Quotes About Communication

I meant no offense, but sometimes being a reporter and being offensive can't be pulled apart, no matter how politely you phrase the question.

Die eerlikste manier om die verhaal te vertel, is stilte.

Iemand anders sal dié storie ook moet vertel om geloofwaardigheid daaraan te gee; die storie kan nie net teer op herinnering wat dit plooi na die eise van die hede nie.

It's amazing that a man who is dead can talk to people through these pages. As long as this books survives, his ideas live.

All people want to be touched. —Diana

Nothing is more real than the masks we make to show each other who we are.

Here I'd been thinking that just because someone spoke English we'd understand each other. But I guess there are languages within languages, and those can be foreign, too, even when you think you're understanding each other.

Only so much truth can exist between two people until it becomes too much, and then they can't bear to be around each other.

We spent the night smiling politely at each other through this glass barrier that felt like it had sprung up right behind my eyes. Like I was trapped inside myself, and the me who danced awkwardly with her on the floor was this stand-in, making dumb jokes while I beat against the glass wall, beat against it with my fists and then my head...

Parlabane found the word 'pro-active' enormously useful, as it immediately exposed the speaker as an irredeemable arsehole, whatever previous impression might have been given. Once upon a time, he remembered, people and companies just did things. But that ceased to be impressive enough, and for a while they 'actively' did things. Now they 'pro-actively' did things, but it was still the same bloody things that they were doing when they just plain old did things. Meaningless wank-language.

Love Is: being able to keep your fucking mouth shut.

twenty-first century communications technology rendering the planet not so much global village as global schoolroom full of sniggering male virgins and bitchy female hypocrites.

Perhaps, after all, the most beautiful words in the language are I'm sorry.

In cyberspace, everyone can hear you scream.

A woman broke up with me, and sent me pictures of her and her new boyfriend in bed together. Solution? I sent them to her dad.

Architectural gestures affect us in similar ways to human gestures.

Poetry has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback, if you do not give it your full attention, of seeming to say half as much in twice the time.

ALIZON They told me no one was here. RICHARD It would be me they meant.

Men are strange. It's almost unexpected to find they speak English.

Am I supposed to be merely exercising my tongue Or am I being listened to?

Wirot held up his card, and the

That was when he'd fully understood that neither of them had every understood the other. A marriage couldn't survive that sort of epiphany, and their had been over just a few weeks later.

Millions of people around the world learned to speak English as a second or third language, or sixth, and fluently. He'd always thought they envied his country, maybe wanted to live there, but now he wondered if they just liked English-language movies and TV shows. And maybe, just maybe, they learned English because most English speakers were too lazy or arrogant to become proficient in other languages.

There were certain keys to being a good friend, chief among them loyalty, shared philosophy, and willing sacrifice, but Teig had learned that the most appreciated trait in a friend was knowing when to speak up and when to keep silent.