Communication Quotes

The first rule of style is to have something to say. The second rule of style is to control yourself...

Though the immediate impression of rebellion may obscure the fact, the task of authentic literature ...

My conduct with my friends is motivated: each being is, I believe, incapable on his own, of going to...

To talk about paintings is not only difficult but perhaps pointless too. You can only express in wor...

Human communication, it sometimes seems to me, involves an exaggerated amount of time. How briefly a...

A magnificent cause can overcome a prickly personality, but your ability to enchant people increases...

It is the encounters with people that make life worth living.

Conversation. What is it? A Mystery! It's the art of never seeming bored, of touching everything wit...

Madeleine in her turn stared at him steadily, straight into his eyes, in a profound, strange way, as...

Political thought is representative. I form an opinion by considering a given issue from different v...

Walter Pater defined Romanticism as adding strangeness to beauty.

The inventor knows HOW to borrow.

All canonical writing possesses the quality "of making you feel strangeness at home.

He was a man with a chest, and he wanted to give thoughtful expression to the passion of his heart.

We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication i...

To wit, existence is communication and communication is existence.

Our hearts are not stones. A stone may disintegrate in time and lose its outward form. But hearts ne...

All you have to do is wait. Sit tight and wait for the right moment. Not try to change anything by f...

Like boarding a train running parallel. That's what disappearing is.

...no matter how advanced the system, no matter how precise, unless we have the will to communicate,...

Ships passing in broad daylight.

Civilization is communication. When that which should be expressed and transmitted is lost, civiliza...

Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness ...

Silence is also a form of speaking.

to bar communication between intellectuals, who are always our best hope of peace, is particularly s...

A word to the wise is infuriating.

The only problem with the Angels' new image was that the outlaws themselves didn't understand it. It...

All the time when I speak to you, even now, I'm saying not precisely what I think, but what will imp...

I grow grandiose, which is a good sign I should become prosaic.

The poem or the discovery exists in two moments of vision: the moment of appreciation as much as tha...

I always dream of a pen that would be a syringe.

Interpretations of interpretations interpreted.

For though a very few hours spent in the hard labour of incessant talking will dispatch more subject...

Communication is now often experienced as a superhuman phenomenon that towers above individuals. A n...

Want to play hangman? asks Theophile, and I ache to tell him that I have enough on my plate playing ...

To say exactly what one means, even to one's own private satisfaction, is difficult. To say exactly ...

A dialogue is very important. It is a form of communication in which question and answer continue ti...

Kitai blinked slowly. "Why would you use the same word for these things? That is ridiculous.""We hav...

Maybe this was a male-female translation problem. I read an article once that said that when women h...

I grunted. It's something I picked up over a fifteen-year career in law enforcement. Men have manage...

[Jules] slides into a seat beside me with her hot lunch tray, sighing. “Four hours, thirty-six minut...

We fall back into silence. I look around XO Café and notice that chatter happens mostly at tables wh...

Because, of course, it wouldn't do to just talk to her. She had spoken to him in flashes of daylight...

I'm sorry to bother you," she whispered. "When I get excited about a movie I want to talk. I can't h...

Because, of course, it wouldn't do to just talk to her. She had spoken to him in flashes of daylight...

I'm sorry to bother you," she whispered. "When I get excited about a movie I want to talk. I can't h...

Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.

Photographs do not translate from appearances. They quote from them.

A problem well-defined is a problem half solved.

Every art communicates because it expresses. It enables us to share vividly and deeply in meanings… ...

Of all affairs, communication is the most wonderful.

Let me just acknowlege that the function of grammar is to make language as efficent and clear and tr...

Honest, open communication is the only street that leads us into the real world... We then begin to ...

Honest, open communication is the only street that leads us into the real world... We then begin to ...

A number of years ago I had some experience with being alone. For two succeeding years I was alone e...

The beliefs which we have the most warrant for have no safeguard, but a standing invitation to the w...

Most women are all too familiar with men like Calvin Smith. Men whose sense of prerogative renders t...

The benefit of such horizontal interactions - people sharing knowledge across fields - is that it en...

How many times, in those first weeks, did he enter the room and stand by the door, unable to speak? ...

For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language.

What said those two souls communicating through the language of the eyes, more perfect than that of ...

The denial of language is a suicidal one and we pay for it with our own lives.

This was before voice mail, recorded phone messages you can't escape. Life was easier then. You just...

Because nothing between human beings is uncomplicated and there's no way to speak of human beings wi...

Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk ...

An ancient sage held that in different ages, humans held the senses in different ratios, according t...

And in this curious state I had the realization, at the moment of seeing that stranger there, that I...

To speak little is natural. Therefore a gale does not blow a whole morning nor does a downpour last ...

Words travel as swiftly as desire, so it is possible to send a message of love without them.

...being able to listen to unrepeatable secrets, wishes, and desires wasn't as wonderful as it seeme...

Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

Telling someone something he does not understand is pointless, even if you add that he will not be a...

If you have a room which you do not want certain people to get into, put a lock on it for which they...

The writer does want to be published; the painter urgently hopes that someone will see the finished ...

Art is communication.

Well, it's really no use our talking in the way we have been doing if the words we use mean somethin...

the media are not the holders of power, but they constitute by and large the space where power is de...

... she had uttered these words simply in order to provoke a reply in certain other words, which she...

We imagine always when we speak that it is our own ears, our own mind, that are listening. The truth...

Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.

In science fiction, telepaths often communicate across language barriers, since thoughts are conside...

People meet in the course of life, they talk together, they discuss, they quarrel, without realizing...

Tell someone to do something, and you change their life–for a day; tell someone a story and you chan...

Talk is free but the wise man chooses when to spend his words.

If I could talk about it, I would not have to do it. I make art.

Sometimes I think it is because we remember when we could smoke in pubs, and that we pull our phones...

Marx understood well that the press was not merely a machine but a structure for discourse, which bo...

We may say then that the contribution of the telegraph to public discourse was to dignify irrelevanc...

Exposition is a mode of thought, a method of learning, and a means of expression. Almost all of the ...

The clearest way to see through a culture is to attend to its tools for conversation.

For no medium is excessively dangerous if its users understand what its dangers are. It is not impor...

Moreover, we have seen enough by now to know that technological changes in our modes of communicatio...

I should go so far as to say that embedded in the surrealistic frame of a television news show is a ...

In saying no one knew about the ideas implicit in the telegraph, I am not quite accurate. Thoreau kn...

It is the thesis of this book that society can only be understood through a study of the messages an...

When we learn to speak, we learn to translate.

We speak not only to tell other people what we think, but to tell ourselves what we think. Speech is...

It's as if every conversation with a woman was a test, and men always failed it, because they always...

So the whole war is because we can't talk to each other.

They must talk to each other directly, Ender, mind to mind. What one thinks, another can also think;...