Quotes About Conveyance

I understand how to deliver a message, that's my skill.

It might be said that Tress had a way with words. In that her words tended to get in her way.

getting the words out of my mouth felt like trying to push marbles through a keyhole.

What kind of messenger are you?

The ostriches were like messengers who had learned their vital message by heart, but whose vocal chords had been slit by the enemy, so that when they finally reached their goal, all they could do was move their mouths.

Words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean.

Some writers have excellent "control"; they know exactly what they want to convey, and they convey it precisely and accurately

In the first case, we may have obtained information, but we may not have increased our understanding. If the book is completely intelligible from cover to cover, then the author and the reader are like two minds with the same frame. The symbols on the page simply express the common understanding that the reader and writer shared before they met.

Ether fills the boundless space of the universe. It is the medium of conveyance for all known forms of vibration such as sound, light and heat.

You have to work very hard behind the scenes, to make a message clear enough for a lot of people to understand.

The more light hearted I write about that, the better the message gets through.

Language must be taken in a wider sense than speech, for speech is only the outward flow of thoughts formulated for communication

There is so much to say. It is like shoving all the sand of the world into an hourglass. Or trying to get it out.

Even under the best circumstances, some knowledge is inevitably lost with each handoff. With

In order to speak clearly, you need to be able to think clearly. And to think clearly, you usually need to be able to write it clearly.

A good message will always find a messenger.

No word is capable of carrying the impulses one wants to send with it.

Racing at four and a half times the speed of any other conveyance, Tom Thumb was both a marvel and a mystery. The train's owners and occupants first questioned whether the human body could endure such speed. Many of the passengers on Tom Thumb's first run were human guinea pigs who brought along paper and pencil to test whether cogent thought was possible at such speed.47

Every little movement has a meaning of its own.

Knowledge can be conveyed, but not wisdom. It can be found, it can be lived, it is possible to be carried by it, miracles can be performed with it, but it cannot be expressed in words and taught.

I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me 'understand' something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.

How can I possibly fold all that longing into something as small as words?

Telling a boy in your class that you liked Joni Mitchell was really another way of saying, "If the worst comes to the worst and you knock me up, it'll be okay.

We all indulge in the strange, pleasant process called thinking, but when it comes to saying what we think, then how little we are able to convey! The phantom is through the mind and out of the window before we can lay salt on its tail, or slowly sinking and returning to the profound darkness which it has lit up momentarily with a wandering light.