Dialogue Quotes

Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don't believe is right. (Jane Goodall)
The poet does not fear death, not because he believes in the fantasy of heroes, but because death constantly visits his thoughts and is thus an image of a serene dialogue. View quote
Salvatore Quasimodo
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. View quote
Truman Capote
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. View quote
Alfred Hitchcock
Religion is the everlasting dialogue between humanity and God. Art is its soliloquy. View quote
Franz Werfel
Life is a b movie. It's stupid and it's strange, A directionless story, And the dialogue is lame. But in the he said, she said, Sometimes there's some poetry, If you turn your back long enough, And let it happen naturally. View quote
Ani DiFranco
In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change. View quote
Nhat Hanh
I was kind of excited about going to jail the first time and I learnt some great dialogue. View quote
Quentin Tarantino
From the night, his solitude, the poet finds day and starts a diary that is lethal to the inert. The dark landscape yields a dialogue. View quote
Salvatore Quasimodo
I hope to use dialogue and culture as a means of bringing people of various cultures together, and using that as a way to resolve conflict. View quote
Herbie Hancock
The reason I write is that I'm not in dialogue with my emotions; writing puts me in touch with myself. (Etgar Keret)
A lecture is much more of a dialogue than many of you probably realize. View quote
George Wald
The biggest challenge has been simulating a tornado with wind machines and dirt and debris. Right when you walk on the set, you feel the energy of a tornado. But the hardest thing is trying to get dialogue out in all of that. View quote
Mark-Paul Gosselaar
What I find interesting about folklore is the dialogue it gives us with storytellers from centuries past. View quote
Terri Windling
There will be no peace among the nations without peace among the religions. There will be no peace among the religions without dialogue among the religions. View quote
Hans Küng
I never worked with a dialogue coach before, but I'd hate it if an American did a British accent and didn't do it well. It would be insulting. View quote
Tracey Ullman
Let me say this loud and clear. There is a world of difference between terrorist acts and the Islamic Shari'a. Islam is not only a religion, but a way of life. And at its heart lie the sacred principles of tolerance and dialogue. View quote
King Hussein
When a warrior learns to stop the internal dialogue, everything becomes possible; the most far-fetched schemes become attainable. View quote
Carlos Castaneda
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. View quote
Carlos Castaneda
Dialogue cannot exist without humility. View quote
Paulo Freire
Dialogue cannot exist, however, in the absence of a profound love for the world and its people. (Paulo Freire)
Through dialogue, the teacher-of-the-students and the students-of-the-teacher cease to exist and a new term emerges: teacher-student with students-teachers. View quote
Paulo Freire
Faith in people is an a priori requirement for dialogue. View quote
Paulo Freire
What I propose is that dialogue should take place among cultures and civilizations. And as a first step, I would suggest that cultures and civilizations should not be represented by politicians but by philosophers, scientists, artists and intellectuals.[...] Dialogue will lead to a common language and a common language will culminate in a common thought, and this will turn into a common approach to the world and global events. View quote
Mohammad Khatami
It amazes me that filmmakers will still film, and audiences will still watch, relationships so bankrupt of human feeling that the characters could be reading dialogue written by a computer. View quote
Roger Ebert