Quotes About Communication

I'd like to look below my eyes and see not language staring back at me, not sentences or single words or awkward pen lines, but a surface clear and burnished as glass.

Few of the stories one has it in one's self to speak get spoken, because the heart rarely confesses to intelligence its deeper needs; and few of the stories one has at the top of one's head to tell get told, because the mind does not always possess the voice for them. Even when the voice is there, and the tongue is limber as if with liquor or with love, where is that sensitive, admiring, other pair of ears?

When book and reader's furrowed brow meet, it isn't always the book that's stupid.

yes, words were superior; they maintained a superior control; they touched without your touching; they were at once the bait, the hook, the line, the pole, and the water in between.

The best sex education for kids is when Daddy pats Mommy on the fanny when he comes home from work.

The great enemy of communication, we find, is the illusion of it. We have talked enough; but we have not listened. And by not listening we have failed to concede the immense complexity of our society—and thus the great gaps between ourselves and those with whom we seek understanding.

You do have to do business with and to try to influence people you don't agree with, or find disagreeable, so it's important to stress that balance.

Hay tres tipos de acciones: físicas, verbales y mentales. Por lo general concedemos mayor importancia a las acciones físicas, luego a las verbales y por último a las mentales.

A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it.

We may give more offense by our silence than even by impertinence.

Of all eloquence a nickname is the most concise; of all arguments the most unanswerable.

An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence a vain man, in order that it may.

His sayings are generally like women's letters; all the pith is in the postscript.

Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.

Words are the only things that last forever; they are more durable than the eternal hills

Our friends are generally ready to do everything for us, except the very thing we wish them to do.

I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

To write a genuine familiar or truly English style, is to write as any one would speak in common conversation who had a thorough command and choice of words, or who could discourse with ease, force, and perspicuity, setting aside all pedantic and oratorical flourishes.

Words are the only things that last for ever.

Boys are always inarticulate where their deepest feelings are concerned; however much they may desire it they cannot express kind and sympathetic feelings.

Marriage and Money

The trouble with me is that I like to talk too much.

Don't write so that you can be understood, write so that you can't be misunderstood.

I'll be damned if I am not getting tired of this. It seems to be the profession of a President simply to hear other people talk.