Quotes About Communication

But each time she didn't leave, she gave him tacit permission to do it again.

The great myth of our times is that technology is communication.

The lowest classes, although they do not think it worth while to write down what they perceive, do nevertheless perceive and feel all that would have been worth the noting. The difference between the masses and the man of learning often consists in no more than a kind of apperception, or in the art of putting things into expression.

How few friends would remain friends if each could see the sentiments of the other in their entirety.

We do not think good metaphors are anything very important, but I think that a good metaphor is something even the police should keep an eye on.

If another Messiah was born he could hardly to so much good as the printing-press.

Don't forget to tell everyone it's a secret.

Whether mothers speak with words or with body language -- which girls usually understand as well as declarative sentences -- a mother's feelings become a reference point for a daughter in her growing-up years.

Our own system of trying to guess what or how much a child's mind can assimilate results in cross purposes, misunderstanding, disappointments, anger and a general loss of harmony.

sometimes, if you're sincere about what you have to say, if you want to communicate the full force of human emotions like grief and longing and gratitude, you try writing and then realize that your words are just as transient as you are, that they always fail you when you need them most, and that if they can't serve their purpose and convey meaning perfectly—if they can't reach the unborn and the dead—then they're better off buried or burned.2

My publicist told me not to talk about politics but, yes, I think we have a president who stole the election.

The time-deaf are unable to speak what they know. For speech needs a sequence of words, spoken in time.

Too often, the anthropologist takes on the role of police detective, discovering what is "hidden," assembling "evidence" to make a strong "case"... But sometimes what is called for is not an "investigator" at all, but an attentive listener.

Niggas wanna kick it but no I dont play soccer.

Even deaf bitches say hi to me, she tell a blind bitch and she say I gotta see.

Swallow my words, taste my thoughts, and if they to nasty spit it back at me.

Whats understood dont gotta be explained.

The money keep calling, I hear this sh-t dialing, and they say money talks, you can hear my sh-t hollern.

I believe that music is another form of news. Music is another form of journalism to me so I have to cover all the areas with my album.

I believe music should reflect yourself in some way and not just yourself at the given time. I feel that when you die or when you're going, someone's supposed to listen to that music and know everything about you. And I just try to get that across.

if you've never been cussed out by a Siamese, you don't know what profanity is all about!

One should be able to say anything to a close friend, he reflected, and yet part of friendship was knowing what not to say and when not to say it

I guess since the groin is the center of a guy's world, he rarely guesses it isn't the center of yours.

His shoulder bumped mine again. "Can I ask you something?" I didn't answer. He was going to ask me anyway. People don't say that if they don't want to pry something out of you.