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Quotes About Communication

The note in the quill was intended for the girl, and it read, 'Yes and yes and yes.' Yes I love you, yes I miss you, and yes I know and remember that you do, too. For in her last missive she had written 'No and no.' That is to say, No I do not want anyone other than you, and no I do not manage to sleep at night.
~ Meir Shalev
licorice to you. But to birds and other enemies, they are colors of DANGER, telling
~ Unknown
Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
~ Mel Brooks
The writing of this book serves as a kind of confession. You, the readers, will be my confidants. I'm going to tell you all my secrets. Things I've never told anybody. Things I don't want anybody to know! I don't want you to breathe a word of what you find out in this book. Keep everything under your hat! Wait a minute, wait a minute…that might not work. I'm not in a confessional booth, and a lot of you are probably not priests. This is a book!
~ Mel Brooks
Farts are a repressed minority. The mouth gets to say all kinds of things, but the other place is supposed to keep quiet. But maybe our lower colons have something interesting to say. Maybe we should listen to them. Farts are human, more human than a lot of people I know. I think we should bring them out of the water closet and into the parlor, and that's what I did in Blazing Saddles.
~ Mel Brooks
I didn't realize it but I might have created the first cell phone. Had I patented it, I probably would have made so much money that I wouldn't have had to write this book.
~ Mel Brooks
call m-m-me." Then there was a long pause and he said, "If n-n-nobody answers…" another pause, "…it's m-me!
~ Mel Brooks
After about twenty years of marriage, I'm finally starting to scratch the surface of that one. And I think the answer lies somewhere between conversation and chocolate.
~ Mel Gibson
After about 20 years of marriage, I'm finally starting to scratch the surface of that one. And I think the answer lies somewhere between conversation and chocolate.
~ Mel Gibson
The secret of dealing successfully with a child is not to be its parent.
~ Unknown
Secrets are such hard things to manage whwn you're not the only one who knows.
~ Unknown
La gente parla solo per dar fiato alla lingua, e lei non ha più voglia di perdere tempo con le sciocchezze. Si è sottoposta a una terapia di disintossicazione dalle cose superflue. Mese dopo mese le cose importanti si sono rivelate sempre meno. Alla fine sono rimaste solo la salute, la libertà, la vita.
~ Unknown
megérthetem, hogyan m?ködik az olvasás, és miért van az, hogy ugyanazok a szavak valakit meghatnak, másvalakit hidegen hagynak, megint mást pedig egyenesen zavarnak
~ Unknown
My dad still calls me and makes sure I'm taking my vitamins.
~ Melanie Fiona
When I think it's good not to say the truth, I don't say anything. I don't like actors in general, they lie, they are liars, trust me.
~ Melanie Laurent
chicken, and cinnamon cookies with my name frosted on them. Sometimes you're my therapist, sometimes you're my tormentor, sometimes you're my secret crush. But you're never my dog. And right now, you're my dance partner." He lifts his chin. "Let me see if I can sweep you off your feet.
~ Melanie Marks
Nina flutters her eyelashes at Justin. "Here's the cookies Nicole promised you in her note. We made them together," she lies, fluttering her eyelashes some more. Justin takes the cookies from her. "Thanks." He watches her silently, tilting his head. "You have something in your eye?" She immediately stops fluttering and starts twirling her hair
~ Melanie Marks
Never underestimate the value of knowing another's language. It can be far more powerful than swords and arrows.
~ Melina Marchetta
I shrug. "I'll probably mention that I'm in love with you." He chuckles. "Only you would say that in such a I-think-I'll-wash-my-hair-tonight tone.
~ Melina Marchetta
I didn't know you had a girlfriend, Griggs." Anson Choi feigns surprise. "What's her name?" "I didn't actually catch her name," Griggs continues. "Lily," Raffaela says over her shoulder and this time I give her a sideways look. "Great to know that I'm in love with a girl with a cool name." "It's Taylor's middle name," Raffaela calls back again.
~ Melina Marchetta
He bursts out laughing. It's short, as if he regretted allowing me to make him laugh, but the satisfaction's already mine.
~ Melina Marchetta
So between you and me," I tell Justine on the phone that night, "we're either bitchy or stupid." "Oh God," she moans. "Everyone thinks I'm an idiot." "Thanks!
~ Melina Marchetta
women are elephants and watch the way you say that in front of them because they'll think you're calling them fat and there's no coming back from that moment. But they hoard. They say they don't, but they do. We think that if something's not spoken about again, it goes away. It doesn't. Nothing goes away just like that...
~ Melina Marchetta
Silence is not just about secrecy, Your Majesty. It is grief and it is shame.
~ Melina Marchetta