Quotes About Communication

Who brings a tale takes two away.

A diplomat must always think twice before he says nothing.

A lie travels farther than the truth.

A silent mouth is sweet to hear.

Better be quarreling than lonesome.

Better be quarrelling than lonesome.

Everyone is wise until he speaks.

And sometimes somebody is laughing--and that laugh is stuffing all of yesterday's and today's anger back into the mouth that it's oozing from.

You can always tell the profession of a girl's last boyfriend, because they talk the language of his occupation.

The tedium is the cornerstone of the stability of their relationship, and the fact that they have nothing to say to each other means that they feel no uneasiness about each other.

Not that there's anything going on between him and me. As I've been telling Therese, who also works at the office and is my friend: "There has to be some love involved. Otherwise, what about our ideals?

I always listen in on conversations — that always interests me. You never know what you might learn from it.

You fucking knew that fucking cunt would fuck some cunt.

A good photograph is one that communicates a fact, touches the heart and leaves the viewer a changed person for having seen it. It is, in a word, effective.

How difficult it is to be simple.

To try to understand another human being, to grapple for his ultimate depths, that is the most dangerous of human endeavors.

Each of us has his own alphabet with which to create poetry.

No one, in an open society, following the rules of that society, had the right to come between an idea and its audience.

Speech, originally, was the device whereby Man learned, imperfectly, to transmit the thoughts and emotions of his mind. By setting up arbitrary sounds and combinations of sounds to represent certain mental nuances, he developed a method of communication--but one which in its clumsiness and thick-thumbed inadequacy degenerated all the delicacy of the mind into gross and gutteral signaling.

Words are a pretty fuzzy substitute for mathematical equations.

All the suffering that humanity ever knew can be traced to the one fact that no man in the history of the Galaxy ... could really understand one another. Every human being lived behind an impenetrable wall of choking mist within which no other but he existed.

No steel can pierce the human heart so chillingly as a period at the right moment.

A pig won't meet another pig halfway, but a man will meet a man.

Shuffling her manly feet, shaking her head, she listed off—at the top of her voice, for the whole street to hear—the names of women who were happy with their husbands.