Quotes About Communication

Paulie Pastrami learned that a misunderstanding could often be settled with a cupcake.

Some people confess in the flesh, others on paper.

All you need do, Bernie,"she gulped her toast soaked in coffee, "is present the truth as fiction.

If you get lonesome enough, Carrie knew, you'll even call the police.

If prayer flew as quickly as gossip, all the saints in heaven could not keep up with it.

What is written is more influential than what is said.

As anyone who has ever read a used book knows, nothing exposes readers to quite such a high degree of nakedness as the underlinings and marginalia they live behind...

sudden, spontaneous eye contact is a sign that two people should talk.

When each expects the other to live in his or her world, to always be there to join in his or her chosen activities, an ego battle inevitably develops.

Tell them what they already know. There's a good chance the interviewer already has a few ideas about your weaknesses and is keen to have those ideas confirmed or contextualized.

It's as though some people think of interviews as a game of catchphrase bingo, rather than a sincere conversation between two strangers.

The first thing to say about money is that if the salary range is stated in the job ad, and is not enough for you, then don't apply. You should not plan to get an offer and then start negotiating. As the hiring firm sees it, those negotiations were concluded when you applied for the job. You'd be livid if they dropped the salary offer after putting it into the ad, so why do the same thing to them in reverse?

There are silences harder to take back than words.

Only half of writing is saying what you mean. The other half is preventing people from reading what they expected you to mean.

To me the great divide is between the talkative and the quiet. Do they just say everything that's on their minds, even before it's on their minds? Sometimes I think I could just turn up my head like a Walkman so what's going on there could be heard by others. But there would still be a difference. For inside the head they are talking to people like them, and I am talking to someone like me: he is quiet and doesn't much like being talked at; he can't conceal how easily he gets bored.

And as for those who might have been following me, odds are I lost them long, long ago. Nothing to do but keep on driving as clearly as if I hadn't, flashing my change of lane and exit, in case there's anyone who needs to know.

Es ist noch kein Buch

Jake,' zei de vrouw... 'Mam...

Linda tousled his hair. "What about us girls?" Jason blushed. "You know what I meant." "I know." Linda leaned over and kissed him on the cheek. "Thanks." Jason turned an uncomfortable shade of purple.

A secret sold does not require a buyer's belief. It's a value unto itself.

If you don't talk about it, it didn't happen.

[B]ut in literature, it should be remembered, a thing always becomes his at last who says it best, and thus makes it his own.

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

We youths say "like" all the time because we mistrust reality.