Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brian Tracy

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

Nancy Kress

For the professional writer, stories must be presented as a series of individual scenes, each one dramatized with dialogue and telling descriptions of who is present and what they're all doing.

When will this government learn that respectful partnership requires a willingness to engage in constructive dialogue with the treaty partner, not ignoring them at their peril?

Andrea Barrett

For a sculptor, a painter, a weaver, a potter, the dialogue between one's materials and what one makes from them is easy to see: discover a new material or a new way to use a familiar one, and new things can be made, sometimes leading to the discovery of more new material, leading to more creation.

Jalal Talabani

We still hope that by bilateral dialogue we see that we can solve this problem,

Tracy Chapman

So much has happened to obscure the dialogue about race and about gender and discrimination in general, especially where those things touch on economics.

August Wilson

I've seen some terrible plays, but I generally enjoy myself. One play I walked out of, I have a tremendous respect for the author. That was Robert Wilson, something called 'Network,' which consisted of Wilson sitting on a bunk, the dialogue of the movie 'Network' looped in while a chair on a rope went up and down.

Brad Smith

We are more optimistic than yesterday because the dialogue was constructive.

Katrina Kaif

I have an impeccable memory, and I can learn dialogues in any language in 20 minutes, including Telugu and Malayalam.

We intend to be a leader in this dialogue and hope our peers in the communications, media and Internet will join us.

Our hope is that it will be a respectful dialogue that takes place.

Steps that promote a reduction of tensions, steps that promote cross-strait dialogue and steps that promote peace and stability in this region are good.

Brad Smith

I think we had a very constructive dialogue yesterday.

I think we ought to have more dialogue on this. It's so different from what we've done.

I will not hold any dialogue with extremists who use violence,

Plan D is about debate, dialogue and listening. It is a means of harnessing political ideas to generate change,

It is a dialogue to discuss realistic, comprehensive immigration reform. We are in the consultation phase.

It is a controversial subject matter but it is also a dialogue we have every day.

Kate Grenville

I've always had a problem with conventional punctuation of dialogue because it does seem to me to set it off too much from the narrative. I mean, in life, things don't stop while somebody says something, and then stuff starts up again; it's all happening at once.

Lee Hall

I come from a tradition where the writer writes a play for the actors, rather than for himself, and the dialogue is made to work onstage, so it needs actors to help shape it. So you never get a play right straightaway.

Carl Hiaasen

Lots of people can write a good first page but to sustain it, that's my litmus test. If I flip to the middle of the book and there's a piece of dialogue that's just outstanding, or a description, then I'll flip back to the first page and start it.

The Prime Minister would like all men and women of goodwill in the dialogue process to end the period of suffering.

Brad Smith

We had a very constructive dialogue yesterday. In fact I wish we could have had had this type of dialogue sooner.

Dylan Bruce

Working on a soap opera is such good training for the novice actor. No rehearsal, 120 pages of dialogue per week, and one take to get the scene right. No room for error.

Rachel Joyce

I'm sure that everything you do contributes to the sort of novel that you write. A lot of actors have an understanding of drama and a good ear for dialogue and also the rhythm of speech. Similarly, my 16 years in radio drama has influenced me. You only have 45 minutes, or 7,000 words, to tell a story, so every scene has to have a point.

James T. Walsh

It's not always about dialogue between the political right and left. It's not all about service. It's about activism.

Kofi Annan

It's necessary for everyone to renounce violence and get to the negotiation table, ... The fighting must stop and dialogue must begin.

Kara Swisher

Sure, I am funny and have a good sense of humor. Mostly, though, I just tell the truth. The internal dialogue people have in their heads - I just write it.

Buster Keaton

Everybody at Metro was in my gag department, including Irving Thalberg. They'd laugh their heads off at dialogue written by all your new writers. They were joke-happy. They didn't look for action; they were looking for funny things to say.

That's the $64,000 question. Will Than Shwe - if and when he is succeeded - will he be replaced by someone more pragmatic and disposed to dialogue with the opposition?

Elvis Presley

I knew by heart all the dialogue of James Dean's films; I could watch "Rebel Without a Cause" a hundred times over.

I keep talking about how dialogue between different fields is important, so why not do this?

Jon Favreau

I like a naturalism to my dialogue and my comedy. I would rather have a few jokes sail by that might be more subtle than have every single joke hit hard. I would rather the comedy come out of character as opposed to feeling forced. Even if you're giving some laughs up for it.