Quotes About Dialogue

It's a lack of respect for the community when you're not willing to debate because it's the 'wrong' network.

I love to talk. Everyone knows that you don't want to start a conversation with me unless you want me to end it the next day, because I never stop talking.

You meet new people. We just spent two hours with people we didn't know before, just talking about the Badgers.

It is nice to be around people who think differently than you. They challenge your ideas and keep you from being complacent.

If you are going to make peace, you can't just meet nice people.

I grew up in a family of nine children, and I know there has to be a back and forth and a listening.

You can tell if someone is about social intercourse or just about browbeating somebody with their opinion. It's no fun arguing with a closed-minded person.

Interviews, when they are just simply an exercise in hearing what you want to hear, are of no interest.

There's no point meeting somebody with a meat cleaver the moment they open their mouth - because they're going to clam up, you're going to have lost your impact and the audience is going to hate you for not allowing anyone to say anything.

I face no problem in communicating with the people of Orissa whom I meet everyday.

I said you could ask, Mr. Marsh. I didn't say that I would answer. -Lexie Darnell

Abelardo, my manager, emerged from a stall. "What do you think, Howie?" he said; it was his standard greeting —one I was fond of. "Abe, I don't know what to think," I said; my standard response.

freedom to speak includes the freedom to be wrong.

And yet, because people knew how easily they could happen, because they didn't go around with the illusion that they understood perfectly the things other people said, they were used to interrupting each other to ask if they had understood correctly.

Writing is a conversation with reading; a dialogue with thinking.

In many respects, the United States is a great country. Freedom of speech is protected more than in any other country. It is also a very free society. In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.

How can you talk if you haven't got a brain? I don't know, but some people without brains do an awful lot of talking.

My father said a lot of terrific daddy things to me that made me cry even harder, partly because the dialogue was completely lifted from an obscure Dan Daley movie he'd played a pediatrician in, and partly because he nevertheless delivered the lines so very well.

takes two to speak the truth— one to speak, and another to hear. —Henry David Thoreau

him we'd have better luck getting you to listen to me.

When a woman brings something up, then doesn't have much to say about it, she's got a lot to say about it." "Then

we have BBML. You didn't say anything about BBML." "Possibly because I don't know what

All the inane, meaningless noises people make that pass for intelligent conversation. They might as well be pigs grunting in the pen. (92)

When the Roman governor Pilate asked Jesus "What is truth?" nearly 2,000 years ago, he didn't wait for Jesus to respond.