Quotes About Communication

Jill, the time's come. They're going to close us down. Tell all the Heads of Section that Christabel is now in operation.

Así como los seres humanos en general pueden influir en el clima, influimos en el lenguaje, y quienes lo utilizamos profesionalmente estamos obligados a cuidarlo.

they could discuss without quarreling and cooperate without getting in each other's way

was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath did end. • WILLIAM BLAKE •

Leave it on the desk. Have you spoken to anyone else about this?" "No, monsieur.

Nothing is more likely to drive listeners away than a ponderous interpretation of what they've just marvelled at.

Tell them stories

Everyone wishes they could speak again to those who've gone to the land of the dead.

Well, where is God," said Mrs. Coulter, "if he's alive? And why doesn't he speak anymore? At the beginning of the world, God walked in the Garden and spoke with Adam and Eve. Then he began to withdraw, and he forbade Moses to look at his face. Later, in the time of Daniel, he was aged—he was the Ancient of Days. Where is he now?

Tell them stories. They need the truth. You must tell them true stories, and everything will be well. Just tell them stories.

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

My God! The English language is a form of communication! Conversation isn't just crossfire where you shoot and get shot at! Where you've got to duck for your life and aim to kill! Words aren't only bombs and bullets —no, they're little gifts, containing meanings!

You can no more make someone tell the truth than you can force someone to love you.

Is everyone to go off and lock the door and sit secluded like the lonely writers do, in a soundproof cell, summoning people out of words and then proposing that these word people are closer to the real thing than the real people that we mangle with our ignorance every day? The fact remains that getting people right is not what living is all about anyway. It's getting them wrong that is living, getting them wrong and wrong and wrong and then, on careful consideration, getting them wrong again.

I was still too much of a fledgling with people to understand that, in the long run, nobody is a picnic and that I was no picnic myself.

everything you say says either more than you wanted it to say or less than you wanted it to say; and everything you do does either more than you wanted it to do or less than you wanted it to do.

You don't have to work in a mental hospital to know about husbands and wives.

Everything dictated silence and self-control but I couldn't restrain myself and spoke my mind.

She thinks, I'm telling him who I am. He's interested in who I am. That is true, but I am curious about who she is because I want to fuck her.

I don't know anybody. I turn sentences around, and that's it.

I saw that everything you say says either more than you wanted it to say or less than you wanted it to say. What you said and did made a difference, all right, but not the difference you intended.

Suppose all I have fallen in love with is that voice deliciously phrasing its English sentences? The man who died for the soothing sound of a highly calibrated relative clause.

All of this was why, from Quahsay, I had mailed my four published stories to Lonoff. Felix Abravanel was clearly not in the market for a twenty-three-year-old son.

Everything you say says either more than you wanted it to say or less than you wanted it to say; and everything you do does either more than you wanted it to do or less than you wanted it to do. What you said and did made a difference, all right, but not the difference you intended.