Quotes About Communication

o pai de manta nos joelhos à cata de um - Sabes? entre meia dúzia de palavras que tinha, não meia dúzia, duas ou três, não duas ou três, nenhuma, bolhinhas de cuspo que rebentavam mudas (...)

O que eu gostava de poder encher os livros de silêncio, e tender cada vez mais de silêncio, e que as palavras estivessem carregadas de silêncio de maneira a que o leitor as pudesse encher como quisesse.

Só sirvo para te escutares

The new world of communication is a blessing for the citizens of the world trained to think critically and knowledgeable about history. But what about citizens who have been seduced by the world of life as entertainment and commerce? They have been educated, in good part, by a world in which negative emotional provocation is the rule rather than the exception and where the best solutions for a problem have to do primarily with short-term self-interests. Can they really be blamed?

Memory, language, imagination, and reasoning are leading participants in cultural processes

Language may not be the source of the self, but it certainly is the source of the "I.

Porque mostrei enfado com as diligências necessárias para despachar a bagagem, considerou que sofria de horror aos preparativos das viagens, rotulando-me de efodiofóbico.

My wife and I have always trusted each other, and I have to thank her strength.

For a minute or two they remained in complete silence--the silence of people who know each other so well that words are merely an accessory rather than a necessity.

When we focus our thoughts upon some person in the spirit world, whether they be in the form of a definite message, or whether they are solely of an affectionate nature, those thoughts will reach their destination without fail, and they will be taken up by the percipient.

Although we can thus send our thoughts, it must not be assumed that our minds are as an open book for all to read.

Don't touch my dick, don't touch my knife.

Journalism may not dare too much. It can be gently humorous and ironic, very lightly touched by idiosyncrasy, but it must not repel readers by digging too deeply. This is especially true of its approach to language: the conventions are not questioned. The questioning of linguistic conventions is one of the main duties of what we call literature.

Languages never stand still. Modern spelling crystallises lost pronunciations: the visual never quite catches up with the aural.

That shut her up real horrorshow and lovely.

Language exists less to record the actual than to liberate the imagination.

Often it is what we do not say which gives away a flaw in our thinking

Smile, it is the key that fits the lock of everybody's heart.

Two or three notes of music can instantly make you feel sad or tense or afraid or angry. To do that in words is much more difficult.

If what you said was true, where was the need to shout?

A story is the shortest distance between a human being and truth.

Do not speak unless you can improve on the silence.

A story is the shortest distance between a human being and the truth.

The shortest distance between truth and a human being is a story.