Quotes About Communication

Ich finde es einen wunderschönen Gedanken, dass etwas, das ein Mensch vor über hundert Jahren niedergeschrieben hat, noch immer da ist. Der Mensch selbst ist schon lange verschwunden, und vielleicht sogar schon vergessen, aber seine Gedanken sind immer noch da. Bücher sind Boten aus der Vergangenheit, weißt du? Botschaften aus der Vergangenheit für die Menschen der Zukunft. Wie kleine Zeitmaschinen.

For example, a telegram is a "lightning-letter"; a wireless telegram is a "not-have-wire-lightning-communication"; a fountain-pen is a "self-flow-ink-water-brush"; a typewriter is a "strike-letter-machine". Most of these neologisms are similar in the modern languages of China and Japan.

The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.

I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something.

I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it.

My dream of politics all my life has been that it is the common business, that it is something we owe to each other to understand and discuss with absolute frankness.

If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.

If a man is a fool, the best thing is to encourage him to advertise the fact by speaking.

If a dog will not come to you after he has looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience."~

We will presently find that we are not so far apart after all, that the points on which we differ are few and the points on which we agree are many, and that if we only have the patience and the candor and the desire to get together, we will get together.

A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through her ears.

Sex is like having dinner: sometimes you joke about the dishes, sometimes you take the meal seriously.

Sex is better than talk. Ask anybody in this bar. Talk is what you suffer through so you can get to sex.

Some guy hit my car fender the other day, and I said unto him, "Be fruitful and multiply." But not in those words.

I know what I think but I don't know how to put it into words. Maybe I could get a little bit drunk and dance it for you.

Having sex is like playing bridge. If you don't have a good partner, you'd better have a good hand.

It's not the quantity of your sexual relations that count, it's the quality. On the other hand, if the quantity drops below once every eight months, I would definitely look into it.

I was involved in an extremely good example of oral contraception two weeks ago. I asked a girl to go to bed with me, and she said "No."

A fast word about oral contraception. I asked a girl to go to bed with me and she said "no."

I want to tell you a terrific story about oral contraception. I asked this girl to sleep with me and she said "No."

Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in the bath and she'd come in and sink my boats.

Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in the bath and she would come in and sink my boats.

For the first year of marriage I had basically a bad attitude. I tended to place my wife underneath a pedestal

Should I marry W. Not if she won't tell me the other letters in her name.