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Quotes About Communication

The idea that I can't share my problems with other people makes me not give a shit about their problems.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
I try to forget about the expectation that's out there and the audience listening for the next thing so that I'm not trying to please them. I've spent a huge amount of time not communicating with those folks and denying that they exist.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Parents are like God because you wanna know they're out there, and you want them to think well of you, but you really only call when you need something.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Parents are like God because you wanna know they're out there, and you want them to think well of you, but you really only call when you need something.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Our communities don't need a new mobile application, website, newspaper or television broadcast. They need the ability to define the critical issues in the community, connect with those who care about those issues and have a trusted source of information about the issues.
~ Unknown
The best Bible teaching is not that which dazzles people with the profound intellect of their teacher, but that which puts its truth squarely in their hands.
~ Chuck Smith
Did you just say shrug instead of actually shrugging?
~ Chuck Wendig
Use the words that live inside your head. And if the words that live inside your head are those of a sentimental Victorian troubadour, then please close your head in a door jamb until you kill all that overwrought prose in an act of brain damage.
~ Chuck Wendig
Attentive listening to others is important regardless of their stations and positions. Wise people consider the deep meaning and true values of all suggestions.
~ Chungliang Al Huang
The basic notion underlying USENET is the flame.
~ Unknown
It can be a sin to tell an untimely truth.
~ Unknown
Sometimes,the word FINE could simply mean FORGET IT..NOT EXPOSING .
~ Unknown
There are three points about stories: if told, they like to be heard; if heard, they like to be taken in; and if taken in, they like to be told.
~ Unknown
I think a writer should always be surprised; and the more I write, the more it seems that the language itself, when explored with humility, is always deeper and more accurate than what the author thought he had in mind.
~ Unknown
Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.
~ Cicero
No one can speak well, unless he thoroughly understands his subject.
~ Cicero
Ya saben: se puede estar solo en una fiesta de declarados amigos, en un asado familiar, en una mesa ruidosa de ex compañeras del secundario; se puede estar sola en la ciudad -a todas nos ha pasado-aunque todos los flacos te miren y te murmuren cosas cuando pasás. Pero, ¿saben que? también estamos solas cuando al amor lo encontramos online: lo leemos, lo sentimos, pero no lo vemos. Cuando las pruebas sólo son escritas, duele.
~ Unknown
And it's not just a matter of you hurting me. I will hurt you too, even if I don't want to, I'm not the girl you think I am. And you will remember this conversation , and wish that you'd listened to me.
~ Cinda Williams Chima
You couldn't keep your mouth shut? I'm calling you Glitterhair from now on. Or Talksalot.
~ Cinda Williams Chima
You didn't have to go to the fireworks with him. Or - or let him fondle you." "Fondle?" Raisa raised her eyebrows, "When did I mention fondling?
~ Cinda Williams Chima
Both Averill and Bayar were like actors speaking lines for their audience and not to each other.
~ Cinda Williams Chima
Is it all right if I call you Jenna?" he asked. "If I can call you Wolf," she said. He scowled, gritting his teeth. "Could you please call me Adam?" "All right," she said. "I will try and think of you as a wolf called Adam.
~ Cinda Williams Chima
Words can hurt, but sometimes it's the words you never got to say that hurt the most.
~ Cinda Williams Chima