Quotes About Communication

Basically we are all looking for someone who knows who we are and will break it to us gently.

One thing you learn in a long marriage is how many sneezes to wait before saying, "Bless you."

A lovers' quarrel is always about every quarrel you ever had.

There is a language of love, which is to say, a truth that does not tell all and a lie that does not deceive.

It is still possible to have friendly discourse in America, as long as you don't bring up any subject.

I am a private person, but I will reveal this about myself: if you start massaging my shoulders, don't expect me to tell you to stop.

If a language is corruptible, then a constitution written in that language is corruptible.

Le cinéma sonore a inventé le silence.

A quote by film director Robert Bresson (1901-1999), 'Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen' (as cited in The Independent I, 2019), encapsulates why, although there appears to be a gap between peers' early language skills, it is necessary to go beyond rhetoric and supposition.

Ton public n'est ni le public des livres, ni celui des spectacles, ni celui des expositions, ni celui des concerts. Tu n'as à satisfaire ni le goût littéraire, ni le théâtral, ni le pictural, ni le musical.

Cinema, radio, television, magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen in without hearing

Typography is the craft of endowing human language with a durable visual form.

If language is lost, humanity is lost. If writing is lost, certain kinds of civilization and society are lost, but many other kinds remain - and there is no reason to think that those alternatives are inferior.

When you think intensely and beautifully, something happens. That something is called poetry. If you think that way and speak at the same time, poetry gets in your mouth. If people hear you, it gets in their ears. If you think that way and write at the same time, then poetry gets written. But poetry exists in any case. The question is only: are you going to take part, and if so, how?

Typography must often draw attention to itself before it will be read. Yet in order to be read, it must relinquish the attention it has drawn.

Drop a word in the ocean of meaning and concentric ripples form. To define a single word means to try to catch those ripples. No one's hands are fast enough.

What so wild as words are?

Truth never hurts the teller.

It is the glory and good of Art, That Art remains the one way possible Of speaking truths, to mouths like mine at least.

One human could simply withhold its feelings and intentions from another human by failing to audibilize or it could audibilize things that were not real. The other human would be aware only of what it heard and would change its behavior in response to a nonexistent stimulus. They called it 'lying.

Cheer up!" said Mr. Sutton when he'd read the letter. "Kathy Alice may come to see you!" All the children groaned. "Earnestine wants to meet your Aunt Myrtle and Uncle Ross and Kathy Alice here on Thanksgiving Day." "Tell her we won't be home," said Ellen. "Where will we be?" asked Dewey. "Anywhere except here," said Ellen, "if they're coming to see us.

Trying to get our emotional needs met through sex does not work.

It is most true, stylus virum arguit, - our style betrays us.

Hinc quam sic calamus saevior ense, patet. The pen worse than the sword.