Quotes About Communication

If one doesn't talk about a thing, it has never happened.

No escribo esta carta para poner amargura en tu corazón, sino para arrancarla del mío.

If you want to know where a person is coming from, you need to read this material, not tear it up! You got to see what makes him think what he thinks! -Ann Atwater

What is truth? For the multitude, that which it continually reads and hears.

One day the last portrait of Rembrandt and the last bar of Mozart will have ceased to be — though possibly a colored canvas and a sheet of notes will remain — because the last eye and the last ear accessible to their message will have gone.

Extraverted Feelers make fine salespeople who empathize with their customers, but so do Introverted Thinkers, who carefully listen to their customers without projecting their own needs.

Barbarus hic ego sum, quia non intelligor illis. (In this place I am a barbarian, because men do not understand me.)

or that writing a poem you can read to no one is like dancing in the dark.

Sometimes tears carry the same weight as words.

While I speak, time flies.

Read what is here. How could reading a letter harm you? There might even be something in it that pleases you. My secrets are carried, by these letters, over land and sea: even enemies read letters received from their enemies.

Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked.

Between the houses was a common wall, Flawed with a narrow chink long years ago, When it was built. This chink, so long unnoticed- But what does it not see? - those lovers found And made of it their voices' passageway, And safely flowed the whispered words of love

Barbarus hic ego sum, quia non intelligor illis

Anche le lacrime hanno il peso della parola.

Forgive my asking you to use your mind. It is a thing which no novelist should expect of his reader...

When you call me that, smile.

the letter means nothing until the spirit gives it life

I don't think I like you, said she. That's all square enough. You're goin' to love me before we get through

Who is he? Nobody! cried Molly, with indignation. Then you shouldn't answer so loud, said the great-aunt

I used to get upset by people not understanding me, but I've made a career out of it now.

I would tell you that you looked really hot today when I saw you naked, but that probably wouldn't be appropriate, being as we're in bed together but not doing anything. Stark - Hunted

So!' he said, at length, and it came as a complete surprise to me that fellows ever really do say 'So!'. I had always thought it was just a thing you read in books.

Pfui', I said. It is an expression I don't often use...