Quotes About Communication

but a library is a gorgeous language that you will never speak fluently.

You'll find, someday, Paks found herself saying, that your own tongue cuts you worse than any blade. I

it's important not to take offense unless offense is meant.

Should I tell you the truth I know, or try to guess the untruth you want?

If you cannot read it, how could you catalog it?

I liked laser tag, but when I told her that in the first session she put down "violent tendencies.

It is easy to fool people into thinking I am like everyone else in encounters like this. If the other person likes to talk, as this woman did, it is easier. All I have to say are a few conventional things and smile, and it is done.

ed. now. picking at the scab that was starting to heal over. why did guys do that? too little too late?

Don't." His voice was harsh. "Don't do that." She exhaled. "You're lovely. Lovelier than before.

His lips parted, but long years of experience with Ramses, and to some extent, Emerson, had taught me how to turn a conversation into a monologue.

I knew the answer, and--of course--so did Ramses. He has superb breath control and always gets in ahead of me.

As the Egyptians say, Ramses can hear a whisper across the Nile.

Men believe women are hopeless gossips, but women know men are. The poor creatures are worse than women in some ways, because they cannot admit to themselves that they are gossiping, or doubt the discretion of the individuals in whom they confide. 'Strictly in confidence, old boy, just between you and me...'.

he never comes to see us unless he wants something. Find out what it is, tell him "no," and let us be off.

Stop, he ordered, in a low but compelling voice. Do not take another step, or I fire! Dash it, he added vexedly, does the monstrosity understand English? How absurd this is! It understands the gesture, at least, I called, thrusting head and shoulders through the window. Lucas, for pity's sake, seize it! Don't stand there deriding its linguistic inadequacies!

Five years of marriage have taught me that even if one is unamused by the (presumed) wit of one's spouse, one does not say so. Some concessions to temperament are necessary if the marital state is to flourish.

Selim, you will speak with your kin and your friends in Gurneh; perhaps some of them will respond to direct threats--questions, I mean to say.

no eyes but mine will read these words. Why, then, the gentle Reader will ask, do I infer his or her existence by addressing her, or him? The answer should be obvious. Art cannot exist in a vacuum. The creative spirit must possess an audience. It is impossible for a writer to do herself justice if she is only talking to herself.

There are occasions upon which a candid expression of opinion may be not only rude, but counterproductive. L

So I went upstairs, to console the other half of the pair of heartbroken lovers, and a tedious business it was too, when a little common sense on both parts would have settled the matter to the satisfaction of all. With

I love you," he said flatly. "I--love--you. Shall I elaborate? I have loved you. I do love you. I will love you. I didn't want to love you. I tried not to love you. I will undoubtedly regret loving you, but--God help me--I love you--so much--" "That's what I thought you said," I murmured.

I warn. Give it to me. If you do, no harm will follow, I swear it.' As Emerson might have said, this was the wrong approach to take to me. (In fact, Emerson would have put it more emphatically, using terms like 'red flag to a bull.') I

I am sure I need not explain to any sensible (that is, female) reader why I woke the following morning absolutely furious with Emerson. Such are the vacillations of the human heart; and I have observed that the farther one goes in one direction, the more violent the swing in the opposite direction will be.

Men are frightful nuisances at times; how much simpler life would be if we women did not have to make allowances for their little peculiarities.