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Quotes About Communication

Guys do have a language, and it does express emotion with startling clarity and nuance. The idea that they don't express their feelings is as absurd as traveling to a foreign country and claiming the natives can't speak simply because you don't understand what they're saying.
~ Jody Gehrman
People can be reassured by a tone of voice. By a touch. A gesture. Even if the voice and gestures are false, the innocent person meets the liar halfway to complete the lie. It's a partnership.
~ Jody Shields
The wise speaker first learns when to stay silent
~ Joe Abercrombie
Get what you can with words, because words are free, but the words of an armed man ring that much sweeter.
~ Joe Abercrombie
A man who does't want opinions should keep his own mouth shut.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Treat a man like a dog and sooner or later he'll bite you,
~ Joe Abercrombie
If you wanted to see my cock that badly, you could just have asked.' 'No doubt a thing o' haunting beauty but i came for something else.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Words are weapons. They should be handled with proper care.
~ Joe Abercrombie
I only want to hold you if you want me to hold you.
~ Ann H. Gabhart
She smiled up at him. 'The edge of dark. I love the way you say things here.' 'It's just talk to folks up here.' 'I suppose so, but to my ears it sounds poetic.
~ Ann H. Gabhart
The plane blew up." "I wonder what happened to all the other people?" As soon as I'd spoken, I wished I hadn't said that. I decided shy people shouldn't try to make conversation, not even in an emergency. If I manage to talk to strangers at all, nervousness always makes me say the wrong thing.
~ Ann Halam
I walked all the way around the zoo, and then came back to a girl with a round face and fluffy hair, who looked like a baby owl. I like owls. I was about to say hello when along came Very Cool Girl, with her beautiful hair swinging. She smiled at me, and so did the baby owl. But oh no…My throat closed up. I simply could not speak. I can't talk to strangers! I swerved off, and pretended I'd been headed for a nearby drinks machine.
~ Ann Halam
The only language she could speak was grief. How could he not know that? Instead, she said, "I love you." She did. She loved him. But even that didn't feel like anything anymore.
~ Ann Hood (The Knitting Circle)
Ray to Livvy] Aren't you used to people meaning what they say?
~ Ann Howard Creel
I'd become a woman who dreamed of yelling at people who didn't even know how infuriating I found them.
~ Ann Howard Creel
Women complain about sex more often than men. Their gripes fall into two major categories: (1) Not enough. (2) Too much.
~ Ann Landers
All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership.
~ Ann Landers
Blessed are they who hold lively conversations with the helplessly mute, for they shall be called dentists.
~ Ann Landers
Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other".
~ Ann Landers
The trouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven't thought of yet.
~ Ann Landers
All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principles of equal partnership.
~ Ann Landers
us next weekend, I'd love to meet her." "No, Jake, I think you misunderstood
~ Ann Leary
A sentence has a subject and a verb and expresses a complete thought. However,
~ Ann Longknife
Fight your battles with words, not fists
~ Ann M. Martin