Quotes About Communication

All I say is by way of discourse, and nothing by way of advice. I should not speak so boldly if it were my due to be believed.

There is thus an illiterate air about the most literate true believer. He seems to use words as if he were ignorant of their true meaning. Hence, too, his taste for quibbling, hair-splitting and scholastic tortuousness.

Montaigne: "All I say is by way of discourse, and nothing by way of advice. I should not speak so boldly if it were my due to be believed." PART 1

don't take many words to break a fragile heart!

He says, "Your husband fucked my wife." We look at each other and this time it's different. Now I know him. "My husband didn't fuck your wife." My voice is soft. Not amorous, but the tone of a bewildered child. "They had a relationship, then came home and fucked us.

It is silent, an anagram for listen. That is what I do. Listen while she remains silent.

the most painful good-byes were the ones that were never said, never explained

Brotha needed to buy a vowel and rent a verb, then get a roll of duct tape slapped on that broken English.

Marriage is hard work, and you have to show up in hard hat and boots every day of every year.

Your lies are like a silent fart. Can't see 'em, but I can smell 'em.

Eye contact creates wars, creates fights, but eye contact also creates arousal. I felt the weird, pointless tingles, and I read his face and his smile. I tried to look inside him, see what he was feeling, while at the same time guarding myself.

I told Chiquita if a man hadn't made a date with her for a Saturday night before Saturday night, he didn't want to be bothered with her on a Saturday night.

That's what sex does: it starts relationships and it verifies the end of relationships.

I heard you on the phone with her. I happened to be in your arms, and you happened to be inside of me, balls deep from what I remember, so I felt the difference, felt what you felt for her, heard how your voice changed when you talked to her.

When a man really loves a woman, her secrets don't matter. He knows she's a liar and lives with it. His choice. In his silence he was the protector of her secrets. He maintained her lie out of loyalty, did that to prove his love. Loved her. Pi Suleman

You haven't been the most affectionate sister I know.

We disconnected. And I wondered if we had ever truly connected.

And what are you thinking of doing now?' my helpmeet and companion in life's race asked me when we were back on the road.

Unlike the hot line frequently depicted in Hollywood films, the new system didn't provide a special telephone for the president to use in an emergency. It relied on Teletype machines that could send text quickly and securely. Written statements were considered easier to translate, more deliberate, and less subject to misinterpretation than verbal ones. Every

The Soviet Union welcomed the new system. At the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis, urgent messages from the Soviet ambassador in Washington had been encoded by hand and then given to a Western Union messenger who arrived at the embassy on a bicycle.

Never underestimate your listener's intelligence, or overestimate you listener's information.

Nothing quite has reality for me till I write it all down--revising and embellishing as I go. I'm always waiting for things to be over so I can get home and commit them to paper.

Tears are a form of communication - like speech - and require a listener.

And it all comes out so lame. I love your mouth. I love your hair. I love your ears. I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.