Quotes About Communication

The silence of two people is deeper than the silence of one.

Those who know don't talk and those who talk don't know.

The only wealth I'm interested in is a wealth of words.

There are so many who know more than I do, who understand the world better than I do. I would be truly learned, a great scholar, if only I could retain everything I've learned from those I have known. But then would I still be me? And isn't all that only words? Words grow old, too; they change their meaning and their usage. They get sick just as we do; they die of their wounds and then they are relegated to the dust of dictionaries. And where am I in all this?

Writing is not like painting where you add. It is not what you put on the canvas that the reader sees. Writing is more like a sculpture where you remove, you eliminate in order to make the work visible. Even those pages you remove somehow remain. There is a difference between a book of two hundred pages which is the result of an original eight hundred pages. The six hundred pages are there. Only you don't see them.

To talk to a stranger is like talking to the stars: it doesn't commit you.

The silence of two people is deeper than the silence of one. Involuntarily

Dead souls have more to say than living ones.

The tragedy of man is that he doesn't know how to distinguish between day and night. He says things at night that should only be said by day." He

I had many things to say, I did not have the words to say them. Painfully aware of my limitations, I watched helplessly as language became an obstacle…. Writing in my mother tongue—at that point close to extinction—I would pause at every sentence, and start over and over again…. All the dictionary had to offer seemed meager, pale, lifeless.

Suddenly he stopped in front of me and asked for a cigarette. I had a package of Players in my pocket and wanted to give them to him. But he refused to take the whole package, saying quite calmly that obviously he didn't have time to smoke them all.

People are mistaken if they believe that the only choice is between silence and speech. One silence can hide another.

You walk out in the evening with a woman, you tell her that she is beautiful and you love her, and twenty centuries hear what you are saying.

Life? I no longer care to live. I am alone. But I wanted to come back to warn you. Only no one is listening to me …

people not only refused to believe his tales, they refused to listen.

The silence of two people is deeper than the silence of one. Involuntarily I began to talk.

His last word had been my name. He had called out to me and I had not answered. I

Melt down the fat. Cut the cosmetics and coloratura. The classic rule of good journalism: honor the verb, sacrifice the adjective.

Women clearly felt things more deeply: they read sub-text where men saw only white space.

we didn't have the day-in, day-out knowledge of each other that most mothers and daughters have. It's not like she was a stranger; we had too much history for that. But at the same time, I couldn't say I knew her well. Or at least well enough to see her thoughts.

Kodiak shrugs. I work out. I roll my eyes. I noticed. I noticed you noticing, he says, his eyes suddenly back on mine.

I have to tell you how nice that sound is. I haven't heard laughter in weeks.

Wow!" I say. This is a new Algonquian word I learned from Namontack. Wow is their word for wonder and awe

Waiting silently is the hardest thing of all. I was dying to talk to Jim and about Jim. But the things that we feel most deeply we ought to learn to be silent about, at least until we have talked them over thoroughly with God.