Quotes About Communication

How people react is going to be based on how you react.

How come adults got away with saying things that would sound rude coming out of her mouth?

There is nothing more wonderful than freedom of speech.

A pity we hadn't had time to say all the things we wanted to each other.

One would think of a boy laying syllables with his tongue onto a woman's skin: those are lines sewn entirely of silence.

The deaf don't believe in silence. Silence is the invention of the hearing.

She scrubs me until I spit soapy water. Pig, she smiles. A man should smell better than his country— such is the silence of a woman who speaks against silence, knowing silence moves us to speak. She throws my shoes and glasses in the air, I am of deaf people and I have no country but a bathtub and an infant and a marriage bed! Soaping together is sacred to us. Washing each other's shoulders. You can fuck anyone—but with whom can you sit in water?

Watch, God— deaf have something to tell that not even they can hear.

In these avenues, deafness is our only barricade.

There are two kinds of obscurity; one arises from a lack of feelings and thoughts, which have been replaced by words; the other from an abundance of feelings and thoughts, and the inadequacy of words to express them.

I have to learn to talk like the guys down the Hill. The "cats" down the Hill, that is. I have to be hip.

We carried on like that through letters and phone calls for the next two years. And things didn't change when Aimable graduated as a doctor of veterinary medicine

Surely it's no coincidence that the word listen is an anagram of the word silent.

Yang disebut sekolah-sekolah Islam di Inggris menyedot habis energi murid-muridnya dengan memaksa mereka membaca dan mengingat-ngingat ayat Al-Qur'an dalam bahasa Arab, yang maknanya tidak dimengerti oleh para murid maupun guru. Jika memang ada diskusi mengenai Islam, sang Imam (yang terkadang bahkan tidak bisa bahasa Inggris) bebas mendefinisikan Islam sesuai kehendaknya, dan siapa yang bisa membantah?

They do not understand Islam, and I think that is one area where perhaps I hope one day I will play a role in actually making people understand what we perceive Islam to be.

We must speak the truth if we are to be a great nation

Por mucho que escuchara, siempre hablaban de lo mismo, la libertad, pero no decían ni una palabra de la sopa. Yo estaba, por supuesto, muy contento de que fuéramos libres, pero no podía evitar pensar que el día anterior no había ocurrido nada por el estilo, pero teníamos sopa.

No escribo, luego no soy.

I read somewhere; while God still existed one sustained a dialogue with God, and now that He no longer exists one has to sustain a dialogue with other people, I guess, or, better still, with oneself, that is to say, one talks or mumbles to oneself.

I believe in writing — nothing else; just writing. Man may live like a worm, but he writes like a god. There was a time when that secret was known, but now it has been forgotten; the world is composed of disintegrating fragments, an incoherent dark chaos, sustained by writing alone.

Touch is the most basic, the most nonconceptual form of communication that we have. In touch there are no language barriers; anything that can walk, fly, creep, crawl, or swim already speaks it.

But one who speaks in a borrowed tongue should be thankful if he can just make himself intelligible.

We needed no Shakespeare to feel -- though, perhaps, like the rest of the world, we needed him to express it.

Only Fools made the sound