Quotes About Dialogue

I don't believe that using inflammatory rhetoric on either side of a debate is productive.

The device of speaking directly to the listener is as old as Shakespeare's asides and probably much older than that. Still, we try to balance those moments with many more moments of utter sincerity and I believe the same is true in 'Annette.'

I believe that if everybody spent their next vacation in a community in America with people they didn't agree with, they'd probably leave feeling a little more comfortable about the country they live in.

As I got farther and farther along in the series I did less and less preparation. I didn't use outlines or sketches. I just had a vague idea of what I wanted to tell and then the dialogue just came to me as I was inking the page.

When people talk, they lay lines on each other, do a lot of role playing, sidestep, shilly-shally and engage in all manner of vagueness and innuendo. We do this and expect others to do it, yet at the same time we profess to long for the plain truth, for people to say what they mean, simple as that. Such hypocrisy is a human universal.

Because the more you engage with someone who is spreading untruths, the more validity you give to those untruths.

It's so easy to butt into a conversation and offer your own thoughts or opinions, but try not to interrupt. Instead, focus on what the other person is saying, think twice and be the person that listens. It's so much more valuable than constantly talking.

I think there's a value in people talking, it's just that we're in this culture now where everyone wants to 'out' each other at every moment, for their unconscious bias or whatever, and people then don't feel free to just talk. Do you know what I mean?

There is enormous value in face to face interaction.

John was a constant talker. Yoko would punctuate his sentences with a "Yes, yes" or some little bit of emphasis.

I can talk a blue streak, but Bono can talk a category four storm. I don't know if we ever completely finished a topic.

making yourself understood to another person is essentially a problem of cryptology.

Were you listening to a word I said?' 'I kind of switched off when you drew breath.

And we kissed again. It was a warm, indescribably lovely feeling. But it was more than just physical. It was a dialogue between two young people with high ideals and a Big Plan. It was about belonging, secrets, partnership, commitment.

Joffy, said Joffy, brother of Thursday. Hamlet, said Hamlet,Prince of Denmark

3. The unconscious mind controls the internal dialogue.

Le he dicho mil veces que los argumentos más productivos utilizan el tiempo futuro, el lenguaje de las elecciones y las decisiones.

But against the acceleration of networks and circuits, we will also look for slowness—not the nostalgic slowness of the mind, but insoluble immobility, the slower than slow: inertia and silence, inertia insoluble by effort, silence insoluble by dialogue. There is a secret here too.

Los derechos humanos deberían ser la base de la comunidad internacional. Fijan las normas mínimas en virtud de las cuales hombres procedentes de horizontes diferentes pueden encontrarse, reconocerse y hablarse.

The words come at my call but who calls whom?

on ne connaît d'où est un homme qu'après qu'il a parlé.

The aim of language...is to communicate...to impart to others the results one has obtained...As I talk, I reveal the situation...I reveal it to myself and to others in order to change it.

All these creatures spend their time explaining, realizing happily that they agree with each other.

Chitchat debases a language.