Quotes About Communication

I learned that saying you love your friends isn't enough: that love is a verb - it requires Acts of Love. It is all about the doing, not the saying, and now I make a point, every day, of emailing or phoning or making a plan with those I love.

Picture books are the distillation of an idea, and you have to use just the right words. I love that, and I try to use a lot of action verbs.

The verb is relatively of much greater importance in an Indian tongue than in a civilized language.

One of the glories of English simplicity is the possibility of using the same word as noun and verb.

Verbs allow you to communicate a story in a much more converged or involuntary way for a reader. The verbs allow you to come in under the radar, below people's defenses.

Sometimes you can do things with Spanish - like verbs and genders - easier than you can in English.

I spend my days kneeling in the muck of language, feeling around for gooey verbs, nouns, and modifiers that I can squash together to make a blob of a sentence that bears some likeness to reason and sense.

You can say now, 'I dissed him' - to diss, I dissed him - or, 'Stop dissing her'. And that's the interesting thing, that it's the prefix that's become the verb! It's a most remarkable development.

Each new generation builds on the work of the previous one, gaining new perspective. New verbs are introduced. We Google strange and dangerous places. We tweet mindlessly to the cosmos. We Facebook our own grandmothers. I, for one, don't want to be left behind.

I know I have difficulties with some verbs. But if they get me, they get me. And if they don't understand me, they don't understand me.

'State' can be a word that is a noun or a verb or an adverb - it's kind of why I chose that title. It's not to confound the audience but to keep me from painting myself into a cul-de-sac in the early stages of making a record by having too high concept or having some really strict set of rules I have to adhere to.

A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects.

As a journalist, I've been a professional watcher, picking up the body language and verbal tics that make us individuals and interesting to others.

In order for sensation to accede to the objectivity of things, it must itself be changed into a thing. The agent of change is language: the sensations are turned into verbal objects.

Of course, we have known for a long time that a word, like any verbal sign, is a unity of two components.

I grew up as an only child. My parents weren't great conversationalists. We had a quiet house. I'm not very verbal.

I started out as an artist, and what I do is verbal paintings. I paint a picture. Hopefully, you'll see the characters and what they're doing and what they're saying.

Spanking and verbal criticism have become, to many parents, more important tools of child rearing than approval.

Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.

My desire to curtail undue freedom of speech extends only to such public areas as restaurants, airports, streets, hotel lobbies, parks, and department stores. Verbal exchanges between consenting adults in private are as of little interest to me as they probably are to them.

Comedy is a group activity, a verbal orgy.

Verbal contracts are about as useful as a fart on a treadmill.

Beyond basic mathematical aptitude, the difference between good programmers and great programmers is verbal ability.

Contrary to the negative stereotype that folks who swear have poor vocabularies, a fluency in taboo language correlates with overall verbal fluency. The more words you know, the more you know... and the more colorfully you can express yourself, with nuance, metaphor, and emotion.