Quotes About Communication

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They say the eyes speak a thousand languages, but the lips, honey, the lips hold a million secrets—and it's the secrets that attract attention.

Systems analysts rarely call their parents from across the country with mysterious problems. Still more rarely do they disappear. It is not part of the technical mentality to disappear.

You have taught me to be still, so that I could move properly. You have taught me to listen, so that I can speak properly. You have taught me to see, so that I might not always be seen.

God's Teeth,' he says. 'I was only trying to wake you. You were crying out in your sleep.' 'I was not,' I say, then look from his neck to my knife. 'When I tried to wake you, you stabbed me.' He sounds sore put out. and I cannot blame him.

That's one of my problems. I never get angry quick enough. I never speak up when I am really mad. And then I feel silly bringing it up later.

Note in particular that a noun denoting a group of people takes which, not who. You cannot write *the battalion who had captured the fortress because a battalion, though composed of people, is not itself a person: write the battalion which had captured the fortress.

dissociate, disassociate Both are possible, but dissociate is more usual, and is recommended.

it is impossible to use that if the relative clause is non-restrictive – that is, if it does not serve to identify the thing under discussion, but only serves to provide more information about that thing. So, you must write the Suez Canal, which was opened in 1869, and you cannot write *the Suez Canal, that was opened in 1869.

What, should we get rid of our ignorance, the very substance of our lives, merely in order to understand one another?

sweet talkers can convert even enemies to friends. So, they do not have any enemies.

Seated at table - no need for the fracture of the room's silence; noiselessly they conversed.

I can't speak my own language - Iesu, All those good words; And I outside them.

If our marriages are to survive the long haul, we certainly must have a love that keeps no record of wrongs.

Adjectives are the potbelly of poetry.

One of the things that makes God different from people is that God is always available to listen.

How can I expect readers to know who I am if I do not tell them about my family, my friends, the relationships in my life? Who am I if not where I fit in the world, where I fit in the lives of the people dear to me?

Anyone who says the pen is mightier than the sword has never come face-to-face with a gun.

I prefer slow conversations where words are counted like pearls, conversation with many pauses, pauses replacing words. An Unnecessary Woman

Childhood is played out in a foreign language and our memory of it is a Constance Garnett translation.

But to paraphrase the ever-paraphraseable Freud, who said something to the effect that when you speak about the past you lie with every breath you take, I will say this: When you write about the past, you lie with each letter, with every grapheme, including the goddamn comma.

No matter how good a story is, there is more at stake in the telling.

you can tell how well a marriage is working by counting the bite marks on each partner's tongue.

Pundits these days keep jabbering and hooting about the Internet being the greatest advancement. Web this, web that, and let the resident spider suck the life out of you.