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Quotes About Communication

The sea change that has come is the information age. We don't have to just read The New York Times anymore. We can pull up something on the Internet and get any news that we like.
~ Pete du Pont
The primary function of the creative use of language - in our age - is to try to constantly restore words to their meanings, to keep the living tissue of responsibility alive.
~ Jorie Graham
There is nothing that this age, from whatever standpoint we survey it, needs more, physically, intellectually, and morally, than thorough ventilation.
~ John Ruskin
Errors flies from mouth to mouth, from pen to pen, and to destroy it takes ages.
~ Voltaire
Today, we jump into this globalization of the economy and the internet age.
~ Ai Weiwei
In the absence of touching and being touched, people of all ages can sicken and grow touched starved. Touch seems to be as essential as sunlight.
~ Diane Ackerman
Talk radio has made an enormous run around establishment media. But the Interne is making an end run around talk radio. Suddenly we're faced with an information age.
~ Pete du Pont
We are in a world where most American citizens over the age of 12 share things with each other online.
~ Clay Shirky
I think repeating yourself is a sign of old age, telling the same joke again and again. Especially if they're jokes that don't make people laugh
~ Simon Le Bon
In a polite age almost every person becomes a reader, and receives more instruction from the Press than the Pulpit.
~ Oliver Goldsmith
Anyone that has come to America past the age of eighteen will be able to understand when I say that you can never shake your accent.
~ Martin Yan
I chose to tell the story visually, so that anyone of any age, from any country, could understand it.
~ Bill Watterson
A very long time ago, Grandmother had wanted to tell about all the things they did, but no one had bothered to ask. And now she had lost the urge.
~ Tove Jansson, The Summer Book
After ages of bombast, the rhetoric of virtue has become ironic and shy.
~ Mason Cooley
We live in the age of mass loquacity.We are all writing it or at any rate talking it: the memoir, the apologia, the c.v., the cri de coeur.
~ Martin Amis
In this day and age of digital media, as we've learned, it's not as though nobody's going to find out what you said.
~ Michael Bennet
I'd got to that age when I was out on a date with a guy and I would be thinking: Don't mention your age, don't mention that you want a child - because they would just run out the door.
~ Denise Van Outen
Ordinary language embodies the metaphysics of the Stone Age.
~ J. L. Austin
I was broadcast-struck from an early age; I had saved up for a tape recorder and started making programmes.
~ Nigel Rees
I think at a certain age I became conscious of the power of words. And it was fairly late. I was kind of a goofball - but I was always subconsciously thinking about issues.
~ Barack Obama
In this age of 24-7 headlines, the term 'newsweekly' seems almost quaint.
~ Graydon Carter
I know that I was hiking at a very young age because I remember being convinced that it was the trees that were talking.
~ Jennifer Pharr Davis
I believe in the age of the Internet, Facebook and Twitter, that relationships are everything.
~ Tom Peters
Historians will consider this a dark age. Science historians can read Galileos technical correspondence from the 1590s but not Marvin Minskys from the 1960s.
~ Stewart Brand