Quotes About Communication

Strange about parents. We have such easy access to them and such daunting problems of communication.

Money can make people look at you in strange ways. You get phone calls from people you haven't spoken with in a long time, and they'll leave a message saying, 'Do me a favor, call me back. I have something I want to ask you.' I'm not going to answer those calls, because there's always something behind it, like a loan.

I don't always know how to communicate. I think I get a bit unfiltered and a bit strange to people.

I am so used to being up on stage and talking to my fans that it's strange to be on stage and be someone else. I can't look at the audience during 'In the Heights' or I will start talking to them.

It's a funny thing about rap, that when you say 'I' into the microphone, it's like a public confession. It's very strange.

If you ask me to describe my relationship, I mean - words are too clumsy to accurately describe how I feel in that regard, particularly in an interview. It's a strange thing.

You know, I used to be made fun of as a kid for being really articulate; it was sort of like a strange thing.

Words are a strange thing. You once saw an animal and decided it's a 'cat.' But cat is a sound. This cat has nothing to do with the animal. But I have decided it's a cat. So a cat it is.

The media do strange things.

Sometimes people talk about music, whether blogs or magazines, in a strange way where it doesn't seem like they're actually listening to it.

I never really got on that well with Yoko anyway. Strangely enough, I only started to get to know her after John's death.

When you're improvising, you connect with people in a way you don't in normal life, strangely.

I try not to put messages in my songs. My only message is man's communication with his fellow man. I want to narrow the gap of strangeness and alienation.

Dating is just awkward moments and one person wants more than the other. It's just that constant strangeness. I think it's a very real thing.

I can not stay at the place when a stranger starts talking to me. I will try to cut the speech as quick as possible and move away. I had to break this inhibition before becoming an actor.

It's really hard for me to be open and be completely honest with a stranger.

I'll talk to any stranger about everything. I'm not guarded.

A colleague once nicknamed me - half mocking - the 'magical stranger' because I get people to tell me things.

When someone sends you an email, they are knocking on your door. And when you open the attachment, without looking through the peephole to see who it is, you just opened the door and let a stranger into your life, where everything you care about is.

I think sometimes when I sit down to write a song, it doesn't come out naturally, but when you are writing an email to someone, especially if you are writing to a stranger, you write much more spontaneously, and it's freer.

My dream was always to have an experience where an audience member would turn to another audience member, a stranger, and be like, 'What did we just go through?' And, like, kind of begin to talk.

You can have your opinions, and you can share them with your friends, but why would you go online to tell a stranger something random about their appearance? I don't get that.

I am a shy man. I can't call a stranger and talk.

It's a sad commentary when children feel they can talK to a stranger better than their own parents and ask him to solve their personal problems.