Quotes About Communication

We say sound things when we do not strive to say to say extraordinary ones.

No hablábamos. ¿Qué pueden decirse dos corazones que se aman? Nada. Pero nuestros ojos lo expresaban todo.

A study in the Washington Post says that women have better verbal skills than men. I just want to say to the authors of that study: 'Duh.

One of the hardest things about diplomacy is to put yourself into someone else's shoes without compromising your own principles.

When music and courtesy are better understood and appreciated, there will be no war

If names are not correct, language will not be in accordance with the truth of things.

Men respect the silent; they despise the garrulous. - Marius

Genghis nodded drunkenly. "Writing," he replied, scornfully. "It traps words." "It makes them real, lord. It makes them last.

Words are not heavy. It does not take more than one of you to carry my reply.

A silver speaks it's own language, does it not?

A single words are cruel burden to man if he doesn't learn not to pay attention on them.

The lower your decolletage, the less the need for conversation.

He loved but he did not know how to be loved.

Marry me," he said, searching her eyes for some sign, some indication of how to proceed. Her gaze held his. His heart beat in his chest like a drum. "Why should I?" she asked, her voice hushed and oddly hopeful and terribly vulnerable. He swallowed, feeling lost and uncertain. "Well," he said, trying to sound reasonable, "I've got a few more horses now." She stared up at him, the blood draining from her face. Then she slugged him.

she had meant to woo him. In her own weird, unsettling way she had simply been courting him and he'd been too stupid to realize it.

I find sarcasm before noon sours the stomach.

I am not going to rape you, Mrs. Blackburn," he said, toweling off his face, as if accusations of rape were a daily and tiresome occurence. (Kit)

Sometimes, Sam would say, "I love you, Daddy," and hold her breath for as long as she could so she wouldn't miss it if he's finally whispered, "I love you, too." Mommy said Daddy loved Sam but that men just don't say that kind of thing out loud. Sam knew that wasn't true because Mary McCallister's daddy always said, "I love you, baby girl!" for no reason at all.

Mr McGraw glared at him. "You don't tell me anything." "In fact, I do," Dr Marino said. "I'm here because Principal McGinty is trying to keep your son safe from diseases that could kill him. That's how much she cares about your little boy." He turned to look at the other parents. "That's how much she cares about all of your children.

Lorraine's voice was kind and patient. Personally, I'd have told the kid to shut up and get in the car. Guess that's why I don't have kids.

That's what literature is. It's the people who went before us, tapping out messages from the past, from beyond the grave, trying to tell us about life and death! Listen to them!

Walk with me world, upon my right hand walk, speak to me Babel, that I may strive to assemble of all these syllables a single word before the purpose of speech is gone.

Verbose is not a synonym for literary.

Language offers us a surprising, savage terrain full of pockets and peaks. Shakespeare invented words like crazy. Mark Twain wrote in dialect. Muhammad Ali rapped in rhythmic sentences. Junot Diaz mixes Spanish into his sentences like rum into fruit juice. Nicki Minaj spices her lyrics with slang.