Quotes About Communication

How could it be that her husband could be physically so close to her every day, beside her in bed every night, yet so far away, so distant

told off for waving her arms around.

I lost my dad way too early and it was agonisingly awful. I missed him so much and I hated knowing that I could never again pick up the phone to tell him about my day.

I listened, he'll answer, and his father will realize how ardently he'd paid attention all along, how carefully he observed, how hard he tried. He will tell his father that the morning chorus sounded like something rising out of the breath it took away.

The irony of acquiring a foreign tongue is that I have amassed just enough cheap, serviceable words to fuel my desires and never, never enough lavish, impudent ones to feed them.

Language is a house with a host of doors, and I am too often uninvited and without the keys.

Lovers who have lived a lifetime together have the luxury of never having to say anything new.

He wrote that it would have been better for me to hear it all in person. What he meant was that paper was not strong enough to bear the weight of what he had to say but that he would have to test its strength anyway.

My self-righteous rage burns until I am forced to concede that I, in fact, have told them nothing. This language that I dip into like a dry inkwell has failed me.

One only has to read interviews with outstanding women to hear them apologizing

Montel Vontavious Porter

What orators lack in depth, they make up to you in length.

Hey, you know what your grandpa told me? Said, Always have a love song for your woman. This way, when they get to fussin'... You just sing that song to yourself. When you're through, she'll be done and you can get back to what you want, the lovin'. 'Cause that's all that fussing is anyway. Whole lotta lovin'.

No being has the right to say to another, "Do this, or I will hurt you".

called Xenophone

Do not fight verbosity with words: speech is given to all, intelligence to few.

If we don't talk about this epidemic we are going to die.

My attitude towards peace does not depend on which war we are discussing. I think that words should do the work of bombs.

I thought, breaking into a sweat, I'd better call Saul. I owe Kate an apology... Damn damn damn.

Yes, carbon paper, if any of you out there are old enough to remember what that was. Why, in those days we not only used carbon paper but when you phoned somebody you actually got an answer from a human being on the other end..

When they tote up our contribution," Luke once said, "all that can be claimed for us is that we took 'fuck' out of the oral tradition and wrote it plain.

Not only do I have to live, right, I have to get some cash for my troubles - it's a scary thing, and people need to start to think about the messages that they send in the movies.

People need to start to think about the messages that they send in the movies.

Why do we have to do this, Sam?" Sam threw his arms up in the air, gesturing wildly, shouting, "Because I love you, you crazy woman.