Quotes About Communication

One thing I have learned is, if people tell you they had a "frank" discussion with someone, it is usually code for a yelling match with clenched fists.

Do not put cleverness in front of the communication.

On the other hand, I was very much interested in the way people behaved, the human dance, how they seemed to move around each other. I wanted to play around with that.

The moment you enter into the world of words you start falling away from that which is. The more you enter into language, the farther you are away from existence.

Communication: the thing humans forgot when we invented words.

Language is the close-fitting dress of thought.

Commerce is the great civilizer. We exchange ideas when we exchange fabrics.

We had something to say. Whenever we played, people didn't dance, they listened.

Personally, I'm waiting for caller IQ.

And we didn't have cell phones. If you made plans to meet someone in a snow storm, and they didn't show up, you just had to assume they were devoured by wolves and go on with your life.

When a generation talks just to itself, it becomes more filled with folly than it might have otherwise.

If you express yourself too much, you're considered weak.

Three problems we have: lack of boundaries, insufficient language, incompletions.

I sometimes find that in interviews you learn more about yourself than the person learned about you.

There's no sentence that's too short in the eyes of God.

In dance you use every party of your body except your voice. I wanted to start acting because I wanted to use my voice.

I'm no f****** talking to you. He's a f****** great player. Yous are f******* idiots.

Conversation: A fair for the display of the minor mental commodities, each exhibitor being too intent upon the arrangement of his own wares to observe those of his neighbor.

Creation which cannot express itself becomes madness.

If your words aren't truthful, the finest optically letter-spaced typography won't help.

Dear Nettie, I don't write to God no more, I write to you.

Because paper has more patience than people.

If you're horrible to me, I'm going to write a song about it, and you won't like it. That's how I operate.

The deeds you do may be the only sermon some persons will hear today