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Dialogue in fiction should be reserved for the culminating moments and regarded as the spray into which the great wave of narrative breaks in curving toward the watcher on the shore.
Conversation is an abandonment to ideas, a surrender to persons.
There is a tendency to underestimate the power of what we can do without words. Sometimes you can make a scene even more powerful and precise without dialogue.
Dialogue is used to reveal not what we want to say, but what we are trying to hide.
Connecting today is a dialogue.
We have to choose between dialogue and utter devastation.
A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech.
Every monologue sooner or later becomes a discussion.
Dialogue cannot exist, however, in the absence of a profound love for the world and its people.
There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all.
Dialogue is something I don't get a lot of on 'Game of Thrones.'
I have difficulty putting words in peoples' mouths. The best dialogue is very, very thin dialogue; you let people improvise and then basically you record what they've improvised and then write it down.
I am completely in favour of dialogue and engagement. But it must be a true, open dialogue.
Dialogue does not happen when we are adversaries.
Whenever the internal dialogue stops, the world collapses, and extraordinary facets of ourselves surface, as though they had been kept heavily guarded by our words.
Conversation is not a search after knowledge, but an endeavor at effect.
Body language is so important, as is composition. You can not say something, and then the body reacts, and it says a lot of things dialogue can also say.
Once upon a time! What kind of talk is that?
Dialogue should convey a sense of spontaneity but eliminate the repetitiveness of real talk.
To make theater out of real life, you need to catch dialogue when it happens.
Sometimes how we dialogue in today's culture is just as important as why we dialogue.
Conversation succeeds conversation, Until there's nothing left to talk about Except truth, the perennial monologue, And no talker to dispute it but itself.
I'm pretty much of the Shakespearean school. Dialogue is character. How we speak is who we are.
Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue.
Conversations in the flesh are the first drafts toward the later conversations of the mind, where words and ideas are sorted and elaborated, recast.
A dialogue leads to connection, which leads to trust which leads to engagement
Each person's life is lived as a series of conversations.
Debate is an attempt to cling to the illusion of control provided by a point of view designed to keep the ego in place; dialogue is an attempt to dance with the unknown at the risk of losing what we think we know.
Dialogue doesn't take place in a vacuum. Dialogue is contradictory, in that it can either speed up or slow down a passage.
Coming to know one another based on a shared humanity through dialogue is the key to breaking down the walls of isolation and reversing the decline of life-to-life bonds among human beings.
Conversation opens our views, and gives our faculties a more vigorous play; it puts us upon turning our notions on every side, and holds them up to a light that discovers those latent flaws which would probably have lain concealed in the gloom of unagitated abstraction.
You should let dialogue get as nearly out of control as you can. Characters should say what they say to each other instead of what they mean to say. The worst purpose of dialogue is to elicit information: "You know why we're out on this space station, Carruthers - to save the universe!"
If conversation be an art, like painting, sculpture, and literature, it owes its most power charm to nature; and the least shade of formality or artifice destroys the effect of the best collection of words.
Silence is one great art of conversation.
The art of conversation lies in listening
We were in dialogue that was about something other than what we were saying.
I've found that good dialogue tells you not only what people are saying or how they're communicating but it tells you a great deal - by dialect and tone, content and circumstance - about the quality of the character.
Dialogue is a little bit jazz, a little bit hand-to-hand combat.
There are two conversations going on at the same time: the story and a conversation about how the story is being told.
Silence is also conversation.
There is a way between voice and presence, where information flows. In disciplined silence it opens; with wandering talk it closes.
Hey, it's-!"
"Who? Oh. Oh."
"Shut up."
"I haven't said anything yet!"
"Don't."
"How can I shut up if I haven't said anything?"
"I know you. You've got a monologue coming up.
The best way to solve problems and to fight against war is through dialogue.
A lecture is much more of a dialogue than many of you probably realize.
Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.
Music is a dialogue.
This continuous monologue that seeks to become a dialogue... (Zoltan Galos)
It's a one-to-one dialogue. You open your mouth and you're talking to 6 million people.
In what we think of as bad dialogue, the characters talk directly to each other.
What is essential here is the presence of the spirit of dialogue, which is in short, the ability to hold many points of view in suspension, along with a primary interest in the creation of common meaning.
Here the dialogue form breaks down. From the believer's mouth there emerges what can only be called a soup of words, sentences that begin and do not end, words that change into something else halfway. This goes on for a longer or shorter time.
Conversations consist for the most part of things one does not say.
Dialogue can help you find out if you've been brainwashed or not.
This is the first principle of dialogue - Start with Heart. That is, your own heart. If you can't get yourself right, you'll have a hard time getting dialogue right.
