Quotes About Communication

I have an almost religious zeal... not for technology per se, but for the Internet which is for me, the nervous system of mother Earth, which I see as a living creature, linking up.

Venus de Milo's mother, who once said to Venus, You never call me. Can't you pick up a phone? Never got a dinner!

Be funny on a golf course? Do I kid my best friend's mother about her heart condition?

Who's a boy gonna talk to if not his mother?

I just wish, when neither of us has written to my husband's mother, I didn't feel so much worse about it than he does.

I'm never proper or careful, but I never curse in front of my mother, either.

While I'm generally silent on the affairs of my biological mother, her recent tirade has taken a gross turn.

An Editor becomes kind of your mother. You expect love and encouragement from an Editor.

It is hard to tell your mother to change her life.

I wish my mother had left me something about how she felt growing up. I wish my grandmother had done the same. I wanted my girls to know me.

Gutenberg's invention of printing is the greatest event-the mother of revolution

There's two things I gotta do. One is, I gotta update my resume. And then, I have to call my mother.

I get some letters from girls that if their mothers knew what they were writing me in these letters, they'd get their butts whipped.

I can type faster than I can point. And my mother told me that pointing is impolite.

My mother is my manager and so knows exactly what I do and so on.

I recognize but one mental acquisition as a necessary part of the education of a lady or gentlemen, namely, an accurate and refined use of the mother tongue.

The more a daughter knows the details of her mother's life [...] the stronger the daughter.

If the English educated neglect, as they have done and even now continue, as some do, to be ignorant of their mother tongue, linguistic starvation will abide.

It hurts because I can't go out there and play football, but it hurts more because I have to be a father and explain what happened to my daughter.

Yes, the words of the Mother can be heard as clearly as we hear one another. But one requires a fine nerve to hear Mother's words.

You know I love you,' said the other mother flatly. 'You have a very funny way of showing it,' said Coraline.

My sons are a hell of a lot easier to get through to than my daughter is. She seems to have my number. She can just run through the buttons.

I'm not saying my mother-in-law is fat - because she is of reasonable size, and I care about her and her self-image.

Reagan's genius as a communicator lies in his use of ambiguity. ... Ambiguity is the mother of Teflon.