Quotes About Communication

Guess when you know no one's listening, you just stop talking.

The right word is always a power, and communicates its definiteness to our action.

I loved being in my own head so much, it was getting harder and harder being with other people.

Philosophy is one of the ways to use complicated sentences to explain simple concepts.

The way I choose to show my feelings is through my songs.

"The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence;not in silence, but restraint."Nor was he insincere in saying, "Make my house your inn."Inns are not residences.

Poetry is all nouns and verbs.

The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence; not in silence, but restraint.

in which letters are written / not in Spanish, not in Greek, not in Latin, not in shorthand / but in plain American which cats and dogs can read!

Some men know that a light touch of the tongue, running from a woman's toes to her ears, lingering in the softest way possible in various places in between, given often enough and sincerely enough, would add immeasurably to world peace.

And no one will listen to us until we listen to ourselves.

We forget what we say much more than what we hear, what we write much more than what we read, what we send much more than what we receive, and that is why we barely count the insults we hand out to others, unlike those dealt out to us, which is why almost everyone harbors some grudge against someone.

In the long history of male and female relations all the way back to the Garden, I can't think of one in which a woman's anger ever won over a man.

I sometimes imagine there is a clerk behind a desk situated between the brain and the mouth. It is his job to examine utterances on their way out, and stamp them with approval or send them back for reconsideration. If such a clerk exists, mine must be very harried and overworked; and on occasion he puts his head down on the desk in despair, letting things pass without so much as a second glance.

We stared at each other for a moment, then burst into laughter that must have scared off every nonhuman animal for half a mile around.

for even the best artwork is a static thing of the eye alone, and words are by their nature linear.

But rumour is a creature with many heads and no body, and I had no way to hunt it, any more than I could smooth over matters with my new relations.

some of whom did not know declensions from décolletage. It

le parole hanno una vita propria, come la gente o gli animali. Possono palpitare, svanire o amplificarsi. Passare attraverso le parole è come camminare attraverso la folla. Rimangono delle facce, delle sagome che si dileguano presto dal nostro ricordo, oppure si fissano, non si sa bene perché.

I virkeligheden maskerede hvert eneste ord, jeg ikke kunne udtale, et område, som jeg nægtede at trænge ind på. Og hvert eneste ord, jeg glædede mig ved at udtale, angav et område, der passede mig godt.

Few authors feel sufficiently themselves to make others ''feel

You're not listening to any of this, are you?" As far as she was concerned, it was really a rhetorical question. Rather than answer yes or no, Esteban had a question of his own. "Would it matter?" he asked her. "You seem to like to talk, and I've got a pulse." He looked at her over the hood of the car before getting in. "I figure that's about all you require.

Awareness is the key that allows you to stop automatically doing things that drive men away and begin naturally doing things that support happy and satisfying relationships. Master this stuff and you'll notice that men, women, children, small animals, large animals, dust bunnies, and anything else that's not glued down will find it virtually impossible to resist you.

Most misunderstandings in the world could be avoided if people would simply take the time to ask, "What else could this mean?" Shannon L. Alder