Quotes About Communication

But what does one say to a ghost, except to ask why he was here? I was afraid of the answer, so instead I said, 'What took you so long?

Telling what must not be told is one of the writer's primary tasks. It is also a difficult and dangerous one.

One must listen to them carefully to understand that while pain is universal, it is also utterly private. We cannot know whether our pain is like anybody else's pain until we talk about it. Once we do that, we speak and think in ways cultural and individual.

I cannot be the only one who believes that if others just saw who I really was, then I would be understood and, perhaps, loved.

How could I forget that every truth meant at least two things, that slogans were empty suits draped on the corpse of an idea?

Todas las botellas llenas de alcohol tienen un mensaje dentro, una sorpresa que uno no descubre hasta que se las bebe…»

We shared a passion for words, but I preferred the silence of writing while she loved to talk. She

Every full bottle of alcohol has a message in it, a surprise that one will not discover until one drinks it.

And even if we are inscrutable, what does that make white people? Are white people ever referred to as inscrutable? No, you would say that a white person who is hard to read has a poker face, which has a positive connotation, a strategic one, suggesting a careful withholding of information, whereas we are just inscrutable because you white people believe that we always have something to hide

I, for one, am a person who believes that the world would be a better place if the word "murder" made us mumble as much as the word "masturbation.

To avoid talking, we both smoked incessantly and listened to a greatest hits tape of Johnny Hallyday, the sonic equivalent of Ricard Pastis, a taste the rest of the world could not acquire.

Merde! The single most useful word in the French language, easy to pronounce and eloquently expressive of conditions from the literally fecal to the unpleasantly existential.

If I'm unreadable—if all these Asians you refer to are unreadable—perhaps we are only unreadable to those who do not know how to read. Semantics—

Real talent was required to use so many words in two languages to say nothing.

While the clerks chatted in a language I could not understand, I hesitated, yearning to take everything home but unable to choose.

Cut to villagers speaking in their own language? Do you think it might not be decent to let them actually say something instead of simply acknowledging that there is some kind of sound coming from their mouths? Could you not even just have them speak a heavily accented English—you know what I mean, ching-chong English—just to pretend they are speaking in an Asian language that somehow American audiences can strangely understand?

the General, like myself, knew he must be patient with white people, who were easily scared by the nonwhite. Even with liberal white people, one could go only so far, and with average white people one could barely go anywhere.

It was, instead, the best kind of truth, the one that meant at least two things.

This was the silence my father encountered every day during his prayers, the silence that hundreds of millions heard every day as they beseeched God to say something, anything. He always said nothing, which hardly disabused His legions of fans. For someone who never said anything, God certainly spoke to a lot of people.

Can you join, ask sincerely for affection without sweaty hand of expectation, understanding and accepting if it never is given?

I'm not a T.G.I.F. guy. I get off a plane at 2 o'clock in the morning and I'm looking for my secretary because I want to know what's going on.

Every Interaction is an Opportunity

The ideal partnership scenario is one where both parties feel compelled to come back to the table PERIODICALLY to figure out how to take the next step forward & make it successful - this is TRUE for Business, Marriage & even our relationship with GOD !

Rumors. They are there to be denied, or if the market is open, to be traded on.