Quotes About Communication

It's a game box. They were invented so teenagers wouldn't have to talk to grownups.

D'Arvit!" growled Root. (There is no point translating that word, as it would have to be censored.)

I am not qualified to deal with this. Why does everyone I meet seem to have mental problems? Ah...but did they have mental problems before meeting you? Who's the common denominator here, Dan? I do not have mental problems! I say to the voice in my head, perfectly aware how damning it would sound were I to say it aloud.

You still awake?' asked the anesthetist. 'Nope,' I replied.

Artemis hooked the speaker over one ear, adjusting the mike stem so it wound across his mouth. 'Foaly? Are you listening?' 'Are you kidding?' came the reply. 'This is better than human soap operas.

I tried to talk about National Geographic one night, and Jason gave me a look like I was insulting him, so I moved on to a safer subject: which of the girls have implants.

Just a minute, Miss Frazetti, I'm getting dressed.' 'Hurry it up, Mo,' snapped Carla, her voice crackly through the cheap speakers. 'I'm getting old here.

Holly wanted to be sure she understood what was being said. "So you're saying that Shelly is going to light a fart?" "No, Shelly is going to light the fart. He has stored enough methane to power Haven for a year. There hasn't been a fart like this since the last dwarf tribal gathering.

I know what dissipate means, Arty. I'm not three, for heaven's sake.

She supposed this irritating bickering was how the males of every species showed affection.

Ich höre mir das nicht länger an. Jede Sekunde, die ich mit dir spreche, ist eine verlorene Sekunde. Da blickte Root ihm direkt in die Augen. Das macht dann, alles in allem, gut sechshundert verlorene Jahre, was, mein Freund ?

We don't use the term savage Injun anymore. Some people take issue with being described as savages. Go figure.

In advance I beg you not to be insulted, for I do respect you.' 'Oh, I love these questions. Go on.

Guide Note: For the past three decades of real time, the human Arthur Dent had made his life infinitely more miserable than it needed to be by displaying a spectacular ability to say the right thing but at the wrong time.

Now, Master Fowl, let's talk, shall we?

Root was blij dat hij iemand had tegen wie hij kon schreeuwen. 'Bek houden, veroordeelde!

Artemis kneep in de brug van zijn neus. 'Je hebt natuurlijk gelijk. Ik ben hier het meesterbrein. Het denkwerk is mijn verantwoordelijkheid, niet de jouwe.' Holly keek hem met samengeknepen ogen wantrouwend aan. 'Was dat een belediging, Modderjongen?

The old-fashioned way," repeated Mulch. "With a futuristic pressure suit and a fairy phone.

Who are you talking to, McGuire? Because you couldn't be talking to me. Not in that tone.

Obviously, that's a translation.)

Scusatemi tutti

Wowbagger felt Trillian squeeze his arm and his anxiety drained away. He looked at her. How was that possible? How did you do that?

Sometimes I feel like people aren't listening to me. I spend ninety minutes up here talking about the dangers of time travel, advising you to stay the hell away from time travel, and the first question I get is: 'Do you think time travel will be available commercially?' Then again, I spend every waking hour bent over quantum equations, so I guess I don't listen to me, either. - Professor Charles Smart

Are you just saying the same thing in a different way? Is that why I sent you to university?