […] can experience meaningfulness only because they can talk with and make sense to each other and themselves.
~ Hannah Arendt
Perhaps the best conversationalist in the world is the man who helps others to talk.
~ John Steinbeck
Communication is the most important single activity of man.
~ Stephen Covey
If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.
~ Thomas Carlyle
This is a hurried age we're living in. If you've got anything to say, say it quickly, get to the point and stop, and give the other man a chance to talk.
~ Dale Carnegie
The character of a man is known from his conversations.
~ Menander
When men understand what each other mean, they see, for the most part, that controversy is either superfluous or hopeless
~ John Henry Newman
I beg your pardon? Robson says. One thing Waterhouse likes about these Brits is that when they don't know what the hell you're talking about, they are at least open to the possibility that it might be their fault.
~ Neal Stephenson