Quotes About Communication

If human beings don't keep exercising their lips, their brains start working

We did not, of course, speak Mandarin, but the question "What the hell do you think you're doing?" has a familiar ring in any language. The mere idea of even attempting to account for ourselves defeated us. We settled instead for explaining, by means of elaborate mime and sign language, that we were barking mad. This worked. He accepted it, but then hung around in the background to watch us anyway.

If they don't keep exercising their lips, he thought, their brains start working

The thing that used to worry him most was the fact that people always used to ask him what he was looking so worried

What . . . do . . . you . . . want?' 'I'm looking for someone.' 'Who?' hissed the insect. 'Zaphod Beeblebrox,' said Marvin, 'he's over there.' The insect shook with rage. It could hardly speak. 'Then why did you ask me?' it screamed. 'I just wanted something to talk to,' said Marvin. 'What!' 'Pathetic, isn't it?

Thirty seconds into the conversation, and already he'd blown it. Grown men, he told himself, in flat contradiction of centuries of accumulated evidence about the way grown men behave, do not behave like this.

One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about humans was their habit of continually stating and repeating the very very obvious, as in It's a nice day, or You're very tall,or Oh dear you seem to have fallen down a thirty-foot well, are you all right?

His first theory was that if human beings didn't keep exercising their lips, their mouths probably shriveled up. After a few months of observation he had come up with a second theory, which was this—"If human beings don't keep exercising their lips, their brains start working.

I talked to the computer at great length and explained my view of the Universe to it,' said Marvin. 'And what happened?' pressed Ford. 'It committed suicide,' said Marvin

What's this fish doing in my ear?" "It's translating for you. It's a Babel fish. Look it up in the book if you like.

His eyes passed over the solid shapes of the instruments and computers that lined the bridge. They winked away innocently at him. He stared out at the stars, but none of them said a word.

Marvin flashed her an electronic look.

It is a farewell gift from the dolphins," said Wonko in a low quiet voice, "the dolphins whom I loved and studied, and swam with, and fed with fish, and even tried to learn their language, a task which they seemed to make impossibly difficult, considering the fact that I now realize they were perfectly capable of communicating

You're a jerk," repeated the alien, "a complete kneebiter.

Ford grasped him by the lapels of his dressing gown and spoke to him as slowly and distinctly and patiently as if he were somebody from the telephone company accounts department.

At first Ford had formed a theory to account for this strange behavior. If human beings don't keep exercising their lips, he thought, their mouths probably seize up. After a few months' consideration and observation he abandoned this theory in favor of a new one. If they don't keep on exercising their lips, he thought, their brains start working.

KeÅŸke gençken annemi dinleseydim diyorum.' 'Neden, ne derdi sana?' 'Bilmem, hiç dinlemedim ki.

Görüyorsun ya hiçbir zaman 'Evrende yaln?z?z' diye düÅŸünmemelerinin nedeni, bu akÅŸama kadar Evrenden haberleri bile olmamas?yd?. Bu akÅŸama kadar.

If human beings don't keep exercising their lips, he thought, their mouths probably seize up. After a few months' consideration and observation he abandoned this theory in favor of a new one. If they don't keep on exercising their lips, he thought, their brains start working.

Hey, er, hand me the raprod, Plate Captain." The

Ship?" he called. "Yup?" said the ship. "Do what I do." The ship thought about this for a few milliseconds and then, after double checking all the seals on its heavy duty bulkheads, it began slowly, inexorably, in the hazy blaze of its lights, to sink to the lowest depths.

It deals with that most terrible and harrowing experience in life - trying to remember an address which somebody told you but you didn't write down.

nothing but a gnab gib.

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