Quotes About Dialogue

I beg your pardon?' Alice said with a puzzled air. 'I'm not offended,' said Humpty Dumpty.

Really, now you ask me,' said Alice, very much confused, 'I don't think--' Then you shouldn't talk,' said the Hatter.

and what is the use of a book," thought Alice "without pictures or conversations?

So here's a question for you. How old did you say you were?' Alice made a short calculation, and said 'Seven years and six months.' 'Wrong!' Humpty Dumpty exclaimed triumphantly. 'You never said a word like it!' 'I though you meant How old ARE you?' Alice explained. 'If I'd meant that, I'd have said it,' said Humpty Dumpty. Alice didn't want

Si solamente hablases cuando alguien te preguntase, y si la otra persona siempre esperase que fueses tú quien iniciases la conversación, nunca nadie diría nada.

Nosotras podemos hablar, naturalmente! siempre que haya alguien con quien merezca la pena hacerlo.

The great thing about human language is that it prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand.

Why was there so much silence between men?

Sometimes the catalyst can be a piece of information that a character receives. Such a catalyst orients the audience to the subject of the story through dialogue

The midpoint scene occurs just where you'd expect it—about halfway through the script. Syd Field, in The Screenwriter's Workbook, says that it divides the story in half, introducing an event or line of dialogue that helps structure Act Two. In my work consulting on more than 2,000 scripts and teaching many of the best films, I don't find a midpoint scene in every film. But when I do find one, it functions as an excellent tool to help structure a difficult second act.

This probably also means that if and when we ever meet another intelligent life form in this universe, their first words are not likely to be Take me to our leader. They're more likely to say Party on, dude!

Whomever speaks first gives up some power.

I don't speak. In this day and age, we all talk too much and hear too little. Listening has become a forgotten art that the world is sorely missing.

The self is an oral society in which the present is constantly running a dialogue with the past and the future inside of one skin.

A genuinely political society, in which discussion and debate are an essential technique, is a society full of risks.

A mature society understands that at the heart of democracy is argument.

....Because today people talk about their problems, not about solutions.

I have a spiritual advisor I call up, when I just feel lost. Lately, I've been talking to God. I developed this dialogue in rehab, this dialogue with God, and every day I talk to God.

You can only succeed when people are communicating, not just from the top down, but in complete interchange. Communication comes from fighting off my ego and listening.

For Borges, the core of reality lay in books; reading books, writing books, talking about books. In a visceral way, he was conscious of continuing a dialogue begun thousands of years before and which he believed would never end.

The books on my shelves do not know me until I open them, yet I am certain that they address me — me and every other reader — by name; they await our comments and opinions. I am presumed in Plato as I am presumed in every book, even in those I'll never read.

Talking? But what about?" Walking and talking—that seemed a very odd way of spending an afternoon.

But to understand English is one thing; to understand an Englishman who talks is another.

He spoke in english. Not flawlessly by any means. Not like a Nazi POW camp commandant who appreciates english poetry and says things like 'you know, we are much alike, you and I I'. But good enough