Quotes About Communication

It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us.

Slowly we became silent, and silence itself if an enemy to friendship.

I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension.

One day when Wittgenstein was passing a field where a football game was in progress the thought first struck him that in language we play games with words. A central idea of his philosophy, the notion of a 'language-game', apparently had its genesis in this incident.

I've been impressed by the extent to which one gets sentenced by one's own sentences. One explores certain things in play and then in a strange way they become commitments which one has to live. I have gained a deep respect for the demonic power of the word. Words are not idle. They have consequences.

Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment [Verhexung] of our intelligence by means of language.

With the reference to the indispensable third person (an audience), Freud relates the demand for intelligibility to the demand for communication. The implication is that art has the function of making public the contents of the unconscious.

What is always speaking silently is the body.

One of the most feared expressions in modern times is 'The computer is down.'

Literature is humanity talking to itself.

One thing you distinctly never want to hear a man you're interested in say softly is that his favorite book in the whole world is The Golden Notebook. Here you are dealing with a liar from the black lagoon and it's time to start feeling in your purse for carfare.

Causing active ongoing pleasure in your mate is something people tend to restrict to the sexual realm or getting attractive food on the table on time, but keeping permanent intimate comedy going is more important than any other one thing.

Ah good, I thought, another thesis topic although unfortunately not in my field, id est proving that women are almost invariably the appeasers when fights occur that lead to stalemates

English is taking over the world. I just wrote a piece about it. And it's not by design. The United States dominates because it's the biggest market.

You may use different sorts of sentences and illustrations before different sorts of audiences, but you don't -- if you are wise -- talk down to any audience.

Be interesting, be enthusiastic... and don't talk to much.

Remember that "Help us grow this grass" is a far more effective sign than "Keep off the grass".

Give me iron words forged in fire that I may speak the language of earth.

La macchina tecnologicamente più efficiente che l'uomo abbia mai inventato è il libro.

Why, can you imagine what would happen if we named all the twos Henry or George or Robert or John or lots of other things? You'd have to say Robert plus John equals four, and if the four's name were Albert, things would be hopeless.

Let me try once more," Milo said in an effort to explain. "In other words--" "You mean you have other words?" cried the bird happily. "Well, by all means, use them. You're certainly not doing very well with the ones you have now.

A slavish concern for the composition of words is the sign of a bankrupt intellect. Be gone, odious wasp! You smell of decayed syllables.

I don't think there has been enough communication between the players and the tournaments. In one sense it's just as much the players' fault. Players talk between each other and in the locker room about things that can be improved and then when the time comes to talk and really do something about it they stop.

One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand