Quotes About Communication

Still, language is resilient, and poetry when it is pressured simply goes underground.

Poetry is the art of saying what you mean but disguising it.

To learn more about them, people should use you.

He said 'That! Put that in your purse! I don't like that!' when I took off my brassiere. It remained there, though, curled up on his wooden floor, curled awkwardly for a piece of clothing, not awkwardly if it had been something else perhaps, a creature. "Idea

If suffering like hers had any use, she reasoned, it was not to the sufferer. The only way that an individual's pain gained meaning was through its communication to others.

Marriage opens a joint account in the language bank, with 'we' as the currency, and that pronoun yokes two individual identities with different stakes in marriage.

He took great pleasure in teasing her; he'd decided that Bee was no name for a person, and that it must just be the first letter of her real name. So every time he came in, he addressed her by a new and awful name that started with B.

The truth about me would rise like smoke signals soon enough.

Taking out a criminal was easier than phoning home.

English may be the language everyone needs to know, but Italian is the language people want to learn. With

Americans see Italian "come una lingua polisensoriale capace di aprire le porte al bello" ("as a multi sensory language able to open the gates to beauty").

Italians basic word chest, as tallied in a recent dictionary, totals a measly 200,000, compared to English's 600,000 (not counting technical terms). But

Se io studiassi di più l'italiano, lo parlerei meglio.

As I mulled over the words of its giants, I realized that I was unconsciously moving my hands beneath my cape in the very same ways that I do when I speak Italian. And I was speaking Italian—to myself! My teachers had predicted that someday this milestone of a moment would come, that

Perhaps because of this Babel of dialects, Italians cultivated an alternative language: gestures. In

Nothing expresses remorse better than silence.

Documentation is like sex: when it is good, it is very, very good; and when it is bad, it is better than nothing.

It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.

But what do you say if you're asked a direct question and you can't tell the truth and you can't tell a lie?' 'You say "how very interesting" and change the subject.

Mrs Palis­sey and I tend­ed to have the same con­ver­sa­tions over and over and slight­ly too of­ten.

Silly,' he said with mock serenity, 'isn't a word you should ever apply to people. They may be totally stupid, in fact, but if you call them silly you've lost their vote.

When I first broke through, there was only NBC, CBS and ABC, and they had news in the morning and in the evening - there wasn't no 24-hour news.

Anybody who thinks that getting a communication from a voter in your district is spam - that guy is pork. Roast pork unless he changes his point of view.

'Yes' is a far more potent word than 'no' in American politics. By adopting the positions which animate the political agenda for the other side, one can disarm them and leave them sputtering with nothing to say.