Quotes About Communication

I'm talking to you in bed at one in the morning. How mad can I be?" I picture him there, in what, flannel pajamas? Underwear? Nothing at all?

I distrust the incommunicable; it is the source of all violence.

I'm going to smile, and my smile will sink down into your pupils, and heaven knows what it will become.

Words are loaded pistols.

we had long silences together over the line. I liked those moments. With my ear close to the receiver, I'd try to hear her breath, her breathing. When she broke the silence, her voice became more important.

Scripture consists of what has been heard, not what has been said.

It [speaking with words that bring about harmony] consists of speaking of what is good about people, instead of what is wrong with them. For some people this is an almost impossible exercise, for they have become totally habituated to speaking critically. We all seem to have a special talent for finding critical things to say about the world, about others, and about ourselves! (117)

We still do not know what Yeshua really said. We know only what a number of hearers and witnesses have heard. Scripture consists of what has been heard, not what has been said.

My guess is my brother would call his mom and his dad pretty regularly, a lot more than I probably did.

If more people were actively engaged in advocating their positions I think we'd have a better society.

I believe that social media's greatest gift is in providing every person the forum to be themselves, speak their heart & soul.

It's like I can hum a few bars but I have forgotten most of the words. I can't stand in line at the grocery and carry on a normal conversation if it gets much past the weather.

On certain social occasions, otherwise dignified and serious men will begin behaving unconsciously like players on a stage, performing as they talk, acting as they gesticulate. The cause is invariably a woman.

No man can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips.

She spoke with the air of the artist, playing out each nuance until it wasn't a nuance anymore.

Emma, okay, enough with the singing. Mommy's getting a three-pill headache.

The woman offered her hand, and I shook it. She had a confident grip. She didn't tell me her name, though, and I couldn't tell if she simply forgot or she didn't want me to know.

Emma, okay, enough with the singing. Mommy's getting a three-pill headache.

I don't hate you. I don't know that I understand you yet. I may never. But I will try. But I'm not sure what my next step is.

With Pearl Jam, everybody is so good at what they do, it's hard to get up the courage to say, Can I sing this part, or, I want to play guitar. I feel like I have more courage to do that.

As the writer, I know, but does my reader?

Diction is not memorizing vocabulary, not memorizing word lists, not overusing the thesaurus, not replacing all the short words with long ones.

The right words communicate; the wrong words obfuscate.

students suffer from page fright.