Quotes About Communication

This is why you're all kernels and I'm a major general. 'Cause you got corn silk in your ears.

When the Almighty speaks to men, He always does it in voices they can understand

Coz, he said. You really must learn to shut your mouth from time to time. You'll taste less shoe letter.

Hi, God, it's me, Harry. Please don't turn me into a pillar of salt.

That woman, Grimm said quietly, drives me quite insane. Kettle grunted. Why'd you marry her, then?

But dammit, words mean what they mean, even if everyone thinks they ought to mean something else.

I trust you," she said. Three words. Big ones. Especially coming from her.

I know I've screwed up," I said. "I'm going to have to live with that. But I don't want to lose you.

How are you going to talk to someone who has no idea?" Grimm said, nodding. "How can you explain something you can't find words for? How can you get someone else to understand something for which they have no frame of reference?

This is why you're all kernels and I'm a major general. 'Cause you got corn silk in your ears.

metaphors can only take you for a short walk on a tight leash.

My God, there are times when the sexiest thing a woman can give a man is permission.

when women have a conversation, they're communicating on five levels. They follow the conversation that they're actually having, the conversation that is specifically being avoided, the tone being applied to the overt conversation, the buried conversation that is being covered only in subtext, and finally the other person's body language.

If he stayed close enough to Maggie for long enough, the dog might wind up with more education than me. Then there'd be no talking to him.

The important things don't need to be said.

Nearly everyone underestimates how powerful the touch of another person's hand can be. The need to be touched is something so primal, so fundamentally a part of our existence as human beings that its true impact upon us can be difficult to put into words.

Because it needs to be said," she murmured. "Because that's what happened. You deserve to know that.

Crap," I said. I'm quite eloquent in times of crisis

The phone rang again almost the instant I put it down, making me jump. I peered at it. I don't trust electronics. Anything manufactured after the forties is suspect—

Cell phones were like those security guys in red shirts on old Star Trek: as soon as something started happening, they were always the first to go.

I like her," Sanya rumbled in his deep, half-swallowed accent. "She is so tiny and fierce. I don't suppose she knows how to—" "Sanya," Michael said, his voice very firm. "We have talked about this." The dark-skinned Russian sighed and shrugged. "It could not hurt to ask." "Sanya." He lifted both hands in a gesture of surrender, grinning, and fell silent. The

So, ladies, if you ever have some conversation with your boyfriend or husband or brother or male friend, and you are telling him something perfectly obvious, and he comes away from it utterly clueless? I know it's tempting to think to yourself, "The man can't possibly be that stupid!" But yes. Yes, he can.

You wish answers? Yes. How can you expect to get them, when you do not yet know the proper questions?

I'll talk you through, Kincaid said. Dresden, better take her gun and cover us. Hey, I said. I'm in charge here. Kincaid, talk her through it. Murphy, give me your gun so I can cover you.