Quotes About Communication

I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.

If you can't answer a man's arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.

Dogs come when they're called; cats take a message and get back to you later.

I feel like this is a dream, and I apologize for how I dressed some of you.

I hardly said a word to my wife until I said 'yes' to divorce.

Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake a whole relationship.

Sex isn't the answer. Sex is the question, yes is the answer.

Speak when you are angry - and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.

I avoid talking before the youth of the age as I would dancing before them: for if one's tongue don't move in the steps of the day, and thinks to please by its old graces, it is only an object of ridicule.

Photography suits the temper of this age -- of active bodies and minds. It is a perfect medium for one whose mind is teeming with ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who would be slowed down by painting or sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts decisively, accurately.

A woman telling her true age is like a buyer confiding his final price to an Armenian rug dealer.

A newspaper is lumber made malleable. It is ink made into words and pictures. It is conceived, born, grows up and dies of old age in a day.

The post office has a great charm at one point of our lives. When you have lived to my age, you will begin to think letters are never worth going through the rain for.

Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.

Just at the age 'twixt boy and youth, When thought is speech, and speech is truth.

Imagine a school with children that can read or write, but with teachers who cannot, and you have a metaphor of the Information Age in which we live.

Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.

Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.

Consider what you have in the smallest chosen library: a company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out of all civil countries in a thousand years.... The thought which they did not uncover to their bosom friend is here written out in transparent words to us, the strangers of another age.

I have been a believer in the magic of language since, at a very early age, I discovered that some words got me into trouble and others got me out.

When marrying, one should ask oneself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this woman into your old age?

When entering into a marriage one ought to ask oneself: do you believe you are going to enjoy talking with this woman up into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory, but most of the time you are together will be devoted to conversation.

Someone asked someone who was about my age: How are you? The answer was, Fine. If you don't ask for details.

When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.