Quotes About Communication

Bemoan technology all you want. It expands your self-esteem and connects you in your well-pressed suit to the things that slip through the world otherwise unperceived.

He liked to talk about the anatomy of racecars, motorcycles, hunting rifles, how things work, and she liked to listen. It was a mark of the distance between them that she listened so eagerly, the perennial miles, the weeks and months

What was there to say? It was a matter of silences, not words.

We yell and scold as a way of paying homage to each other's views. This is the burden of friendship between extremely high-strung individuals.

This sentiment was expressed not so much in words and actions as in terrible and articulate sounds

I think we ought to have our intercourse now.

If you let me teach you not to end a sentence with a preposition, Edgar thought, I will save your life.

Someday you'll be a grown-up ... and then your mother will have no one to talk to.

There's a dolphin's brain in my in-box but come see me in forty-eight hours.

It's how the news becomes so powerful it doesn't need TV or newspapers. It exists in people's perceptions. It's something they invent, strong enough to seem real. It's the news without the media.

I will read," she said. "But I don't want you to choose anything that has men inside women, quote-quote, or men entering women. 'I entered her.' 'He entered me.' We're not lobbies or elevators. 'I wanted him inside me,' as if he could crawl completely in, sign the register, sleep, eat, so forth. Can we agree on that? I don't care what these people do as long as they don't enter or get entered.

Numbers behave, words do not.

Writing is an organized way of thinking. I don't know what I think about certain subjects, even today, until I sit down and try to write them.

I have only a bare working knowledge of the human brain but it's enough to make me proud to be an American. Your brain has a trillion neurons and every neuron has ten thousand little dendrites. The system of inter-communication is awe-inspiring. It's like a galaxy that you can hold in your hand, only more complex, more mysterious. Why does this make you proud to be an American? The infant's brain develops in response to stimuli. We still lead the world in stimuli.

If your child thinks you're guilty of something, right or wrong, then you're guilty.

In a crisis the true facts are whatever other people say they are.

By the time you listen to this, I'll no longer remember what I said. I'll be an old message by then, buried under many new messages. The machine makes everything a message, which narrows the range of discourse and destroys the poetry of nobody home. Home is a failed idea. People are no longer home or not home. They're either picking up or not picking up.

It is time to "perform," he thought. She would have to be "satisfied." He would have to "service" her. They would make efforts to "interact.

The system was invisible, which made it all the more impressive, all the more disquieting to deal with. But we were in accord, at least for now.

There's less and less for people to talk to when they talk to me. I hope diminishing existence isn't contagious.

He had a good vocabulary except when he was talking to someone.

A Greek will never say anything he hasn't already said a thousand times." Her husband Charles reprimanded me for not knowing the word. To Charles it was a mark of one's respect for other cultures to know the local terms of abuse and the words for sex acts and natural wastes.

the basement. "What do you want to do?" she said. "Whatever you want to do." "I want to do whatever's best for you." "What's best for me is to please you," I said. "I want to make you happy, Jack." "I'm happy when I'm pleasing you." "I just want to do what you want to do.

I want to do whatever's best for you." "But you please me by letting me please you," she said. "As the male partner I think it's my responsibility to please." "I'm not sure whether that's a sensitive caring statement or a sexist remark." "Is it wrong for the man to be considerate toward his partner?