Quotes About Dialogue

Nine SPEAKING IN TONGUES The following is based on a lecture given at the New York Public Library in December 2008. 1

Ne?manoma prad?ti racionalaus dialogo su žmogumi apie tik?jimus ir s?vokas, jeigu jis j? ne?gijo protu. Ir nesvarbu, apie k? mes kalbame: apie Diev?, ras? ar pasididžiavim? savo t?vyne

Mouths don't empty themselves unless ears are sympathetic and knowing.

We have to get back to a government where leaders are willing to talk across party lines and do not have absolute politics as the goal.

If you listen, you'll learn. If you talk over each other, you don't accomplish anything.

I like to talk. I admit it.

If you have an adversary, you don't have to respect what they're saying, but respect their right to say it.

I'm a linguist. I study how people talk to each other and how the ways we talk affect our relationships.

Sure, I've met with people I don't agree with.

I can think of nothing worse than a think-tank where everybody agreed.

I call it the LGBT Q and A community 'cause there's so many questions and answers.

I can unload my opinion on anybody at anytime.

I'll speak to anybody, anytime, anyplace.

What language are you talking in now? It appears to be bollocks.

If you don't like what someone has to say, argue with them.

Well, you can't argue with somebody that won't argue back.

It's why you create characters: so you can argue with yourself.

Never argue with your characters; they know themselves better than you do.

I never argue with people about movies.

I like to argue with the radio.

I always wanted to write a book that would have people talking, theorizing, arguing.

I will listen to any argument put to me.

There is no argument that I won't take seriously.

Artists talk in 'art speak.'