Quotes About Communication

Do I have to be polite?" I asked. "Or can I just be natural?

Kind of smart guesser, ain't you, young man? Can't wait for folks to get their mouth open hardly." "I'm sorry, Mrs. Morrison. This is an important matter to us—" "This here young man don't seem to have no trouble keepin' his mouth in place." "He's married," I said. "He's had practice.

There is something compulsive about a telephone. The gadget-ridden man of our age loves it, loathes it, and is afraid of it. But he always treats it with respect, even when he is drunk. The telephone is a fetish.

One moment, please. Whom did you wish to see?" Degarmo spun on his heel and looked at me wonderingly. "Did he say 'whom'?" "Yeah, but don't hit him," I said. "There is such a word." Degarmo licked his lips. "I knew there was," he said. "I often wondered where they kept it.

Uh-huh. Could be,' I said. It was a spot for a paragraph of lucid prose. Henry Clarendon IV would have obliged. I didn't have a damn thing more to say.

Javonen smiled - very slightly. Call it a down payment on a smile.

He looks at you or doesn't. You look at him. He says nothing and you say nothing. There is nothing to communicate.

Would you convey my compliments to the purist who reads your proofs and tell him or her . . . that when I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it will stay split.

I've found that there are only two kinds [of slang] that are any good: slang that has established itself in the language, and slang that you make up yourself. Everything else is apt to be passé before it gets into print.

Grenz picked up a ruler and sighted along it, a meaningless gesture which kept him from looking at me.

He looked earnestly at me, as if that was important to me.

Fejezzük be ezt a beszélgetést. Túlságosan sok benne a felkiáltójel.

Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. In the end he knows all the tricks and has nothing to say.

He was talking too much. People with unstable nerves are like that. One moment monosyllables, next moment a flood.

Whatever displeasure she felt was openly voiced, and quickly resolved, by either compromise or one partner's acceptance of the other's intractability.

More men have been defeated by reports than all the steel of all the swords in history." Then

Remember this: of all the commodities men trade in, information is the most valuable by far.

Ljudi kažu da nas ?esto najviše vre?a deo sopstvenog lika u drugom ?oveku.

Nisi se ružno ponela prema meni, Karlina. Ja sam se ponašao kao tupan. - Ne, ti si se samo ponašao kao prijatelj Rolande. Rekao si mi istinu, a ne ono što sam želela da ?ujem.

He studied his two friends, taking note of their freshly bruised countenances. 'All right. What happened?

C'est en écrivant qu'on devient écriveron

Westin's ubiquitous and influential idea conceives of privacy as a claim: the 'claim of individuals, groups, or institutions to determine for themselves when, how, and to what extent information about them is communicated to others'.

The total effect of Orwell's work is an effect of paradox. He was a humane man who communicated an extreme of inhuman terror; a man committed to decency who actualised a distinctive squalor.

You don't speak to people in London, he remembered; in fact you don't speak to people anywhere in England; there is plenty of time for that sort of thing on the appointed occasions –