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Quotes About Dialogue

El ceder sin convicción no habla en favor del entendimiento de ninguno de los dos .
~ Jane Austen
we developed this ability to communicate with words.
~ Jane Goodall
Email messages Friday night between Nancy and Lionel Lionel: What time is the game? What's the name
~ Jane O'Connor
Not that I'm aware," Sunshine said.
~ Janet Evanovich
here," Briggs said.
~ Janet Evanovich
Do go on," I said, and it sounded just like Mother. It just came out.
~ Janet Fitch
In most interviews, both subject and interviewer give more than is necessary. They are always being seduced and distracted by the encounter's outward resemblance to an ordinary friendly meeting.
~ Janet Malcolm
Yet, in spite of this world-wide system of linkages, there is, at this very moment, a general feeling that communication is breaking down everywhere, on an unparalleled scale.
~ David Bohm
I must discipline myself. I must be imaginative and create plots, knit motives, probe dialogue - rather than merely trying to record descriptions and sensations. The latter is pointless, without purpose, unless it is later to be synthesized into a story. The latter is also a rather pronounced symptom of an oversensitive and unproductive ego.
~ Sylvia Plath
I have allergic reactions: it triggers my gag reflex when I read unrealistic dialogue from a teenager.
~ Lucas Hedges
I am not into the unrealistic realm of magic realism where birds talk.
~ Vikas Swarup
The anniversary of the tragic attacks on September 11, 2001, and September 11, 2012, is a day to remember those who died and suffered. It is also an opportunity to open a new dialogue on the tactics and strategies that have been successful - and unsuccessful - in confronting, containing, and defeating the threat from radical Islam.
~ Pete Hoekstra
My boyfriend - Matt Kaplan - is American, so any time I'm unsure of how to say something, I say, 'Hey how do you say this?' and he yells it out.
~ Claire Holt
The 'inability to have a dialogue' is increasingly the norm in academia. Conservative thought is not just unwelcome, oftentimes it is banished altogether.
~ Kayleigh McEnany
Let us agree here today to adopt among ourselves a simple and unwritten rule. We will not rise to criticize someone else's idea unless we are prepared to offer an alternative idea of our own.
~ Marco Rubio
Great design is so many things all at the same time. It is emotional, functional, and responsive. It creates an unwritten dialogue, a connection, between itself and those who experience it. It is open to interpretation yet created for a specific purpose. It creates meaning and value.
~ Marcel Wanders
I like to have my characters talking in an up-to-date way, and I like their essentially modern self-awareness, which means we can have lots of irony and jokes.
~ Jonathan Stroud
Our strategic dialogue with China can both protect American interests and uphold our principles, provided we are honest about our differences on human rights and other issues and provided we use a mix of targeted incentives and sanctions to narrow these differences.
~ Madeleine Albright
Town meetings are not bean bag. I've had hundreds of them, and sometimes folks get upset. And that's part of America, part of our process.
~ Dick Durbin
People don't listen to each other anymore, and I think that's why people get offended or their feelings get hurt: because you're not actually listening to the person that's giving you signals they're upset.
~ Nicole Byer
Part of the mystique of shows like 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' is the idea that they begin with a couple of plot lines, and then a bunch of geniuses improvise dialogue. It's not quite that unstructured and loose. It makes for a good urban myth, but everything's a little more tightly scripted and programmed than that.
~ Alan Thicke
They listened more than they talked, but that was the way of wise men and women.
~ Lee Goff, A Rage Like Thunder
I think our biggest problem is lack of real, honest communication between black men and black women. A lot of men talk amongst men, and a lot of women speak amongst women.
~ Hill Harper
In addition, I'll be attending women's health expos and medical conferences with the goal to promote dialogue between women and their health-care providers.
~ Karen Duffy