Quotes About Communication

Write verse, not poetry. The public wants verse. If you have a talent for poetry, then don't by any means mother it, but try your hand at verse.

Writing is communication, not self-expression. Nobody in this world wants to read your diary except your mother.

[My mother tongue is] Albanian. But, I am equally fluent in Bengali (language of Calcutta) and English.

Wherever you find a wife and mother-in-law slugging it out, you'll find a son who's not speaking up to either his mother or his wife.

I think that people assumed I was white because of my last name. My father is Caucasian, my mother is Hispanic. But English was my second language, believe it or not.

Simple English is no one's mother tongue. It has to be worked for.

You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.

Fathers and sons are much more considerate of one another than mothers and daughters.

Maman died today. Or yesterday maybe, I don't know. I got a telegram from the home: 'Mother deceased. Funeral tomorrow. Faithfully yours.' That doesn't mean anything. Maybe it was yesterday.

Mother always said you were greedy.

Living with a teenage daughter is like living with the Taliban. A mum is not allowed to laugh, sing, dance or wear short skirts.

Sometimes my mother had difficulty communicating with me about certain topics.

Let every girl, let every woman, let every mother here [in Israel]-and there in my country [Egypt]-know we shall solve all our problems through negotiations around the table rather than starting war.

I don't know if my mother was a narcissist - or bi-polar or borderline. Those were words she tossed around over the years.

I learned denial from my mother. I just never confronted things and if anybody did, I just would go crazy.

I think that an author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children.

My mother could make anybody feel guilty - she used to get letters of apology from people she didn't even know.

You must not tell anyone,' my mother said, 'what I am about to tell you.'

How often a mother initiates a conversation with her child is not predictive of the language outcomes - what matters is, if the infant initiates, whether the mom responds.

Yet you would not drive a car with your mouth unless you are my mother-in-law.

That's so different in Hong Kong when I'm using my own mother language, I can treat the line in one thousand different ways, with many different reactions.

Mother was a talkative person, and I was a lot like her.

I had the luck that my parents educated me in three languages. With my mother I spoke Dutch, with my father Italian, and in the school I learned German. But my host language is Italian.

Muggs was always sorry, Mother said, when he bit someone, but we could never understand how she figured this out. He didn't act sorry.