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Quotes About Communication

Often your utterances and expressions of your face leak out the secrets of your hidden thoughts.
~ Ali bin Abu-Talib
Man is a wonderful creature; he sees through the layers of fat (eyes), hears through a bone (ears) and speaks through a lump of flesh (tongue).
~ Ali bin Abu-Talib
Debating an ignorant tires me.
~ Ali bin Abu-Talib
The heart of a fool is in his mouth while the tongue of the wise man is in his heart
~ Ali ibn-Abi-Talib
The pauses are a precise language, more a language than actual language is, Elisabeth thinks.
~ Ali Smith
Words are themselves organisms, ...
~ Ali Smith
Words words words. Words Words words. Words words Words .
~ Ali Smith
A man interested in the meaning of words, not one whose interests leave words meaningless.
~ Ali Smith
It is like democracy is a bottle someone can threaten to smash and do a bit of damage with. It has become a time of people saying stuff to each other and none of it actually ever becoming dialogue. It is the end of dialogue.
~ Ali Smith
Words were stories in themselves.
~ Ali Smith
Ez egy olyan kor, amikor az emberek mondanak egymásnak dolgokat, és az egészbÅ'l soha nem lesz párbeszéd.
~ Ali Smith
Well, the naivety and the vitriol were always there all along, Iris says. The internet's just made them both more visible. That's maybe a good thing.
~ Ali Smith
The third person is another pair of eyes. The third person is a presentiment of God. ...... a way to tell the story. It's a box for the endless music that's there between people, waiting to be played.
~ Ali Smith
Elisabeth skims the day's paper on her phone to catch up on the usual huge changes there've been in the last half hour.
~ Ali Smith
It isn't that kind of relationship," Elisabeth says to a lover. "It isn't even the least physical. It never has been. But it's love. I can't pretend it isn't.
~ Ali Smith
He had seemed a man with whom the right kind of dialogue would be possible.
~ Ali Smith
It was just that the literal meaning itself wasn´t immediately comprehensible. That doesn´t mean it didn´t mean.
~ Ali Smith
It would be good to be full of holes, she says. Then all the things you can't express would maybe just flow out.
~ Ali Smith
I suppose the fact that we're all a lot more accustomed to blatancy these days means that blatancy itself has to get even more blatant, her mother says.
~ Ali Smith
It was kindly meant. But kindly meant was complicated. There were lines you had to draw. There were correct responses. On the one hand there was laugh and say something funny back, on the other there was how dare you talk to me like that. It depended.
~ Ali Smith
Språk är som vallmoblommor. Allt som krävs är något som rör om i jorden och när något väl gör det, upp kommer orden, klarröda, friska, fladdrande i vinden. Sedan frökapslar som rasslar, ut faller frön. Så finns det ännu mer språk som bara väntar på att gro.
~ Ali Smith
he always went straight to the machines and in a strange way it was released to because having to talk with someone, even the smallest, most casual talks, was sometimes quite hard because you always felt they judged you or you always felt shy or that you were saying a stupid or wrong thing. The pitfalls of human exchange, Sophia said.
~ Ali Smith
It is like democracy is a bottle someone can threaten to smash and do a bit of damage with. It has become a time of people saying stuff to each other and none of it actually ever becoming dialogue
~ Ali Smith
Acum doreÈ™ti s? vorbeÈ™ti cu una din fetele sau b?ieÈ›ii sau ce-or fi care au scris mesajele, sau cu unul din cei È™apte pitici? Pe care l-ai dori? Îl avem pe Mutulic?, Hapciu', Moroc?nosu', RuÈ™inosu', Somnorosu', N?sosu' È™i înc? unul al c?rui nume va trebui s?-l caut pentru dumneata.
~ Ali Smith