Communication Quotes · Page 166

What makes Ireland inclined toward the drama is that it's a great country for conversation.

— Lady Gregory

But I don't really listen to much be-bop at all at the moment.

— Anonymous

Do you ever think if people heard our conversations they'd lock us up?" All the time.

— Wendy Mass

My job as a director is to communicate, and I want to communicate to all.

— Mani Ratnam

Winning the second Pulitzer firmly places me in conversation with this culture.

— Lynn Nottage

Don't call my phone and ask me who I am...you called ME!

— Anonymous

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

— Ernest Hemingway

All my conversations with God must be so good, that's why they always somehow leave him speechless.

— Big Krit

Regarding Syria, we already call for dialogue between Syria and all parties concerned, in order to avoid any kind of escalation in…

— Anonymous

I think a very important aspect of language has to do with the establishment of social relations and interactions. Often, this is…

— Noam Chomsky

Getting a lot of applause, announcing military reforms and upgrades. It's a really good speech [of Donald Trump].

— Rush Limbaugh

You are not responding in the way I imagined you would respond when I acted out this conversation in my head. Stop…

— Anonymous

Facebook is massive in scale and scope. Twitter is a public communication forum, but if I'm following you, you're not necessarily following…

— Jeff Weiner

One of the jobs of comedy is to expose hypocrisy. When you look at countries like Iran or North Korea that don't…

— Maz Jobrani

We have to uphold a free press and freedom of speech - because, in the end, lies and misinformation are no match…

— Barack Obama

There is something hugely civilised about allowing long pauses in a conversation. Very few people can stand that kind of silence.

— James Robertson

We don't live in a shared reality, we each live in a reality of our own, and causing upset is often the…

— Frankie Boyle

In what region of the earth ever so remote from us, in what corner of creation ever so far out of the…

— Robert Charles Winthrop

All that you see was and is for your sake. The numerous books, uncanny markings, and beautiful thoughts are the ghosts of…

— Khalil

“The color of one's creed, neckties, eyes, thoughts, manners, speech, is sure to meet somewhere in time of space with a fatal…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“Bill was watching Trump’s speech on television. He couldn’t believe it. Neither could I. Eventually everyone left, and it was just us.…

— Hillary Rodham Clinton

“When the children were very small I spent weeks alone with them high up in the Welsh hills and I used to…

— Alice Thomas Ellis

If you have an internet service provider that's capable of slowing down other sites, or putting other sites out of business, or…

— Michael Copps

“As I hung up and walked slowly back to our table,” Nixon recalled, “it dawned on me that I had just participated…

— Nancy Gibbs

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

— Guy de Maupassant

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.

— Doug Larson

It has to be living, to learn the speech of the place, It has to face the man of the time.

— Wallace Stevens

“A two-headed man should have twice the IQ, and the ability to have internal dialogues externally.”

— Jarod Kintz

Let's bring it up to date with some snappy nineteenth century dialogue.

— Samuel Goldwyn

Listening to the brain is hard when your heart speaks so loudly.

— SOAB

In what we think of as bad dialogue, the characters talk directly to each other.

— Diane Johnson

“If you hear I will speak but if you listen I will talk.”

— Pushpa Rana

If you are looking for a steady relationship you need to enhance your listening skills.

— Mazher

I don't live with earplugs. I don't like the spotlight - but I like overhearing conversations.

— Louise Gluck

That annoying moment when two people start a conversation on YOUR facebook status.

— Anonymous

Prayer is - loving conversation with the One who has invited us into His embrace.

— Richard J. Foster

Your job won't take care of you when you are sick. Your family and friends will. Stay in touch.

— Anonymous

Posting lyrics on your status hoping that one person will read them and take the hint...

— Anonymous

There's a dance of mutual destruction going on between the media and politicians.

— Carmen Lawrence

“If one wants to be loved and return it full score dagger of silence closes the door.”

— David W Earle