Quotes About Communication

Success in life, in anything, depends upon the number of persons that one can make himself agreeable to.

It must be a hard life to be the child of a psychologist.

A word in season is most precious.

You know, I have found in the course of a long public life that the things I did not say never hurt me.

Married life had taught Toran the futility of arguing with a female in a dark-brown mood.

Real life is a funny thing, you know. In real life saying the right thing at the right time is beyond crucial.

The baggage in your individual life will weigh down your married life. Do something about it.

I've had to spend an awful lot of my life trying to pretend I'm not posh. Although once I open my mouth, I rather let things out the bag.

No messages. Morale losing altitude.

Honestly, I'm cool with everyone, and people pick up on that. I'd say, 'I'm not gay, but it's all good.' It's kind of like going to Paris when you don't know the language some Americans get into trouble over there, but I'm just like, 'Sorry, I don't speak French.'

Love is the last light spoken.

Mr Pugh: Pigs can't read, my dear. Mrs Pugh: I know one who can.

Every time we make an assumption—for example, that we understand our spouse—we are exposing ourselves like an open wound. Assumptions and expectations that rely on someone or something else leave us vulnerable. At any moment, one of the uncountable possible contradictions can pop up and sprinkle salt on our assumptions, causing us to flinch and howl.

You're lying to me half the time, and I'm lying to you all the time.

I want to die, sometimes, my head hurts so much. I keep writing you all my brightest thoughts but I never say the dark ones, even though I think them all the time. So I am saying them now. Even if you do not answer, I will know somebody heard them, and that, at least, is something.

I don't intend him, or any man or any woman, to be all my life - good heavens, no! There are heaps of things in me that he doesn't, and shall never, understand.

English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgement, and education -- Sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.

I hate the guts of English grammar. … The approach to style is by way of plainness, simplicity, orderliness, sincerity…. You can say anything that comes into your head; never forget that.

Be obscure clearly.

Writing is both mask and unveiling.

Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.

English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.

Television hangs on the questionable theory that whatever happens anywhere should be sensed everywhere. If everyone is going to be able to see everything, in the long run all sights may lose whatever rarity value they once possessed, and it may well turn out that people, being able to see and hear practically everything, will be specially interested in almost nothing.

We have ignored cultural literacy in thinking about education ... We ignore the air we breathe until it is thin or foul. Cultural literacy is the oxygen of social intercourse.