Quotes About Communication

Words are not brains, you know.

On August 1, 1933, Cummings submitted a proposal to the Justice Department, saying he dreamed of a "special prison" for the most notorious prisoners in the country, a place so remote that they would not be able to communicate with family, friends, or business associates, where they would be isolated as if "on an island, or in Alaska.

I write about subectivety-and inarticulation-about life pushing you into a state where everything is melting until you're left with the absolute and you can find neither the words nor the images to express it.

Come out from within yourself, speak out.

Deliver thunder, God, if you choose not to talk.

Different languages, the same thoughts; servant to thoughts and their masters.

Everybody talks, but there is no conversation.

From what you didn't say, lies that you did say.

He did not profess to anybody how to reach others without professing.

How does one say something new and not retell?

How many unuttered words died in the heads of those for whom a word was too expensive.

Our desire to say more grows bigger and what to say about it, except that saying is not always about saying, growing is not always about growing.

Through words to the meaning of thoughts with no words.

To keep the air fresh among words is the secret of verbal cleanliness.

To say more while saying less is the secret of being simple.

To write good poems is the secret of brevity.

Conversation, friendship, laughter, and understanding are my favorite sports

serenading us with "Cielito Lindo." How odd, isn't that Spanish?

All my life I have written letters - to our mother, our relatives, a wide circle of friends and acquaintance, to my husband, to you. Correspondence has always been as necessary to my happiness as a well-cooked dinner, and I've found it more sustaining for its generosity: an act of charity that returned to me a hundredfold...

What good are laws that cannot be read or understood, or a tongue that spews only hatred or ignorance? What good is the written word to an illiterate man?

The best way to get them is through education," Junior countered. "What good are laws that cannot be read or understood, or a tongue that spews only hatred and ignorance? What good is the written word to an illiterate man?

I'm a talker, but that doesn't necessarily make a leader.

I want my music to do the explaining.

He's not your prince charming if he doesn't make sure you know that you're his princess.