Quotes About Communication

They don't buy the product: They recycle the information. They use it to try to impress the next person they meet.

A few letter-writers had taken refuge in doorways, their old voiceprinters wrapped in sheets of clear plastic, evidence that the written word still enjoyed a certain prestige here.

drug deficiency." It was a Sprawl voice and a Sprawl joke. The Chatsubo was a bar for professional expatriates; you could drink there for a week and never hear two words in Japanese.

Netherton said nothing, something he'd only recently been learning to deliberately do.

and his voice the cry of a bird unknown, 3Jane answering in song, three notes, high and pure. A true name.

Indeed, today, reliance on broadcasting is the very definition of a technologically backward society.

Identify yourself, please." Lucky Dragon ATMs all had this same voice, a weird, uptight, strangled little castrato voice, and he wondered why that was. But you could be sure they'd worked it out: probably it kept people from standing around, bullshitting with the machine. But Rydell knew

Language fits over experience like a straight jacket.

The beast was harmless and horrible; and the news must reach the others as soon as possible.

Art is partly communication, but only partly. The rest is discovery.

But nobody else understands about the fire. If someone threw you a rope when you were drowning. If a doctor said take this because if you don't take you'll die - you would, wouldn't you?

The greatest pleasure is not - say - sex or geometry. It is just understanding. And if you can get people to understand their own humanity - well, that's the job of the writer.

The air was heavy with unspoken knowledge.

I do think that art that doesn't communicate is useless.

Caminaron juntos, como dos universos distintos de experiencias y sentimientos, incapaces de comunicarse.

If you accept life dully, you can go through it moving not among things but among words.

The writer probably knows what he meant when he wrote a book, but he should immediately forget what he meant when he's written it.

Other people could stand up and speak to an assembly, apparently, without that dreadful feeling of the pressure of personality; could say what they would as though they were speaking to only one person.

Now that his physical voice was silent, the inner voice of reason, and other voices too, made themselves heard.

We have lots of assemblies. Everybody enjoys speaking and being together. We decide things. But they don't get done.

Words may, through the devotion, the skill, the passion, and the luck of writers prove to be the most powerful thing in the world.

You shut up, you fat slug!

Söyleyecek baÅŸka ÅŸeyleri yoktu, ama ikisi de hiçbir ÅŸeyin çözüme kavuÅŸmad???n? biliyordu.

I love you. Okay? Want it louder? I LOVE YOU. Spell it out, should I? I ell-oh-vee-ee why-oh-you. Want it backward? You love I.