Quotes About Dialogue

You go back to those films of the '40s and '50s and hear the dialogue, the way the people played off each other - the wordplay. I think we've really lost that in movies.

confab in his visit to the President yesterday after

Walking along the avenues, we had one of the so-called intellectual conversations, which consist a great deal in quoting names of books and authors.

No one ever listened themselves out of a job.

Everybody favors free speech in the slack moments when no axes are being ground.

The moment a man talks to his fellows he begins to lie.

This was the usual thing. What I asked for was facts: what I got was a sermon.

So much has been said between them that is is needless to add a marginal note. It is not for him now to gloss the text of their dealings, nor append a moral.

Because Islam doesn't," he said, his voice toneless

I think that you can disagree with people and debate over their positions with issues without engaging in the politics of personal destruction.

If we were all engaged in some conversation, she would direct most of her contributions towards me, as if I were the front wall of a squash court.

Um," he said, because his conversational skills were amazing.

Speaking, he addressed her with winged words.

It takes two to lie. One to lie and one to listen.

Why did people feel the need to comment on the rain, when they had absolutely nothing of value to add to the conversation?

They used to be particularly hideous if they'd recently won a literary prize. Their dialogue was so powerful and impenetrable it didn't require punctuation! So naturally they didn't require permission to slip-slide their hairy hands over the body of a young writer of genre fiction. In their minds, Frances virtually owed them sex in return for her unseemly mass-market sales of "airport trash.

You don't realise how language actually interferes with communication until you don't have it, how it gets in the way like an overdominant sense.

We'd had some sort of sex, sex of the mind, sex of ideas, sex of words, hundreds of thousands of words.

Why is it that when we talk to God we're said to be praying, but when God talks to us we're schizophrenic?

Be careful to neither agree nor disagree with what anyone says until you (clearly) understand what he or she is saying.

I feel that the Christian experience and the Jewish one have much to give each other. If this open society continues and there is no return to political anti-Semitism, then this encounter, deeper than any theology, may happen.

A destructive thought process exists within all of us, and we are plagued to varying degrees by an internal dialogue that is harmful, restrictive, and at its ultimate extreme, self-destructive.

And there's her email address.

I scowled defensively. "My conversations don't usually include the subject of erections." "Too bad," he said. "All the best conversations do.