Quotes About Communication

I do interviews and signings and readings and all of these people just hang off my every word. And then I go home and have dinner with my family and nobody lets me get a word in.

There are secrets in all families, you know.

We live our entire lives thinking we know those closest to us. But do we ever really?

The erosion of extended family concept and losing out on values are the two things that are primarily responsible for the growing mismatch in the parent-child relationship.

It is not the talking that counts between friends it is the never needing to say what counts.

You can make more friends in two months by becoming more interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

Whenever I'm with my [teenager] I feel as though I have to spend the whole time avoiding land mines.

I think a dysfunctional family is any family with more than one person in it.

We're supposed to take our problems to a family adviser. Personally I've never met a family adviser. They're all off somewhere listening to dirty stories.

You know your children are growing up when they stop asking where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going.

Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.

There are members - very, very close and dear members - of my family - I'm talking immediate family - who simply don't speak to me anymore and haven't done so for years. My marriage fell apart.

Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.

I also had this mistaken dream, fantasy really - perhaps because I'm good at languages - of being able in both Italy and France to become someone else through my fluency in the language.

The question is always the same with a dragon: will he talk with you or will he eat you?

The artist is the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world.

I don't think you have to live in the fantasy world of Westeros to have problems with your mother-in-law.

We go on dates thinking that person is our future husband or wife, without getting to know them, as we live in a fantasy and an illusion of romance.

ARE YOU CRAZY?" I ASKED. He gave me the same wordless look he always did when I asked that question.

Better he think me rude than not think at all.

I do love you. I love you enough to accept who you are. Why can't I received the same feeling in return?"-Ariel

This would go a lot easier if you'd stop screaming in pain, ' Zoe told the muscular man lying beneath her.

I didn't have a great grasp of what guys considered a "come hither" look, so maybe I gave him one. I'd thought it was a "leave me the hell alone" look, but who knew. ~ Lana from Moonlight

Silence is one of many forms of prayer.