Quotes About Communication

The whole world's safety depends on the words of two men who are enemies.

I would have preferred if you had loved me less and understood me more.

he whispers, his eyes going velvet.

I am still that child. I eavesdrop on the conversations of strangers in restaurants, in airports and supermarkets. I drive my husband crazy with questions sometimes; but I am still a good listener and I still keep secrets.

Lying wastes more time than anything else in the modern world.

Women are terribly shocking to men, my dear. Don't understand them. Like them. It saves such a lot of hurting one way and the other.

So the letters took a long time to get there, and the replies even longer to get back, and all the news was out of date; and this gave his correspondence a peculiar timeless quality which was very soothing.

I catch myself thinking that I'm not physically visible, that whoever I'm talking to is responding to my personality, not my person.

Being agreeable' is the highest duty of any human being mingling with other people….Practicing good manners should be as natural as displaying the teeth").

What a pity, when Christopher Columbus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.

Truthfulness with me is hardly a virtue. I cannot discriminate between truths that and those that don't need to be told.

Dialogue is a wolf in sheep's clothing—often pretending to be woolly and vague, actually all teeth and meaning. Even

If you didn't talk, I began to realize, people assumed you couldn't hear.

If someone tells you a lie, they're not telling you the truth, but they are telling you something. It just takes longer to figure out what.

Espaniole later said he had hoped the Mohaves' good treatment of Olive would encourage the whites, in turn, to treat the Mohaves well.

A handsome young knight is madly in love with a princess, and she too is in love with him, though she seems not to be entirely aware of it. Despite the friendship that blossoms between them, or perhaps because of that very friendship, the young knight finds himself so humbled and speechless that he is totally unable to bring up the subject of his love. Until one day he asks the princess point-blank: Is it better to speak or to die?

Men like women who write. Even though they don't say so. A writer is a foreign country.

Acting doesn't bring anything to a text. On the contrary, it detracts from it.

He says he's lonely, horribly lonely because of this love he feels for her. She says she's lonely too. She doesn't say why.

I've forgotten the words with which to tell you. I knew them once, but I've forgotten them, and now I'm talking to you without them.

Adam," said Mrs. Hoops, as if it took a great deal of courage to bring out the words. "Mamma cannot live in the same house with dogs.

I'm most interested in working and learning from different people and telling good stories.

She would hang a sign in the restaurant window--Owt to luntsch. Bee bak in a whale. For she could not spell either.

The written word has taught me to listen to the human voice, much as the great unchanging statues have taught me to appreciate bodily motions. On the other hand, but more slowly, life has thrown light for me on the meaning of books.