Quotes About Communication

Yes, well, I'm not at all surprised by that revelation, but you see I'm making love to her and that requires a certain finesse, which I doubt your father has the wherewithal to possess.

She tiptoed her fingers along his back. "Were you really making love to me?" He rolled back over onto her. "If you have to ask, then I'm obviously not doing it well enough. Let me try a bit more diligently before I go searching for a dragon.

You're not being a gentleman," she chided. "Did you truly want me to be?

For the last time they walked side by side to the gate, speaking not a word, as though too much remained to be said and so little time remained to say it.

Allow me to introduce Viscount Fitzwilliam," Lady Ivers continued. Sebastian had a strong need to groan. The night would no doubt be filled with tedious introductions. "You are a fortunate man, my lord, to have won Lady Mary over." "I'd have not asked for her hand in marriage if I'd thought otherwise." Right then. So we're not going to get along famously.

This is what happened in love. One of you cried a lot and then both of you grew sarcastic.

She was not good on the phone. She needed the face, the pattern of eyes, nose, trembling mouth... People talking were meant to look at a face, the disastrous cupcake of it, the hide-and-seek of the heart dashing across. With a phone, you said words, but you never watched them go in. You saw them off at the airport but never knew whether there was anyone there to greet them when they got off the plane.

No matter what terror the earth could produce - winds, seas - a person could produce the same, lived with the same, lived with all that mixed-up nature swirling inside, every bit. There was nothing as complex in the world - no flower or stone - as a single hello from a human being.

As complexity rises, precise statements lose meaning and meaningful statements lose precision

The inability to hear is a nuisance; the inability to communicate is the tragedy.

I was the only student she'd taught who'd actually known any deaf people. Most of the students in my courses were there because they'd seen a movie or read a Helen Keller book.

In sign, you more often than not start a story with the punch line. It's the telling that is important.

From the first two-hour class on, I had not said a word. I wanted them to know a little bit of what it is like to be deaf: lost, confused, unable to communicate.

If the students didn't understand the charade, I'd turn and write on the blackboard, but I tried to avoid even that. I didn't want the students automatically translating everything from sign to English—that slowed the process.

And then she made a sign that sent a chill up my spine. It was a slang sign meaning "I'm deaf," but it's crudely done, made by putting the thumb in the ear and turning the rest of the hand downward—almost as if the hand is a donkey's ears.

One of the criticisms leveled at deaf people is that they're rigid thinkers. For

Just as there are accents in speech, there are regional accents in sign. People from the South sign slower than people in the North—even people from northern and southern Indiana have different styles.

In fact, an alarming percentage of deaf children graduate high school with a third-grade reading ability.

What's interesting about the studies is that prelingually deaf people (people such as my parents, who were born deaf or who lost their hearing early on) have no interior monologue.

In most of us there is a tiny voice we consult as part of our thought processes. Deaf people literally don't hear themselves thinking.

to leave a child without language for a moment longer than is absolutely necessary seems cruel to me.

Tell Doris Jean I figure it's about time I learned that sign language,

By the time we got back to his house, Grandpa couldn't reproduce the two signs he'd learned, but he hurried inside to describe to my grandmother how he'd tried.

And there is also a camp of compromise—those who favor "total communication," or signing while speaking in full sentences.