Quotes About Dialogue

Conversation is not dialogue, it's monologues. No one ever really listens in conversations. It's civility that makes you wait and pretend you give a fuck what the other person is saying.

In the Sawi universe, not only man, but all things are communicating.

Shit," Pablo says.

Talk without effort is nothing.

Real life is sometimes boring, rarely conclusive and boy, does the dialogue need work.

This new form of dialogue that is bringing us to the art to which I have dedicated my life, is rooted in the deepest and most beautiful part of being human.

Yes! Do you never listen?" "I never listen." "Okay, well, it's a good thing I don't talk much then, isn't it?

I loved the feeling of talking and having somebody really listen to what I have to say. It was like a high or something.

Sometimes I find myself having little conversations in my head with the punk rock kids upstairs.

We now have an opportunity, though, to do something we didn't do in the industrial age, and that is to get a leg up on this, to bring the public in quickly, to have an informed debate.

The freedom of patient speech is necessary if the doctor is to get clues about the medical enigma before him. If the patient is inhibited, or cut off prematurely, or constrained into one path of discussion, then the doctor may not be told something vital. Observers have noted that, on average, physicians interrupt patients within eighteen seconds of when they begin telling their story.

I don't swear just for the hell of it. Language is a poor enough means of communication. I think we should use all the words we've got. Besides, there are damn few words that anybody understands. Henry Drummond, a character in Inherit the Wind

Avoid mannerisms in attributions. People say things; they don't wheeze, gasp, sigh, laugh, grunt, snort, reply, retort, exclaim, or declare them.

Artists working for other artists is all about knowing, learning, unlearning, initiating long-term artistic dialogues, making connections, creating covens, and getting temporary shelter from the storm.

When you interrupt, you've stopped listening. People need to be heard.

idea that Washington would work better if there were TV cameras monitoring every conversation gets it exactly wrong…. The lack of opportunities for honest dialogue and creative give-and-take lies at the root of today's dysfunction.

I truly believe that the drift toward blaming feminism is the most telling shift in this national dialogue. Blaming feminism, women's equality, for rape reveals the crux of the issue. Because it's not concern that's driving media coverage of women's drinking too much--it's sexism.

Jaut?t otram noz?m? v?l joproj?m izvair?ties no izš?iroš? spieduma. Es gan ar? ?sten?b? negaid?ju atbildi no jums. B?t?b? esmu jaut?jis tikai pats sev. Bet dažbr?d to var izdar?t, tikai jaut?jot otram.

Ty:It sounds pretty when you say it, but I have no clue what the hell you're talking about. Imogen:It's Shakespeare, she said. Ty:Well, I was pretty sure it wasn't Kenny Chesney.

Good writing is good conversation, only more so.

I write description in longhand because that's hardest for me and you're closer to the paper when you work by hand, but I use the typewriter for dialogue because people speak like a typewriter works.

You talk like a time-table. Did you have any beautiful adventures?

She talked all the time and at first it was about people and places.

I am speaking much. But it is so we may understand one another.