Quotes About Communication

it wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short.

When people talk listen completely. Don't be thinking what you're going to say. Most people never listen.

But when we sit together, close,´ said Bernard, ´we melt into each other with phrases.´

Ay, he said aloud. There is no translation for this word and perhaps it is just a noise such as a man might make, involuntarily, feeling the nail go through his hands and into the wood.

Easy reading is hard writing

I had never known any man to die while speaking in terza-rima

But people do. They love each other and they misunderstand on purpose and they fight and then suddenly they aren't the same one.

If the others heard me talking out loud they would think that I am crazy, he said aloud.

There is no such word as love. Just as there is no word for sorry.

I never think and yet when I begin to talk I say the things I have found out in my mind without thinking.

Hem, you know I don't think that owner's wife where you live likes me. She wouldn't let me wait upstairs for you.' 'I'll tell her,' I said. 'Don't bother. I can always wait here. It's very pleasant in the sun now, isn't it?' 'It's fall now,' I said. 'I don't think you dress warmly enough.' 'It's only cool in the evening,' Evan said. 'I'll wear my coat.' 'Do you know where it is?' 'No. But it's somewhere safe.' 'How do you know?' 'Because I left the poem in it.

She talked all the time and at first it was about people and places.

Robert Jordan knew that now his papers were being examined by the man who could not read.

The author must write what he has to say, not speak it.

Just two so far," Roger said. "My counselor and I." "My counselor and me," Johnny said. "How the hell do you write books?" "I can always hire someone to put in the grammar.

Tell me everything at once.

When people are talking listen completely. Don't be thinking what you are going to say. Most people never listen. Nor do they observe. You should be able to go into a room and when you come out know everything that you saw there and not only that. If that room gave you any feeling you should know exactly what it was that gave you that feeling. ... And always think of other people.

My Latin is very beat up," Thomas Hudson said. "Along with my Greek, my English, my head, and my heart. All I know how to speak now is frozen daiquiri. ¿Tú hablas frozen daiquiri tú?

I am speaking much. But it is so we may understand one another.

The movies ruined everything. Like talking about something good. That was what had made the war unreal. Too much talking.

How could a woman know that you meant nothing that you said; that you spoke only from habit and to be comfortable? After he no longer meant what he said, his lies were more successful with women than when he had told them the truth.

than those damn—Oh hell, I can't even remember the name of them." "You're not supposed to swear when we are around," Thomas Hudson corrected. "I'm sorry, papa," the small boy said. "I can't help it that I'm so damn young. I'm sorry again. I mean so young.

Ma che cosa posso raccontare a questa ragazza, ora, in questa fredda mattina ventosa al Gritti Palace Hotel? "Che cosa vorresti sapere, Figlia?" le chiese "Tutto quanto." "Va bene" disse il colonnello. "Incominciamo.

If you make jokes with people, you create enemies to yourself.