Quotes About Dialogue

Stoicism is of no use to me whatsoever. What I'm a big believer in is talking about everything until you're blue in the face.

Whenever you speak to someone, you are presuming the two of you have a certain degree of familiarity - which your words might alter. So every sentence has to do two things at once: convey a message and continue to negotiate that relationship.

Whenever you discuss politics, it is always better to use individual names rather then the term neocon.

Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And that's where the courage of a leader comes, because when you sit down with your enemy, you as a leader must already have very considerable confidence from your own constituency.

Camus believed in dialogue and diplomacy, and enlisted his work as a philosopher to the need to find nonviolent solutions, whereas Sartre called for violent conflicts and justified terror.

In comics the reader is in complete control of the experience. They can read it at their own pace, and if there's a piece of dialogue that seems to echo something a few pages back, they can flip back and check it out, whereas the audience for a film is being dragged through the experience at the speed of 24 frames per second.

Nonfiction, to me, feels like an argument, whereas a novel is like a series of questions.

Screenwriting is always about what people say or do, whereas good writing is about a thought process or an abstract image or an internal monologue, none of which works on screen.

Time to time I get together with the rabbis, with religious leaders, leaders of congregations, and I talk to them, and wherever a need arises, we do everything we can to meet those needs.

One must dig deeply into opposing points of view in order to know whether your own position remains defensible. Iron sharpens iron.

If I hear an interesting turn of phrase on TV, I'll repeat it back - I just like to roll it around on my tongue. The same goes for dialog: I'll either speak it aloud or whisper it. I definitely sit in front of my computer and mutter. People have mentioned it.

After I'd been on Friends, people would whisper as I went past. I no longer had proper dialogues with people.

My goal was to tell a dialogue between high fashion and streetwear. So, the name Off-White, in my mind, is between black and white. So, that middle ground is a mixture between both genres of fashion.

Relations between black and white would be greatly improved if we were more accepting of our fears and our feelings and more vocal about it.

Our leaders should certainly engage passionate advocacy of needed reforms, and equally strong criticism of policies they believe are destructive to America. But, from the school boards to the White House, let's elect more candidates who are committed to constructive dialogue and reasonable compromises.

I don't know any member of Congress who ever said, 'I'm satisfied with the communication that we have from the White House.'

Avoid miscommunication. The price you pay for it is horrendous.

I like talking to priests, to Catholics. Everyone has their beliefs.

The primary use of conversation is to satisfy the impulse to talk.

My focus has always been: I can be an incredibly conservative, principled idea person, but that doesn't mean I have to shout at people.

Our country was founded upon the principles of debate and compromise.

We prioritize dialogue, even in our fight with bandits and gangs.

On 'Prison Break,' I tended to talk a lot! They gave me a lot of fun words to say. There were always these great mouthfuls of words that would fall out!

We need men and women to sit down and talk to each other about sex honestly and openly. That would help us fight Aids so immediately. But our lack of communication is hugely problematic.