Quotes About Communication

people without sense of humor aren't much fun to be around, no matter how far they've gotten.

You want to know what's going on in someone's life? Ask them how they feel first thing in the morning.

If she wanted him to stop, she'd have to say so soon because she was driving him up so fast he felt like a comet flaming in the heat of her atmosphere.

I personally think we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain.

When we talk to God, we're praying. When God talks to us, we're schizophrenic.

I think of the irony that in our language [Nepali] the word for love can also mean deceit.

In Nepal, the quality of conversation is much more important than accuracy of the content. Maybe we get overexcited about information in England?

I like the way Nepalis point by pouting their lips; they reckon pointing with a finger is rude.

Shit is another useful word. Also very common. For example, pleasantly surprised? You say 'No shit?' You think someone tells you tales, you scoff 'You're shitting me.' You find something you like very much, you exclaim 'That's good shit!

When he took her hand to lead her to the swing, she yanked it away and glared at him. He laughed and taunted, "I don't bite, Cal." "I think you do," she too quickly snapped, then flushed. -Lynx & Calinda

Get out of my room. It's late, and I'm not dressed for company." She knew she should put on her robe, but she didn't move. "I'm not company, and you're wearing more tonight than the last time I saw you. We need to talk, Callie." -Calinda & Lynx

So you let a stranger touch you and you're not going to let me. --Tommy to Jessica

Most writing is done between the mind and the hand, not between the hand and the page.

If you come home with your panties still on, I am never speaking to you again.

Nothing's going to happen between us until you're ready for it to happen." She stared at him, stil clutching her stick in a death grip, then finally nodded and silently walked to her car. She let Toby in the backseat, then opened the passenger door and slid the tip of her stick on the floor to lean it against the console. "Jess," Ian said quietly. She turned, still not saying anything. "Just so long as you know that it is going to happen.

Having someone to tell secrets to is one of the benefits of marriage

Even Tidewater's computer gurus hadn't been able to trace the origin of his messages.

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He was a wizard of sorts, a magus and a grammaticus; and continually communing with his machines as he did, he seemed to find talking to actual people a confusion to him.

Either get out of bed or else take your clothes off," he said. "I'm not in the mood to compromise.

Men drive off bridges and drink too much because of women like you.

There is no such thing as a good call at 7 AM. It's been my experience that all calls between the hours of 11 PM and 9 AM are disaster calls.

I act as a sponge. I soak it up and squeeze it out in ink every two weeks.

Conversation is the wall we build between ourselves and other people, too often with tired words like used and broken bottles which, catching the sunlight as they lie embedded in the wall, are mistaken for jewels.