Quotes About Communication

There was a 194-car crash in Los Angeles. Luckily the guy in the first car was still able to complete his cell phone call.

The Discovery Channel had a fascinating show on the mating habits of hyenas. They said that the male hyena often will get angry at the female hyena while they are having sex. It doesn't help that the female hyena is laughing at you all the time.

The key to a long and healthy marriage is that, honestly, there's nothing worth fighting about.

It all started when my dog began getting free roll over minutes.

For the value of history, and therefore of military history, is not in the facts it communicates or even in the principals it illustrates. The value of history is that it can provide fresh insight into the past and hence a better understanding of the present.

I think men talk to women so they can sleep with them and women sleep with men so they can talk to them.

So I'm living this life. Maybe, someday, I'll be able to choose another. For now, I can't. What keeps me sane - so to speak - is that I can listen. And you should too. You might think you can ignore people like me. But there are a lot of us. It's in your interest to hear what we're saying.

Poetry is a language adequate to one's experience.

Robert Frost suggested (with his usual sly wit) that a person uneducated in the operations of metaphor was not safe in the world, should not even be let out of doors.

If men were from Mars and women from Venus, I was from an unknown star in neither orbit. My sensitivity, as finely honed a skill as I possessed, still lacked a working edge with my Andrea.

Instead of pressuring the Japanese into lowering trade barriers or taking a greater share of the responsibility for their own defense, we should be urging them to bring their verbs from the ends of their sentences into second place, right after their subjects, where they belong.

information molecule

My government, you can be assured, will be less focused on personalities. It is about treating people with respect. I think complaining about the community not being able to see the wisdom of our ideas is the wrong approach.

Learning how to do SM is like learning how to have sex all over again.

What voice have I borrowed to express a necessary silence?

I didn't say a word. I just stared at him. I figured I didn't owe him an answer, and I was too proud to even talk. I didn't want to tell him a damn thing about me.

Talk between women friends is always therapy...

Despite membership in the guild of outcasts, writers do, by quirk of fate or sex or addiction or parenthood, become intimate with others, with those who don't originate from the planet of words and language. Other things do happen, but we don't know what they are until we write about them, or think about them in words, or remember them in phrases. - From "Why She Writes

Oh, this time I was doing the gossiping. You should really dismiss me for disloyalty, not to mention the disrespect I'm showing right now by talking to you like this.

you gave up any right to comment on the subject when you threw my ring back in my face, didn't you?" She (Elly) stiffened."I didn't throw it back. I just sort of set in down on your desk." He (Cooper)shrugged."We each have our own version of events, Want some fries?

How did you know I was here in town?" "The old quarter here in Cadence is my neighborhood now," she said smoothly,"Let's just say I have my sources." "Right", He nodded, evidently satisfied and picked up his sandwich. "your mother phoned and told you I was on my way here to Cadence.

why are you ending our engagement then?" "Because of the reason you fought it" (The duel) "I don't understand." "I know

His eyes tightened a little at the corners. "I told you a

Marriage, even the best marriages are tough.