Quotes About Communication

For some, perhaps for many, books are spare time. For me, the rest of life is spare time: I wake and sleep language. It has always been so.

I nodded. He threw his paper at me. Here, keep up with the world, even if you don't want to join it.

I'm telling you stories. Trust me. I

Por qué lo menos original que podemos decirnos uno a otro sigue siendo lo que más anhelamos oír?

I know how it is. Saying too much. Saying too little. Who says enough? Just enough? My closest conversations are bad translations. That's not what I meant--not what I meant at all.

I shall have nowt to talk to now the baby is boiled.

All of us, when in deep trauma, find we hesitate, we stammer; there are long pauses in our speech. The thing is stuck. We get our language back through the language of others. We can turn to the poem. We can open the book. Somebody has been there for us and deep-dived the words.

Las palabras son la parte del silencio que puede ser hablada

I don't hate men, I just wish they'd try harder.

Avem nevoie de cuvinte pentru c? familiile nefericite sunt ni?te conspira?ii ale t?cerii. Cel care rupe t?cerea nu este iertat niciodat?.

A tough life needs a tough language - and that is what poetry is.

Necesitaba palabras porque las familias infelices son un pacto de silencio. Quien rompa el silencio jamás será perdonado.

If I am a wound would love be my salve? If I am speechless would love be a mouth?

I say I'm in love with her, what does that mean? It means I review my future and my past in the light of this feeling. It is as though I wrote in a foreign language that I am suddenly able to read. Wordlessly she explains me to myself; like genius she is ignorant of what she does.

got a sense early on that the power of a text is not time-bound. The words go on doing their work.

He needed some sort of membrane between himself and experience, which, for him, became language.(Jeanette Winterson on T.S.Eliot)

That is what literature offers - a language powerful enough to say how it is. It isn't a hiding place. It is a finding place.

Once you teach people to say what they do not understand, it is easy enough to get them to say anything you like.

What, then, is the government? An intermediary body established between the subjects and the sovereign for their mutual communication, a body charged with the execution of the laws and the maintenance of freedom, both civil and political.

I do not know the art of being clear to those who do not want to be attentive.

Généralement, les gens qui savant peu parlent becoup, et les gens qui savant beaucoup parlent peu.

In order not to find me in contradiction with myself, I should be allowed enough time to explain myself

Man's first language, the most universal, the most energetic and the only language he needed before it was necessary to persuade men assembled together, is the cry of nature.

Hasta entonces me había hablado de mí solo, como a un niño; desde aquel momento empezó a tratarme como a un hombre, y me habló de sí misma. Me