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Quotes About Communication

This is the intimacy that will bind us all our lives, holding us forever to the task implicit in all love relations: how to connect yet not merge, how to respond yet not be absorbed, how to detach but not withdraw.
~ Vivian Gornick
Letter writing is not the noble enterprise. Remaining fully expressive is the noble enterprise.
~ Vivian Gornick
web being constructed by the children in their constant exchange of ideas the moment I stopped talking and they resumed playing.
~ Unknown
Mothers are legendary for being able to read the thoughts of their children at just the right moment.
~ Vivian Vande Velde
After a little bit, [the wolf] heard a human voice call out from inside the house, "Little Red Riding Hood, is that you? Have you come to visit your Granny?" But since the wolf didn't speak human, he guessed what the person had said was: "Did I hear something? Is there someone out there who needs to come in, could you scratch louder?" So that's what the wolf did: he scratched louder.
~ Vivian Vande Velde
Do you think you could stop crying for a minute? It makes conversation a bit difficult.
~ Unknown
I never found accents difficult, after learning languages.
~ Vivien Leigh
English people don't have very good diction. In France you have to pronounce very particularly and clearly, and learning French at an early age helped me enormously.
~ Vivien Leigh
One is just an interpreter of what the playwright thinks, and therefore the greater the playwright, the more satisfying it is to act in the plays.
~ Vivien Leigh
I don't have faith in young people any more. I don't waste time trying to communicate with them.
~ Vivienne Westwood
Words without experience are meaningless.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
My English is very bad.
~ Vladimir Putin
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~ Vladimir Sorokin
A meeting is that measure whereby a large number of people gather and some say things that they don't think and others think things that they don't say.
~ Vladimir Voinovich
Bir toplant? çok say?da insan?n bir araya geldiÄŸi, baz?lar?n?n gerçekte düÅŸünmediklerini söyledikleri, baz?lar?n?n gerçekte yapt?klar?n? söylemedikleri bir düzenlemedir. -Er İvan Çonkin'in YaÅŸam? ve OlaÄŸanüstü Serüvenleri
~ Vladimir Voinovich
The real beauty's "No" does not offend, you know.
~ Unknown
Tears are the silent language of grief
~ Voltaire
If you wish to converse with me, define your terms
~ Voltaire
When he who hears does not know what he who speaks means, and when he who speaks does not know what he himself means, that is philosophy
~ Voltaire
One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
~ Voltaire
I hate women because they always know where things are.
~ Voltaire
We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard.
~ Voltaire
Men use thought only to justify their wrongdoings, and speech only to conceal their thoughts.
~ Voltaire
One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.
~ Voltaire