Quotes About Dialogue

Dialogue should simply be a sound among other sounds, just something that comes out of the mouths of people whose eyes tell the story in visual terms.

Men and women rarely speak to each other, though they often talk.

Why should you not speak to me / And why should I not speak to you?

He has given ample evidence of qualities hardly any other living statesman has demonstrated to the same degree: the courage to look facts in the face and to seek flexible solutions, respect for others, give-and-take in dialog situations, absence of hypocrisy, a complete absence of grandeur in the conduct of his personal life. He has never been driven by blind self-assertion to make absurd decisions.

They spoke like caricatures, it was unbearable.

I don't know. I imagine good teaching as a circle of earnest people sitting down to ask each other meaningful questions. I don't see it as a handing down of answers...

LANGUAGE, n. The music with which we charm the serpents guarding another's treasure.

ARGUE, v.t. To tentatively consider with the tongue.

A man who doesn't want opinions should keep his own mouth shut.

What do you mean like ? Like, like like?

You've got to reach a hand of friendship across the aisle and across philosophies in this country.

language is no way to communicate

Because, of course, it wouldn't do to just talk to her. She had spoken to him in flashes of daylight, and he felt he ought to reply in kind.

Part of me knew it was no great honor to have one's dialogue praised by a man whose films teemed with lines like "That meteor picked the wrong dude to mess with!" and "Uncle Sam, one. Allah...zip!"But

Q: Two pennies were talking to each other. Do you know what one of them said to the other one?

Parlez-vous français, aussi?

What are you doing?" I asked Loretta. "Stabbing a cushion," she told me.

Did you just call me 'sweetie'?" I asked. She shoved my shoulder. "No.

No matter what the discussion is about

No one would talk much in society, if he knew how often he misunderstood others.

One man's word is no man's word we should quietly hear both sides.

No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.

We would not say very much in company if we realized how often we misunderstand what others say.

Because everyone uses language to talk, everyone thinks they can talk about language.