Quotes About Communication

I never hear about dear Mike. I wrote Ellen Greene and asked about him and she replyed and never mentioned Mike but told me all about her roomatism. As if I cared about her roomatism.

I just had a word with him. Timmers and I have this little understanding. He behaves himself and he gets to keep his front teeth.

Are you decent? Tick-Tick called through the door. I said what I was supposed to: No, but I'm dressed.

I love you like my own sister. Which is why I won't hesitate to tell you that I don't believe it.

You'd be surprised at how clearly you can hear something in your head and not be able to reproduce it.

sentences swallowed and sung back and swallowed all over again. She was made entirely out of words.

Sometimes words were like glass that broke in her mouth.

better keep your mouth shut and seem stupid than open it and remove all doubt.

That's tree persons in the room now and two of us, that equals five, it's nearly full of arms and legs and chests. They're all saying till I hurt. Stop all saying at the same time.

A strident female voice causes men's ears to close.

If you're sorry, folks can tell. No use piling on the verbiage.

Me acuerdo de ser educado, que es cuando la gente tiene miedo de que los otros se enfaden.

It occurs to Blanche that English doesn't have French's useful distinction between libre , meaning that something's unconstrained, and gratuit , meaning that it costs nothing. Free thought, free speech, free love: the English word that Arthur was so fond of obscures the price of things.

Ma knows everything except the things she doesn't remember right, or sometimes she says I'm too young for her to explain a thing.

Por qué se ha reído de que sepa todas las palabras, si yo no lo decía en broma?— le pregunto a mamá. — Ah, qué más da, siempre es bueno hacer reír a la gente

In the yard of the inn, Daffy Cadwaladyr introduced himself. Short for Davyd, he said pleasantly. The Londoner looked as if she'd never heard a sillier name in her life.

Mary regretted it a little already. Sometimes words were like glass that broke in her mouth.

As far as I could tell, the whole world was a machine grinding to a halt. Across the globe, in hundreds of languages, signs were going up urging people to cover their coughs.

I was taught that being a good nurse means knowing when to call a doctor.

Bridie and I turned to each other. Oh, the secrecy and heat of that glance.

Neither of us mentioned the kissing, so as not to burst the bubble by touching it. So as not to think about what it meant for the two of us to kiss.

My radar, after all these years of sanity, is still off when it comes to what people do or don't mean.

We all perform. It's what we do for each other all the time, deliberately or unintentionally. It's a way of telling about ourselves in the hope of being recognized as what we'd like to be.

There is something deeply unsettling about a child crying insincerely.