Quotes About Communication

They prided themselves on being honest with each other, but they were women. Sometimes they put protecting feelings above the truth. Or looking self-sufficient above asking for help.

You should have been in Atlanta right after she got her iPhone and texted all of us her plans to 'masterbate penis primavera,'" Kyra said, unsnapping Dustin's bib and scooping him up out of the high chair. Chase snorted with laughter. Maddie could see the curve of Troy's smile beneath the camera. "It seems clear that people over forty should not be allowed to text,

Horses get anxious when their expectations are not met.

Assertiveness is most effective when least applied.

Being assertive in the home does not produce any smiling faces, but it does bring out a few tongues.

A necessary part of our intelligence is on the line as the oral tradition becomes less and less important. There was a time throughout our land when it was common for stories to be told and retold, a most valuable exercise, for the story retold is the story reexamined over and over again at different levels of intellectual and emotional growth.

A sentence is a set of words expressing themselves. A book is a set of words put together to change your consciousness."

Behind every sentence without the author, there is a writer.

The car has no muscle and the cell phone has no brain.

There is a writer in every sentence without the author.

For money to be multiplied, knowledge has to be shared.

Loud sound does not bother the deaf."

Poetry... It's a lot like prayer.

too much detail can have a distancing effect

Perhaps you do not understand me because you do not love me.

I write because I love to play with language.

A slick way to outfigure a person is to get him figuring you figure he's figuring you're figuring he'll figure you aren't really figuring what you want him to figure you figure.

I understood the importance in principle of public key cryptography but it's all moved much faster than I expected. I did not expect it to be a mainstay of advanced communications technology.

Once a new and more reliable means of contact becomes commonplace, as it will, then this species is going to wake up to its true reason for existence, and in so doing is going to reach a whole new level of life.

I feel like, in a lot of shows where the woman is in charge, the woman is this ball buster and the guy is sort of weak and spineless. And that's never been my experience in a relationship. I think it's much more interesting that the guy is the boss. And there are stakes.

When all else fails, try passive-aggression.

After the probe does its thing, the Jarada make contact: they want to talk to the Captain, and are offended that they can't immediately speak to the person in charge, which would explain why the Jarada destroyed every planet in the Dell Technical Support system.

I will never understand why the Internet seems to take away the basic humanity of most people,* and allows—no, enables*—them to say things that they'd never say to another person face-to-face.

will never understand why the Internet seems to take away the basic humanity of most people, and allows — no, enables — them to say things that they'd never say to another person face to face.