Quotes About Communication

Did you mount her? the agent asked, looking over. Langdon glanced up, certain he had misunderstood. I beg your pardon?

You know me, Robert, when my passions flare, diplomacy is not my métier.

It's like having Siri on steroids.

Perhaps miracle is the wrong word. I was simply trying to speak your language." "My language?" Langdon was suddenly uncomfortable. "Not to disappoint you, sir, but I study religious symbology—I'm an academic, not a priest." Kohler slowed suddenly and turned, his gaze softening a bit. "Of course. How simple of me. One does not need to have cancer to analyze its symptoms.

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Keeping information from the director of the NRO was like keeping Vatican secrets from the Pope.

When my passions flare, diplomacy is not my métier

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This is one of those things that you can never explain to anyone; that's what I want to explain - one of those free-association moments with connections that dissolve when you start to try to put them into words.

That night I sat up writing in my diary writing to Big Me: 'I hope you are alive ' I wrote. 'I hope that I don't die before you are able to read this.

I can't tolerate cell phones," I say. "For health reasons." "Yech," he grunts. "Those things ruined the country. I don't know how, but they convinced the people that they should spend their whole lives inside a screen the size of a playing card. I'd take a jail cell over that bullshit any time.

footnote: With all due respect is grown-up talk for I think you're stupid.

ASSUME is to make an ASS of U and ME.

the conventions of language reveal the ways we see the world.

Life is not a private affair. A story and its lessons are only made useful if shared.

The ability to express feelings is an important life skill. But forever expressing upset feelings tends to restimulate them.

It's different," I said. "No," she replied. "You are.

Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But since no one was listening, everything must be said again. — ANDRÉ GIDE

David longed for recognition for his good grades, but his Depriving, Perfectionistic parents rarely made even a comment. "I did everything I was supposed to but they never approved. They never asked me how I felt, they just told me how I should react. Rules were more important than feelings." On family car rides, David's parents plunked him in the backseat and talked about him as if he weren't there.

dogs or cats, 90 Day Fiancé or Selling Sunset. But they can't pause for a moment to ask themselves if this otherwise lovely person they're dating fucks them the way they like to be fucked, and fucks them as often as they'd like to be fucked, because that would make them shallow, sex-obsessed perverts.

A philosopher/mathematician named Bertrand Russell who lived and died in the same century as Gass once wrote: "Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts which could not exist without it." Here is the essence of mankind's creative genius: not the edifices of civilization nor the bang-flash weapons which can end it, but the words which fertilize new concepts like spermatazoa attacking an ovum.

Mark Twain once opined in his homey way: "The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug.

This is every writer's nightmare--the sudden breakdown of meaning in the language that sustains and supports us...

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