Quotes About Communication

When a diplomat says 'yes' he means 'maybe.' When a diplomat says 'maybe' he means 'no.' But if a diplomat says 'no' he's no diplomat.

I know you think you understand what you thought I said but Im not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.

the music expressed life and explained it and left you having to ask again.

It was a refinement of teasing, where you were never told why your answer was wrong.

older vowels were showing through as he said that it was "awfully good of" his parents to have tolerated him.

Child, to say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than what you really mean; that's the whole art and joy of words." A

there are many situations in which we lose something of our humanity by militarizing discussion and debate;

When there is so much to be known, when there are so many fields of knowledge in which the same words are used with different meanings, when everyone knows a little about a great many things, it becomes increasingly difficult for anyone to know whether he knows what he is talking about or not.

And when he refused to tell her he loved her after having sex, she broke all the dishes until her arms bled and the medics took her away. And he sat and blew Arabesques of smoke.

Words. Empty words. Sometimes I hate words. Sometimes they fail human experience. Sometimes words are a way to avoid the truth.

And when he refused to tell her he loved her after sex, she broke all the dishes until her arms bled and the medics took her away. And he sat and blew Arabesques of smoke.

Yet the time-deaf are unable to speak what they know. For speech needs a sequence of words, spoken in time.

In another house, a man sits alone at his table, laid out for two. Ten years ago, he sat here across from his father, was unable to say that he loved him, searched through the years of his childhood for some moment of closeness, remembered the evenings that silent man sat alone with his book, was unable to say that he loved him, was unable to say that he loved him.

Only when the traveler communicates with the city of departure does he realize he has entered a new domain of time...It is then the traveler learns that he is cut off in time, as well as in space. No traveler goes back to his city of origin.

Is it meaningless to apologize? Never.

Language comes first. It's not that language grows out of consciousness, if you haven't got language, you can't be conscious.

While a truncheon may be used in lieu of conversation, words will always retain their power.

Perhaps this is the purpose of all art, all writing, on the murders, fiction and non-fiction: Simply to participate.

Three things, then. Escape, and finding work, and then explaining himself adequately. It was just those areas he had trouble with. Everything else, he was all right about.

Artists use lies to tell the truth, while politicians use them to cover the truth up.

That's Beethoven's fifth... Da da da dum! Heh heh. That's morse code, y'know. Uh, morse code? Hmm. It's morse code for the letter v.

Although the fire is dead, these cinders are its voice

In our narratives we may signify without constraint.

Oh my God …" China stared at him. "You are actually thicker than you look.