Dialogue Quotes - Page 31

• A fool hath no dialogue within himself, the first thought carrieth him without the reply of a second.

  E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

  Fool, Firsts

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• Literature is capable of being a subject that people want to catch up on or discuss, whether at a coffee shop or a watercooler. It can become an intrinsic part of their dialogue.

  Mark Z. Danielewski

  Coffee, People, Literature

  "Mark Z Danielewski wins seven-figure advance for serial novel" by Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. November 22, 2011.

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• When I see people making 'abstract' painting, I think it's just a dialogue and a dialogue isn't enough. That is to say, there is you painting and this canvas. I think there has to be a third thing; it has to be a trialogue.

  Philip Guston

  Thinking, People, Abstract Painting

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• The controlled chaos is one way to get creativity. The intensity of it, the physical rush, the intimacy created the kind of dialogue that leads to synergy...

  Richard Holbrooke

  Creativity, Way, Chaos

  "Clinton global aid meeting gathers $1.25 bln". The Malaysian Star, September 18, 2005.

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• There's nothing wrong with being an actor, if that's what a man wants. But there's everything wrong with achieving an exalted status simply because one photographs well and is able to handle dialogue".

  Sterling Hayden

  Men, Actors, Want

  Sterling Hayden (2015). “Wanderer”, p.43, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• Dialogue is good, America used to talk to Iraq all the time. Members of Congress don't have any special skill in weapons inspection. However, if members could be accompanied by weapons inspection experts, that could be a step in the right direction.

  Dennis Kucinich

  Skills, Iraq, America

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• Differences in approaches do exist, and in one short moment it is impossible to overcome all of them, but i'm convinced ahead of us we have a constructive dialogue.

  Vladimir Putin

  Differences, Overcoming, Impossible

  "Bush and Putin hail talks a success". www.cnn.com. June 16, 2001.

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• Europeans should pay more attention. Iran has called for dialogue and is moving in the direction of reaching an agreement through peaceful means.

  Ali Larijani

  Moving, Mean, Agreement

  "Iran: U.N. Referral Means the End of Diplomacy". www.foxnews.com. January 31, 2006.

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• Agriculture and intercultural dialogue: our common heritage.

  Jacques Diouf

  Agriculture, Heritage, Common

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• The trouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven't thought of yet.

  Ann Landers

  Communication, Talking, May

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• For 30 years I have used my platform in provocative ways to encourage a healthy dialogue about important issues, including HIV/AIDS, war, and homelessness. I'm well aware of the risks that come with this approach, and if this encourages further awareness and discussion about critical issues then all-the-better.

  Kenneth Cole

  War, Years, Issues

  "Kenneth Cole in hot water again over Syria-related tweet". www.today.com. September 6, 2013.

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• Individually we can work on ourselves. By working on your own ego and developing truth, control, and an equitable inner dialogue, you individualize the spirit within you through the process of observation. If you work on yourself, the progress you make radiates invisibly to others, helping them and giving them courage, which also improves the global picture. After all-your ego is a part of the world ego, and as you control it, you lessen the overall influence of the world ego while expanding the presence of truth on our planet.

  Stuart Wilde

  Inspirational, Giving, Ego

  Stuart Wilde (1993). “More Love: Tender Moments”, White Dove International

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• In the Bhagavad-Gita, a dialogue ensues in the middle of a battlefield, symbolizing the battlefield of life which we are fighting through our illusions.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Yoga, Fighting

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• 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.

  Nick Kroll

  Pieces, That One Person, Littles

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Dialogue is easy. It's what you've been doing almost every day, most of your life.

  Josip Novakovich

  Easy

  Josip Novakovich (2008). “Fiction Writer's Workshop”, p.111, Writer's Digest Books

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• I feel that music on the screen can seek out and intensify the inner thoughts of the characters. It can invest a scene with terror, grandeur, gaiety, or misery. It can propel narrative switftly forward, or slow it down. It often lifts mere dialogue into the realm of poetry. Finally, it is the communicating link between the screen and the audience, reaching out and enveloping all into one single experience.

  Bernard Herrmann

  Inspirational, Music, Character

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• 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.

  Alberto Manguel

  Book, Reading, Writing

  Alberto Manguel (2006). “With Borges”, Telegram Books

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• It's a dialogue, not a monologue, and some people don't understand that. Social media is more like a telephone than a television.

  Amy Jo Martin

  Media, People, Television

  "Shaq's Social Media Guru Shares Her Secrets". Interview with Sam Laird, mashable.com. December 1, 2011.

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• Dialogue starts from the courageous willingness to know and be known by others. It is the painstaking and persistent effort to remove all obstacles that obscure our common humanity.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Common Humanity, Effort, Courageous

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• A babe, by intercourse of touch I held mute dialogues with my Mother's heart.

  William Wordsworth

  Mother, Heart, Babe

  1799-1805 The Prelude, bk.2, l.267-8 (published 1850).

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• I think we're approaching an era where there's a consistent dialogue going on between artists and consumers. And I think that's going to be part of the solution to actually selling music.

  Girl Talk

  Artist, Thinking, Eras

  Interview with Mark Richardson, pitchfork.com. October 6, 2008.

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• In [Aristotle's] formal logic, thought is organized in a manner very different from that of the Platonic dialogue. In this formal logic, thought is indifferent toward its objects. Whether they are mental or physical, whether they pertain to society or to nature, they become subject to the same general laws of organization, calculation, and conclusion - but they do so as fungible signs or symbols, in abstraction from their particular "substance." This general quality (quantitative quality) is the precondition of law and order - in logic as well as in society - the price of universal control.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Order, Law, Organization

  "One-Dimensional Man" by Herbert Marcuse, (p. 136), 1964.

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• The constitution of madness as a mental illness, at the end of the eighteenth century, affords the evidence of a broken dialogue, posits the separation as already effected, and thrusts into oblivion all those stammered, imperfect words without fixed syntax in which the exchange between madness and reason was made. The language of psychiatry, which is a monologue of reason about madness, has been established only on the basis of such a silence.

  Michel Foucault

  Broken, Silence, Syntax

  Michel Foucault, Keith Hoeller, Ludwig Binswanger, Jacob Needleman (1984). “Review of Existential Psychology and Psychiatry”

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• When I first started, I didn't really know how to structure a play. I could write dialogue, but I just sort of failed beyond that, and kind of went wherever I wanted to go.

  Sam Shepard

  Writing, Play, Firsts

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• I believe that the biblical teaching is clear. It always contests political power. It incites to "counterpower," to "positive" criticism, to an irreducible dialogue (like that between king and prophet in Israel), to antistatism, to a decentralizing of the relation, to an extreme relativizing of everything political, to an anti-ideology, to a questioning of all that claims either power or dominion (in other words, of all things political), and finally, if we may use a modern term, to a kind of "anarchism" (so long as we do not relate the term to the anarchist teaching of the nineteenth century).

  Jacques Ellul

  Kings, Teaching, Biblical

  "The Subversion of Christianity" by Jacques Ellul, translated by G. Bromiley, (p. 116), 1986.

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