Quotes About Communication

The figures of our speaking are like pictures of names. Vague, weak names, but names nonetheless. Be mindful of them.

Trying to make you understand her with nothing more than words. You have never seen her, never heard her voice. You cannot know.

Bárbaros! —dijo enjugándose las lágrimas—. Se me había olvidado lo atrasados que sois. Mi rey poeta también era así. Tardó muchísimo en comprender la verdad: que existe una gran diferencia entre el pene y el corazón.

God, I never know how much to tell you people. If you don't believe me, you'll think I'm crazy. If you do believe me, you'll panic and be worse than useless.

I'm willing to lose some sleep if it comes to that. I can't think of the last time I shared the company of a woman who speaks her mind firmly and without hesitation. Your kind are in short supply these days.

didn't feel like explaining myself, and was quite comfortable tolerating an uncomfortable silence.

Qué nos queda cuando nos fallan las palabras?

Words have to find a man's mind before they can touch his heart, and some men's minds are woeful small targets.

She shook her head vigorously, refusing to look at me as tears started to spill down her cheeks. "It's not fine. I should have known. You hold it like it's your baby. If anyone in my life had ever looked at me the way you look at that lute, I'd …

Los secretos son la piedra angular de la civilización, y sé que tú tienes más que la mayoría de la gente. —Yo no creo que tenga secretos —lo contradije. Sim y Fela rompieron a reír a la vez. —Me temo que acabas de demostrar que Sim tiene razón —dijo Fela—. A mí me consta que tienes unos cuantos. —Y a mí también —dijo Sim.

Luckily, languages are like musical instruments: the more you know, the easier it is to pick up new ones.

But a word is nothing but a painting of a fire. A name is the fire itself.

Mit Worten über Worte sprechen zu wollen, das ist, als würde man versuchen, mit einem Bleistift eben diesen Bleistift zu zeichnen, und zwar auf dem Bleistift sebst. Unmöglich. Verwirrend. Frustrierend.

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 all sweet and nothing else. Perhaps the stem is thorned, 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.

Hespe's eyes were dangerous slits by this point. But even more telling was her mouth, which had formed a thin, straight line. A word of advice to you. Should you ever see that look on a woman's fac, leave off talking at once and sit on both your hands.

He's not upset because you didn't trust him, or that you tricked Sim. He's upset because you found out what asinine lengths he is willing to go to in order to impress a woman." He looked at me. "Is 'asinine' the right word?" I took a deep breath and let it out. "Pretty much," I admitted. "I chose it because it sounded like ass," Wil said.

She taught me I should never do anything in private that I didn't want talked about in public, and cautioned me to not talk in my sleep.

That means if you don't listen to me, you'll jump to your own conclusions and be dead wrong. Dead and wrong.

No creo que se pueda aprender todo de nada, y menos de un idioma.

More or less. You have to be a bit of a liar to tell a story the right way. Too much truth confuses the facts.

If you honestly couldn't tell that she was interested in you, you might want to admit the possibility that you are impossibly thick when it comes to women. You may want to consider the priesthood.

So as we rode there were many things unspoken. The tension built in the air between us as the road jounced away beneath the cart's wheels. There were gaps and breaks in our conversation, silences that stretched too long, silences that were short but terrifyingly deep.

Hay dos formas infalibles de perder a un amigo: una es pedirle dinero prestado, y la otra, prestárselo».

I had to push him a bit," I said. "Superstitious folk don't like to talk about things they're afraid of. He was about to clam up, and I needed to know what he'd seen in the forest." "I could have gotten it out of him," she said. "More flies with honey and all that.