Quotes About Communication

It's difficult to say just where a marriage goes wrong, because the accepted reason often isn't the real one.

How not to sound like a upper class man. It had been mostly a matter, I'd found, of speaking not far back in the throat but up behind the teeth, a reversal of the way I'd just painstakingly learned to speak French like a Frenchman

It's not the people you fire who make your life miserable. It's the people you don't.

Eine Beleidigung ist ein Zitat aus der Vergangenheit. Ihre Bedeutung hat sie nur deshalb, weil sie von unzähligen Sprechern wiederholt worden ist.

What intrigued me most was how one can get away with such a big lie. The answer is you have to dominate all the large megaphones of the culture, from academia to the movies to the major media.

The first communications revolution gave us the railroads, the car and the airplane; the second one has given us the computer, the internet and the iPhone. Of course, these transformations bring a whole new range of products in their wake. Do you watch Hulu? Read on a Kindle? Find your way with GPS? Shop on Amazon? Listen to Spotify? Get to the airport with Lyft or Uber? Book with Airbnb? Use Instagram? If so, you are a beneficiary of twenty-first-century technological capitalism.

Words will never fully capture what is alive in our hearts. It would be a shame, though, if we denied our bears their dancing.

My job is not to just set down events that happened to me. My job is to create an experience for a reader." —Mary Karr

Fashions are not fashions at all but refashioning; language is not communication but reinvention. They are never in place but on display.

We'd appraise each other, in the provisional way that lovers do, by attaching great depth and significance to the provisional. How, after all, do you know anyone? You take in certain physical and emotional characteristics that you've aestheticized, ignoring the facts. You listen to what a lover has to say, taking in the erotic music of their sound, their timbre, while dismissing the lyrics.

Only half a page left now. Shall I fill it with 'I love you, I love you'-- like father's page of cats on the mat? No. Even a broken heart doesn't warrant a waste of good paper.

Americans do seem to say things which make the English notice England.

I found it quite easy to carry on a casual conversation it was as if my real feelings were down fathoms deep in my mind and what we said was just a feathery surface spray.

Prayer's a very tricky business.

Art could state very little - it's whole business is to evoke responses.

It was so nice that Simon was here for it - tell him I enjoyed every minute - ' it was glorious writing that - almost like telling him I was glad he'd kissed me. But after I'd posted the letter I was worried in case he guessed what I'd meant.

It's hopeless to make friends with people who never talk about themselves.

In addition, I think religion has a chance of a look-in whenever the mind craves solace in music or poetry-- in any form of art at all. Personally, I think it is an art, the greatest one; an extension of the communication all the other arts attempt.

I was going to give the farewell call – a farewell for ever this time, not just for a year. The call is a queer wordless cry made up of all the vowel sounds - and it was thrilling when Rose and I used to make it together, but I do it fairly well by myself. 'Ayieou!' I called - and it echoed back from the castle walls as I knew it would.

I have found you can obtain much information from the spirit. But the quality of that information depends upon the evolution or development of that spirit.

I'm done talking to you for today, my chips are worn out. ~Roc

A person rises on a word and falls on a syllable.

Money has lost its narrative quality the way painting did once upon a time. Money is talking to itself.

Some nights I need to be held. Tonight I'm a listener. So nice to lie in rumpled sheets and listen. Cover me with words.