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Quotes About Communication

Americans have different ways of saying things. They say 'elevator', we say 'lift'... they say 'President', we say 'stupid psychopathic git.
~ Alexei Sayle
There should be more sincerity and heart in human relations, more silence and simplicity in our interactions. Be rude when you're angry, laugh when something is funny, and answer when you're asked.
~ Anton Chekhov
When the eyes say one thing, and the tongue another, a practiced man relies on the language of the first.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Just because you have the emotional range of a teaspoon doesn't mean we all have.
~ J. K. Rowling
If only faces could talk.
~ Pat Summerall
Every once in a while, you let a word or phrase out and you want to catch it and bring it back. You can't do that. It's gone, gone forever.
~ Dan Quayle
Thank you for calling customer service. If you're calm and rational, press 1. If you're a whiner, press 2. If you're a hot head, press 3
~ Randy Glasbergen
The fellow who says he'll meet you halfway usually thinks he's standing on the dividing line.
~ Orlando Aloysius Battista
My girlfriend and I went to a dinner party the other night and we ended up playing charades. There was another couple there that was deaf. They were so good.
~ Zach Galifianakis
My parents never understood me; they were Japanese.
~ Chic Murray
I hate people who cry around me. I'm not friends with them anymore. Especially girls. Cuz girls are crying all the time. It's like, 'Shut up.'
~ Robert Pattinson
Why is it that it's okay to call a white person "mate" yet it's not okay to call a black guy "primate"?
~ Frankie Boyle
With rap, it's a funny thing. You can say things, and people can take 'em the way they wanna take 'em.
~ Young Jeezy
You guys pair up in groups of three, then line up in a circle.
~ Bill Peterson
My wife was too beautiful for words, but not for arguments.
~ John Barrymore
Blessed are they who hold lively conversations with the helplessly mute, for they shall be called dentists.
~ Ann Landers
I cannot sing, dance or act; what else would I be but a talk show host.
~ David Letterman
The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?
~ Alice James
I'm pretty private about my neuroses. You're not neurotic if you talk to yourself - everyone does - you're only neurotic if you hear an answer.
~ Rachel Weisz
Most owners are at length able to teach themselves to obey their dog.
~ Robert Morley
What a father says to his children is not heard by the world, but it will be heard by posterity.
~ Jean Paul
Mr. Speaker. I said the honorable member was a liar it is true and I am sorry for it. The honorable member may place the punctuation where he pleases.
~ Richard Brinsley Sheridan
There's no such thing as 'hard sell' and 'soft sell.' There's only 'smart sell' and 'stupid sell.'
~ Leo Burnett
Marriage is an investment which pays dividends if you pay interest.
~ Bob Monkhouse