Quotes About Communication

An orator is a good man who is skilled in speaking.

In general I do not draw well with literary men -- not that I dislike them but I never know what to say to them after I have praised their last publication.

Until writing was invented, man lived in acoustic space: boundless, directionless, horizonless, in the dark of the mind, in the world of emotion.

Women encourage men to be childish, then scold them.

When a modest man praises himself, people listen.

When a man falls in love, he wants to go to bed. When a woman falls in love, she wants to talk about it.

Too elevated qualities often unfit a man for society. We do not go to market with ingots, but with silver and small change.

In some ways I'm a reticent man, and for quite a number of years there wasn't very much of my real true deep feelings in my writing.

Calling is for # Men - Texting is for # Teenagers .

Seven years of silent inquiry are needful for a man to learn the truth, but fourteen in order to learn how to make it known to his fellow-men.

Humans were denied the speech of animals. The only common ground of communication upon which dogs and men can get together is in fiction.

More and more people think of the critic as an indispensable middle man between writer and reader, and would no more read a book alone, if they could help it, than have a baby alone.

To be listened to is... a nearly unique experience for most people. It is enormously stimulating... Man clamors for the freedom to express himself and for knowing that he counts.

A man notices a womans figure when she walks in a room. Women have eight million words for blue; a man says dark blue or light blue.

A man may talk inspiringly to a woman about love in the abstract--but the look in his eyes is always perfectly concrete.

I asked a Jewish man, "Do you know where Michigan Avenue is?" He said, "Yes", and walked away.

A man who can be provoked by a tweet should not have his fingers anywhere near the nuclear codes.

Michael O'Sullivan was my great friend. But I don't ever remember telling him that. The words that are spoken at a funeral are spoken too late for the man who is dead.

But in the secret history of anger--one man's silence / lives in the bodies of others.

I am the most misunderstood and misrepresented of men. Misrepresented because misunderstood.

Hello, Doctor. It's your man.

Such hubris could only come from a man's mouth.

A man says what he knows, a woman says what will please.

Men will argue more philosophically about the human heart; but women will read the heart of man better than they.