Quotes About Communication

If I were dying when I should've, say in the late sixties, when I thought my head would explode with howling misery, when every time their father opened his fat mouth I thought I'd have to kill him, then – then I would've written the girls affectionate letters, telling them of my sadness, and how much I loved them, and how sorry I was to be leaving them. Too late. They're here, they're grown-up, they're crap, and so we'll bicker towards oblivion.

But mostly they just sat there, cemented in place by their secretions of chatter.

I don't as a rule hold much of a brief for television. In my experience, all too often it bowdlerises as much as popularises.

One cannot go about indiscriminately telling the truth. It must be doled out in bits and pieces or no one shall ever believe it.

Information is supposed to inform. That means it has to be reliable, relevant, current, and so on. There was a time when people believed that, given the right information, we

But we don't live in a perfect world. We live in a world where gossip passes for news, and sensationalism passes for journalism. - Christina McCall

social networking is the new dinner conversation . 

I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow.

Never seek to tell thy love; Love that never told can be. For the gentle wind does move silently.. invisibly.

Never seek to tell thy love; Love that never told can be.

Gustavo Solivellas dice: Una verdad que se dice con mala intención. Supera todas las mentiras que puedas inventar (William Blake)

Is it possible to live reasonably without lying? Do lies form the natural foundation of all human relationships, the thread that stitches our individual selves together?

Romer's idea, like all good ideas, was very simple: false information can be just as useful, influential, as telling, transforming or as damaging as true information.

It was pleasant - and the sense of otherness was nice, that there were two people involved in this process, that we were each giving something to the other.

Say it! No ideas but in things.

Do we not see that we are inarticulate? That is what defeats us. It is our inability to communicate to another how we are locked within ourselves, unable to say the simplest thing of importance to one another, any of us, even the most valuable, that makes our lives like those of a litter of kittens in a wood-pile.

The poet thinks with his poem...

Silence can be complex too, but you do not get far with silence.

I have always associated [Al Que Quiere!] with a figure on a soccer field: to him who wants the ball to be passed to him. [...] I was convinced nobody in the world of poetry wanted me but I was there willing to pass the ball if anyone did want it.

All well bred persons lie – Besides, you are a woman; you must never speak what you think…

He who closes his ears to the views of others shows little confidence in the integrity of his own views.

Well, I shall understand your lingo one of these days, cousin.

Love and sex are twin arts, requiring effort and knowledge. Only in fairy tales do people live happily ever after without working at it ...

All civilization comes through literature now, especially in our country. A Greek got his civilization by talking and looking, and in some measure a Parisian may still do it. But we, who live remote from history and monuments, we must read or we must barbarise.