Quotes About Communication

mixing defensiveness with anger - a wonderful mix, by the way.

So begins the exhausting analysis of the cavalcade of unknowable smiles and cryptic sentences uttered by someone your newly interested in. When everything boils down to a succession of enigmatic moments. Moments played and replayed from the perspective you attribute to your lover-to-be, but that are actually from the part of you that's sure you're far too flawed to be loved.

In Mary-Lynette's mind he did look like a knight off on a quest for his fair lady – no weapons or armour. But then Ash started walking backwards, waving at the same time and it ruined the effect. "Even when we're apart we'll be looking at the same sky!" he cried. "What a line!" Mary-Lynette yelled back.

I would have thought even you could understand such a simple sentence, Father. Shall I repeat it in Latin for you?

All that writers can do is keep trying to say what is deepest in their hearts.

Her voice was unusually deep toned for a girl, he thought. Girls were always screaming what they had to say. Her throaty voice made you feel you had known her a long time.

The finest eloquence is that which gets things done; the worst is that which delays them.

For hundreds of millions of years, Sex was the most efficient method for propagating information of dubious provenance: the origins of all those snippets of junk DNA are lost in the sands of reproductive history. Move aside, Sex: the world-wide Web has usurped your role.

Bits of ignorance are like viruses that are copied and spread by interaction.

The reservedness and distance that fathers keep, often deprive their sons of that refuge which would be of more advantage to them than an hundred rebukes or chidings.

It is one thing to show a man that he is in error, and another to put him in possession of the truth.

The speaking in perpetual hyperbole is comely in nothing but love.

Whosoever is found variable, and changeth manifestly without manifest cause, giveth suspicion of corruption: therefore, always, when thou changest thine opinion or course, profess it plainly, and declare it, together with the reasons that move thee to change.

He would be laughed at, that should go about to make a fine dancer out of a country hedger, at past fifty. And he will not have much better success, who shall endeavour, at that age, to make a man reason well, or speak handsomely, who has never been used to it, though you should lay before him a collection of all the best precepts of logic or oratory.

He that uses his words loosely and unsteadily will either not be minded or not understood.

Neither the inveterateness of the mischief, nor the prevalency of the fashion, shall be any excuse for those who will not take care about the meaning of their own words, and will not suffer the insignificancy of their expressions to be inquired into.

A secretary is not a toy.

I love a girl with a sense of humor. Someone who can make me laugh and that I can get along with and talk with and who is just sweet overall, inside and out.

It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously.

We need two kinds of acquaintances, one to complain to, while to the others we boast.

Don't tell your friends their social faults they will cure the fault and never forgive you.

There is one thing that matters -- to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

What music is more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say

What I like in a good author is not what he says, but what he whispers.