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Quotes About Communication

Meow" means "woof" in cat.
~ George Carlin
I would not know how I am supposed to feel about many stories if not for the fact that the TV news personalities make sad faces for sad stories and happy faces for happy stories.
~ Dave Barry
The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
~ Kin Hubbard
If you can't hear me, it's because I'm in parentheses.
~ Steven Wright
humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
My wife... its difficult to say what she does... she sells seashells on the seashore.
~ Milton Jones
You learn very very quickly that it is mostly about swearing, actually. That's all you're doing, swearing, in a box with wheels.
~ Dylan Moran
I don't see teenagers anymore. I see... I see youths. Slumped S shapes in their hoodies, all huddled round a bin of burning grannies. All texting eachother because they've given up on speech.
~ Dylan Moran
He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.
~ Abraham Lincoln
I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.
~ Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
If you're right & I'm not, I'm going to be hell to live with, she said. So, you better think about that next time you want to be right.
~ Brian Andreas
She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B.
~ Dorothy Parker
Irony is just honesty with the volume cranked up.
~ George Saunders
So I rang up my local swimming baths. I said 'Is that the local swimming baths?' He said 'It depends where you're calling from.'
~ Tim Vine
Well, my brother says 'Hello.' So, hooray for speech therapy.
~ Emo Philips
I don't get the regular AIDS test anymore. I get the roundabout AIDS test. I ask my friend Brian, "Do you know anybody who has AIDS?". He says, "No". I say, "Cool, because you know me."
~ Mitch Hedberg
You can say, 'Can I use your bathroom?' and nobody cares. But if you ask, 'Can I use the plop-plop machine?' it always breaks the conversation.
~ Dave Attell
Dali Lama said, 'when you open the heart of the person with humor, you can tell him the most truth. But if you tell him truth without humor, the heart closes.'
~ Marina Abramovic
My doctor grabbed me by the wallet and said,'Cough'
~ Henny Youngman
Humor is, by its nature, more truthful than factual.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
The Doctor called Mrs. Cohen saying, "Mrs. Cohen, your check came back." Mrs. Cohen answered, "So did my arthritis!"
~ Henny Youngman
My girlfriend works at Hooters. In the kitchen.
~ Mitch Hedberg
Humor is an amazing way to talk people down off a ledge.
~ Joe Elliott
The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter.
~ Alice Meynell