Quotes About Communication

pheromones, those fascinating chemicals that can initiate mating behavior in certain species

A lie can go around the world twice before the truth gets its socks on.

Eventually, it is found out but it takes time especially in the conditions when communication is difficult, when the enemy is making it extremely awkward for information to come out, to go.

was that possible? The whole notion of State Department and CIA personnel being inside a country whose language they didn't speak seemed ludicrous to Charlie. How could one government understand another—much less build a healthy, positive, long-lasting relationship—without at least being able to talk in the other's heart language? It couldn't, Charlie knew, and now Washington was about to pay the piper.

Parlez-vous français, aussi?

Tar-baby ain't sayin' nuthin', en Brer Fox, he lay low.

You do de pullin', Sis Cow, en I'll do de gruntin'.

When you've got a thing to say, Say it! Don't take half a day. When your tale's got little in it Crowd the whole thing in a minute! Life is short--a fleeting vapor-- Don't you fill the whole blamed paper With a tale which, at a pinch, Could be cornered in an inch! Boil her down until she simmers, Polish her until she glimmers.

I've never really understood that. It's a funny thing people sometimes accuse us of condescending to our characters somehow-that to me is kind of inexplicable.

Someone who uses social media successfully doesn't just create content; he or she also creates conversations, and those conversations create communities.

Did you just say you Think Mansfield Park is boring? Get out of my house.

For the most part I felt nothing but scorn for an art form that required the pretense that it was natural for people to communicate with one another in rhymed song.

Humor is a universal lanuage.

Humor is a univeral language.

But what looked like a more diverse and open media world, where anyone could be a reporter or reach an audience, is turning into one where a very few companies control the information pipelines.

One of the most infuriating traits of some philanthropoids is their practice of dragging out grantmaking decisions beyond any reasonable time frame, while failing to offer any clear signals about the real likelihood of approval. When the proposal has been solicited by the foundation in the first place—which is usually the case nowadays—this behavior is even more reprehensible.

What good to your words do if they can't understand you? [—Erykah Badu]

What good do your words do if they can't understand you? [—Erykah Badu]

He's one of my best friends in the world, and from my plant it's OK for a boy and a girl to be good friends without being in an intimate relationship. [—Erykah Badu]

He's one of my best friends in the world, and from my planet its OK for a boy and a girl to be good friends without being in an intimate relationship. [—Erykah Badu]

Are you okay?" "Yeah." "Good," she said, "because if you fall off a skyscraper, I'll be so mad at you.

What are you doing?" I asked Loretta. "Stabbing a cushion," she told me.

Did you just call me 'sweetie'?" I asked. She shoved my shoulder. "No.

Psychiatric diagnosis is at best a common language, and current categories should not be treated as "real.