Quotes About Dialogue

Public discourse requires making an argument for a point of view, not having an argument - as in having a fight.

Father sighed. "Please spare me these arguments of yours." "Whose arguments should I use?

I was an adult before I began to learn that there is a difference between a conversation and an argument.

Scholarship is polite argument.

Talking with a Martian is like talking with an echo. You don't get argument but you don't get results.

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

I totally believe that art is an open dialogue and that it is not logical. It does not always make sense.

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.

A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns.

As an artist, I've always wanted to participate in the dialogue of art with other artists.

All art is infested by other art.

I think fashion is art. The dialogue I am concerned with as an artist has more to do with the art and artists that I've been influenced by. I can't help but be affected by all the art that I've seen.

conversation is now pretty well a lost art.

Men talk about art, and artists make art, but should artists talk?

Silent films were, I think, more different than we know to sound films. We think of it as simply that we added dialogue and in actual fact I think it was an entirely different art form.

Writing good dialogue is art as well as craft.

We need to regain the art of civil discourse and more practically, I don't think you change anyone's mind by calling them names.

Communication is an art and a meaningful conversation is a masterpiece.

I like actors that are good with pantomime and that can transmit a lot by their presence and attitude more than through their dialogue

He's talking to rocks now," Kernel says. "A definite lunatic," Kirilli purrs.

The boy spoke two words, the first a short guttural verb, the second "you.

I said: 'All right, talk, but do you mind putting the gun away? My wife doesn't care, but I'm pregnant.

The boy spoke two words, the first a short guttural verb, the second "you." "People lose teeth talking like that." Spade's voice was still amiable though his face had become wooden. "If you want to hang around you'll be polite." The boy repeated his two words.

Anyone who believes they have converted a person simply because they have silenced them is badly mistaken We must try not to be drawn into the game of deceiving the deceivers