Quotes About Communication

The voice was almost perfectly human. "Hello, Anthony." "Hello, Ultron," said Tony Stark.

The exchange was as warm and friendly as a pair of automated range finders getting a mutual target lock.

I know that words cannot move mountains, but they can move the multitude - we've proven that time and time again. People are more ready to fight and die for a word than for anything else. Words shape thought, stir feeling, and force action. They kill and revive, corrupt and cure.

In my experience, the heavy-handed, terror-inspiring approach closes as many doors as it smashes open.

Being a writer of 'literary fiction' means going on and on about something long after the reader has gotten the idea. ...Dan Ahearn

A woman being too easy and open about having sex with other guys just isn't good for establishing trust and building a relationship that lasts.

It's the first thing I tell my students: If you could understand, really understand, that no one needs to read your work, then your writing would improve vastly by the time we meet in this classroom again.

If the holy conversation, a generous discourse, is to occur, the labeling must cease. We are not dealing with labels, we are talking to people.

There is a way to speak the truth in love, treating people with respect. But if being liked is the goal of the preacher, the speech is more likely to be grandstanding than world-shaking.

Telling someone about what a symbol means is like telling someone how music should make them feel.

I've learned that speaking to people creates a pathway into their world, and it lets them come into mine, too.

There is, incidently, no way of talking about cats that enables one to come off as a sane person.

A - ALPHA B - BRAVO C - CHARLIE D - DELTA E - ECHO F - FOXTROT G - GOLF H - HOTEL I - INDIA J - JULIETT K - KILO L - LIMA M - MIKE N - NOVEMBER O - OSCAR P - PAPA Q - QUEBEC R - ROMEO S - SIERRA T - TANGO U - UNIFORM V - VICTOR W - WHISKEY       X - X-RAY Y - YANKEE Z - ZULU

I have bad news," he announced.

Andrea was right. "Dumb" is not a nice word. In fact, there's only one word in the English language that's worse than dumb. "Dumbhead.

I can't read lips.

I don't get it. For the first few years of your life, all grown-ups do is teach you how to talk. And then, for the rest of your life, all they do is tell you to stop talking. What's up with that?

What is it?" Dr. McDonald said angrily. There

A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the other one.

Our lips would be sealed. But not sealed with glue or anything. That would be gross.

But it's not cool to laugh at your parents' jokes, as you well know.

How to Spell Read

At a tight table with a full complement of players, you need to assume that bets mean pretty much what they're supposed to mean.

On the way home my father said tiredly he hoped some day I'd realize it was necessary to live with people. I didn't understand him. He said a lot of other things that made me feel sorry for him, because he just couldn't stand up to a situation.