I don't listen to music when I write. I need silence.

Some people still believe you should just fall in line with what's going on - and that's scary. It makes a mockery of freedom…

— Emily Robison

The problem posed by indirect speech acts is the problem of how it is possible for the speaker to say one thing and mean…

— John Searle

We should have a conversation when we hang up.

— Benedict Cumberbatch

Sing like no one's listening, love like you've never been hurt, dance like nobody's watching, and live like its heaven on earth.

— Mark Twain

A poet is wounded into speech, and he examines these wounds, meticulously, to discover how to heal them. The bad poet harangues at the…

— Samuel R. Delany

“To engage in dialogue is to serve others via whatever is real inside you; to engage in debate is to ultimately serve the illusions…

— Oli Anderson

What it comes down to for me is this: Will the technologies of communication in our culture, serve to enlighten us and help us…

— Roger Waters

In dialogue, there is opposition, yes, but no head-on collision. Smashing heads does not open minds.

— Deborah Tannen

A dialogue is very important. It is a form of communication in which question and answer continue till a question is left without an…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

I get afraid of the dark if I'm in a great deal of dark, and I have to move around inside of that fear...…

— Emil Ferris

I've been in a serious conversation with one of my children, and a fan has come up. I've been in a public bathroom and…

— Helen Reddy

Life as we know it is fundamentally unsatisfying. I think most folks feel this to be true. They know that a life of aimless…

— Michael Yates

Disability, in general, hasn't been included in the conversation about inclusivity.

— Jason Winston George

“Women will be at least 50 percent of the communications community workforce … from executive suite to interns. Why? The “integrated” agency will be…

— Yoram Wind

There are certain things you must not say in spite of the fact that supposedly democracy means free speech. No. You are not allowed…

— Chris Eubank Sr