Quotes About Communication

Of course. And you already know you have hers," Pei said. And then, whatever his culture might have demanded, he cleared his throat hard, harshly. "And mine," he said huskily.

The purpose of shooting someone as an object lesson is to convince other people to pay attention to it, and that takes time.

the most fundamental of all those freedoms is this: that persons must be free to read, write, say, and think what they will. Without that, all other freedoms are not merely meaningless, they are shams.

They are lines that move between external imaginings (mainstream and dissident), the conceptual imaginings of site participants as these were communicated through texts, speech, and other kinds of conscious enactment, and the ways concepts were practically manifested: how care and property, for instance, were done, as well as talked about.

He said the best contract lawyers were the ones who heard the unspoken. The hopes and dreams and fears that both sides held, sometimes so tightly they didn't even know it themselves. A good contract attorney has to be a mediator first and foremost. And the best mediator is someone who can translate conflicting emotions into some form of harmony. But to do that, they have to look beneath the surface. See the unseen. Hear the unspoken.

While love is celebrated, we are assured that a satisfying sexual encounter does not require love. If the Shirelles tune were written today, the singer would likely have to lower the bar down to "Will You Respect Me Tomorrow"—if even that.

Once you have made up your mind to drop a person it is most inconsiderate of them not to come within dropping distance.

Hey. You know second contact is pretty important too.

This is what e-mail is: either a cowardly way for people to ask favors of you that they would never ask in person, or a way for people to pretend they are having a friendship with you when they really are not.

If dogs talked, one of them would be president by now. Everybody likes dogs.

Being polite is not only the right way to respond to people but also the easiest. Life is so filled with unavoidable conflict that I see no reason to promote more confrontations.

Alliteration seems to offend people.

Words are the wellspring of the world, and language is the most powerful weapon in the ancient and still unfolding war between truth and lies.

Then what are you? An electronic Hannibal Lector? You can't eat my liver with fava beans through a modem, you know.

I didn't have a cell phone because I never needed to play video games or surf the Net, or exchange nude photos with a congressman. - Odd Thomas - Odd Apocalypse by Dean Koontz pg 137 chapter 19

In the beginning was the word. Before all else, the word. So we speak as if words matter, because they do.

People sometimes speak in code, often without realizing they are doing so, as much a mystery to themselves as others.

English was jazz music, German was classical music, French was ecclesiastical music, and Spanish was the music from the streets.

From Matheran I mailed the notes of my failed novel. I mailed them to fictitious address.

You speak with warm marbles in your mouth. You have an Indian accent

I couldn't bear to have yet another French speaker guffawing at my name, so when the man on the phone asked, "Can I 'ave your name?" I said, "I am who I am." Half an hour later two pizzas arrived for "Ian Hoolihan".

Doesn't the telling of something always become a story?

To her, writing is making stock and reading is sipping broth, but only the spoken word is the full roasted chicken.

Love is a house with many rooms, this room to feed the love, this one to entertain it, this one to clean it, this one to dress it, this one to allow it to rest, and each of these rooms can also just as well also be the room for laughing or the room for listening or the room for telling one's secrets or the room for sulking or the room for apologizing or the room for intimate togetherness...