Quotes About Dialogue

Intimacy escalates with turn-taking

the value of asking more questions and listening to the answers.

It's communication - that's what theatre is all about.

Todo mundo tem uma opinião, não é mesmo? Talvez seja isso o que está errado com este país.

Hey, cowboy, what's happening?

Lamanite warriors love to interrupt any time a Nephite opens his mouth

I'm torn between maintaining you as an entity to write to and talking with you as a person.

Qui parle, et pourquoi, voilà la seule question.

He'd heard communication described as two monologues clashing, with each person waiting for their turn to speak instead of actively listening.

This isn't bickering. This is classic mother-daughter communications. I've been reading up on it.

Am I supposed to be merely exercising my tongue Or am I being listened to?

Embarrassment seems to be the sole means of communication between parents and children.

Listen to what you have written. A dud rhythm in a passage of dialogue may show that you don't yet understand the characters well enough to write in their voices." [ Ten rules for writing fiction ( The Guardian , 20 February 2010)]

Never fail to know that if you are doing all the talking, you are boring somebody.

One has to grow up with good talk in order to form the habit of it.

The best movies have one sentence that they're exploring, a thesis, something that people can argue about over dinner afterward.

You don't spread democracy with a barrel of a gun.

Executive coach Alan Allard told me, "Listening shows respect, even if you don't agree with what the person is saying.

When statesmen want to gain time, they offer to talk.

It seems to me that a great university ought to have room in it for men subscribing to every sort of idea that is currently prevalent

A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.

"Why don't you speak for yourself, John?"

Why are you sad?" "Because you speak to me in words and I look at you with feelings

Many marriages would be saved if we would only listen with the same passion that we feel about wanting to be heard.