Quotes About Communication

While drawing, I discover what I really want to say.

The difference between talking on your cell phone while driving and speaking with a passenger is huge. The person on the other end of the cell phone is chattering away, oblivious.

Stammering is different than stuttering. Stutterers have trouble with the letters, while stammerers trip over entire parts of a sentence. We stammerers generally think of ourselves as very bright.

Just once in a while let us exalt the importance of ideas and information.

Passive aggressors who are adept at this will have trained themselves to remain calm, while you get irritated and emotional.

So many of us have loved ones and people we really care about, and the only time we show affection is when they are gone. I have preached at funerals, and you see loved ones who didn't even say hello to dear ones when they were alive. Give them hugs, kisses while they are alive and need it.

While all deception requires secrecy, all secrecy is not meant to deceive.

After a while, a joke, if you say it too much, just becomes contrived, or fake-sounding.

Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.

The German language speaks Being, while all the others merely speak of Being.

A guitar player goes on the road, and he misses his girlfriend for a while, but he manages to get along. A horn player gets out on the road, plays two or three towns, and then he'll get lonely, and next thing you know, he's packed up and left. It's better not to hire him in the first place.

Nothing is as irritating as the fellow who chats pleasantly while he's overcharging you.

I've had teammates I didn't get along with, who hasn't? I've never had a teammate call me a bad guy, while he was my teammate, and if he did when I was gone what kind of teammate was he anyway?

Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can and keeping free of it, teach that poetry is a mode of discourse that differs from logical exposition.

I'm glad you can't talk on your cells while the plane is in the air. That would drive me crazy.

I think social media is a slippery slope because while you're projecting something out to people, they also project back onto you what they want to see.

I felt lost in endless spools of social media. All the while, emails by the thousands were piling up, phone calls were getting lost in the mix, and messages from the most important people in my life were getting drowned out in the din. I was more responsive to comments on Instagram than to my own closest friends and family.

I liked Truman very much. He was precise and businesslike. After a while, it was his turn.

I don't think we should speak so much. What if we were singing a song? We split, whilst singing.

Whilst the Internet is amazing, someone with a laptop can make something amazing and send it out, but you grow up creatively in a very public way.

Marriage is not all rainbows and butterflies; you have to give in to your partner's whims every now and then, and that's a two-way street.

I don't like the idea that Facebook controls how people express themselves and changes it periodically according to whatever algorithms they use to figure out what they should do or the whim of some programmer or some CEO. That bothers me a great deal.

I have an almost entirely written correspondence with a few friends of mine who are really busy. We exchange quite long and sometimes quite whimsical, sometimes quite meaningful, sometimes silly letters.

My mum's advice is never to whine to my friends, so they never see the other side of me. I save all my problems for my mother.