Best 376 quotes in «dialogue quotes» category

You said you were having fun." "Well, yes and no, strictly speaking I was in hell. Perhaps I have always been there. One can have fun in hell.

You want to stay here and sleep your life away? That's it?" "If you knew what would make you happy, wouldn't you do it?" I asked her. "See, you do want to be happy. Then why did you tell me that being happy is dumb?" she asked. "You said that to me more than once." "Let me be dumb," I said, glugging the NyQuil. "You go be smart and tell me how great it is. I'll be here, hibernating." Reva rolled her eyes. "It's natural," I told her. "People used to hibernate all the time." "People never hibernated. Where are you getting this?" She could look really pathetic when she was outraged. She got up and stood there holding her stupid knockoff Kate Spade bag or whatever it was, her hair pulled back into a ponytail and crowned with a useless, plastic, tortoiseshell headband. She was always getting her hair blown out, her eyebrows waxed into thin, arched, parentheses, her fingernails painted various shades of pink and purple, as though all of this made her a wonderful person. "It's not up for discussion, Reva. This is what I'm doing. If you can't accept it, then you don't have to.

A cigarette is a breathing space. It makes a parenthesis. The time of a cigarette is a parenthesis, and if it is shared, you are both in that parenthesis. Its like a proscenium arch for a dialogue.

You think I exaggerate." "At the moment—" "Well, this sort of moment never really stops . . .

You've obviously never been in love." "I have actually. And awfully. And—always—without hope—I've never had my love reciprocated ever.

A dialogue sounds like a great idea, but we don't think the government actually wants one. The royal family lied in 2011 when they said they were ready for dialogue. Now we have suffered even more and we will not give up our rights.

A dialogue among civilizations can be seen as a dialogue between the individual and the universal.

A dialogue leads to connection, which leads to trust which leads to engagement

A fully functional multiracial society cannot be achieved without a sense of history and open, honest dialogue.

Agriculture and intercultural dialogue: our common heritage.

A good argument, like a good dialogue, is always a proof of life, but I'd much rather go and read a book.

Advertising becomes a dialogue that becomes an invitation to a relationship.

Also a good director and good dialogue. That's very important because you're bringing the words to life. So it's very important for an actor to have good dialogue.

A lot of times, you're circling around a lot of things, and then you find that one person, or that little piece of dialogue, and it doesn't always have to be in person.

A theological thought can breathe only in the atmosphere of dialogue with God.

As an investigative reporter, I'm trying to uncover things and expose them to create a dialogue.

All politicians have three ways of expressing themselves - the intimate dialogue that can often be violent and raw, then the dialogue in front of the camera and then big public speeches.

Control your inner dialogue. Talk to yourself positively all the time.

By blood and faith, Jews are God's chosen, and have no need for 'dialogue' with any gentile.

By dialogue, we let God be present in our midst, for as we open ourselves to one another, we open ourselves to God.

Characterization is an accident that flows out of action and dialogue.

Doing collections, doing fashion is like a non-stop dialogue.

Every cell is eavesdropping on your internal dialogue.

Every time North Korea commits an additional provocation, the U.N. Security Council passes another resolution. But when it comes to dialogue, currently there is nothing set. I hope to have frank and open discussions with President Trump on this issue.

Dialogue does not happen when we are adversaries.

Dialogue is character and character is plot.

Dialogue is the fundamental unfolding of a gift of oneself to another.

Dialogue that's distinctive, funny, peculiar, and specific is the main thing that makes me want to get involved with a film to begin with.

For me, it really is about a dialogue. Life can be really isolating or terrifying or euphoric - it's all these things. And while I'm here I want to have an exchange. I want something to vibrate. And I want to be really stimulated.

First and foremost, note that Plato always wrote dialogues, and never attempted to produce a theoretical or scientific treatise. This is a big clue for me. From beginning to end, Plato was aware of the limits of theoretical and technical reasoning, and his dialogues are a massive exploration.

Faith in people is an a priori requirement for dialogue.

From the very beginning, I always tried to make dialogue flow comfortably; I always did that to make it seem more authentic.

Good dialogue is not real speech-it's the illusion of real speech.

However, it must always remain a dialogue, and never an imposition of the church's own convictions and methods. Propose, not impose. To serve, and not to dominate.

Hear one side and you will be in the dark. Hear both and all will be clear.

I cannot please everybody, but it is important to have one eye. This builds a faithful following and, consequently, good clientele. That's why the conversation - the dialogue with visitors and customers - is so important.

I certainly am not a great believer in over-rehearsing between actors, and certainly not doing the dialogue too much.

Honesty and openness is always the foundation of insightful dialogue.

I became a filmmaker because I wanted to deal with issues that intrigued me, that I thought were pertinent, that would start dialogue.

I can think of a handful of auditions where the director has literally said, "That is the opposite of what I think." But it's really good to be honest and have that dialogue. I don't think you should be criticized though.

I didn't understand how funny this play Much Ado About Nothing truly was until I became an English teacher and had to teach it. There is no wittier dialogue anywhere.

I didn't record any additional dialogue for this CD, they are excerpts pulled from existing episodes.

I don't really believe in dialogue; I am too Nietzschean for that. We need to have a warrior conception of philosophy.

If there's anything I'm keen to get better at in my writing, then it's the writing of prose as opposed to the writing of dialogue.

I enjoy writing dialogue; it comes naturally to me.

If you make a movie about Elizabeth I, how much of the dialogue is her real words? Audiences know when they go see a movie that it is fiction.

If you want to change a mind, there's no better way than a dialogue over coffee.

If you have nothing to say, say nothing.

I got into dialogue because my parents began taking me to see plays from when I was very young. Too young, often, to understand the play I was watching: Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf when I was nine years old; That Championship Season when I was ten years old. But I loved the sound of dialogue; it sounded like music to me and I wanted to imitate that sound.

I get to be in movies where it's mostly dialogue, and I want to be in something, that for me, feels like kickboxing.