Quotes About Communication

And this is how otherwise reasonable people end up throwing rocks at one another,

Be a good egg and speak up.

our mail is being read by the DODO,

My for example is woofs.

No nap! Mew-eezum!

ba-ba or a noo-noo,

So starb ich tausendmal. Doch da du kamst, Mocht ich das Glück, dir nah zu sein, nicht stören. Wie aber solltest du mein Schweigen hören, Da du doch nicht einmal mein Wort vernahmst ...

When something cannot be described, it does not become a fact of shared reality.

Have you heard," he said "that many of our people believe if you know five colloquial expressions in their tribal language, they must always provide you with nourishment and shelter? But-" He paused as though to make sure she was paying attention. "But if you know fewer than five, they owe you not even a sip of water." She nodded, understanding his point, but he pressed it. "Learn those five phrases, Miss Sweeney," he said.

Listening to people keeps them entertained.

Clothes make a statement. Costumes tell a story.

Bad faith likes discourse on friendship and loyalty.

Women encourage men to be childish, then scold them.

The power of lying is much less than the power of what is not to be discussed.

The man of sensibility is too busy talking about his feelings to have time for good deeds.

There are different rules for reading, for thinking, and for talking. Writing blends all three of them.

Was there little time between the invention of language and the coming of true and false?

Logic and fact keep interfering with the easy flow of conversation.

I don't think that type should be expressive at all. I can write the word 'dog' with any typeface and it doesn't have to look like a dog. But there are people that [think that] when they write 'dog' it should bark.

You can say, "I love you," in Helvetica. And you can say it with Helvetica Extra Light if you want to be really fancy. Or you can say it with the Extra Bold if it's really intensive and passionate, you know, and it might work.

Almost all the great American graphic designers have used white space as the significant silence to better hear their message loud and clear.

Art has become a necessity of life.

I have found that, in the African American oral tradition, if the words are enunciated eloquently enough, no one examines the meaning for definitive truth.

I'm watching you, big boy, my eyes say, but his are closed so it's an optical monologue.