Quotes About Communication

It is really irritating to work with irritating people

It is forgivable to say nothing out of ignorance; it's inexcusable to remain silent once awareness dawns.

If you can get by with quotes from The Godfather and nothing you say matters, that's pretty bleak, don't you think? Don't we want what we say to matter?

The inclination to exchange thoughts with one another is probably an original impulse of our nature. If I be in pain I wish to let you know it, and to ask your sympathy and assistance; and my pleasurable emotions also, I wish to communicate to, and share with you. —ABRAHAM LINCOLN, February 11, 1859

Why do we have two ears and one mouth? In order to talk half as much as we listen.

If the apocalypse comes...beep me!

The news isn't there to tell you what happened. It's there to tell you what it wants you to hear or what it thinks you want to hear.

Can't stop the signal

You are talking crazy-person talk. Put your words in word places please.

To read makes our speaking English good.

Do you love me? What? Do you? I love you. I don't know if I trust you. Maybe you shouldn't do either. Maybe I'm the one who should decide!

You think we're dancing? That's all we've ever done.

A vague disclaimer is nobody's friend

Writing is the greatest thing that can happen to a human being. It's the best.

The English Language is my bitch. Or I don't speak it very well. Whatever.

Sometimes you might make up a story and tell it to other people

Sometimes you might say something you think is true.

Sometimes you might purposely tell someone something that is not

Lying is not a good thing to do. When you lie:

There are many ways to tell lies. You can tell lies with your actions.

You might cause someone to believe something that is not true by acting a certain way. You are lying when you do this.

People usually find out when you lie to them.

In a way, we [poets] are listeners. I go to poetry because I don't have the words." —

We make ceremony with words even as our words can lead us to the hells of destruction.