Quotes About Communication

people whose names would tell a different story, although not necessarily to a different hundred people.

Every word uttered at the Center is preserved on tape, and not only colleges and libraries but thousands of individuals receive Center tapes and pamphlets. Among the best-selling pamphlets have been A. A. Berle, Jr.'s Economic Power and the Free Society, Clark Kerr's Unions and Union Leaders of Their Own Choosing, Donald Michael's Cybernation: The Silent Conquest, and Harrison Brown's Community of Fear.

Nor does he understand that when we talk about sale-leasebacks and right-of-way condemnations we are talking in code about the things we like best, the yellow fields and the cottonwoods and the rivers rising and falling and the mountain roads closing when the heavy snow comes in. We miss each other's points, have another drink and regard the fire.

Maria has never understood friendship, conversation, the normal amenities of social exchange. Maria has difficulty talking to people with whom she is not sleeping.

She wanted to tell him she was sorry, but saying she was sorry did not seem entirely adequate, and in any case what she was sorry about seemed at once too deep and too evanescent for any words she knew, seemed so vastly more complicated than the immediate fact that it was perhaps better left unraveled.

They are very gracious and very enthusiastic, and give such an appearance of health and happiness and hope that I sometimes find it difficult to talk to them.

What's the matter, Maria said, standing in the doorway in the dark. It isn't any better. How do you know. He said nothing, I mean we didn't even try. You don't want it. I do too. No, he said. You don't.

I love you, she whispered, but it was more a plea than a declaration and in any case he made no response.

arguing too loudly to hear him. He sometimes couldn't help

I quess when you bottle things up inside you, misunderstandings pile up.

No sabem res dels altres, ni ens importa; en canvi, voldriem que els altres ens coneguessin a fons. El nostre afany de ser compresos només es pot comparar amb la nostra desgana per comprendre ningú.

Obviously, I had talked too much, recounted too long a list. By that gauge, the years since puberty were peaks and valleys and stretches of incoherent landscape.

And how could the Internet bring him to her, if he wasn't showing up on his own two feet?

She preferred keeping her mouth shut and appearing a fool to opening it and removing the doubt.

That's all right. We may say what we daren't write. "And sing what is too foolish to say

hear you say such things about a

The jabs Sheila launched in my direction never failed to score a direct hit to my soft belly. I

Had she not interrupted, EveLynn would have detailed every blasted piece of fabric in her possession. Unfortunately, she gets stuck on a track that derails her and won't allow her to roll to a halt.

Never try to teach a pig to sing. You'll annoy the pig and lose your voice.

Sagittarians rarely talk about their feelings—they talk about what they think about their feelings.

The demon got up. The demon said Fool. To think you can eat their food and not talk to them. To think you can take their money and not be afraid of them. To think you can depend on their company and not suffer from them.

The thing was, with parenting grown children, you had to learn to hold your tongue. If you wanted them to tell you anything, that is.

In my experience... the danger of things getting out of hand is there whenever anyone opens their mouths.

If I could only meet Sally in the silent reading room of the public library, it wouldn't make any difference.