Quotes About Communication

Language is alive, and you can't put it in the freezer. But

Por qué haces todo lo posible para que tus hijas se sientan unas tontas? —¡No es eso! Sólo intento que se sientan incultas, que no es lo mismo.

Some people think that asking a question gives them a right to know the answer somehow. Well, it's not true. You've no right to anything. I'll tell you what I want to. I don't care what you ask.

Slapping his shoulder was probably a mistake; he flinched. And for the briefest of moments I appreciated what little access we ever had to what really went on in Kevin's head, since for a second the mask fell, and his face curdled with - well, with revulsion, I'm afraid. To allow even so brief a glimpse of its workings, he must have had other things on his mind.

I was never shy. I was waiting to have something to say.

It's far less important to me to be liked these days than to be understood.

The existence of other people is essentially awkward.

Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood

perhaps we have never been more than vocal and perhaps soon we can hope to be no more than thoughtful...

The newspaper is in all its literalness the bible of democracy, the book out of which a people determines its conduct.

Where two factions see vividly each its own aspect, and contrive their own explanations of what they see, it is almost impossible for them to credit each other with honesty.

When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute.

The size of a man's income has considerable effect on his access to the world beyond his neighborhood. With money he can overcome almost every tangible obstacle of communication, he can travel, buy books and periodicals, and bring within the range of his attention almost any known fact of the world.

The true speech of man is idiomatic, if not of the earth and sky, then at least of the saloon and the bleachers.

So, what's up with you and Damian?" Helena asks. "What do you mean?" I can feel the hear of a blush coloring on my cheeks. I can't ever seem to not show how I feel. It's becoming pretty annoying.

Until that night Lucille had believed that people say things in anger that they do not really mean. By the time the fracas in her dining room had ended, however, she had come to believe that what people say in anger is what they really do mean, but usually have the self-control to keep to themselves.

Her cooking was terrible, her English minimal, and so their Sabbath dinner conversation was mostly her gesturing toward seconds of overdone meat and underdone potatoes while he pantomimed being full. Every so often she got up to yell at the cat in Yiddish.

Words are invisible, but if misused, can prove deadly.

People, not methodologies or tools, make projects successful.

I'm probably getting too familiar with him, but there's something about him that makes me feel like I would tell him anything. He asks these incredibly direct questions, things that some of my closest friends have never even thought to ask, and I'm inexplicably compelled to share all these deeply personal thoughts. He's like human Xanax or something.

I'm mesmerized by the way he speaks—New Orleans is pronounced N'awlins. When he says backyard, it's backyaaad. It's the kind of voice that makes you feel instantly at home, like you're a close friend or part of the inner circle. —SINGLE-MINDED

Girls often aim their most severe meanness at their mothers—

Teenagers often manage their feelings by dumping the uncomfortable ones on their parents,

It's bad enough to be rebuffed by your daughter—it's worse that it happens right when you feel that she needs you most.