Quotes About Communication

When your rage is choking you, it is best to say nothing.

I just knew there were stories I wanted to tell.

Touched by poetry, language is more fully language and at the same time is no longer language: it is a poem.

Man does not speak because he thinks; he thinks because he speaks. Or rather, speaking is no different than thinking: to speak is to think.

Social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings.

When we learn to speak, we learn to translate.

To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.

Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

Some one invented the telephone, And interrupted a nation's slumbers, Ringing wrong but similar numbers.

An occasional lucky guess as to what makes a wife tick is the best a man can hope for, Even then, no sooner has he learned how to cope with the tick than she tocks.

Which the Chicken and Which the Egg? He drinks because she scolds, he thinks; She thinks she scolds because he drinks; And nether will admit what's true, That he's a sot and she's a shrew.

To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up." ~Happy birthday Ogden Nash! (born 8.19.1902)

To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.

Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave when they think that their children are naive.

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The frog in the well can't communicate with the ocean creatures, as it knows the depth of the sky. It's because the frog lived inside a cramped and small space, so he knows better than anyone, how precious freedom is.

Remember this: a story that must be told never forgives silence. Speech is the mouth's debt to a story.

You wrote words with your hand, but your mind wiped me away.

a story that must be told never forgives silence

The white man knows many things," the other whispered back, "but he doesn't know how to tell a good lie.

A story that must be told never forgives silence. Speech is the mouth's debt to a story

A true expert, instead, was one who understood a subject well enough to make its most intricate concepts accessible to a novice. The

Sometimes I get a bit scared—love generally is a scary thing, happy love no less than unhappy, only for some reason no one ever talks about that.

That's what cell phones are for—to mask our rapidly progressing helplessness vis-à-vis the real world when we find ourselves face to face with it.