Quotes About Communication

Did anybody feel an earthquake? No. Did you?" He shook his head. "You're talking out of your ass, pal!

Just these," Nina replied, holding up a fist full of balsa wood chopsticks. "That's okay," Walter said, tipping the box to his lips like a cup and slurping up the noodles.

Nina," he said. "Nina, I hope that you can hear me. I'm going to do my best to verbalize what I'm experiencing.

If I can get some student interested in science, if I can show members of the general public what's going on up there in the space program, then my job's been done.

Dammi un bacio" disse Rita. Stranamente commosso, Manfred avvolse il suo viso con le sue grandi mani calde e la baciò. "Stiamo bene insieme, noi due" disse lei piano, mentre si guardavano. "Le tue mani sono proprio fatte per me. E anche la bocca.

Aber alles, was wir aussprechen, muss wahr sein, weil wir es empfinden. Da haben Sie mein poetisches Geständnis

Apenas nos dijimos otra cosa que nuestros nombres, pero nunca había oído un poema de amor más bello.

Was für eine vorzügliche Einrichtung, daß die Gedanken nicht als sichtbare Schrift über unsre Stirnen laufen! Leicht würde jedes Beisammensein, selbst ein harmloses wie dieses, zum Mördertreffen. Oder wir lernten es, uns über uns selbst zu erheben, ohne Haß in die Zerrspiegel zu blicken, welche die andern uns sind. Und ohne Trieb, die Spiegel zu zerschlagen. Dazu aber, sie weiß es ja, sind wir nicht gemacht.

It's really ridiculous to assume that people are improved by hearing someone tell the truth about them.

Salailemalla salaisuuksiaan käy tarpeettoman suureksi ero sen välillä, mitä on itselleen ja mitä teeskentelee olevansa muille.

Directors tell me I should direct because the questions I am asking are the questions that they are asking rather than the questions that they expect to come from an actor. I do get that a lot. But there's a great difference between being able to stand there and make suggestions when it ultimately doesn't stop at you versus when it does. I think my issue with directing would probably be that I am kind of a loner. I like being responsible for myself.

Art-making is not about telling the truth but making the truth felt

When you have something good to say, say it. When you have something ill to say, say something else.

Kierkegaard - L'ironie, dit-on, consiste à parler légèrement de choses graves, l'humour à parler gravement de choses légères.

Aucune image ne peut rivaliser avec les richesses d'un texte!

Bal gibi tatl? sesi vard? ama, gereksiz konu?may? sevmezdi.

Just as characteristic, perhaps, is the intellectual interdependence created through the development of the modern media of communication: post, telegraph, telephone, and popular press.

Nicht da ist man daheim, wo man seinen Wohnsitz hat, sondern wo man verstanden wird.

A profusion of fancies and quotations is out of place in a love-letter. True feeling is always direct, and never deviates into by-ways to cull flowers of rhetoric.

It is safer to quote what is written than what is spoken. What a man writes it is fair to presume he believes as a matter of general conviction, but it is not so with what he utters in the freedom of conversation. In that he may only express the feeling of the moment, and not his settled judgment, or matured opinion.

For God's sake don't say yes until I've finished talking.

Kindness is a language the dumb can speak and the deaf can hear and understand.

We in the press, by our power, can actually undermine leadership.

If we have no respect for our viewers, then how can we have any respect for ourselves and what we do?