Quotes About Communication

Vendríamos de la mano, a media calle, solos, y no diríamos nada. Que lo diga la noche. Que digan que te quiero las estrellas, los rumores lejanos, la distancia.

Me tienes en tus manos y me lees igual que un libro. Sabes lo que yo ignoro y me dices las cosas que no me digo.

Tú sabes cómo te digo que te quiero cuando digo: "qué calor hace", "dame agua", "¿sabes manejar?", "se hizo de noche"...Entre las gentes, a un lado de tus gentes y las mías, te he dicho "ya es tarde", y tú sabías que decía "te quiero".

Sí los amores de lejos son de... el estarse peleando por carta es el súmmmum de la estupidez.

Porque las palabras mejores palabras del amor están entre dos gentes que no se dicen nada.

As far as babysitting tips go, I recommend a few quick questions to the parents when you want to get out early. Like, "Is it all right for the baby to have . . . bleach?"

You care more about the stupid dance squad than you care about me!" she snapped. "That's not true!" Hannah protested. "The old Hannah would have been excited that the boy I've liked forever is finally asking me to hang out," Caitlin said. "You can't think about anything except dance, dance, dance!

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But falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, as Jonathan Swift once said.

Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.

The technology is just so far gone. It's just like back in the day you needed a suitcase just to have a cell phone. The battery was so heavy, it was like carrying a gallon of soda around with you all day.

I wrote home to say how lovely everything was, and I used flourishing words and phrases, as if I were living life in a greeting card - the kind that has a satin ribbon on it, and quilted hearts and roses, and is expected to be so precious to the person receiving it that the manufacturer has placed a leaf of plastic on the front to protect it.

I had never imagined my father dying. I had never inagined my parents dying. When I told Mariah this, she said that no one ever thinks their parents will die, ever, and I had to suppress the annoyance I felt at her for once again telling me about everybody when I told her something about myself.

this is how you smile to someone you don't like too much; this is how you smile to someone you don't like at all; this is how you smile to someone you like completely;

The sun was shining but the air was cold. It was the middle of January, after all. But I did not know that the sun could shine and the air remain cold; no one had ever told me.

Je suis si vulnérable aux besoins et à l'influence des membres de ma famille que de temps en temps je m'en tiens à l'écart. Je ne leur écris pas. Je ne leur rends pas visite. Je ne mens pas, je ne nie pas, je me tiens seulement à l'écart.

What I don't write is as important as what I write.

TBWA works with Philip Morris

Look at me all flesh and bones, head, arms, and legs, do you see a Monkey in my human flesh, and bones, because I am Black. Oh No No, said the Monkey, I don't talk."

Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.

Jack," said Charles, "he's making up words again." "Yes," Jack replied, "but he's getting better at it, don't you think?

But he did not ask, and his uncle did not speak except to say, after a few minutes, "It's time to go home," and all the way home they walked in silence.

Words cannot embody; they can only describe.

I understand, Catherine," he said. What does he mean that he understands, Catherine wondered. Something I failed to hear, no doubt, she thought, though their words had been so few that she could not imagine what. But she quickly decided not to exasperate him ;by a question; she was sure of his kind intention, and deeply touched by it.