Quotes About Communication

All truth is fiction, really, for the teller tells it as he sees it, and it might be different from some other teller.

Listen, nitwit, what good will it do you to know whether I am sincere or insincere? What does this have to do with whether or not my thoughts are right? I can utter a soaring truth insincerely and say the stupidest thing sincerely. Learn to judge the thought independently of who says it or how.

Ile? zdaÅ" mo?na utworzy? z dwudziestu czterech liter alfabetu? Ile? znaczeÅ" mo?na wyprowadzi? z setek chwastów, grudek i innych drobiazgów?

The emptiness of our boredom met with the emptiness of these supposed signs.

By?em kiedy? obecny przy dyskusji Kotta - czy nie z Breiterem? - na temat co chcia? powiedzie? X w swoim ostatnim utworze. Ciskali w siebie cytatami. Zaproponowa?em, ?eby go zapytali przez telefon i nawet da?em im numer. Zamilkli, a po chwili zacz?li rozmawia? o czym innym - gdy problem zosta? zredukowany do telefonicznego pytania, przesta? ich interesowa?.

I wished, first of all, to buy my way into people's good graces with my book so that, in subsequent personal contact, I would find the ground already prepared, and, I reasoned, if I succeeded in implanting in their soules a favorable image of me, this image would in turn shape me; and so, willy-nilly, I would become mature.

And the ridiculous impotence of words in the face of life!

Otó? fakt, ?e nasz jÄ™zyk nie zmienia siÄ™ od podstaw po przekroczeniu fatalnej granicy, ?e pomiÄ™dzy pierwszymi a ostatnimi sonatami Beethovena nie ma przepaÅ›ci, nie dajÄ…cej siÄ™ wypeÅ'ni?, jest bijÄ…cym w oczy dowodem, ?e czÅ'owiek w swym indywidualnym istnieniu nie mo?e siÄ™ wypowiedzie? - ?e jest milczeniem - ?e jest pozbawiony wyrazu.

Fryderyk najuprzejmiej gaw?dzi? z pani? Mari? — czy jednak podtrzymywa? rozmow? aby czego? innego nie powiedzie??

Still must I tamely Talk sense with these others? How long Before I shall be with you again, Magnificently saying nothing!

It's impossible for me to say one word about all that music has meant to me in my life. How, then, can I hope to be understood?

Anything that can be said can be said clearly.

Wovon man nicht sprechen kann, darüber muss man schweigen

Der Satz der Mathematik drückt keinen Gedanken aus.

For how would he explain to her that the sluggish bilgewater which twice, when he called the paper, lapped the receiver at the other end seemed to evoke the same squelch as her piano-key armpits.

he must have thought: this is a young fellow and a stupid German besides - that's just how all French speak of the Germans - he will be quite content with this - but the stupid German was not content - and didn't accept the money either (...).

he must have thought: this is a young fellow and a stupid German besides - that's just how all French speak of the Germans - he will be guite content with this - but the stupid German was not content (...).

Sir, if you are otherwise discreet, you will consider that you have gone far enough. At my brother's request I am treating you no less kindly than Ampflise treated my uncle Gahmuret, without going to bed together. My kindness would in the long run outweigh hers, if anyone were to weigh us properly. And besides, Sir, I don't know who you are, and yet in such a short space of time you want to have my love.

Some guy hit my fender the other day, and I said unto him, 'Be fruitful, and multiply'. But not in those words.

I want to tell you a terrific story about oral contraception. I asked this girl to sleep with me and she said 'No.

Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in my bath and she'd come in and sink my boats.

Having sex is like bridge. If you don't have a good partner, you'd better have a good hand.

Hay relaciones en las que las palabras dice amistad, pero los ojos gritan romance.

By now they had mastered my own language, but they still made simple mistakes, like using 'hermeneutics,' when they meant 'heuristic'.