Stilted Dialogue Quotes

#1. Continuous present is all we have, and stream of consciousness - which in a novel is arguably just as artificial as the stilted dialogue that you get in most conventional novels. They're all stratagems to try to get closer to the texture of lived life.

Will Self

#2. The strikes continue ruthlessly. I brace for each blow, numbering it as the heat subsides, and enjoying her tender exploration of my swollen lips in between. The rhythm pulls me through the assault and, all too soon, I acknowledge the tenth strike.

Felicity Brandon

#3. Life must be lived on a higher plane. We must go up to a higher platform, to which we are always invited to ascend; there, the whole aspect of things changes.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#4. That's what's so gorgeous about humanity. It doesn't matter how bleak our daily lives are, we still fight for the light. I think that's our divinity. We lean into love, even in the most hideous circumstances. We manage to hope.

Mary Karr

#5. Learning is the dictionary, but sense the grammar of science.

Laurence Sterne

#6. nothing is impossible. you just need to learn how to bend the rules.

Douglas Preston

#7. I can't find a person without some link to the armed forces!

Robyn Carr

#8. What works in a story is very different than what works in cinema. For example, dialogue in books: If you translate it too faithfully, it sounds a little stilted, because we often don't speak the way we speak in novels. Oral language is much punchier, shorter sentences.

Yann Martel

#9. I look back on it, yeah, I'm in a much worse financial position than I was eight years ago. I'm going to have to go out at age 62 and kind of readdress some of that.

Bruce Babbitt

#10. I love to hear a choir. I love the humanity ... to see the faces of real people devoting themselves to a piece of music. I like the teamwork. It makes me feel optimistic about the human race when I see them cooperating like that.

Paul McCartney

#11. Careers can disappear just as quickly as they're made, so I'm in no hurry.

Jason Mraz

#12. I'm not stuck in anybody's body. I'm me.

Bruce Jenner

#13. We amateur athletes are peculiarly devoted to our fitness, and our obsessions can sometimes be a burden to our loved ones and a mystery to everyone else.

Peter Sagal

#14. He just hit himself in the dinger with a rubber.

CM Punk