Quotes About Communication

I heard it through the gripevine.

See? I can read between the lies of the lines of the writing on the wail.

Unlike Maxine Kumin, I never learned to pay the syntax.

If you can't be kind, at least be vague.

Nowadays, we never allow ourselves the convenience of being temporarily unavailable, even to strangers. With telephone and beeper, people subject themselves to being instantly accessible to everyone at all times, and it is the person who refuses to be on call, rather than the importunate caller, who is considered rude.

As successful people are afraid of being used, unsuccessful people are afraid of being snubbed, interesting people want to talk about something different from their jobs and boring people won't stop talking about their jobs

Don't do this to us. He warned, his voice hoarse with angry desperation as he realize he was losing her. You're letting eleven years of mistrust color everything you've discovered I've done.

Do you know why I married you, Philip? Presumably you wanted the financial security and social prestige I could offer. She chuckled at that and shook her head...I believed, she confessed somberly, I honestly believed that I had something to offer you too--something you needed. Do you know what it was? I can't imagine. I thought I could teach you how to laugh and enjoy life. Philip and Caroline

Sam Littleton was a beautiful woman who would try to play women's games. That meant that if he asked her if she was upset with him about something, she would do what women all do at such times: She would deny that anything was wrong, then continue acting as if something was wrong, in hopes that he would do what men always do at such times -beg for an explanation, agonise over the answer, ask for hints, and agonise a little more.

You have to marry me. I think I've just been voted off the committee on international trade-they think I'm unstable. And Tony took me off his lift. Mary says she'll quit if I don't bring you back. Ericka found your earrings, and she gave them to Jim. He said to tell you that you can't have them unless you come back for them...

In the middle of his rapid-fire dictatioin he said softly, without pausing, When the sun is on your hair, it shines like spun gold, and launched back into his letter. Lauren, who had inadvertently taken half of the compliment down in shorthand, gave him a killing glance, and he chuckled.

Has anyone ever told you that you have incredibly beautiful eyes? Yes, and you're prevaricating! And that you're extremely well-spoken, too? he continued, ignoring her remark.

Firmly, taking her chin between his thumb and forefinger,Nick turned her face up to his, forcing her to look into his teasing gray eyes. If I'm so beautiful, why won't you look at me? That was a silly thing for me to tell you, Lauren apologized with quiet dignity, and... It was definitely a gross exaggeration- he smiled, taking his hand away from her chin -but I liked it.And, in case you're interested, he added, his voice turning husky, no one has ever told me that before.

You won't listen to me. Anger blows out the lamp of the mind . . ." The quote from Ingersoll

Can we be just friends?, she asked tentatively. I thought we were friends, he said. You know what I mean. I choose not to know what you mean. How can you choose not to know what you know? she asked sulkily. How can you choose not to talk about what you feel? If I don't talk about it, I don't feel it. Fine. Then let's not talk about just being friends. -- Looking for Mr. Goodbar

I think that if you have a talent for acting, it is the talent for listening." — Morgan Freeman

Why are we acting as if we're angry. Are we angry?

I still get angry when older people assume that everyone in my generation, screws around. They're probably the same ones who think all kids use dope. It's true that we are more open than our parents but that just means we accept sex and talk about it. It doesn't mean we are all jumping into bed together.

It's true that we are more open than our parents but that just means we accept sex and talk about it. It doesn't mean we are all jumping in bed together.

Book banning satisfied their need to feel in control of their children's lives. Those who censored were easily frightened. They were afraid of exposing their children to ideas different from their own. Afraid to answer children's questions or talk with them about sensitive subjects.

Are you still there God? It's me, Margaret. I know you're there God. I know you wouldn't have missed this for anything! Thank you God. Thanks an awful lot.…

I really like you, Margaret. How do you want me to kiss you?

Besides, if they were going to be killed it would be better to be killed together, otherwise she'd have to explain to Lamb why Caitlin was murdered and she wasn't.

because everyone knew you knitted argyle socks only for a boyfriend.