Quotes About Dialogue

When you say the name Gilligan, you know who that is. If a show is good, if it's written well, you should be able to erase the names of the characters saying the lines and still be able to know who said it. If you can't do that, the show will fail.

Personal narrative is one of the few things where people don't get caught up in fighting over esoteric rhetoric.

I do think we need to find common ground on some of these major issues facing our nation.

One of us needs to know how to talk. I'm good with a gun, I think you should take up talking.

You talking to yourself back here?" she asked. "First sign of madness," he admitted. "But you're not really crazy until you start answering yourself back." "You're only half-crazy, then. Good to know.

Time spent arguing is, oddly enough, almost never wasted.

A good conversation is the only human equivalent: the realizing that decent points are being made and understood, that irony is in play, and elaboration, and that a dull and obvious remark would be almost physically hurtful.

Seek out argument and disputation for their own sake; the grave will supply plenty of time for silence.

Some statements are too blunt for everyday, consensual discourse. In national "debate," it is the smoother pebbles that are customarily gathered from the stream, and used as projectiles. They leave less of a scar, even when they hit. Occasionally, however, a single hard-edged remark will inflict a deep and jagged wound, a gash so ugly that it must be cauterized at once. In

If someone tells me that I've hurt their feelings, I say, 'I'm still waiting to hear what your point is.

Moi?, said I, in perfect fucking French.

That's what I'm saying," said Charlie, who wasn't saying that at all.

His words were: hello, good-bye, yes, no, please, thank you, okay, sorry, and suck my dick. He

Cuando no tienes buenos argumentos, a veces es mejor darle la vuelta a la tortilla y ponerte a preguntar tú. Lo aprendí en la clase de Introducción a los medios de comunicación.

I said," said Lear, "most pernicious monstress, perfect in her perfidy!" Kent mimed a set of generous bosoms on himself and raised an eyebrow as if to ask, "Boobs?" I shrugged as if to say, "Aye, boobs sounds right." "Aye, most pernicious perfidy indeed, sire," said I. "Aye, most bouncy and jiggling perfidy,"3 said Kent.

I'm not sure you would understand." The elf folded his hands in his lap. "I might not; that is true. But then, you cannot know for certain unless you try to explain.

On occasion, those attending Socrates Café have met the love of their lives.

Communication, for

Out of anger comes controversy, out of controversy comes conversation, out of conversation comes action.

You might like either the Republicans or the Democrats more than I do, but still something is wrong in today's politics, even if we don't always agree

but I had also learned that freedom of speech means freedom from rhetoric.

With Germans, as with women, you never get to the point.

Books always speak of other books.

Every text, after all, is a lazy machine asking the reader to do some of its work. What a problem it would be if a text were to say everything the receiver is to understand - it would never end.