Quotes About Communication

All explicit knowledge is translated knowledge, and all translation is imperfect.

Truth is a troublesome motherfucker unless it's handled properly

Words cannot always do the work we need them to. Music is there for when words fail us.

I scowled as loudly as I could.

Love is blind, and a deaf-mute too.

I spoke it soft, but close enough to brush against her lips. I spoke it quiet, but near enough so that the sound of it went twining through her hair. I spoke it hard and firm and dark and sweet.

I don't speak fluent bumpkin...

One wife, you're happy, two and you're tired, three and they'll hate each other, four and they'll hate you.

The majority of important things cannot be said outright, they cannot be made explicit. They can only be implied.

So rather than risk saying the wrong thing, I said nothing.

Once, I sang colors to a blind man. Seven hours I played, but at the end he said he saw them, green and red and gold. That, I think, was easier than this. Trying to make you understand her with nothing more than words. You have never seen her, never heard her voice. You cannot know.

Lies are simpler, and most of the time they make better sense.

When a man gives you a rose what you see may not be what he intends. You may think he sees you as delicate or frail. Perhaps you dislike a suitor who considers you sweet and nothing else. Perhaps the stem is thorn, and you assume he thinks you likely to hurt a hand too quick to touch. But if he trims the thorns you might think he has no liking for a thing that can defend itself with sharpness. There's so many ways a thing can be interpreted.

La diferencia consiste en decirle algo a una persona y decir algo sobre una persona. Lo primero puede ser una grosería, pero lo segundo es, siempre un chisme.

Recuerda esto, hijo mío, aunque olvides todo lo demás: un poeta es un músico que no sabe cantar. Las palabras tienen que encontrar la mente de un hombre si pretenden llegar a su corazón, y la mente de algunos hombres es lamentablemente pequeña. La música llega al corazón por pequeña o acérrima que sea la mente de quien la escucha.

Do all the women in the world secretly know each other?" Sim asked. "Because that would explain a lot.

No one enjoys being talked down to, but I have a particular aversion to it.

I realize that I cannot say enough. So. Since I cannot say enough, at least I will avoid saying to much".

What the hell is that supposed to mean?" Chronicler snapped. "You're just spouting nonsense now." "I'm spouting too much sense for you to understand," Bast said testily.

Utilizar palabras para hablar de palabras es como utilizar un lápiz para hacer un dibujo de ese lápiz sobre ese mismo lápiz. Imposible. Desconcertante. Frustrante.

Siempre he preferido las noches sin luna. A oscuras es más fácil hablar. Es más fácil ser uno mismo» —Denna.

When she spoke her voice was clear. "I do this so you cannot help but hear. a wise man views a moonless night with fear.

Una vez, uno de los maestros de la Universidad me dijo que había siete palabras que hacían que una mujer te amara. Estaba preguntándome cuáles serían esas siete palabras. -¿Por eso hablas y hablas sin parar? ¿Confías en dar con ellas por casualidad?

I would have chatted with Tempi, but trying to have a conversation with him was like playing catch with a well.