Quotes About Communication

Words are like leaves and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found

Outside the window the boys gabbled to each other. 'White as milk, she said. White as milk.' 'White as a stone, like chalk you write with.

Un libro, en manos de un vecino, es un arma cargada. Quémalo.

But what do you talk about?" She laughed at this. "Good night!

Not to write, for many of us, is to die.

The fact is we didn't get along well until photography came into its own. Then - motion pictures in the early twentieth century. Radio. Television. Things began to have mass.' 'And because they had mass, they became simpler

Whirl man's mind around about so fast under the pumping hands of publishers, exploiters, broadcasters, that the centrifuge flings off all unnecessary, time-wasting thought!

Metaphor is the medicine.

DopuÅ¡tím se malé ironie. A není sluÅ¡né nÄ›koho pÃ…â"¢eruÅ¡ovat, zrovna když se dopouÅ¡tí malé ironie. No tak!

Llénalos de noticias incombustibles. Sentirán que la información los ahoga, pero se creerán inteligentes

Page 33 Oh, they don't miss me, she said. I'm very antisocial, they say. I don't mix. It's so strange. I'm very social indeed. It all depends on what you mean by social, doesn't it? Social to me means talking to you about things like this.

Words are like leaves and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found.' Alexander Pope.

So much depends, of course, on what the individual hears when he gives himself over to the electronic tides breaking on the shore of his Seashell.

Afraid of the word "politics" (which eventually became a synonym for Communism

They were hopelessly caught in a mire of pretty words, which they seemed to believe themselves.

Sid: She laughed and said to her oppo, 'Oh dear, how plebian. Bill: What's 'plebian'? Hancock: Plebian! It's from the latin 'plebes', defined by Pliny as derivative from 'plebiscum'. Bill: Yeah, but what does it mean? Hancock: It means you're a scruffbag!

Il bambino impara semplicemente parlando e ascoltando.

That, by the way, is a good Oriental idea: you don't teach until you are asked. You don't force your mission down people's throats.)

The sense of this, it seemed to me, might be that from above or below, or from any point of the compass, the creative Word might be heard, which is the great thesis of democracy.

Preachers err, he told me, by trying "to talk people into belief; better they reveal the radiance of their own discovery.

Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.

Writing in English is like throwing mud at a wall.

My task is to make you hear, to make you feel,and, above all, to make you see. That is all, and it is everything.

My task which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel — it is, before all, to make you see. That — and no more, and it is everything. If I succeed, you shall find there according to your deserts: encouragement, consolation, fear, charm — all you demand; and, perhaps, also that glimpse of truth for which you have forgotten to ask.