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Quotes About Communication

And then there was my mate who'd just been fitted with a brand new hearing aid. "It's the best in the world", he said. "What type is it?", I asked and he said "ten past twelve".
~ Billy Connolly
My parents and I always put great emphasis on telling stories that appeal to a child's sense of humor.
~ Mike Berenstain
I said it jokingly, so this guy was just trying to stir something up that's not there. He's just somebody who doesn't have a sense of humor, like I do.
~ Shaquille O'Neal
I also try to think of ways to articulate the joke more economically.
~ David Cross
Humor itself is a great disinfectant. It enables people to listen.
~ Robert Reich
Long conversations with pals when neither you nor they have had a drink can be a test of palship.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
My family were hitters. If you made them laugh, they didn't hit you. My dad wouldn't hit me if I got him with humor right between the eyes.
~ Roseanne Barr
A beautiful woman moved in next door. So I went over and returned a cup of sugar. She said, "You didn't borrow this." I said, " I will!"
~ Steven Wright
Many true words are spoken in jest.
~ Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
I'm a sarcastic person. I learn through humor.
~ Rachel Maddow
Easiest job in the world of course, Australian psychiatrist, "Gday Gday how you doing no worries next".
~ Milton Jones
Humor is how you change people's opinions, and if you can make someone laugh, they'll listen, even if they hate you.
~ John Waters
I made this [letter] very long, because I did not have the leisure to make it shorter.
~ Blaise Pascal
This explains why, whenever a person says sie to me, I generally try to kill him, if a stranger.
~ Mark Twain
It does no good to bark at the television, I said. I've tried it too. So he stopped.
~ Mary Oliver, House of Light
You stupid piece of warm bacon.
~ Hugh Lofting
You freaking bit me, " I said, my voice hoarse. "You're lucky I don't call animal control.
~ Jayde Scott
Dear Mrs. Black: On seven prior occasions this company has denied your claim in writing. We now deny it for the eighth and final time. You must be stupid, stupid stupid, stupid!
~ John Grisham
Humor is a universal lanuage.
~ Joel Goodman
He hadn't said a word to me until we had been roommates for eight months. And even then it had only been, "You're wearing my socks.
~ Melody J. Bremen, Room 42
No one likes a person that "should of" all over the place.
~ Shannon L. Alder
Sorry I painted the word 'twat' on your garage door.
~ David Shrigley
Humor disarms people. It opens them up to starting a dialogue about things they wouldn't normally talk about. I don't understand how people who don't have a sense of humor get through life.
~ Zach Anner
described the Internet as "a series of intestines, laid out by a goatherd's son, spewing bile at both ends
~ Matt Ruff, The Mirage