Quotes About Communication

Aprender una lengua extraña: asimilas nociones de gramática, vocabulario básico y un acento espantoso que apenas sirve para que te entiendan. Te esfuerzas durante años y de repente, sin saber por qué, todo fluye, captas cómo funciona...

Of course, I'd also suggest that whoever was the genius who thought it was a good idea to read things ONE FUCKING BYTE AT A TIME with system calls for each byte should be retroactively aborted. Who the f*ck does idiotic things like that? How did they not die as babies, considering that they were likely too stupid to find a tit to suck on?

This probably also means that if and when we ever meet another intelligent life form in this universe, their first words are not likely to be Take me to our leader. They're more likely to say Party on, dude!

It may be that I have sought to cultivate that trait in myself to such a high degree because I think of myself primarily as a writer. The chief satisfaction in the whole business of writing, it seems to me, comes down to saying what is, or what you think is.

Yes, I am unalterably convinced that the translation of an experience into words depends more upon the temperament of the man who has lived through it than upon its actual content.

Whoever is free from prejudice should be ready to face misunderstanding.

there is a vast difference between talking about God and listening to a God who talks to you.

words of the reckless pierce like swords,             but the tongue of the wise brings healing. (Proverbs 12:18, NIV)

Our first response when angered should be to turn away momentarily, mentally or physically, so we can separate the offense from the offender.

The saber we've been entrusted to bear is not lifted with our hands; it is raised by our words.

And a man and woman should fight. Frankly, they should have a good head-to-head battle about every six months, then make love until they break the box springs.

Whomever speaks first gives up some power.

Quincy, boyfriends apologize, shrinks analyze. Which are you?

I don't speak. In this day and age, we all talk too much and hear too little. Listening has become a forgotten art that the world is sorely missing.

according to Freud, the tie you pick, the ring you wear, the shirt you buy, all say something about you. Nothing is random, everything you do has intent.

Alex said, his voice subdued, tense. "So it would seem," D.D.

Shit, I'm being played like a fucking violin! Rainie blinked. Since when did you take up swearing? Yesterday. I'm finding it highly addictive. Like nicotine. You're smoking , too? No, but I haven't lost my deep and abiding love for metaphors.

Stop psychoanalyzing me! Be less therapist, more man -- Man? Last time I tried being a man, you looked at me as if I was going to hit you. You don't need a man, Rainie. You either need a blow-up doll or a damn saint!

The Internet is a microcosm of society.

Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen

I thoroughly believe that reading and literature can help a society to better understand itself.

Society cannot share a common communication system so long as it is split into warring factions.

On the other hand, in a society whose communication component is becoming more prominent day by day, both as a reality and as an issue, it is clear that language assumes a new importance.

All of us who professionally use the mass media are the shapers of society. We can vulgarise that society. We can brutalise it. Or we can help lift it onto a higher level.