Quotes About Communication

He's getting worse. Reading aloud to no one messages that don't exist and in foreign tongues.

Oamenii îÈ›i zic de toate. De la faptul c? nu faci doi bani pân? la faptul c? eÈ™ti nepreÈ›uit?. Cele mai rele È™i cele mai bune lucruri. Întotdeauna atingi pe cineva aici - cioc?ni cu degetul solniÈ›a - È™i pe cineva acolo...

You're full of shit," Miss Stickyfoot said disdainfully. Cadbury said, "That proves I understand Zen. Do you see? Or perhaps the fact is that you don't actually understand Zen yourself.

Telepathic power and empathy are two versions of the same thing.

On the whole it's not wise to remind the devil that he's the devil, especially when we were getting on so well.

At least that was what she had told me. You never know with women. What they tell you and what they don't tell you is a very long bridge across a very wide river with all kinds of fish.

I can't understand these chaps who go round American universities explaining how they write poems: It's like going round explaining how you sleep with your wife.

I am always trying to 'preserve' things by getting other people to read what I have written, and feel what I felt.

When her eyes spilled over with happiness, I saw she took your words to heart as I never could.

When he'd sworn at her and been sworn at in return, they became great friends.

Without stories, we wouldn't be human beings at all

Stories are the most important thing in the world. Without stories, we wouldn't be human beings at all.

the pleasure of knowing secrets was doubled by telling them to people.

When she saw how they worked, not on their own but two by two, working their trunks together to tie a knot, she realized why they'd been so astonished by her hands, because of course she could tie knots on her own. At first she felt that this gave an advantage--she needed no one else-- and then she realized how it cut her off from others. Perhaps all human beings were like that.

It was difficult to tell them the truth when a lie would have been so much easier for them to understand.

Who are you? the woman said at last. Lyra Silver— No, where d'you come from? What are you? How do you know things like this? Wearily Lyra sighed; she had forgotten how roundabout Scholars could be. It was difficult to tell them the truth when a lie would have been so much easier for them to understand.

Mr. Scoresby...told me there were truthtellers, and they needed to know what the truth was, so as to tell it. And there were liars, and they needed to know what the truth was, so they could change it or avoid it. And there were bullshitters, who didn't care about the truth at all. They weren't interested. What they spoke wasn't the truth and it wasn't lies; it was bullshit. All they were interested in was their own performance.

You are dead- what am I speaking to?

You forget I am a woman, Your Eminence, and thus not so subtle as a prince of the Church.

She had been hurt too when they pulled apart; one day, perhaps, they'd be able to talk about it....

By the light of a candle, he composed a letter, saying everything as briefly as possible:

I think we need to tell each other everything we've found out. And it'll take us a good long time, and we might as well keep our hands busy while we're doing it, so

When you write a story you're not trying to prove anything or demonstrate the merits of this case or the flaws in that. At its simplest, what you're doing is making up some interesting events, putting them in the best order to show the connections between them and recounting them as clearly as you can.

Tell them stories. That's what we didn't know. All this time, and we never knew! But they need the truth. That's what nourishes them. You must tell them true stories, and everything will be well, everything. Just tell them stories.