Quotes About Communication

The difference between face-to-face conversation and any other medium of communication is simple: No distractions are permitted.

Well, I'm permitted to say anything I like. I just don't.

The nice thing about gag manga is how it has this aspect where, at the very least, you're permitted to come out with anything. In my case, anything can talk. Like the mountains.

I admit I feel funny when I use the word 'whom' as I'm talking to my diapered children, but I persist.

I'm very persistent; I know the Internet very well, because I grew up on the Internet. I had Internet when there was just dial-up, and the Internet was my social outlet.

Being heard is so close to being loved that for the average person they are almost indistinguishable.

Our mission is to connect every person in the world. You don't do that by having a service people pay for.

Just because you say something doesn't make it controversial, and it doesn't make you a bad person.

If a person never contradicts himself, it must be that he says nothing.

There are many more languages than we think: and man betrays himself more often than he desires. How things speak! - but there are very few listeners, so that man can only, as it were, chatter on in the void when he pours out his confessions: he squanders his 'truths', as the sun does its light. - Isn't it rather a pity that the void has no ears?

We have technology, finally, that for the first time in human history allows people to really maintain rich connections with much larger numbers of people.

Le journalisme doit remplir deux fonctions : organiser l'espace public mais aussi produire des révélations. Révéler d'abord au sens de tendre un miroir à la société, pour qu'elle prenne conscience de ce qu'elle est véritablement.

Sound is the vocabulary of nature.

aujourd'hui encore, l'allemand, l'alsacien et le français se disputent dans ma tête et brouillent mon élocution ; aujourd'hui encore, je me déplace avec un dictionnaire allemand-français dans mes affaires.

if there be some points which correspondence can never settle, but which can be made clear by conversation in two minutes, at other times just the opposite is the case: an objection clearly stated in writing, a doubt well expressed, which elicits a direct and positive reply, helps things along more than ten hours of oral intercourse!

I think it's a shame that something as creative and vital to the nature of the human species as story-telling is largely controlled by the soulless cretins known as publishers.

Lovers meander in prose and rhyme, trying to say- for the thousandth time- what's easier done than said.

Because you could not translate the word apartheid into the more universal language of English, the wrong connotation was given to it.

Words have a longer life than deeds.

Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

I have many swift arrows in my quiver which speak to the wise, but for the crowd they need interpreters. The skilled poet is one who knows much through natural gift, but those who have learned their art chatter turbulently, vainly, against the divine bird of Zeus.

Boy children are primed to expect everything from their wives in the marriage, and not give too much if anything at all.

Forse il destino della penisola si può racchiudere nel suo stesso nome: Yucatán deriva dalle parole maya ciu-tan , e significa "noi non vi capiamo". Era la frase più sentita dagli spagnoli, che anche qui erano venuti in cerca di oro senza trovarne nemmeno un'oncia, e alla loro reazione violenta gli indios avevano solo il tempo di dire "non riusciamo a comprendervi".

El que habla, siembra. El que escucha, recoge.