Dialogue cannot exist without humility.
I still haven't quite caught on to the idea of writing without dialogue. I like writing dialogue, and there's nothing wrong with dialogue in movies.
For me, the making of exhibitions has always had to do with dialogue: a concentrated, in-depth, focused dialogue with artists, who keep teaching me that exhibitions should always invent new rules for the game.
I'd be the first person to say I can't write dialogue. My dialogue is very utilitarian and is designed to move things forward. I'm not Shakespeare. It's not designed to be poetic.
New dramatic writing has banished conversational dialogue from the stage as a relic of dramaturgy based on conflict and exchange: any story, intrigue or plot that is too neatly tied up is suspect.
Humility oils the wheel of dialogue.
The conversation follows its own rolling accord - no real structure or topic or internal logic or feeling; except, of course, for its own hidden, conspiratorial one. Just words, and like in a movie, but one that has been transcribed improperly, most of it overlaps.
It is by speech that many of our best gains are made. A large part of the good we receive comes to us in conversation.
In conversation we are sometimes confused by the tone of our own voice, and mislead to make assertions that do not at all correspond to our opinions.
Sometimes insight into character and dialogue means being silent.
Describe character using dialogue. Describe character using what the characters see or do or think, but not what they had done or where they had been.
It's hard to have a dialogue when you're name-calling.
People like dialogue. Being a part of it or reading it. Me personally, I'd rather write it.
Conversation: The slowest form of human communication.
As for dialogue, I think it keeps things moving to cut to the chase.
There was not a lot of dialogue. The titles were just to keep you up. It's the visual stimulation that hits the audience. That's the reason for film. Otherwise, we might as well turn the light out and call it radio.
All good dialogue perhaps deals with something unprecedented.
It's interesting because you feel on the one hand, we understand people from what the say, and in another sense, you'd think that you'd be able to convey more through dialogue.
Conversations carry a momentum, there's a path they are expected to take, a cycle, a season, like the growing of crop. Take the rhythm of seasons away and farmers grow confused. Turn a conversation at right angles and men lose their surety.
I don't have a great imagination to share something with you that you don't know, so it's about interpreting things - a dialogue.
For a director, the most challenging scenes are the dialogue scenes.
Monologues are self-verifying and self-referencing, a world in their own right, one with its own internal logic that strengthens with reiteration.
The world requires me to re-write its wretched dialogue!
Conversation is a catalyst for innovation
The most important thing in human relationship is conversation.but people don't talk anymore,they don't sit down to talk and listen.They go to theatre,the cinema,watch television,listen to the radio,read books but they almost never talk.(pg114)
Speech is the image of actions
Dialogue in fiction is always written to be read in silence. The page is the limit. Dialogue on stage and on the screen is meant to be spoken. The voice is the limit.
I'm an actor who isn't fond of dialogue and who loves to act silently.
Real life is sometimes boring, rarely conclusive and boy, does the dialogue need work.
Improvising political dialogue is not easy.
Conversation in its true meaning isn't all wagging the tongue; sometimes it is a deeply shared silence.
I've never been interested in the convention of dialogue that facilitates narrative-it's always sort of bored me. I find myself zoning out just listening to cadences of voices and tonality and this sort of thing.
Conversation is the wall we build between ourselves and other people, too often with tired words like used and broken bottles which, catching the sunlight as they lie embedded in the wall, are mistaken for jewels.
The art of conversation is to be prompt without being stubborn, to refute without argument, and to clothe great matters in a motley garb.
It is too often forgotten that the gift of speech, so centrally employed, has been elaborated as much for the purpose of concealing thought by dissimulation and lying as for the purpose of elucidating and communicating thought.
Conversationis like the table of contents of a dull book ... All the greatest subjects of human thought are proudly displayedin it. Listen to it for three minutes, and you ask yourself which is more striking, the emphasis of the speaker or his shocking ignorance.
Real dialogue isn't about talking to people who believe the same things as you.
Dialogue binds me Monologue imposes upon me Soliloquy isolates me The
The most animated talks we have are about ... things
I'm calling for dialogue. I'm gathering attention for dialogue which is what you do in a struggle for power.
By dialogue, we let God be present in our midst, for as we open ourselves to one another, we open ourselves to God.
For it is probable that when people talk aloud, the selves (of which there may be more than two thousand) are conscious of disserverment, and are trying to communicate but when communication is established there is nothing more to be said.
A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.
Conversation is an evanescent relation,
no more.
The thread of will-they-or-won't-they was the real driver of every word and glance and shift of body.
So ... this was a date, Blay thought. A subtextual negotiation slipcovered in talk of books read and music enjoyed.
Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live.