Quotes About Dialogue

Acaso el mejor conversador del mundo es aquel que ayuda a hablar a los demás.

That's not the way it happened, asshole," I said, gently correcting him.

But my main debt, which may not be evident, was to Hemingway; it was he who showed us all how much tension and complexity unalloyed dialogue can convey, and how much poetry lurks in the simplest nouns and predicates.

Listen to your political enemies, especially the smart ones, and then figure out a way to make them laugh.

In my family, Father is the world champion at ending conversations.

SPIDER: I guess you've got a point. RAYNIEDAY: No, I've got a stake, LOL.

The Holy Father has acted as the Vicar of Christ and acted like Christ himself, who never refused to talk to anyone.

I'm in constant inner dialogue with my father still.

The poet does not fear death, not because he believes in the fantasy of heroes, but because death constantly visits his thoughts and is thus an image of a serene dialogue.

Surely Islam has nothing to fear from criticism even if it be unreasonable.

Communication is the oil that lubricates the frictions of life.

If you have the strength to speak, you should have the courage to listen.

Many problems in this world can easily be solved if people start talking TO each other instead of talking ABOUT each other.

All communication problems are because we do not listen to understand. We listen to reply.

The voice of life in me cannot reach the ear of life in you; but let us talk that we may not feel lonely.

Life is a B Movie: it's stupid and it's strange, it's a directionless story, the dialogue is lame, but in the 'he said she said' sometimes there's some poetry, if you turn your back long enough and let it happen naturally.

Most of the time in married life is taken up by talk.

Hardly ever do we hear anything that does not make us regret something that we have said

War is what happens when language fails.

A fantastic model of collaboration: thinking partners who aren't echo chambers.

Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of a witness.

Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of witnesses.

Conversation lets you be an artist every time you open your mouth--or shut it. As Robert Louis Stevenson said, "The most important art is to omit"; the key to being a master conversationalist is to listen at least as much as you talk. Just as the other arts include pauses in a dramatic play, white margins around printed text, and space between a singer's phrases, conversation is about silences as well as about words.

I love argument, I love debate. I don't expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, that's not their job.