Quotes About Communication

Passarono ore, seduti uno accanto all'altro, a parlare e a tacere.

Quasi ogni giorno, ormai da anni, prende la penna in mano e le scrive. Non ha nomi e non ha indirizzi da mettere sulle buste: ma ha una vita da raccontare. E a chi, se non a lei? Lui pensa che quando si incontreranno sarà bello posarle sul grembo una scatola di mogano piena di lettere e dirle – Ti aspettavo.

Perché una soluzione perfetta che non riesco a spiegare alla gente è destinata a fallire.

No estás jodido verdaderamente mientras tengas una buena historia a cuestas y alguien a quién contársela.

Solo a Hélène non riusciva a mentire. -è proprio necessario che parta, Baldabiou? -No. -E allora perché? -Io non posso fermarlo. E se lui vuole andare laggiù, posso solo dargli una ragione in più per tornare.

Lo que saca a la historia de sí misma, trayéndola así al mundo, es el acto de contarla. Que, sin embargo

Riditemelo, Bartleboom. Proprio con quel tono lì, vi prego. Riditemelo.

Lui diceva: Non sei fregato veramente finché hai da parte una buona storia, e qualcuno a cui raccontarla. Lui l'aveva una... buona storia. Lui era la sua buona storia.

I think human beings have evolved to appreciate narrative, in the same way that we have evolved to learn language. What is narrative, after all, but a kind of super-language, where stories, like words, are ways of encapsulating information?

I love you, I thought. But I didn't say it. It was not that I feared she would laugh in my face. She was far too kind for that. My fear was a greater one— that she won't say it back.

transparent evasion exercises.

He spoke in english. Not flawlessly by any means. Not like a Nazi POW camp commandant who appreciates english poetry and says things like 'you know, we are much alike, you and I I'. But good enough

I don't mind shaking hands with a human being, are you one?

the radio silence. Shit, he said.

If you think the sea is blue and I think it's green, why try to convince you?

As for his wife, he bowed to her, as some husbands do to their wives, but in a way that bachelors will never comprehend, until a very extensive code is published on conjugal life.

when the man would be responsible for everything he speaks in vain. -He's responsible when that, which he speaks in vain, causes a misfortune.

You'd think the homeless would despise the rest of us, but it seems the thing they want to do most is talk. If only they could sit us down and let it all spill out - every twist of their history, down to the last murmur - then they'd be cured.

We should be careful of the insults we fling at others, lest they return and land at our feet, newly minted to apply to those who had first coined them.

There was a distinction between lying and telling half-truths, but it was a very narrow one.

It was a pointed sigh, as sighs sometimes are, not one cast into the air to evaporate, but one calculated to descend, precisely and with great effect, on a target.

There was no need for words, for there are times when words can only hint at what the heart would wish to say.

We are born to talk to other people, ... we are born to be sociable and to sit together with others in the shade of the acacia tree and talk about things that happened the day before. We were not born to sit in kitchens by ourselves, with nobody to chat to. Mma Ramotswe

Men are very sensitive, Mma Makutsi. You would not always think it to look at them, but they are. They do not like you to point out that they are wrong, even when they are. That is the way things are, Mma--it just is.