Quotes About Communication

Oh, and Fionn's down there trying to teach her frog to talk. Away you go, Corr.

Perry was leaning into my mother as he listened to what she said. They talked so close. He only leaned closer, his hands on the table, his leg touching hers. "It's so risky," my mother said. "Why are you doing this?" "Because I'm human being. Because we're all human beings." My mother closed her eyes and winced. Maybe her hearing aid was ringing and bothering her, but as I watched her turn down the volume, I wanted to tell her right then that she couldn't quiet all those outside voices forever.

One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.

Having someone wonder where you are when you don't come home at night is a very old human need.

I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don't agree with or like.

One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.

What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.

Man's most human characteristic is not his ability to learn, which he shares with many other species, but his ability to teach and store what others have developed and taught him.

Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of a witness.

Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of witnesses.

Some people become so expert at reading between the lines they don't read the lines.

Animosity hung between them like a two-edged sword; neither of them could use it without first getting hurt herself.

The two women looked at each other as if through the periscopes of enemy submarines across a fathomless and crawling sea.

And apologies, once postponed, become harder and harder to make, and finally impossible.

If I said I was madly in love with you you'd know I was lying.

I would take care you speak of her with respect for, of course, I will interpret any disrespect for her as disrespect for me.

Rickman heard the plaintive note in Foster's voice, and they exchanged a quick, amused glance. Foster misunderstood. 'Him?' he exclaimed. 'The rugged Roman profile was all very well in Gladiator, but we're in the twenty-first century now, love.' 'Funny,' she shot back, 'I keep getting a whiff of caveman. Just so you know — the

To have a man who can flirt is next thing to indispensable to a leader of society.

For everybody knows that it requires very little to satisfy the gentlemen, if a woman will only give her mind to it.

One of the hardest things to deal with in a relationship is when you can see the beautiful essence of of your partner, but your partner can't see his or her own essence - or yours.

A thousand times today I've started to open my mouth, started to squeak out, "Can you tell me...? But then I'd look into the front seat, at my mother's silent shaking, my father's grim profile, the mournful bags under his eyes, and all the questions I might ask seemed abusive. Assault and battery, a question mark used like a club. My parents are old and fragile. I'd have to heartless to want to hurt them.

There is nothing more valuable than the printed word.

Diplomats make it their business to conceal the facts.

Conversation lets you be an artist every time you open your mouth--or shut it. As Robert Louis Stevenson said, "The most important art is to omit"; the key to being a master conversationalist is to listen at least as much as you talk. Just as the other arts include pauses in a dramatic play, white margins around printed text, and space between a singer's phrases, conversation is about silences as well as about words.