Quotes About Communication

You can crush a man with journalism.

Good English, well spoken and written, will open more doors than a college degree. Bad English will slam doors you didn't even know existed.

Anyone without a sense of humor is at the mercy of everyone else.

Serious students of language (as it relates to social class) have dealt, not with simple-minded concepts like "verbal" and "nonverbal," but rather with issues of style and of differing ways of using and relating to language.

Every problem of medicine is a problem of language, and this operation was a malapropism.

Only in grammar can you be more than perfect.

If you re-read your work, you can find on re-reading a great deal of repetition can be avoided by re-reading and editing.

Use the semicolon properly, always use it where it is appropriate; and never where it isn't. Reserve the apostrophe for it's proper use and omit it when its not needed.... Avoid commas, that are not necessary.... And don't start a sentence with a conjunction.... If any word is improper at the end of a sentence, a linking verb is...

Remember to never split an infinitive. The passive voice should never be used. Do not put statements in the negative form. Proofread carefully to see if you words out. And don't start a sentence with a conjugation.

Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care.

Adapt your style, if you wish, to admit the color of slang or freshness of neologism, but hang tough on clarity, precision, structure, grace.

On the two-way street of communication, a happy symbiosis is achieved when a writer tosses up an offbeat usage or a puzzling word and the working reader figures it out and savors it.

We didn't say anything because there was such an awful lot to say, and no language to say it in.

And if you're not going to have a clear health threat, you don't want to panic people.

The first one, obviously, was walking into my office at eight o'clock in the morning on Wednesday, and being told there was a telephone call saying that there was an incident at Three Mile Island, and that it had shut down and that beyond that we didn't know.

What I had said in the morning was that this is what we know has happened, but there has been no significant off-site release. Only to find out moments later that, in fact, there had been an off-site release. I still haven't gotten over that.

The second month is baby's social debut—the coming out of herself. She opens up her hands to greet people. She opens her vision to widen her world and her mouth to smile and make more noise. The feeling of rightness and trust developed during the first month opens the door for baby's real personality to step out.

As a practical guide, music you can carry on a conversation over is safe. If you have to shout over the noise, it's too loud.

Communication must become total and conscious before we can stop it.

A long-tongued, babbling gossip.

For they are yet ear-kissing arguments.

Let me be cruel, not unnatural; I will speak daggers to her, but use none. My tongue and soul in this be hypocrites: How in my words somever she be shent, To give them seals never, my soul, consent!

Guiltiness will speak, though tongues were out of use

Women's weapon, water-drops