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Quotes About Communication

write clearly, to refrain from obscure allusions or from supposing that my audience possesses any prior knowledge
~ Unknown
They say that women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.
~ Unknown
When a man can't explain a woman's actions, the first thing he thinks of is the condition of her uterus.
~ Unknown
Your silence exists as does my self gathering. But so does the almost absolute silence of the world's dawning. In such suspension, before every utterance on earth, there is a cloud, an almost immobile air. The plants already breathe, while we still ask ourselves how to speak to each other, without taking breath away from them.
~ Luce Irigaray
Why only one song, one speech, one text at a time?" - "When Our Lips Speak Together
~ Luce Irigaray
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~ Unknown
The people who were content with each other spoke as little as those who bristled with resentment or boredom; it was the rhythm of their speech that differed, like a lazy tennis ball batted back and forth or the quick swattings of a fly. *
~ Unknown
As a rule, never work for friends. Sooner or later they resent you because you know so much about them. Or else you'll no longer like them, because you do.)
~ Unknown
Women's voices always rise two octaves when they talk to cleaning women or cats.
~ Unknown
When I'm with Joe none of this matters. I think he is a reporter because he likes to talk to people. Wherever we go we end up talking to strangers. And liking them. I don't think I ever really liked the world until I met him. My parents don't like the world, or me, or they would trust me.
~ Unknown
My dominant right hand wrote the Inner Parent voices. My Inner Child spoke through my left hand.
~ Lucia Capacchione
Creating music implies the desire to give.
~ Luciano Berio
come le figure dipinte non parlano quando le interroghi, così le parole scritte non sanno rispondere che sempre nello stesso modo, quello scelto dall'autore quando ha scritto il libro».
~ Luciano De Crescenzo
so many languages have fallen off the edge of the world
~ Lucille Clifton
a tongue blistered with smiling
~ Lucille Clifton
they are shrouding words so that families cannot find them.
~ Lucille Clifton
BREAKLIGHT Light keeps on breaking. i keep knowing the language of other nations. i keep hearing tree talk water words and i keep knowing what they mean. and light just keeps on breaking… Collected in: Sisters of the Earth: Women's Prose and Poetry About Nature by Lorraine Anderson
~ Lucille Clifton
Radio interoperability is essential for our police, fire, and emergency medical service departments to communicate with each other in times of emergency.
~ Lucille Roybal-Allard
Hay tales misterios en el corazón humano; abismos tan profundos, de amor, de abnegación, de generosidad, que la palabra no conseguirá jamás explicarlos. Hay que sentir y callar. Por eso una mirada, un abrazo, un ademán con la mano, dicen más que todo cuanto la pluma más hábilmente manejada pueda describir.
~ Unknown
Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.
~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.
~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca
He who comes to a conclusion when the other side is unheard, may have been just in his conclusion, but yet has not been just in his conduct.
~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Let us say what we feel, and feel what we say let speech harmonize with life.
~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Nature impelled men to make sounds with their tongues And they found it useful to give names to things Much for the same reason that we see children now Have recourse to gestures because they cannot speak And point their fingers at things which appear before them.
~ Unknown