Quotes About Communication

I'm a mirror. If you're cool with me, I'm cool with you, and the exchange starts. What you see is what you reflect. If you don't like what you see, then you've done something. If I'm standoffish, that's because you are.

It's hard to see what the problem is. Language speakers and writers have always been inventive, and texting is just one further example of human creativity. As David Crystal has expressed it: 'it..is the latest manifestation of the human ability to be linguistically creative... In texting, we are seeing, in a small way, language in evolution...

We have found other terms far less vague than the old ones to designate the same complaints. It's a great advance linguistically.

A happy love is full of quarrels, you know.

Rien n'est vrai que ce qu'on ne dit pas...

Readiness of speech is often inability to hold the tongue.

The need to speak, even if one has nothing to say, becomes more pressing when one has nothing to say, just as the will to live becomes more urgent when life has lost its meaning.

There are only a few images that are not forced to provide meaning, or have to go through the filter of a specific idea.

There is a pact of pride in a couple's love, a pact of glory, which is at least as fundamental as sexual feelings. These latter peter out silently in the two bodies, but the pact can only be broken by the spoken word.

We live in a world where there is more and more information, and less and less meaning.

Smile and others will smile back. Smile to show how transparent, how candid you are. Smile if you have nothing to say. Most of all, do not hide the fact you have nothing to say nor your total indifference to others. Let this emptiness, this profound indifference shine out spontaneously in your smile.

There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room. It is even stranger than a man talking to himself or a woman standing dreaming at her stove. It is as if another planet is communicating with you. Suddenly the TV reveals itself for what it really is; a video of another world, ultimately addressed to no one at all, delivering its own message.

Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.

Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are stupefied by its innocence.

He needs to respect you and know you mean business, but it's not your business to be mean.

Il parle couramment la vérité, mais personne ne le comprend car il use d'une langue morte.

After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.

Poetry is indispensable --if I only knew what for.

An artist cannot speak about his art anymore than a plant can discuss horticulture.

Wolves are brotherly," he said. "They love each other, and if you learn to speak to them, they will love you too.

There must be a wound inside the words that communicates.

A heap of epithets is poor praise: the praise lies in the facts, and in the way of telling them.

One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories.

It is a sad thing when men have neither the wit to speak well nor the judgment to hold their tongues.