Quotes About Communication

A child grows up saying words that the rest of the world tells the child aren't words. But the child and everybody the child holds dear all know that the words mean, and what the words mean. Listen, that child will be equipped, from the very beginning. For everything, dark and light, heavy and light, that life will bring to that child.

Perhaps the day will come, George thought, when I will listen to my father. For now though, how can I? He's my father.

he always went straight to the machines and in a strange way it was a relief 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.

The nettles say nothing. The seeds at the tops of the grass stems say nothing. The little white flowers on the tops of their stalks, she doesn't know what they are but they're saying their fresh nothing. The buttercups say it merrily. The gorse says it unexpectedly, a bright yellow nothing, smooth and soft and delicate against the mute green nothing of its barbs.

Whole worlds open up when we start a conversation.

Maybe it's easier to talk to someone who won't ever actually hear what you say.

most people interpret silence as rejection!

I've been looking out at the world through windows I've opened across the net. It's an extremely close-minded and twisted world.

But Uncle Jabez was short on conversation-- he seemed to have hoarded that up, too, and was unable to get at his stores of small-talk.

In our era, it is because poetry is no longer practiced that some people can rediscover it in argot, in which the part of poetry remains small. Metaphors are to argot what the image of the Gypsy is to the Gypsy

Everybody always knows where they stand with you, don't they?

One day I almost said it . . . after goin over the words in my mind, "Benjie, the greatest thing in the world is to love someone and they love you too." But when I opened my mouth, I said, "Benjie, brush the crumbs off your jacket.

Schoolteachers can be some hard-eyed people, with talkin eyes; they mouth sayin one thing and them eyes be screamin another.

If it's total freedom, I guess the ultimate thing you can go into is total silence between the audience and performer, with the performer projecting something he doesn't even have to play.

Friends have ways of speaking without words.

Masturbation is common, sex is a normal part of adult life, and we can talk about it without fear. By

conveying the message that sexual touching requires consent, you're obviously conveying values and judgments. And

People who judge you all the time are not people you go to with real questions and problems. Starting

If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends — you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue.

If it's painful for you to criticize your friends, you're safe in doing it; if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue.

Conversation is a partnership, not a relation of master and slave, as most people try to make it.

When men in Congress come to blows at somemthing someone said, I always notice that it shows their blood is quick and red; But if two women disagree, with very little noise, It proves, and this seems strange to me, that women have no poise.

People love to talk but hate to listen. Listening is not merely not talking, though even that is beyond most of our powers; it means taking a vigorous human interest in what is being told us. You can listen like a blank wall or like a splendid auditorium where every sound comes back fuller and richer.

Marriage should be a long conversation leading to freedom