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Quotes About Convey

You can make something mean anything you want. And you can spend a great deal of time and effort choosing your words and allusions and quotations carefully and hardly anyone will even notice or get it anyway.
~ Frank Portman
All language is but a poor translation.
~ Franz Kafka
Buddhism is basically an oral tradition, not a religion based on a book. The meaning behind the words is far more important than the specific words used to convey that meaning. The way human beings tend to misremember what they've heard is actually part of the Zen tradition.
~ Brad Warner
To me photography must suggest, not insist or explain.
~ Brassai
There are certain truths that occurs to us, which we cannot convey in words, but requires a personal experience to grasp more vividly.
~ Michael Bassey Johnson
The proof that these words marked the event… is the very fact that no other words have ever been recorded; and it is well known that 'historians' of the popular school dearly love to mark great events by the words which accompanied them. What reason would they have for ignoring words to mark the occasion except that these words fail, in their judgment, to convey the proper sense of the occasion?
~ Steven Brust
I always want to lead with comedy but hopefully be able to sneak my message through at the same time.
~ Billy Eichner
I'm not an academic, but I'm someone who has a great passion for science and wants to convey the idea that science is for everyone.
~ Dallas Campbell
Do we use thoughts as a medium to convey our emotions, or use our emotions to convey thoughts!
~ RAMANA PEMMARAJU
Expository books try to convey knowledge—knowledge about experiences that the reader has had or could have. Imaginative ones try to communicate an experience itself—one that the reader can have or share only by reading
~ Mortimer J. Adler
As a writer you have a duty to be a messenger.
~ Jay Griffiths
It was not exactly the fault of the hut, she observed in a tone which showed her to be that novelty among women—one who finished a thought before beginning the sentence which was to convey it.
~ Thomas Hardy
I have zero interest in performing in films to try to convey any kind of message. My job is to be entertaining. There's a very different point of view about messages in films in Europe than there is in the States. Audiences rebel because they feel that they are being preached to.
~ Bruce Willis
How can love's spaciousnessbe conveyed in the narrowconfines of one syllable?
~ Diane Ackerman
Within the shielded darkness of the President's limousine a geas unlocks in my head, and I can finally remember the message the PM wants me to convey to his counterpart
~ Charles Stross
Let the story tell itself.
~ Tim O'Brien
I started out as a singer and a musician, and I was taught that your job is just to get out of the way of Brahms or Arthur Miller or Shakespeare and convey the brilliance that they created.
~ J. K. Simmons
Remembering that man is indeed the microcosm, the universe in miniature, the Divine Dance of the future should be able to convey with its slightest gestures some significance of the universe.
~ Ruth St. Denis
Writers and actors have some creative ground in common, and so when you're writing a scene and hoping to convey a mood it's not the worst idea to try to put that mood into your headspace -- feel it, if only a little. I'm not saying you have to kill a kitten or punch your mother to feel something -- I just mean, stir up the memory of certain emotions if not the emotion itself. Same way an actor might think about a sad moment to conjure tears on-camera. 23.
~ Chuck Wendig
It wasn't enough to know.. You had to actually go and tell somebody.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
You need to understand the meaning of the dialogue to be able to convey it right. You need to know it to understand the nuances of the scene.
~ Suhasini Maniratnam
My ideas flow so rapidly that I have not time to express them??by which means my letters sometimes convey no ideas at all to my correspondents.
~ Jane Austen
I think the goal with any writing, but especially narrative nonfiction, is to put the blockade of putting your thoughts in this unnatural medium of print and then trying to reach through that and actually convey what's going on, what you think, and make people laugh and recognize themselves while doing it. Definitely the laughing thing.
~ Sloane Crosley
Nearly every communication method we invent eventually conveys unwanted commercial messages.
~ Jamais Cascio