Quotes About Communication

Despite what is taught today, easy sex does not solve every problem. Sex does not solve even sexual problems.

El hombre no se comunica con otro hombre sino cuando el uno escribe en su soledad y el otro lo lee en la suya. Las conversaciones son o diversión, o estafa, o esgrima.

Phrases are pebbles that the writer tosses into the reader's soul. The diameter of the concentric waves they displace depends on the dimensions of the pond.

He who longs for "perfect communication" among individuals, their reciprocal "perfect transparency," their mutual "perfect possession," as a certain high priest of the left does, longs for the perfect totalitarian society.

I must confess that I do not understand why things are so arranged, that women seize us by the nose as deftly as they do the handle of a teapot: either their hands are so constructed, or else our noses are good for nothing else.

The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society.

No news is good news. No journalists is even better.

Whatever we conceive well we express clearly, and words flow with ease.

Ce que l'on conçoit bien s'énonce clairement, Et les mots pour le dire arrivent aisément.

Whate'er is well conceived is clearly said,And the words to say it flow with ease.

Praising an honest person who doesn't deserve it, always wounds them.

The art of the parenthesis is one of the great secrets of eloquence in Society.

If we would please in society, we must be prepared to be taught many things we know already by people who do not know them.

When you want to be well-liked in the world, you have to let a lot of people teach you things that you know and they don't.

Quand on veut plaire dans le monde, il faut se résoudre à se laisser apprendre beaucoup de choses qu'on sait par des gens qui les ignorent.

God joins us together by means of the body, in consequence of the laws of the communication of movements. He affects us with the same feelings in consequence of the laws of the conjunction of body and soul.

It's disrespectful to tell the French in the morning that you're going to reduce the debt, in the evening that you're not going to make any savings, and the next morning, after thinking about it, that you're going to spend more.

When will you learn that there isn't a word for everything?

When will you learn that there isn't a word for everything?

Holding hands, for example, is a way to remember how it feels to say nothing together.

Why does one begin to write? Because she feels misunderstood, I guess. Because it never comes out clearly enough when she tries to speak. Because she wants to rephrase the world, to take it in and give it back again differently, so that everything is used and nothing is lost. Because it's something to do to pass the time until she is old enough to experience the things she writes about.

I was never a man of great ambition I cried too easily I didn't have a head for science Words often failed me While others prayed I only moved my lips

What—what gold-thing did you buy her?" "A goldfish," Matt says. I groan, "She wanted jewelry, Matt. Like a ring." Matt winces. Then he shrugs. "Well, she didn't say that." I sigh. "She meant it." He shrugs. "She didn't say it." "Matt!" I groan. He tries to seem innocent. He says, "She just said buy her something gold.

Did you really love her? Did you really enter her heart and mind? Or did the two of you always remain outside each other?