Quotes About Communication

Speaking more than one language and living in a multicultural family and environment did not seem like anything but what it was: the world I lived in.

There was a lot of creative energy that I had, that I feel wasn't understood, and I think that whole world for me felt like another family, another place where I could feel heard.

We need to be around our families not because we have so many shared experiences to talk about, but instead because they know precisely which subjects to avoid.

Growing up in an Italian family, you use a harsh tone and 10 minutes later everybody forgets about it.

What surprised me was that within a family, the voices of sisters as they're talking are virtually always the same.

My family is filled with wonderful storytellers. I lack their gift of gab, so it's a relief to be able to write.

Everybody's family has problems.

I think our family is like a lot of families. We had no vocabulary for mental illness

I don't think people should try to force their will on their family.

It happens to be one of those days when I see everybody in the family, including myself, through the wrong end of a telescope.

The one thing ... maybe no family could tolerate was things coming out into the open.

Every year my family would pile into the car for our vacation and drive 80 trillion miles just to prove we couldn't get along in any setting.

It was really important in my relationship with James Caan that I understood the relationship between the family and the father.

My own personal rule is to tell jokes that I think the person I'm making them about can laugh at, to go home and tell their family, oh, my gosh.

You forge different bonds with friends than with family, tell different secrets.

We [in my family] don't like to mess around and talk about our problems or complain, it's just not anything that we do.

In my family, if I talk back to my dad, I get in trouble.

I grew up in a big family. You have to learn to get along with each other... get things done as a family.

In my family, Father is the world champion at ending conversations.

My family fight, that's the way it is. We're not common as muck or anything but we do have a little fight now and then.

In a family, what isn't spoken is what you listen for. But the noise of a family is to drown it out.

We never talked to each other in my family. We communicated by putting Ann Landers articles on the refrigerator.

Kris [Jenner] and the family, they have the power of communication. This is the number one communications company.

Some readers tell me, 'We always treated our maid like she was a member of the family.' You know, that's interesting, but I wonder what your maid's perspective was on that.