Quotes About Communication

True confession? The reason we don't talk about race is because we do not speak a common language.

There's nothing worse than silence, strung like heavy beads on too delicate a conversation.

But it feels like we are sitting on a tight bench of a bus with a stranger between us, one that neither of us is willing to admit to or mention, and so we find ourselves talking around him and through him and sneaking glances when the other one isn't looking. How am I supposed to think about Anna Fitzgerald when I'm wondering whether Julia has ever woken up in someone's arms and for just a moment, before the sleep cleared from her mind, thought maybe it was me?

Does it even mean anything to him anymore? If you say the same words over and over, do they become so bleached that there's no color left in them?

I didn't want to be treated like him," Josie said, answering her mother, when what she really meant was, I wasn't brave enough.

We fall back into silence. I look around XO Cafe and notice that chatter happens mostly at tables where the diners are young and hip. The older couples, the ones sporting wedding bands that wink with their silverware, eat without the pepper of conversation. Is it because they are so comfortable, they already know what the other is thinking? Or is it because after a certain point, there is simply nothing left to say?

The papers were caught between our bodies, a wedge to drive us apart, like any other lie.

It's because you don't just tell stories," Darija explained. "You paint with words.

She watched Peter's face transform as she spoke, like the change of a season. Why hadn't she taken the time before, when she had it, to tell Peter that she understood?

Memories aren't stored in the heart or hte head or even the soul, but in the spaces between any given two people.

What will Dad say?" he whispered. His mother could not possibly have heard him at such a distance, but she seemed to understand his question. "I imagine," she said, stepping into a neat square of the brilliant afternoon, "he'll say, 'Hello, Max.

You must be exhausted from singing & need to rest your throat. - Trey Nice Way to tell her to shut up - Anna

Paul shouted "Mayday!" over the radio. "Where did they come up with that word?" I asked Mother. "Easy to understand on a radio, I guess.

While talking on the cube to them, I made a casual gesture, touching middle finger to cheekbone, that used to be phone code: 'Disregard this; someone may be listening.' Most of them returned the gesture.

She found out that you could do a lot of editing with three words, if they were yes, no, and shit.

One of the greatest ways you can affirm value in another person is by giving them the gift of your undivided attention, the kind of attention that says, "I hear what you are saying because I value who you are." You don't have to agree with someone to show them their value as a person. Listening demonstrates that any person you meet is worthy of your respect and attention.

The people with thriving careers and healthy personal relationships get the same amount of time each week as the burned-out professional who can't remember their last meaningful conversation with a family member.

But you know how women are.  They're not happy unless they're complaining about something.

Madeline decides Jonathan is an immature, selfish asshole and that she is never talking to him again.

He wants to say: First of all, you were wrong about pop music. And art and all of pop culture. And all kinds of things. Because all of it matters. Even if it is awful. Everybody knows all the bad movies and the bad songs on the radio. Because it's the only thing anybody has in common anymore. It's all anybody has. So you were wrong about that and you were wrong about us and you were wrong about me, but he doesn't actually say any of this out loud.

back of the other person. Unfortunately, I know a lot of people who are reluctant to do this and/or feel very awkward when

When we are around someone who arouses us, our blink rate also tends to increase.

when someone looks in a certain direction as they process a question or as they answer it, is that they are thinking—it is not per se indicative of deception.

Often when people say something they shouldn't have, people nearby will touch or scratch their closed eyelid—this is a good indicator that something improper was uttered. You see this often with politicians when one misspeaks and another catches it.