Quotes About Communication

Our desire to say more grows bigger and what to say about it, except that saying is not always about saying, growing is not always about growing.

I think in our desire to create a better America,we have to have civilized debate in this country and not just yelling.

Numbers serve to discipline rhetoric. Without them it is too easy to follow flights of fancy, to ignore the world as it is and to remold it nearer the heart's desire.

I think my initial desire to start making art came from a desire and a need to communicate but not having anyone to communicate to.

..the writer's obsession - the desire to know and communicate, or, rather, to know everything so as to communicate with the greatest degree of precision.

Just because you married doesn't mean you're not an individual person with your own wants and desires and needs.

I have no desire to ever talk to Sean Penn.

Don't badger people without children into admitting the secret desire for children you're sure they have to you! Don't badger anyone! Leave the badgering to the badgers.

Thirst is a language even the grass understands.

If my hand on yours trembles it's because bodies never lie.

It might be inevitable that we have to confront the idea that our destiny is to be one world with one language.

I've learned that people will seldom let you down if they understand that your destiny is in their hands, and vice versa.

Maybe stories choose how they are told and who tells them.

John, what are you doing? John, my diet soda. What are you doing?

If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.

Moral indignation is a technique used to endow the idiot with dignity.

We should never lower our dignity by lowering our language.

They are eloquent who can speak low things acutely, and of great things with dignity, and of moderate things with temper.

He talked with more claret than clarity

Be honest with who you are, what you want and how you want to be treated. Boundaries only scare off the people that were not meant to be in your life.

Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.

All books are either dreams or swords, You can cut, or you can drug, with words.

We can't build our dreams on suspicious minds.

Let us sculpt in hopeless silence all our dreams of speaking.