Quotes About Dialogue

Silence is argument carried out by other means.

But when we reduce the conversation to simply passing judgment, we are left with no conversation at all.

In singing our song, in telling our story, in inviting you to say 'Hey, listen to me, and i'll listen to you', we're starting a dialogue. And when you do that, this healing happens, and we come out of our corners, and we start to witness each other's common humanity. We start to assert it. And when we do that, really good things happen

As I said, I started with poetry, and I also wrote criticism and dialogue. But I realized that I was most successful at dialogue. Perhaps I abandoned criticism because I am full of contradictions, and when you write an essay you are not supposed to contradict yourself. But in the theater, by inventing various characters, you can. My characters are contradictory not only in their language, but in their behavior as well.

OLD MAN: Make believe yourself, it's your turn. OLD WOMAN: It's your turn. OLD MAN: Your turn. OLD WOMAN: Your turn OLD MAN: Your turn. OLD WOMAN: Your turn.

He would say ect. instead of ect., and thus instead of ect., instead of ect. and thus and so forth!

Andrew Mayne

polyglot, attempts to draw them into conversation.

The Idea of the University, Cardinal John Henry Newman's great work defining how the republic of the mind should be governed, hailed the importance of increasing the breadth of understanding, promoting excellence in scholarship, advancing student dialogue and freedom of expression and inquiry.

Oh, talking to people. That's a thing I should do again sometime.

How is this done? By applying Grove's Principle of Didactic Management, "Ask one more question!" When the supervisor thinks the subordinate has said all he wants to about a subject, he should ask another question.

The first stage should be free discussion, in which all points of view and all aspects of an issue are openly welcomed and debated. The greater the disagreement and controversy, the more important becomes the word free.

I think one of the mistakes many of us (including myself) make when speaking with atheists, agnostics, or any person who does not share our faith is to believe that we can argue them into seeing the truth. I do not believe this is possible. I have never known anyone who was successfully argued into a true, lasting faith.

I'll hear you out." "Without interrupting with spiteful comments?" "That I can't promise." "Oh well"–Stregobor slipped his hands into the sleeves of his robe–"then it'll only take longer.

Co oni tam robiÄ… do cholery? - zaciekawiÅ' siÄ™ Jaskier. - Powiedzcie, do cholery! Elf uÅ›miechnÄ…Å' siÄ™. Bardzo, bardzo smutno. - Nie lubiÄ™, wielkich sÅ'ów - powiedziaÅ'. - A nie u?ywajÄ…c wielkich sÅ'ów, nie da siÄ™ tego nazwa?.

I'm trying to, but please talk more slowly. Don't forget you're talking to a cabbage.

How should Jesus-following Republicans and Democrats treat, speak about, and respond to one another? Publicly and privately? The way Jesus treated, spoke to, and responded to those who disagreed with him.

Exasperated, Dee began, "Molly-" "I'm not hearing you.  I can't hear you.  Can you hear anything, Del?" "Only some whining.  I thought it was a mozzie.  If it keeps going, I'm getting the fly swat and smack it a good one.

Yes! Art is a conversation!

I love to engage in repartee with people who are stupider than I am.

Right now we're in the middle of a cultural war between the Muslims and the Western world. The politicians get in the way, but if you put two people together in a room, they can talk it out and work it out, just like Anna and the King.

When 'Deadwood' came along, it was totally like Shakespeare. The long speeches were like soliloquies. If one phrase of a monologue was out of whack, the entire one-page speech didn't work.

I don't mind have an uncomfortable conversation if those uncomfortable conversations can lead to a bigger dialogue and help us get to a better understanding of whatever it is we are discussing.

A person with 'oppositional conversational style' is a person who, in conversation, disagrees with and corrects whatever you say. He or she may do this in a friendly way, or a belligerent way, but this person frames remarks in opposition to whatever you venture.