Quotes About Dialogue

Demelza did give him encouragement, of a sort. She was always exchanging asides with him, making another

To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.

Nothing could ever be thrashed out by correspondence. Principals must be brought together, and plans concerted in common.

Quit murdering and start arguing.

We had some fine chats about Jesus, Homer, and the Rig Veda from a strictly automotive point of view.

Someone has to ask you a question," George continues meaningly, "before you can answer it. But it's so seldom you find anyone who'll ask the right questions. Most people aren't that much interested....

Talkers aren't listeners

There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen.

Thought is the fountain of speech.

Both Averill and Bayar were like actors speaking lines for their audience and not to each other.

Then talk to Hastings." Leesha flinched. "He's so scary, you know?

Nick often frequented the coffee houses and taverns down by the university, spending hours in philosophical dialogues with his friends.

So sorry," she bit out with the sweetness of alum, "but you're going to have to translate that one for me. I'm not fluent in brooding male grunting.

rant to Yasmin as I thump out the text message to my boyfriend Stuart.

I press send on the text.

Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?

You are reminded of a conversation you had recently, comparing the merits of sentences constructed implicitly with "yes, and" rather than "yes, but.

I learned early that being right pales next to staying in the room.

To converse is to risk the unraveling of the said and the unsaid.

If white people don't see their whiteness, how can they speak to it? Was the student white? Who wrote the scenario? Does diversity not include any training to see ourselves or is it simply about addressing black grievance?

When you are communicating with new people you do not have to know their names — after all, you've just met.

Why do women have cunts?" "I can't imagine." "So that men will talk to them.

Many people want to talk at the same time when no one listens. When one talks, everybody leaves.

There are many jobs in the world that require too much walking and talking, not listening. You can do the walking by just talking. But not talking while walking. Listening is bound somewhere.