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Quotes About Dialogue

Look, I can explain everything" was the most commonly used line of dialogue in the history of American movies
~ Richard Yates
Sometimes talking to you is like talking to myself: pretty damned annoying.
~ Richelle Mead
Yeah according to my- Hey, are you staring at my chest? -Rose to Adrian
~ Richelle Mead
Oh," he said to Kiyo, voice completely devoid of emotion. "I see. It's your turn again.
~ Richelle Mead
That makes sense," Adrian said "It does?" He glanced at me, a flicker of amusement in his eyes. "Yes, little dhampire. Sometimes you make sense. Go on.
~ Richelle Mead
Life is a conversation between all living things.
~ Rita Mae Brown
Badger: The cuss you are. Mr. Fox: The cuss am I? Are you cussing with me?
~ Roald Dahl
Jesus responds to almost every question he's asked with...a question. What do you think? How do you read it? he asks, again and again and again.
~ Rob Bell
Talking with a Martian is something like talking with an echo. You don't get any argument but you don't get results either.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Do you speak English? Certainly. And I understand American.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
I never learned from a man who agreed with me
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Talking with a Martian is something like talking with an echo. You don't get any argument but you don't get results either.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Sir, talking with a Martian is like talking with an echo. You don't get argument but you don't get results.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Prof's purpose was to short him out – but sometimes Prof was too subtle; some people talk better if they breathe vacuum.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Un hombre puede adquirir una brillante reputación como conversador dejando, simplemente, que su interlocutor lleve el peso de la conversación
~ Robert A. Heinlein
a man can get a reputation as a sparkling conversationalist simply by letting the other man do all the talking.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
You can give another person a precious gift if you will allow him to talk without contaminating his speech with your own material.
~ Robert A. Johnson
The Hebrew narrator does not openly meddle with the personages he presents, just as God creates in each human personality a fierce tangle of intentions, emotions, and calculations caught in a translucent net of language, which is left for the individual himself to sort out in evanescence of a single lifetime. -Chapter 4 Between Narration and Dialogue
~ Robert Alter
We are all walled cities shouting at each other over the armaments of our preconceptions.
~ Robert Anton Wilson
The sixth circuit of the brain kicks into action when the nervous system begins to receive signals from within the individual neuron — from the RNA-DNA "dialogue," the neurogenetic feedback system.
~ Robert Anton Wilson
He do that with me, too," Susan said. "It drives me fucking crazy." "Gee," I said, "I was liking it better when we were talking about Hawk's problems." Susan smiled.
~ Robert B. Parker
Tony's patois kept getting broader as we talked. Like Hawk, he seemed able to turn it on and off. "Sho 'nuff," he said.
~ Robert B. Parker
Do you have a first name, Mr. Spenser'?" Jill said. She had a soft girlish voice with just a hint of huskiness at the edges. I told her my first name.
~ Robert B. Parker
Can you talk?" "Absolutely. What did you find out?" "I'm going to put you on speaker. Terry's here." The sound qual ity went from crisp to hollow when she put him on speaker. "Hey
~ Robert Crais