Quotes About Communication

All the information you need can be given in dialogue.

If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it

If you're going to spend your life standing on principle, you want to be sure everyone understands what the principle is.

She's a ball buster," Robbie said. "I told her that. I said you don't care what I think. You interview somebody with a name, you just want to cut off his balls, make him look like a wimp. You know what she said? She said, 'I don't have to cut 'em, they come off in my hand.

Why do guys love to fart?" "They're expressing themselves.

but he knew by the way the man was looking at him his words had been wasted. "I'm going up the mountain," Tanner said.

Try to leave out the part that readers tend to skip.

Life without a phone is riskier, lonelier, more vivid.

Tajna uspješnog vaspitanja je u poštivanju u?enika

Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone.

But what about the secret I bear? I asked. Tell it to the world, he advised. And that is what I am doing.

The ultimate tale - of the fish that understands all languages: the seas are wide and flow together. They have no borders and have room enough for all fish.

Nothing is more irritating than to hear honest writers protest about depravity when one is quite certain that they make these noises without knowing what they are protesting about.

Vois, ce sont les autres, c'est tout le monde qui va se mettre entre nous.

No joy could be greater, they knew, than that of being acknowledged a master, as he was. So he gave up trying to make himself understood and sat listening to them, without a word (79)

And they wandered side by side, each talking at the top of his voice, for his own benefit, as the stars grew paler and paler in the morning sky. (51)

Jamais ils ne comprendront que ce qu'on apporte, lorsqu'on a la gloire d'apporter quelque chose, déforme ce qu'on apprend.

Then there was a little silence. Robert was not proud of himself for having been so cross, and the others were not proud of him either. You often notice that sort of silence when someone has said something it ought not to—and everyone else holds its tongue and waits for the one who oughtn't to have said it is sorry.

Bon ! cria-t-elle, j'avais déjà oublié que vous étiez là, vous ! Vous pourriez bien tousser avant de parler. Vous avez une voix qui part brusquement comme celle d'un mort.

You have an immense fault which will close all doors against you: you cannot converse for two minutes with a fool without showing him that he is one.

Yo la quiero... Hace mucho que lo sabe. No juegue el juego cruel de fingir que no entiende... y no tema nada.

Quand Hélène revint […] elle pensait que jamais ils ne s'étaient moins aimés que ce jour-là.

Words failed him again; he began to stammer in his unsuccessful attempt to express the first vague stirrings of the future he could feel within himself. While he finished feverishly brushing in the black velvet jacket, there was a long silence. (37)

The stories of our lives can be told in so many ways, but no one account, no matter how carefully rendered, is completely true. Words are, at best, only an outline