Quotes About Communication

I won't snatch, harm, or scare to death people with you or use checking up on you as an excuse to cause trouble. You're worse than my mother, Rachel." "Mine, too," Jenks muttered.

Let me say and not mourn: the world lives in the death of speech and sings there.

Death to all modifiers, he declared one day, and out of every letter that passed through his hands went every adverb and every adjective.

If you're choking in a restaurant you can just say the magic words, 'Heimlich maneuver,' and all will be well. Trouble is, it's difficult to say 'Heimlich maneuver' when you're choking to death.

Cordelia! stay a little. Ha! What is't thou say'st? Her voice was ever soft.

If we're a family and your brother wishes you death, it's not a very happy family.

To a dying person you can repeat yourself forever. They don't care. Just so they can still hear you talking.

Anonymous inanely stupid letter,' he said. 'Who has ever sent me an anonymous letter? Who capable of rational thought sends anyone an anonymous letter?

What's 'the shit'?" "The picture we have of one another. Layers and layers of misunderstanding. The picture we have of ourselves. Useless. Presumptuous. Completely cocked-up. Only we go ahead and we live by these pictures. 'That's what she is, that's what he is, this is what I am. This is what happened, this is why it happened—

I never again want to hear that self-admiring voice of yours or see your smug fucking lily-white face.

One of the first rules of any marriage, (1) Don't forget the benefits of her (his) stupidity. (2) She (he) cannot be taught anything by you, so don't try.

but because no evidence had ever been offered Sabbath to persuade him that the dead were anything other than dead. To talk to them, admittedly, was to indulge in the most defensible of irrational human activities

It's not your fault that you don't know what Gentiles think when they read something like this.

They don't know about art. Maybe I don't know about art myself. Maybe none of our family does, not the way that you do. But that's my point. People don't read art—they read about people.

He pronounces "death" like "debt.

Words aren't only bombs and bullets—no, they're little gifts, containing meanings!

In my own house my voice don't carry from the kitchen to the toilet.

Nulla, nulla viene mai detto una volta sola - nulla!

Quando la tragedia umana si è compiuta, la si passa ai giornalisti affinché, banalizzandola, la trasformino in spettacolo.

Meu pai era dono de botequim, porém insistia que era preciso escolher as palavras com precisão, e nisso sou como ele. As palavras têm significados — meu pai só estudou até a sétima série, mas até ele sabia disso. Atrás do balcão ele guardava duas coisas pra resolver discussões entre seus clientes: um porrete e um dicionário.

Every wife should have a husband like Norman, revere a husband like Norman instead of battering on his decency with her low-minded delights.

What do you do with the kid who can't read?... You find a pay phone as fast as you can and rectify your idiotic mistake.

A phone at a cemetery would be ringing off the hook. If you could get them on the phone . .

The important thing was to forget about Iris's hair and let her speak, let her find her fluency and, from the soft streaming of her own words, create for him his apologia.