Quotes About Communication

All truth has to be expressed in sentences... the type of sentence in nature is a flash of lightning.

A poet is the translator of the silent language of nature to the world.

If language is intimately related to being human, then when we study language we are, to a remarkable degree, studying human nature.

The career of flowers differs from ours only inaudibleness.

Language, as symbol, determines much of the nature and quality of our experience.

People were usually much better in their letters than in reality. They were much like poets in this way.

I actually think that history has fed off the restlessness of cyber space, of kind of the frantic, segmented nature of the way we lead our lives. People want to be connected.

You learn nothing about men by snubbing them and crushing their pride. You must ask them what it is they can do in this world, that they alone can do.

In recent poems, I have abandoned the theme of not being able to write for an even more obsessive subject, the nature of language, particularly English, in the formation of my imagination and being.

Sometimes writers say true things about the overall nature of publicity, promotion, and the publishing industry; but alas, not always.

I thought it was interesting when [Bill Clinton] said, I married my best friend, because people are always asking, what is the nature of their marriage.

The nature of bad news affects the teller.

Female listeners are leaving traditional talk radio because of the rough-edged, shouting nature of it.

By its very nature, film is supposed to be an accessible medium to everybody.

The nature of the writing and the nature of the animation meant that it had to be short.

Short form media is reductionist by nature.

French is a foreign language, but I've been speaking it since I was 18 so it's second nature to me.

We reveal something of our nature when we sing, something that can be disguised in our speaking voice.

The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man's thoughts and another's.

The Law of the Few... says that one critical factor in epidemics is the nature of the messenger.

Old age by nature is rather talkative.

By nature, I think I am a pretty private person, and that is what is hard even doing interviews for films that I really love doing, because in some ways, it diminishes the experience that I had.

Language is a window into human nature, but it is also a fistula, an open wound through which we're exposed to an infectious world.

But maybe the best thing I learnt was this: that we cannot know a person's soul and nature until we've sat beside them, and talked.