Quotes About Communication

Did he? Jenny lowered her voice. Shall I tell you what I think of that man? I think he's slightly sinister. Having made this pronouncement, she entered the ivory tower of her deafness and closed the door. Denis could not induce her to say anything more, could not induce her even to listen. She just smiled at him, smiled and occasionally nodded.

A word only stands for the ways in which things or happenings of the same general kind are like one another. That's why the word is public. And, being public, it can't possibly stand for the ways in which happenings of the same general kind are unlike one another.

How can one be violent about the sort of things one's expected to write about? Words can be like X-rays, if you use them properly_they'll go through anything. You read and you're pierced.

W]ords are not the same as things and [...] a knowledge of words about facts is in no sense equivalent to a direct and immediate apprehension of the facts themselves.

four-seater sporticopter. They'd be late for dinner if he didn't come soon. "We'll give him five more minutes," said Helmholtz. "If he doesn't turn up by then we'll…" The ringing of the telephone bell interrupted him. He picked up the receiver. "Hullo. Speaking." Then, after a long interval of listening

I'm sorry I tried to be unpleasant, he said at last.

Whatever one says on the air is bound to be misunderstood; for people take from the heard or printed discourse that which they are predisposed to hear or read, not what is there- all that TV can do is to increase the number of misunderstanders by many thousandfold – and at the same time to increase the range of misunderstanding by providing no objective text to which the voluntarily ignorant can be made to refer.

Threequarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.

There are many thoughts and feelings, but only a few gestures; and the mask has only half a dozen grimaces to express a thousand meanings

Words can be like X-rays, if you use them properly – they'll go through anything. You read and you're pierced. That

Las palabras pueden ser como los rayos X, si se emplean adecuadamente: pasan a través de todo. Las lees y te traspasan.

Le style c'est I'homme. No doubt. But the converse is also partly true. L'homme c'est le style. Because we have a gift for writing in a certain way, we find ourselves, in some sort, becoming our way of writing. We mould ourselves in the likeness of our particular brand of eloquence.

Curious that one should be dumb before intimates and open one's mind to an all but stranger.

Abban volt bölcs, hogy tudott hallgatni. A hallgatás úgy zárja magába a bölcsesség és szellemesség ígéretét, mint márványtömb a remekbe faragott szobrot. Aki hallgat, nem tanúskodik önmaga ellen.

In all dictatorial propaganda, silence is at least as important as speech.

Utilizados de un modo, la prensa, la radio y el cine son indispensables para la resistencia de la democracia. Utilizados de otro modo, figuran entre las armas más poderosas del arsenal de un dictador.

de abrir esta Puerta en el Muro? La respuesta, a todos los efectos prácticos, es Ninguno. En un mundo donde la educación es predominantemente verbal, las personas muy cultas hallan poco menos que imposible dedicar una seria atención a lo que no sea palabras y nociones.

Talking? But what about?" Walking and talking—that seemed a very odd way of spending an afternoon.

Words can be like X-rays, if you use them properly – they'll go through anything.

Words are man's first and most grandiose invention. With language he created a whole new universe; what wonder if he loved words and attributed power to them!

Great is the truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects, by lowering what Mr Churchill calls an 'iron curtain' between the masses and such facts or arguments as the local political bosses regard as undesirable, totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have done by the most eloquent denunciations, the most compelling of logical rebuttals.

Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly—they'll go through anything. You read and you're pierced.

I have discovered the most exciting, the most arduous literary form of all, the most difficult to master, the most pregnant in curious possibilities. I mean the advertisement. It is far easier to write ten passably effective Sonnets, good enough to take in the not too inquiring critic, than one effective advertisement that will take in a few thousand of the uncritical buying public.

But to understand English is one thing; to understand an Englishman who talks is another.